[…] Mormon assertion of the right to plural marriage is viewed as a religious obligation. The first dispute over reproductive and marriage rights and civic law, Potter v. the State of Utah, describes Roy Potter, the […]
[…] what Perry Mason did every week on TV?” Jean-Paul chuckled and continued, “Can you imagine Christians all over the world going into the great cathedrals, taking down crucifixes and putting up statues of Perry […]
[…] the Board of Trustees on Surveillance of Teachers and the Hillam-Davies Case,” 17 Apr. 1967, pp. 4- 6, copy in private possession. Ibid. Stephen Hays Russell to Jeff Blake, 1 July 1994. Russell Statement. […]
At age sixty-eight I have lived long enough to know some of the sorrows of this life. More than once I have cried out with the Psalmist: “Out of the depths I cry unto […]
[…] This is illustrated by the Kinsey scale, which ranges from 0 (totally heterosexual thoughts, feelings, behavior) to 6 (to tally homosexual thoughts, feelings, behavior). Research since the 1970s documents that those who are most […]
[…] the American southeast in the early 1960s visiting our area and my father taking them out to buy a new suit or paying to have their automobile repaired and especially slipping them a $20 […]
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[…] members, came during a thunderous downpour one Monday morning in December. A powerful storm, which had spawned over dark Alaskan waters, had drifted down the coast moving through the northern states and was now […]
[…] to the clerk’s office. He opened the door, and indeed on the counters, file cabinets, and all over the floor were boxes upon boxes of palm fronds. The rest of the bishopric stared in […]
[…] in the post-WWII period. It is a fascinating study of changing norms and practices that once allowed for a huge range of bonding practices between people of the same-sex. Quinn himself had come out […]