One Matt Thurston’s comments on my “Out of Mormonism” post was far too insightful and articulate to leave buried, so I’m excerpting a paragraph and including it here. Many closet doubters find themselves in a catch-22: they are often chastised for questioning in church settings, but after revealing themselves, their past integrity is [...]

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Keith Ellison is the first Muslim elected to Congress. I don’t know much about Ellison, but at the very least I see this as a symbolically important at home and abroad. He demonstrates clearly to Americans that Muslim does not equal Arab and to the rest of the world that Americans are able [...]

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