In-Between Peoples

http://www2.truman.edu/parker/research/cartoons.html
Go to Edit -> Find -> Mormon, and a cartoon entitled “Religious Freedom Is Not Guaranteed” by Thomas Nast featuring two reptiles crawling over the U.S. Senate Dome should appear.  I think the irony pointed out by the excerpt below it in the fact that Mormonism is a distinctly American strain of religious, and therefore [...]

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As a fairly secular person at a Jesuit University (my upbringing was devoid of any organized religious practice), it was actually rather validating to academically engage myself in a debate about “religion” in which people were actually talking about lifestyle choices and system confinement.  Flake makes this very clear when she states that “America’s Mormon [...]

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