(Image via Wikipedia) According to reports, the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist parties won a majority of the contested Parliamentary seats in the first round of elections in Egypt. More elections are coming but if the present trend continues, the Muslim Brotherhood and other minority Islamist parties could control the Egyptian Parliament by March. [...]

(Image via Wikipedia) While everyone is talking about the political landscape and all of the changes that are going to take place because of the mid-term elections held yesterday. Just for relief here are a couple of election stories you might have missed that revolve around culture and religion and people of faith: 1. Oklahoma [...]

(-Picture of Jerry Brown by Thomas Hawk via Flickr) On Friday, California’s Attorney General Jerry Brown asked the State Supreme Court To overrule Prop 8-the Traditional Marriage amendment. Response: AG Jerry Brown joins nearly every other major politician in California including the Governor and also the main stream media in calling for the vote of [...]

-(Protest near LDS Temple in Salt lake City by Getty Images via Daylife) The California “Fair Political Practices Commission” has notified the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church) that it will investigate a claim that the church did not disclose the value of non-monetary campaign activities, which allegedly included phone bank operations [...]

Image via Wikipedia All across the nation today, gay activists are picketing and demonstrating in front of Mormon temples, houses of worship, and LDS owned businesses. Yesterday, ‘white powder’ was mailed and received at a number of LDS temples. What brought all this on–all this reaction against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? [...]

(Protest signs in Salt Lake by Getty Images via Daylife) In the last post, I reported that over 1,000 gay activists were loudly protesting the passage of Prop. 8 out in front of the LDS Church Temple in Westwood. The protesters are angry with the leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [...]

(Protesters at Mormon Temple  by Getty Images via Daylife) Proposition 8, the marriage amendment for traditional marriage, passed on Tuesday. Meanwhile, gay rights activists have been protesting ever since all over the state. Over a thousand have gathered to loudly demonstrate outside of the Mormon Temple in Westwood. The gay activists are particularly angry over [...]