SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Mormon church is standing behind its new rules targeting gay members and their children that generated widespread blowback from members, while providing more explanation about the policy changes and clarifying exactly what they mean.
The rules issued last week are designed to protect kids, following in the footsteps of Jesus Christ's "tender love of children," officials with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said in a news release Friday.
"Church leader...

The wounds of segregation were still raw in the 1970s. With only rare exceptions, African-American children had nowhere near the same educational opportunities as whites.

The civil rights movement, school desegregation and the War on Poverty helped bring a measure of equity to the playing field. Today, despite some setbacks along the way, racial disparities in education have narrowed significantly. By 2012, the test-score deficit of black 9-, 13- and 17-year-olds in reading and math had been...

WASHINGTON — Time may appear to slow down for white Americans who feel threatened by an approaching black person, raising questions about the pervasive effects of racial bias or anxiety in the United States, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.

In a series of experiments, white adults viewed faces of white and black people who appeared to be moving toward them on a computer screen. Participants rated the apparent speed or approximate time that each face ...

Ireland will move towards decriminalising substances including heroin, cocaine and cannabis as part of a “radical cultural shift”, the country's drugs minister has said.
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, the chief of Ireland’s National Drugs Strategy, told a lecture at the London School of Economics on Monday that drug users will be able to inject in specially designated rooms in Dublin from next year.
The minister said attitudes to drugs needed to move away from shaming addicts to helping them and ...

Recently I had the opportunity to visit Mexico and to my surprise, it was all that I had expected and more! Like any vacation, your experience is of that similar to the honeymoon stage of acculturation, whereas you (if everything goes as planned) experience excitement and euphoria. Being that I was only a tourist I did not mind the language barrier that occurred, actually I embraced it. I enjoyed trying out my few Spanish words that I knew as well as the different foods that I savored. Ultima...

SALT LAKE CITY — As an employee, student and mother, St. George resident Emily Havens, 21, is facing the same challenges as many other Utah women.

While working full time as an Internet sales associate, Havens has been attending Dixie State University full time since 2012. However, she became pregnant last year with her now 3 ½-month-old daughter, Roslyn. With Roslyn’s birth, Havens and her husband, Rodney, had to make some changes.

While her husband continued to work full time selling car...

SALT LAKE CITY -- Apparently, bad behavior is a lot like a college senior - upper-class.

University of California, Berkeley doctoral student Paul Piff and co-authors conducted seven studies to find out not only which socioeconomic class behaves with the most disregard for ethics, but why that behavior might have come about. What they found was "upper-class individuals behave more unethically than lower-class individuals."

Those on the highest rung of the social ladder tended to break ...

Stating, “One in twenty-one African-American males will die of murder”, and that “most will be killed by another African-American” is how the film Boyz N the Hood begins. Boyz N the Hood is a disturbing account of the lived experiences of black people, particularly black males, in a poverty-stricken South Central Los Angeles neighborhood. The story follows the relationship and connections between three young Black males: Tre Styles, Darrin “Doughboy” Baker, and Ricky Baker. During...