Showing posts with label Alabama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alabama. Show all posts
Friday, August 21, 2020

Robert P. Jones's White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity — Excerpts Worth Noting

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As I did recently with Sarah Posner's new book   Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump , I'd like to s...
Saturday, November 10, 2018

"Good, Conservative People Who Reject Liberalism": White Southern Evangelical Attack on Social Contract & Why We Are Where We Are Now

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John Sharp, " Alabama just elected 'one of the most conservative governments we've ever had '":
Friday, December 15, 2017

Not Even Close: Knowing Exactly Who Roy Moore Is, Majority of White Alabamians — and White Evangelicals Overwhelmingly — Tried to Put Him in Senate

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8 in 10 white evangelicals & 6 in 10 white Catholics & Mormons elected Donald Trump, claiming "pro-life" motivation. ...
Thursday, December 14, 2017

Hot Takes on Moore Defeat: White Evangelicals Did It! It's All About Abortion! (And Why Masterpiece Cake Will Likely Prevail)

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Some takes on the Alabama election I should have anticipated, but did not: 1. Though 80 percent of white evangelicals in Alabama  cas...
Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Roy Moore Defeated, But Polling Data Tell Us Why We Have Miles and Miles to Go Before We Jubilate — Fusion of White Nationalism and White Christianity Remains Potent Toxic Challenge

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Roy Moore rides away on his horse after voting in the Alabama Senate election. Here's what to watch in today's hotly contested r...
Sunday, December 3, 2017

Roy Moore's Strongest Supporters? White Evangelicals — New Poll Results

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1. New Washington Post poll out of Alabama has Democrat Doug Jones just leading Republican Roy Moore. But WaPo did something new: they b...
Thursday, November 30, 2017

Roy Moore's Attack on LGBT People at Baptist Church Yesterday: "They Are the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender" Folks Spearheading Resistance to Him — The Narrative Line We Must Not Miss

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There is a narrative line in these disparate textual pieces. A narrative line emerges when you put them together, and it's a narr...
Monday, November 20, 2017

In Today's News: "If Jesus Christ Gets Down Off the Cross and Told Me Trump Is with Russia, I Would Tell Him, 'Hold on a Second. I Need to Check with the President'"

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Astead W. Herndon , "Why evangelicals are again backing a Republican despite allegations of sexual misconduct":
Wednesday, November 15, 2017

More Moore (Roy, That Is): Why White Evangelicals Can't Quit Their Man, and the Horrors Posed by "the Alabamization of This Country"

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8 in 10 white evangelicals & 6 in 10 white Catholics & Mormons elected Donald Trump, claiming "pro-life" motivation. ...
Tuesday, November 14, 2017

More Commentary on Why Roy Moore's Evangelical Supporters Won't Abandon Him (Hint: Look at How They Reponded to Trump's Boasts About Sexual Assault of Women)

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Alabama voters may send a serial child molester to the United States Senate simply because he claims to be a Christian and is not a Democ...
Monday, November 13, 2017

New Accuser Comes Forward to Say Roy Moore Assaulted Her When She Was a Teen, 53 Pastors Sign Letter Supporting Moore

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The stories keep coming along, and I think it's important to keep blogging about them:

"In the Darkest Timeline, Where Republicans Have No Shame": Top White Evangelical Leaders Stand by Their Man in Alabama

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If true. If true. If true. All these men have opinions on my marriage and your uterus, sight unseen. But hand them a story told by a dozen...
Saturday, November 11, 2017

Charles Pierce on Roy Moore as Exactly What Republicans Are All About Now: "Wake Up and Smell the White Supremacist Theocracy"

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I'd rather have a pedophile in office rather than a democrat any day of the week and twice on Sunday. Pedophiles only screw kids whil...
Friday, November 10, 2017

Trending on Twitter: #RoyMooreChildMolester — "I Never Thought I’d See the Day When Pedophilia Became a Divisive Issue Within the GOP"

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Democrats are divided on single payer healthcare. Republicans are divided on pedophilia. #RoyMooreChildMolester — Dave Zirin (@EdgeofSpor...
Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Trump and (White) Evangelicals: Commentary Continues in Holy Week

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I think we can effectively laugh "faith-based" out of our politics now. https://t.co/2vzEZ6YLCP — Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPP...
Thursday, January 7, 2016

"If I Believe It Sincerely Enough, I Have the Right to Deny You Rights": Religious Freedom Argument Remains Alive and Well in 2016

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Religious freedom (as in, "If I believe it hard and sincerely enough, I have the right to deny rights to you: because my God tel...
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

The Confederate Flag: With One Great-Grandfather Who Was a CSA Soldier and Three Others Who Had Brothers in the CSA, I Could Not Be Happier to See It Come Down

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To repeat myself: one of my great-grandfathers was a Confederate soldier in Alabama, and my other three great-grandfathers in Louisia...
Thursday, April 23, 2015

First Same-Sex Couple Who Married in Alabama: "Being Gay in the South Is Just Being Brave"

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An inspiring video from Mae Ryan and Andrea Morales in  The Guardian , featuering Shanté Wolf-Sisson and Tori Wolf-Sisson, the first same...
Friday, February 13, 2015

Arkansas Chooses Wrong Side of History Again: Legislature Passes "Right to Discriminate" Bill

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The Republican-controlled Arkansas legislature today passed a bill protecting faith-based discrimination against LGBT citizens of the st...

Visibility and the Alphabet Soup of Letters: Tori Wolfe-Sisson Talks to Juan González about Battle for Gay Rights in Alabama

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Juan González asks Tori Wolfe-Sisson , who, with her partner Shanté, was a member of the first gay couple to marry in Montgomery, if she ...