Showing posts with label Frederick Clarkson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frederick Clarkson. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 10, 2017

#ReligiousFreedomIs: Defending and Celebrating Religious Liberty As a Foundation of Democratic Society

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Liberty and Justice for All from Coalition for Liberty & Justice on Vimeo . Next Monday, 16 January, will be the 231st anniversary...
Monday, August 22, 2016

Peter Montgomery on How Right-Wing Christians Justify Support for Trump; Frederick Clarkson on Dominionist Agenda Hidden in Plain Sight in U.S. Right-Wing Christianity

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Trump is calling for “extreme vetting” of immigrants. Can his own supporters pass the test? https://t.co/EURoHVGdXQ pic.twitter.com/404I...
Monday, May 16, 2016

Claim That the Culture Wars are Over and Religious Right Is Obsolescent Links to Claim That Political Left and Identity Politics Are Responsible for Trump: My Take

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One thing I suppose many of us can agree on about the current U.S. presidential election cycle is that it has been full of surprise...
Wednesday, May 4, 2016

As Their Party Puts Forward a Reality-Show Star Who Spouts Racism, Misogyny, and Xenophobia, Catholic Bishops Use "Religious Freedom" Video to Attack Hillary Clinton

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Did I just say that the yuuuge affection of large numbers of (white) Catholics in the U.S. for the outright racist (and misogynist a...
Thursday, January 14, 2016

More Commentary on Frederick Clarkson's New Essay about Religious Freedom: Patricia Miller and Bill Berkowitz

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More valuable commentary today about Frederick Clarkson's report on religious freedom  entitled "When Exemption Is the Rule:...
Wednesday, January 13, 2016

The Little Sisters of the Poor, Kim Davis, and the Challenge of Preserving Real Religious Freedom: Frederick Clarkson's Important New Essay "When Exemption Is the Rule"

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As Frederick Clarkson points out in a just-published (and exhaustive and richly-resourced) must-read overview of the religious libert...
Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Frederick Clarkson on Christianity in the Religious Freedom Debates: Highly Recommended

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Another hot-off-the-press article I'd like to recommend to you today: Frederick Clarkson's " When the Exception Is the ...
Friday, March 20, 2015

End-of-Week Items: Utah, Arkansas, Religious Freedom and Anti-Gay Laws, and Fixations of Conservotrad Catholics

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A miscellany of end-of-week news items or blog postings I've read, thought were good, and want to pass on to you as the week ends...
Thursday, December 4, 2014

Frederick Clarkson on Pastor Steven Anderson's Call to Religiously Fueled Violence vs. Gays

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Baptist pastor Steven Anderson of Tempe, Arizona, is at it again. This time, he's calling for homos gay folks to be killed as a...
Thursday, August 14, 2014

A Reader Writes: "Are These Conservative Churches Really . . . a Weird Kind of New World Hebraic Cult?" — Reflections on the Neo-Calvinist Movement in U.S. Evangelicalism

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Several days ago, in response to my posting about how Steve's two aunts who are nuns received the news of our marriage in May, ti...
Sunday, February 23, 2014

Fred Clarkson on Alliance of U.S. Catholic Bishops with Evangelical Christian Right--and Import of This Alliance

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At Talk to Action, Fred Clarkson reminds us of the tremendous responsibility the current bishops of the Catholic church in the U.S....
Saturday, November 2, 2013

Religious Right Extinct? Not As Far As USCCB Is Concerned

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No, the religious right hasn't  gone the way of the dodo bird. No, it's not extinct. No, it's not somehow distinct from t...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Welton Gaddy and Barry Lynn on Religious Right and Religious Freedom: "Right to Do What They Want, Whenever They Want, Wherever They Want"

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And talk about obscene inversion of moral narratives (I'm referring here to what I've just posted about the Trayvon Martin s...
Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Fred Clarkson on Huckabee's Response to Sandy Hook Shootings, and More Reflections on Intersection of Catholic Hierarchy and U.S. Religious Right

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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

In the News: GOP Primary, Catholic Right, Bully Bill Donohue, and NOM

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In the news right now: At Talk to Action, Fred Clarkson reprises former Republican insider Mike Lofgren's Truthout essay from...
Friday, May 7, 2010

At Week's End, the Rekers Story: Long Strokes and Little Mercy

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 It has been a roller-coaster week, with the back-and-forth story of George Rekers.  The latest from his side is that he’s (of course) deny...
Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Frederick Clarkson on Silencing the Religious Left, and Centrist Game of Ignoring Progressive Catholic Voices

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Frederick Clarkson has posted an outstanding reflection today at both Talk to Action and Daily Kos about the silencing of the religious le...
Monday, May 25, 2009

Frederick Clarkson and Chip Berlet: Is the Religious Right Really Dying?

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Yesterday, as I summarized Frank Rich’s analysis of the timidity that seems to govern the Democrats’ approach to gay rights issues at pres...
Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Ideas Have Consequences: Progressive Pragmatists, Idealists and the Future of Obama Administration

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In my wrap-up posting about Mr. Obama’s commencement address at Notre Dame, I concluded, If there is going to be a resurgence of progre...