Showing posts with label Mike Huckabee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mike Huckabee. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Wendell Griffen: "Chickens of Racism, Materialism and Militarism Have Come Home to Roost in the Convergence of Trump’s Presidency and the COVID-19 Pandemic"

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  I'd like to point readers to a valuable essay my friend Wendell Griffen published two days ago in  Baptist News Global . It's...
Thursday, March 8, 2018

Recommended Commentary: White Evangelicals, U.S. Culture of Violence, "Pro-Life" Politics, Intersectionality, Etc.

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All of this rhetoric about white evangelical Protestantism “losing its way” makes me wonder what you think white evangelical Protestants d...
Thursday, March 16, 2017

Rachel Held Evans Responds to Rev. Mike Huckabee's Defense of Trail of Tears: White Male Christian Leaders Pounce on Her

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Hard to believe there are some like @GovMikeHuckabee who see the Trail of Tears as a bright spot in American history. https://t.co/4M9xEa...
Sunday, September 20, 2015

Why Does Kim Davis Keep at It? The Resilience of the Anti-Gay Stance in American Culture on Eve of Pope's Visit

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So why does Kim Davis keep at it? Why do she and her followers persist, though they have, to all intents and purposes, lost a culture...
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Poll Indicates Faux "Religious Liberty" Stunt of Reverend Huckabee and Mat Staver Involving Kim Davis Is Backfiring — Except Among White Evangelicals

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Several days ago, I predicted  that the phony "religious freedom" drama Reverend Mike Huckabee and Mat Staver of Liberty ...
Friday, September 11, 2015

Concluding Thoughts on the Huckabee-Staver Show Involving Kim Davis: It's a Catholic Show, Too

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As this work week wraps up, and as we reach the level of full glut (and concomitant dyspepsia) with more news about Kim Davis, some w...
Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Brittney Cooper on Kim Davis and Her Handlers: "Social Grammar of White Evangelicalism Inheres in the Deployment of Moral Claims to Obscure the Systemic Operations of Structural Inequality"

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Following on yesterday's Liberty Counsel-Rev. Mike Huckabee faux "religious liberty" show involving Kim Davis, some outsta...
Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Fred Clark on Kim Davis: "57 Years to the Day After Other White Evangelical Christians in the South Defied a Court Order" Contradicting Their Religious Views

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Fred Clark's neat summary  of the parallel between the Kim Davis story and the Orval Faubus story: 
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

From My Garden for You: LGBT Catholics Excluded from World Conference on Families; Kentucky Clerk Defying Supreme Court (the Money Trail); "Republican Religion" and Betrayal of Core Christian Values

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As I gather blooms and tend to weeds, a posey (perhaps intermixed with some weeds?) for you from my garden today:
Thursday, June 4, 2015

The Duggars Speak Out: Victims? What Victims? The Duggar Story and the Gospel

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The Duggars just don't get it, do they? The fact is, they can't get it, because they live in a little countercultural bubble...
Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Duggar Saga: From Curioser and Curioser to Sleazier and Sleazier — Police Reports Ordered Destroyed by Huckabee-Allied Judge, Female Police Chief Under Fire, SNAP Weighs In

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News about the model Christian family in my home state of Arkansas, the Duggars, continues to pop so fast and furious that it's har...
Monday, February 9, 2015

Marriage Equality Comes to Alabama, as Grandstanding of "Faith-Based" Southern Leaders Continues

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Olanda and Dinah are getting married pic.twitter.com/NJcwZEua8r — Clare Huddleston (@Fox6Clare) February 9, 2015
Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Huckabee. Huckabee. Huckabee. Gay. Gay. Gay. (And Bacon-Wrapped Shrimp.)

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The Daily Show Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes , The Daily Show on Facebook , Daily Show Video Archive Well, former Arkansas...
Thursday, January 22, 2015

The Supremes and Gay Marriage: Mike Huckabee Talks Nullification, Ben Carson Wants Congress to Intervene, Jim Bakker Shouts Hallelujah

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On same day #SCOTUS granted marriage cases, @HRC Mississippi flagged this hateful graffiti in downtown Jackson. pic.twitter.com/tPMs99DY1...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Election Consequences from the Ground: Monica Potts on How Arkansas Has Pulled a Full Huckabee — From Politics of Compassion to Control by Wealthy Elites

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Ex-pat Arkansan Monica Potts writes about how working-class Arkansans cut off their economic noses to spite their culture-war faces in...
Saturday, January 25, 2014

Sarah Posner on Uncle Sugar as Religious Bogeyman: Religious Right and Concern with Women's Place

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I find Sarah Posner's take on Rev. Mike Huckabee's recent Uncle-Sugar-encourages-women's-libido remarks insightful: Sar...
Friday, January 24, 2014

Religious Right (and Catholic Bishops) Discover Contraception: Steve Benen on Rev. Huckabee and "Uncle Sugar," Patricia Miller on the Catholic Bishops

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As Steve Benen notes for the Maddow Blog , it's sort of . . . funny . . . that "Republican politician/preacher/media-personality...
Sunday, August 11, 2013

That's What Hate Speech Is: Spreading Toxic Lies About Targeted Minorities ➞➞ Violence

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" Huckabee later clarified that he did not mean to refer to all 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide . How nice."
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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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

God-Talk and the American Public Square: Responses to Sandy Hook Massacre

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One of the noteworthy aftershock effects of the unthinkable massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, has been to cast a spotlight on a natio...