Showing posts with label Mississippi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mississippi. 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...
Friday, August 9, 2019

"Responding with the Biggest Ever Anti-Immigrant Raid to the First Ever Anti-Latino, Anti-Immigrant Gun Massacre in This Country: This Will Be History"

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Regardless of whatever they say and whatever comes out of the president's mouth, this IS the story of how our government responded t...
Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Judge Carlton Reeves on Parallel Between Mississippi White Christians' Rejection of Black Civil Rights in 1960s and Rejection of LGBTQ Rights Today

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Claude Summers notes that , as he knocked down Mississippi's "religious freedom" law, Judge Carlton Reeves drew the ob...
Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Jason Sokol on White Southern Resistance to Civil Rights Movement: "Some White Southerners Perceived the Civil Rights Movement as a Threat to Their Very Notion of Freedom" — Implications for "Religious Freedom" Discussion

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In his book There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975 (NY: Knopf, 2006), Jason Sokol writes a...
Thursday, April 7, 2016

Commonweal Editor Matthew Sitman on Mississippi and North Carolina Anti-LGBTQ Legislation: "Freedom for Me But Not for Thee"

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Commonweal  associate editor Matthew Sitman on the "freedom for me but not for thee" approach to religious freedom of the ...
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, 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...
Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Pigs Seen Flying: Mississippi Judge Knocks Down Ban on Same-Sex Marriage (Arkansas, Too)

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Josh Marshall spotted flocks of pigs flying over Mississippi yesterday. I didn't see them in my neighboring state of Arkansas (a...
Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Anti-Gay Movement and Jim Crow: Historian Carolyn Dupont on Role of Religion in Movement to Resist Civil Rights of African Americans in Mississippi

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A tactic frequently used by those who resist seeing the current call for religiously grounded discrimination against gays as akin to ...
Saturday, May 12, 2012

Stephen Colbert Gets It Right about North Carolina

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Stephen Colbert gets it right about North Carolina.  As someone who grew up in its neighbor state to the south and who knows the cultu...