Showing posts with label Oklahoma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oklahoma. Show all posts
Thursday, December 29, 2016

Cardinal Dolan Blesses Pharoah on Behalf of the U.S. Catholic Hierarchy: Not in My Name

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NEW: Early Christmas present for @realDonaldTrump ? Sources say NY's Cardinal Timothy Dolan to participate in Inaugural. — Kelly O...
Monday, February 1, 2016

In the News: ACLU and Colleges Discriminating Against LGBT Students; Anti-LGBT Bills in State Legislatures; Pakistan Censors Gay Times Photo; Anglican Leaders Out of Touch; Dancing Priests and Nuns in Italy

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Here's an omnium gatherum of stuff — related in my strange head, but perhaps it won't appear that way to you — that has caugh...
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Another Quote for Day: "But if the Tetleys Had Lived in Oklahoma, That Sentence [of a British Husband for Raping His Sleeping Wife Over 300 Times] May Have Been Considerably More Difficult to Obtain"

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Another quote to share with you as the day goes on, from Samantha Allen at The Daily Beast  site:
Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Droppings from the Bilgrimage Birdcage: "When the Critical Moment for Cultural Change Is Reached, the Hate Becomes Intense"

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I'm struck by a wise observation of Ruth Krall in response to my posting yesterday about how the actual behavior of some U.S. Ca...
Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Quote for Day: Oklahoma Legislators Providing Signal That "It Is Open Season on Expressing Prejudice and Discrimination Toward Any or All Minorities"

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Following the online circulation of the video to which I linked in my previous posting , in which members of a fraternity at Universi...

Jesuit Education and the "Band of Brothers" Back in the News: University of Oklahoma Race-Baiting Incident Has Link to Jesuit High School

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Racism is alive at The University of Oklahoma. @President_Boren pic.twitter.com/eAvnPD8jxA — Unheard (@OU_Unheard) March 8, 2015 (Th...
Thursday, February 19, 2015

Henry Giroux on Politics of Disposability and Violence: Implications for the Orchestrated Attack Now Underway on Gay Citizens of U.S. after 2014 Elections

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Henry A. Giroux writes, regarding the wild success of "American Sniper," the latest shoot-'em-up movie glorifying macho A...
Friday, February 6, 2015

Islam, Christianity, and Barbaric Violence: Discussion of the Issues in a U.S. Catholic Forum, National Catholic Reporter

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In response to an article by Sister Maureen Fiedler in National Catholic Reporter  this morning about the bogus controversy followin...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

As Southern States Call for "Secession by Another Name" in Response to Marriage Equality, Catholic Right-Wing Leaders Prepare to Issue Follow-Up to Manhattan Declaration

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Two days ago, I commented on what's happening out in the U.S. heartland after the Supremes announced they'll take same-sex m...
Tuesday, January 27, 2015

As Marriage Rights Sweep U.S., Reaction in Heartland: Oklahoma, Alabama, Louisiana, Missouri, Etc.

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In the news: as German Lopez reports for Vox that same-sex marriage rights are sweeping the U.S., here's what's happening out ...
Thursday, June 12, 2014

As Southern Baptists, Catholic Bishops, and Mormons Keep Gays in Crosshairs, Other Public Figures Talk of Bloody Revolution

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While the men leading the Southern Baptists, U.S. Catholics, and Latter Day Saints are shoring up the battlements and notching their...
Friday, May 2, 2014

A Reader Writes: "I Wonder WHY the Murder Rate Is Higher in States That Allow Execution?"

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Yesterday, in response to my posting about the botched (and barbaric) execution of Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma several days ago, a_le...
Thursday, May 1, 2014

Brief Takes from Week's News: Oklahoma and "The Very Definition of Cruel and Unusual Punishment"

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Brief takes from commentary in the past several days on the horrifying botched execution in Oklahoma:
Tuesday, April 1, 2014

David Gans on Hobby Lobby: Whose Rights Count--Owners' or Workers'? (and Hobby Lobby Folks Meet Pope as Contraception Skirmish Occurs in Oklahoma)

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At the Balkinization blog, David Gans offers one of the clearest explanations I've read of the fundamental issue at stake in the...
Monday, June 8, 2009

The Old Story, Contining Discrimination in the Heartland: The Case of Joseph Quigley and the Oklahoma City School Board

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On Saturday, I wrote that, as we remember the Stonewall events and how far our nation has come since then, towards recognition of the full ...
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Mirror, Mirror: Sally Kern, the Churches, and Some Mother's Children

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Sigh. Sally Kern has chosen to go brittle. Rather than using the exposure of her vile prejudice as an occasion for fruitful self-examina...
Monday, March 10, 2008

Dear Miss Sally, WWJD?

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I have a confession to make. I’m feeling just a little bit sorry for Sally Kern. Sally’s the Oklahoma legislator-cum-Baptist-minis...
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