Showing posts with label family values. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family values. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 10, 2018

As I "Rest," Thinking About Family: What We Say It Is, What It Often Really Is

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In the U.S., we live in a culture super-saturated with sentimental rhetoric about “the family” and how “the family” is the ultimate s...
Monday, June 18, 2018

"Pro-Life" White U.S. Christians Don't "Risk" Being Implicated in the Horrors Unfolding on the Nation's Borders: They Are Directly Responsible for Those Horrors

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Huffington Post lead headline, morning of 15 June 2018. Charles Camosy, " You Can't Be Pro-Life and Against Immigrant Chil...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018

The Long and Short of It: Evangelical Mulligans and Idiot Winds — Religion in the News

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“Family Research Council head says that evangelical conservatives are willing to overlook Trump’s past behavior so long as he delivers fo...
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...
Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Two Obituaries, Two Very Different Stories of What Family Is About: Who Counts, Who Doesn't, and the Role Churches Play

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Two obituaries, two very different stories about what family is about — who counts, who doesn't, who is included, who may be excl...
Monday, July 31, 2017

A Family Story: When "Pro-Life" Catholic Trump Voters Confront Sexual Abuse of Minors by a Priest — In Their Own Family Circle

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I have a story to tell you this morning. It's a story with a question embedded in it. The question is one with which I am persona...
Monday, April 17, 2017

Brock Thompson's The Un-Natural State: Arkansas and the Queer South: Book Notes — Repudiating GLBT Family Members As an Old Arkansas Story

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Perhaps my biggest takeaway from Brock Thompson's The Un-Natural State: Arkansas and the Queer South (Fayetteville: U. of AR 201...
Monday, October 24, 2016

Archbishop Charles Chaput Attacks Joe Biden and Tim Kaine, Shills for GOP with Call for "Silent Apostates" to Leave Catholic Church

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David Gibson writes , 
Tuesday, October 11, 2016

"The Donald Took Evangelicals to a Very High, Huge, Really, Just the Best Vantage Point on Trump Tower and Showed Them All the Riches": Commentary on the Wreckage That is White American Christianity After Trump

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Evangelical crypt keeper Pat Robertson excuses the misogynistic talk in Trump tapes as "macho" https://t.co/u1jIiDChpQ — Jonath...
Saturday, October 8, 2016

At Heart of "Odd Bedfellow of Trump and Christian America Is the Fear of the Loss of Privilege — Privilege of a 'White America', Privilege of a 'Christian America', Privilege of a 'Straight America', . . .Privilege of a 'Male America' "

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Mark Silk at Religion News Service   Paul Brandeis Raushenbush writing last evening in Huffington Post:
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "Great That . . . a Hot Immigrant Model Can Come to This Country with Nothing But the Clothes on Her Back (and Occasionally Without Them) and Land a Sugar Daddy Bazillionaire"

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Lovin' me some Catholic birdcage as yesterday's . . . well, there's not a polite term to name it, is there? . . . thing  ...
Saturday, March 26, 2016

As Easter Nears, I'm Pondering Kaya Oakes's Question, "Is the Catholic Church in America Getting Worse for LGBTQ People and Women?" (My Answer: Yes)

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An open thread for Holy Week: is the Catholic church in America getting worse for LGBTQ people and women? https://t.co/q0KR9LKpfU — kaya ...
Friday, August 21, 2015

Josh Duggar and Ashley Madison Revelations: Commentary I Find Worth Reading

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A selection for you this morning (blossoms or weeds? — you please decide) from things I've been reading about the revelation that, wh...
Monday, July 6, 2015

Brittmarie Janson Perez, "On False Prophets and Parallel Churches: Kiko Arguello and His Neocatechumenal Way"

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Today, another exhaustively researched essay by Brittmarie Janson Perez, which I'm happy to share with you here. This one focuse...
Friday, May 29, 2015

Duggar Saga: End-of-Week Wrap Up (with 10 Links to Valuable Commentary)

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As this work week ends, I thought I'd update you on the ever-unfolding Duggar family saga, and provide you with some links to commen...
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...
Saturday, May 23, 2015

Revisiting Michelle Duggar's Remarks About LGBT People as Child Predators Who Endanger the Daughters of Others

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Valuable commentary from Out in Arkansas (on its Facebook page), linking to Joanna Rothkopf's Salon article revisiting Michelle ...
Friday, May 22, 2015

Quote for Day: "Brand of Gay Equality That’s Developing in Ireland Right Now Deserves Broader Attention" for Its Emphasis on Family and Catholic Social Teaching

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Mo Moulton, lecturer in history and literature at Harvard, writing in The Atlantic   about the Irish campaign for marriage equality:  ...

The Curious Saga of Josh Duggar, Anti-Gay "Family Values" Champion, Or, Aristotle Was Onto Something When He Said That Hubris Courts a Big Fall

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Big news in my own state of Arkansas as this week ends, which has implications that reach far beyond the borders of the state, since ...