Showing posts with label free speech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label free speech. Show all posts
Friday, April 1, 2016

Commonweal Editorial Slams "Illiberalism" That Would Shut Down Free Speech of Trump Fans: Implications for Commonweal's Discussions of LGBTQ Lives?

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As I noted yesterday , the leading "liberal" Catholic journal in the U.S., Commonweal , has just published an editorial state...
Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Twitter Bans Language Promoting Violence Against Targeted Minority Groups: Wake-Up Call to Online Catholic Forums Where LGBT Lives Are Discussed

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Reuters reports (by way of Religion News Service) this morning:  Twitter Inc has clarified its definition of abusive behavior th...
Saturday, January 10, 2015

Quote for Day: Should Our Highest Value Be Free Speech or Love, Kindness, Generosity, and Respect for Others?

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Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun , on the way in which the media are treating free speech as an absolute value, and the highest...

Quote for Day: "Political Cartoons Are Free Speech, But They Are Not Always Innocent and Inherently Democratic"

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For Truthout, Christen A. Smith maintains that while we must grieve the Charlie Hebdo  dead, we must beware of misconstruing racism ...
Friday, January 9, 2015

Commentary on Charlie Hebdo Attack: Freedom of Speech, Economic and Social Oppression, Violence, and Religion

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Here's a selection of commentary (running a wide gamut) that has caught my eye about the murder of the staff of Charlie Hebdo  by t...

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "Without Freedom of Expression, the World Is in Danger" (Memo to Miami)

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Yesterday, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, released a statement with th...
Saturday, October 25, 2014

Colman McCarthy Publishes a Paean to NCR As Vehicle of Free Speech, and I Think of Jerry Slevin's Censorship: "The Upstart NCR Was Itself An Effort at Free Speech"

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Today, National Catholic Reporter  has published a powerful statement by Colman McCarthy  noting that, in its very inception some 50 ...
Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Suspension of Comments by National Catholic Reporter: An Update

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My posting Monday noting that National Catholic Reporter  had suspended comments due to a proliferation of "vile and demeaning...
Saturday, January 4, 2014

Provocative Political/Religious Cartoons, First Week of New Year

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And some equally smart political or religion-oriented cartoons that have caught my eye in the first week of the new year:
Thursday, September 13, 2012

Religious Freedom in Light of Libyan Incidents: A Challenge to U.S. Catholic Bishops

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I wrote several days ago about the limbo  in which the criminal conviction of Bishop Robert Finn (and the refusal of Rome up to now to ...
Monday, September 10, 2012

Later in the Day: Mary Elizabeth Williams on "Worldwide Story" of Emmett Burns and Chris Kluwe

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Later in the same day: Mary Elizabeth Williams comments at Salon on the "worldwide story" of the "crapstorm" Emm...

Chris Kluwe's Takedown of Emmett Burns and the Moral Arc of History

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I haven't yet made any mention of the recent masterful takedown of Maryland state delegate Emmett Burns by Minnesota Vikings punter...
Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Standing Freedom on Its Head: Bill Moyers and Michael Winship on Supremes' Defense of Citizens United

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Bill Moyers and Michael Winship on the recent Supreme Court defense of "free speech" [by corporations, which are people, t...
Sunday, August 22, 2010

Rashad Robinson on Dr. Laura's Pity Party: Free Speech Is About Taking Responsibility

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Rashad Robinson at Huffington Post on the claim of Dr. Laura Schlessinger that she is a victim of those trying to curb her free speech af...
Tuesday, March 17, 2009

A Reader Writes: Please Note Alteration of Text

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A reader who follows Bilgrimage regularly has objected to the wording of a posting I made several days ago ( here ). Please note the follow...
Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Blog Disclaimers and Free Speech: More Legal ≠ Ethical

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Wow. I open my stats counter this morning to find that nearly 400 people read my blog yesterday (correction: I have re-checked, and the fig...
Tuesday, September 16, 2008

The Emperor's Stunning Clothes: Free Speech as Lifeblood of Democracy

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Are my new clothes not stunning? Say yes, or say goodbye to your head. What is it with the proliferation of claims these days that authorit...
Thursday, July 17, 2008

Continued Threats Against Citizen Journalist Bloggers

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I can't let today pass without noting an interesting article in yesterday's Christian Science Monitor . This is Huma Yusuf's ...
Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Synchronicity Strikes

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Wow. Talk about synchronicity. I just uploaded a comment to Colleen Baker (of the Enlightened Catholicism blog referenced in my links list)...
Monday, June 23, 2008

Radical Honesty as Spiritual Path: The Contribution of Bloggers

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Dear Pilgrim Companions, The reflections I'm posting here today link to a posting I just made on my other blog, Neverinparadise. As tha...