Showing posts with label gays in the military. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gays in the military. Show all posts
Sunday, July 28, 2013

Fred Clarkson on Christian Right's Determination to Renew Itself by Alliance of Catholic Leaders and Evangelical Right: Important Discussion

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As one week ends and another begins, I want to take note of a very important new article  by Fred Clarkson  at the Political Research Ass...
Tuesday, September 20, 2011

DADT Ends: Celebrations, Unfinished Business

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The "don't ask, don't tell" ban on service by openly gay members of the military officially ended at midnight last ni...
Monday, May 30, 2011

Remembering: One Gay Soldier Who Gave His Life

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We Americans are a famously insular folk, and readers of this blog in other places may not be aware that today is a national holiday...
Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Prominent Right-Wing Catholic Priest-Activist Fr. Euteneuer Caught in Scandal

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Remember Fr. Thomas Euteneuer, the priest-director of the high-profile right-wing Catholic Republican party front "pro-life" bel...
Monday, January 10, 2011

Cindy Jacobs Explains It All for Us: DADT Repealed, Birds Fall from the Sky

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Max Brantley at the Arkansas Times blog notes (citing Right-Wing Watch) that right-wing Christian nutcase homophobe evangelist Cindy Jac...
Thursday, December 23, 2010

DADT Ends, and Some Catholics Refuse to Rejoice

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With the end to official discrimination against a targeted minority in the American military, I've received several fascinating commen...
Saturday, December 18, 2010

John Lewis and Louis Gohmert on Discrimination in the Military: Who Owns the Future of American Democracy?

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Another way to put the point about Archbishop Dolan and Bill Donohue: these battles about who owns central Christian symbols are really al...
Monday, December 13, 2010

Top Catholic Chaplain Opposes End of Discrimination Against Gay Service Members

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    You know that line in the Catholic catechism that deplores discrimination against gay and lesbian folks?  Well, it appears not all Catho...
Thursday, December 9, 2010

Chris Weigant: Attach DADT Repeal to Tax-Cut Bill

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And here's a clever political proposal : Chris Weigant suggests removing the don't ask, don't tell repeal from the military bu...
Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Military DADT Report Undercuts Religious Right Arguments about Religious Freedom

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When the religious right loses the military , it has really lost any claim to represent the cultural mainstream.  The attempt to argue tha...
Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Andrew Sullivan on the White Evangelical Exception in American Politics

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  Andrew Sullivan writes yesterday about "the white evangelical exception" in American politics.  As he notes, the latest Pew st...
Tuesday, July 20, 2010

In the News: Mel Gibson and Waning of Religious Right, Obama Paradox, DADT, Dostoevskian Paranoia of Catholic Leaders

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My posting today (and for a few days ahead) may be light, since Steve and I are traveling to North Carolina to visit a friend.  Steve’s bi...
Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Aaron Belkin on Pentagon DADT Survey: Everything Turns on Leadership

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Aaron Belkin at Huffington Post, offering a sane assessment of the Pentagon survey asking troops how they'd feel about showering with a...
Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Alternet's Weekly Take-Action Campaign: End DOMA

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Alternet has just announced that the top item in its weekly take-action campaign is calling for the end of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOM...
Friday, August 14, 2009

News of the Week: Health Care Reform and Democratic Failure

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Tidbits from articles that have caught my eye this week, re: the health care debacle. If the selections below share a common theme beyond c...
Thursday, June 11, 2009

If Not Now, When? Progressive Change and the Problem Posed by the Democrats

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Yesterday, I used Gustav Hofer and Luca Ragazzi’s powerful documentary “Suddenly, Last Summer” to examine dysfunctional political (and ethi...
Wednesday, March 4, 2009

On the Moral Right to Exclude

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I have been thinking about a remark Nathaniel Frank makes in a discussion of his new book about don’t ask, don’t tell— Unfriendly Fire —at H...