Showing posts with label segregation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label segregation. Show all posts
Saturday, May 9, 2020

Susan Neiman's Learning from the Germans and Working Off the Nazi Past and the American Racist Past: A Report with Excerpts

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In February, I blogged a number of times about Susan Neiman's book Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil (Farra...
Friday, July 14, 2017

Eugene Peterson Suggests God May Love LGBTQ Human Beings, and White Evangelical Gatekeepers Go Ballistic: Tempest in a Stewpot

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As readers who follow religion news, especially insofar as it relates to LGBTQ lives and issues, probably know, there has been an int...
Wednesday, May 3, 2017

More from Frances Fitzgerald's The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America: Race and the Shift of White Evangelicals to Republican Party

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And, as a complement to what I have just posted about Trump's analysis of the Civil War and Andrew Jackson and how both reflect w...
Saturday, May 7, 2016

"The Church Came Early to the Hanging": Deciphering Conversations About Race and Religion (and LGBTQ Humanity), As Trump Rises to Power

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The current political context is forcing Americans to discuss race, and churchpeople have some serious reckoning to do. Not only did th...
Thursday, April 28, 2016

Once Again, Why Are White Evangelicals (and Working-Class White Catholics) Gung-Ho About Trump? — "A Form of Identity Politics That Has Always Tied Together Jesus, America, and Whiteness"

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The discussion about the (by now, clearly demonstrated)  fact   that Donald Trump is mopping up in the evangelical voting market cont...
Friday, September 4, 2015

On This Day in 1958: Defiance of Supreme Court Decision Brown v. Board of Education in Arkansas — How Little Some People Learn from History

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"Gov Faubus Save Our Christian America" As Richard Kreitner reminds us at The Nation  today, on this day in 1958 in my homet...
Friday, May 1, 2015

Things I'm Reading at Week's End: Marriage, Bible, Catholics, Women's Rights, Recovering from Religious Trauma, Pope Francis and Women

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Things I'm reading as this week ends — these items all connected in that they talk about issues of religion in the public square:
Monday, April 27, 2015

Quote for Day: Conservative Evangelicals Resisting Gay Rights Use Bible Today in Very Same Way They Did to Support Segregation in Past

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William N. Eskridge, Jr., professor of law at Yale Law School, writing yesterday in the New York Times :
Friday, April 10, 2015

Quote for Day: "Whenever Established Power Brokers Have Felt Threatened in America's History, They Have Responded by Stirring Up Sexual Fears"

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In a very powerful essay, William Barber and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove , who have been leaders in North Carolina's "Moral Mo...
Thursday, April 9, 2015

Disreputable Racist Genealogy of Anti-Gay "Religious Liberty" Arguments and Abdication of Pastoral Responsibility by U.S. Catholic Leaders: So Much for Healing the World

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Ed Kilgore, who grew up in Georgia and knows whereof he speaks, points out that the current battle over "religious freedom" ...
Monday, February 9, 2015

Marriage Equality Comes to Alabama, as Grandstanding of "Faith-Based" Southern Leaders Continues

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Olanda and Dinah are getting married pic.twitter.com/NJcwZEua8r — Clare Huddleston (@Fox6Clare) February 9, 2015
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...
Saturday, January 3, 2015

County Clerks in Florida Refusing to Marry Anyone if Gays Can Marry: A Footnote

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A quick footnote to my posting earlier today  about the decision of some county clerks in Florida to shut down courthouse marriages a...

County Clerks in Florida Refuse to Permit Anyone to Marry if Gay Couples May Marry: Segregationist Roots of "Principled" Resistance to Marriage Equality

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I remember it as if it happened yesterday. And as I read the announcements of several county clerks in Florida that, rather than mar...
Monday, July 21, 2014

Alliance Defending Freedom on "Right" to Anti-Gay Discrimination: "Objections Based on Race Are a Lot Different from Objections Based on Sexual Behavior and Morality"

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Attorney Jeremy Tedesco of the Alliance Defending Freedom, which represented New Mexico photographer Elaine Huguenin as she claimed t...
Friday, June 27, 2014

Religion and the Struggle for Rights for Women and Gay Folks Today: Fred Clark on the Significance of the Backdrop — The Struggle for Rights of People of Color

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I've repeatedly noted here my frustration that many of those commenting on civil rights issues today, particularly within the aca...
Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Ta-Nehisi Coates's Case for Reparations: Do We Really Want to Know about the Experience of African Americans (or of Women) in the U.S.?

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John Stewart cleverly suggests that we don't want to know the truth — not about the recent Isla Vista shootings and the deep roots o...
Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Quote for Day: "The Love Between a Black Man and a White Man Punches a Hole Through the Wall of Racism"

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Andrew Sullivan on the kiss just seen 'round the world, between Michael Sam and Vito Cammisano:
Saturday, March 29, 2014

On the "Tipping Point" Metaphor, Gay Rights, and the Notion of Progress

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Some of you pressed me this week  (and here and here ) about what it means to say American culture is at a "tipping point...
Tuesday, March 18, 2014

As Promised: My Perspective on the "Religious Freedom" Argument That Christian Florists and Bakers Should Enjoy a "Right" to Discriminate

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Okay, I’m going to bite the bullet and write (again) about the “religious freedom” argument that Christian florists and Christian bak...