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...
Thursday, July 27, 2017

Attack on LGBTQ People Coupled with Attack on Healthcare Coverage: Double-Whammy Attack Emanating from "Pro-Life" White Christians

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THREAD: 1. People choose to end their lives for all sorts of reasons. — Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) July 27, 2017

The "Debate" About Transgender People: Don't Buy Framing That It's About Gender

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THREAD: 1. Those pushing anti-trans discrimination with religious warrants would like you to think this is all about gender. — Bill Linds...
Wednesday, July 26, 2017

The Current Spectacle of Astonishing Cruelty in U.S. Cheered by White Christians: Jesus Makes Winners, Not Losers!

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This is going to the worst day of a lot of people's lives. And for absolutely no reason. Astonishing cruelty. — Mark Joseph Stern (@m...
Tuesday, July 25, 2017

In Which I Explain Why I'm Responding to This Blog's Latest Troll As I'm Choosing to Do

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I asked two ppl close to Trump why he is tormenting Sessions instead of firing him. The answer from both, paraphrased: Because he can. —...

Donald Trump and the Scouts: Feeding Appetite for Disdain of Targeted Minorities (and, No, the Hitler Parallel Is Not Overblown)

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Trump tells Boy Scouts he hopes GOP can kill Obamacare (stripping 22M+ of health coverage) Boy Scouts respond by cheering "USA USA...

Tom Roberts on Clergy's Task to Confront Abuse Crisis: A Response Noting Impoverishment of Communitarian Imagination of U.S. Catholic Intellectual Leaders

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I am, of course, sympathetic to Tom Roberts' recent essay in National Catholic Reporter  calling on Catholic clergy and hierarch...