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Will San Francisco Ban Circumcision?

By Shalom Goldman

…d, a retired credit manager, launched a campaign to outlaw circumcision in San Francisco. He proposed a ballot measure that would make it a misdemeanor to “circumcise, excise, cut, or mutilate the genitals of all minors.” Schofield’s reasoning is that circumcision is mutilation without consent of the patient. He told a local CBS affiliate that “people can practice whatever religion they want, but your religious practice ends with someone else’s bo…

“Make The Mass Latin Again”: The Pope Francis Backlash Comes Home

By Kaya Oakes

…Catholics, both young and mature adults, at Mary Star of the Sea Church in San Francisco. There would be nothing notable about an Archbishop performing a confirmation ceremony except for this: according to the Traditional Latin Mass Society of San Francisco, it was the first confirmation in San Francisco performed in Latin—the “Extraordinary Form” of the Catholic Mass—since the reforms of Vatican II in the 1960s. The San Francisco diocesan newslet…

‘My Name is Legion’: Sources and Forces of White Supremacy in the U.S.

By R. Drew Smith

…paign stops at Bob Jones University, a fundamentalist Christian college in South Carolina that barred black enrollment until 1971. The university also prohibited interracial dating (thereby connecting itself to murderous traditions of white preservation against black defilement) and only rescinded the policy in the year 2000 when George W. Bush’s campaign visit to the university brought long-overdue national attention to this Republican callousnes…

To Pray or to Prey: Racism, Religion and Violence in Charleston

By Willie Dwayne Francois

…ened Bible Study at Mother Emanuel, the oldest independent black church in South Carolina. While taking seriously a commitment to scriptural study, those who gathered there became prey while praying. The killer, an embodiment of racialized hatred, endured an hour of transcendent prayer, incisive study and buoyant fellowship. After an hour of prayer and extravagant welcome, Roof pursued his lethal goal, murdering a recent college graduate, grandpar…

Terror In South Carolina

By Sarah Posner

…ams has uploaded an undated video of Pinckney giving a floor speech in the South Carolina legislature about the murder of Walter Scott, who was gunned down by a police officer in North Charleston on April 4, just one day after the suspected Emanuel shooter, Dylann Roof, reportedly received a gun as a 21st birthday gift from his father. Pinckney was speaking in support of body cameras for police officers, as the only reason we know what happened to…

A Third Reconstruction? Rev. William Barber Lifts the Trumpet

By Peter Laarman

…the late ’60s, it’s still significant that the struggle was rooted in the South. The Southern Strategy, which was developed by Kevin Philips, posited that Republicans could lock up the South by appealing to old racial fears without using race-specific language. Rather than saying “segregation,” they started talking about “entitlement programs,” “busing” and “law and order.” Divide-and-conquer politics broke up the coalitions of the Second Reconst…

Queering Easter: The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Redefine Sainthood

By Susan Henking

…ien to sainthood, another figure linked to AIDS and HIV was “canonized” in San Francisco. As the Bay Area Reporter put it: “Where else but San Francisco could Irene Smith, a true pioneer in care for the ill and dying, be sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence?” Who is Smith? Here’s what the Bay Area Reporter said: Smith, who conducts Everflowing educational programs that teach touch skills as an integral component of end of life care, is r…

Charleston Killings: This is What a Sin Against the Holy Spirit Looks Like

By Peter Laarman

…– Mark 3: 28-29 All houses of worship are sanctuaries, but the concept of sanctuary holds particular resonance in Black Church tradition on account of the church’s role as the one institution white people could not take completely away from the persons whom they never ceased to abuse in the most un-Christian ways imaginable. It is nevertheless true that the original African Church in Charleston was burned to the ground by whites following a majo…

Nikki Haley’s Slavery Omission Typifies the GOP’s Tragic Pact with White Supremacy

By Annika Brockschmidt

…e general election—thanks to Strom Thurmond, the segregationist senator of South Carolina, a former Democrat who had become a Republican in 1964. Thurmond helped him win the Republican nomination and the presidency by vouching for the Nixon/Agnew ticket to other former Southern Democrats. It was Reagan, who later cemented the alliance between White Southerners and the GOP. This so-called “Southern Strategy” would not only remake the GOP but the en…

Protests Force Torch Detour in San Francisco

By Lygia Navarro

…e opening ceremony rumors circulated that the Torch might not be coming to San Francisco after all. By the time the news finally came in, the city had already secreted the Torch down an unpublicized alternate route to avoid the protests completely, closing with a ceremony at the airport before the Torch continued on its “Journey of Harmony.” Unhappy throngs quickly took over nearby restaurants and benches. “The Olympics is a world event. It’s not…