Religion Dispatches
…ge’s Dena’iana Center will have to fork over anywhere from $73 for a basic ticket to $255 for a special meet-and-greet. Since these Fox favorites failed to designate how these funds will be spent, here’s a selection of potential charities taken from Charity Navigator’s “Listing of 10 Non-Profits That Make Ebenezer Proud”: * American Association of State Troopers, Association for Disabled Firefighters * California Organization of Police and Sheriff…
Read More…tion in all instances except to save the mother’s life, and has joined the ticket with McCain, a man who has opposed efforts to institute wage equality, saying instead that women need more education and training. This twisting of feminist history and rhetoric to protect a champion of anti-feminist causes, traditionalism and sex-kitten objectification, is particularly unnerving for exactly the reasons that Palin’s biggest supporters claim it is: fo…
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…y prayers, invocations, and explicit (as well as implicit) references to a spiritual war. Earlier, DeSantis had declared, in reference to a popular Bible verse amongst those who see themselves as soldiers in a spiritual war, that “there will be arrows that we have to take.” He lauded the “sacrifice” the “Moms” were making for enduring the dance party outside, essentially equating being called “fascists” by protesters to dying on Omaha beach. “We’r…
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…cracy is a terrifying vision for many Americans, but for those born between 1946 and 1964 Pence’s ideas are especially repugnant. That’s because for America’s 75 million baby boomers, Pence is one of their own. And if you’re a boomer opposed to the current administration, you’re likely wondering how things went so very wrong. Growing up in an Irish Catholic family, Mike Pence was proudly Democratic. With John F. Kennedy as a patron saint, Pence be…
Read More…eria for access to lifeboats, and thereby survival, was the price of one’s ticket. Phillips says: If numbers prove anything, it’s that 71% of the survivors were passengers and 29% were crew, and that in raw numbers, almost as many Third Class (174) passengers survived as did a First Class (202) and crew (212)… Other than “Women and Children first,” there wasn’t any attempt to save one class of passengers over another. Raw numbers? Really? By perce…
Read More…rro, who was the first female vice presidential candidate on a major party ticket, for all she did for “those of us who came after her.” One has to wonder what Ferraro was thinking as Palin carried on, placing Ferraro smack in the middle of Palin’s own reading of feminist history dating to Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Palin noted some things that had not changed in the years between Ferraro’s campaign and her own: the “neanderthals…
Read More…titution.” That concept, he insists (without proof), comes from Deuteromony 17: Deuteronomy 17 says you shall not take a king from anyone other than from your brethren. In other words, if you are the son of a father who is from Judah, and a mother who’s from Moab, you are not eligible to be king. Why? By the law of nature, when you are placed in a particular nation, it comes with a loyalty, a built-in loyalty to that nation. Look at how divided Ba…
Read More…the 40 clinic bombings or seven murders that took place in the U.S. between 1983 and 1999, but they were accused by two abortion-rights groups and four abortion providers of setting off some of that violence through the use of websites, literature, and posters. Dreste, in the middle of it all, was implicated in highly coordinated campaigns and conspiracies that the court found to be “true threats” not sheltered by the First Amendment. Melinda Roth…
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…ssed serious Christian such as Pence even considering a place on the Trump ticket, but when it was offered, he didn’t think twice, yoking the Christian Right to Trump in exchange for a promise to appoint conservative judges and let the right have it’s way with anti-abortion legislation. While publicly Trump presented himself as an ally of the religious right, in private Mayer reports he gleefully mocked their most dearly held goal—banning abortion…
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…ouldn’t have needed a debate on health care.’” Asheville, the center of the 11th district, is a fairly liberal place known for its arts scene. Recently, Bothwell and a majority of the City Council appeared in support of a resolution that would give full legal equality to Asheville’s LGBT population. The gathering, hosted by People of Faith for Just Relationships, involved religious leaders from a variety of traditions. In the resolution, introduce…
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