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303 Creative Is Not a ‘Religion v. Gay Rights’ Case — But Here’s Why the Christian Right is Happy with the Media Suggesting Just That

By Heron Greenesmith

…ther couples whose weddings she disapproves of. Colorado law requires that businesses not discriminate against clients and customers on the basis of protected characteristics, including sexual orientation. In 2016, ADF and Smith sued the state of Colorado in anticipation of Smith’s work being in violation of the state’s nondiscrimination statute. Upon hearing that Smith wanted a preemptive right to discriminate, the lower courts upheld Colorado’s…

The Messiah is Not Coming

By Peter Laarman

…ies of self-congratulation and spiritual uplift among the rich. But middle-class congregations were the norm, and middle-class congregations are having a horrendous time coming to terms with the new reality of congregants who can no longer support the institution financially and who may even start disappearing—literally—because of the intense status-loss shame they have experienced. Please say that you heard it here first: those congregations that…

Millennials Invent New Religion: No Hell, No Priests, No Punishment

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…st as “feel good” about the religion as the original founders. I asked the class after the presentations why they all chose to eschew the idea of hell. “Religion today is so … judgmental,” one student offered. “Yeah,” another agreed. “We don’t need some church telling us what to do when they don’t practice what they preach.” Here they were utterly consistent with an oft-cited poll of a few years ago, in which many millennials said they found the c…

Soft Supremacy: When “Liking” Love Is Not Enough

By Peter Laarman

…on to Robert Mercer, not Steven Bannon. Get a clue about the white working class rather than consigning all non-elite whites to a “deplorables” basket. Joan Williams’ brilliant short book, White Working Class, would be a good place to start. And here’s why: we will never realize King’s “revolution of values” in this country without overthrowing the rule of wealth—the corporate state—that lies at the heart of all social violence (not to mention apo…

News of “Gay Gene’s” Death Greatly Exaggerated

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…link for homosexuality – gays and lesbians should be treated as a minority class like minority races and granted rights accordingly. Either way – whether it’s chosen or in-born – homosexuality should be a protected class not because of any special rights for a select group – but because that group has been singled out for special discrimination in the past. Being included as a protected class and granted equal rights in all areas of life, like mar…

Hitching a Freedom Ride: Gay Ain’t the New Black…

By Jonathan L. Walton

…ice may be at times interrelated (i.e. the relationship between racism and classism, or the cultural connection between sexism and homophobia), they are still distinguishable and historically contingent. Racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, ageism, etc., are all independent categories. We know that white women can fight against male hierarchy even as they ignore their own complicity in terms of racial stratification. And middle-class African Amer…

The Irony of Moral Panic over Surplus Men

By Patricia Miller

…arge enough supply of working class men with stable jobs to entice working class women to marry them. Many working class women correctly calculate that it’s better to be a single mom than to support both a child and an unemployed or sporadically employed husband. The fact that there’s no crisis of family formation among the college educated proves it’s not a matter of cultural influence—or even religiosity. In the end, it’s not a matter of morals,…

The Social Science Animal: Brooks Argues for Emotion over Reason

By Beatrice Marovich

…figures such as the “bobos” (in his 2000 Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There) in order to make a broader, socially analytical point. It seems as though Brooks wants to give Harold and Erica some spark, some spunk, some redeeming qualities. But, in the end, they seem nothing more than strange satires of Brooks himself. Harold (the white American man who grows up in a comfortable middle-class family), is Brooksian in the o…

To Be Queer, Gifted, and Black: A Conversation with Theologian Pamela Lightsey

By Nyasha Junior

…he notion of queering and how it connects to theology? I actually taught a class in a church, a queer theology class, and a student asked, “Queer and theology, do those two go together?” And as we walked through the class over the course of the semester, she got to understand why they do. Now the word “queer” has a history behind it, some painful history behind it, for those within the LGBTQ community. That history has to do with lesbians and gay…

Noise in the Hood: Raising the Volume and Losing Our Bodies

By Peter Laarman

…exquisitely sensitive to the ways in which the history of noise expresses class relations and class consciousness. He shows his contempt for smug middle- and upper-middle class types demanding silence as their natural right providing a hilarious account of Thomas Carlyle’s frustrated efforts to build himself a soundproof study in a raucous 1850s London. Keizer also has little patience with academic elites who wish to celebrate noisy outbursts of…