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Romney Goes to Bat Against Reid in Nevada

By Joanna Brooks

…treat mild-mannered Mormon politicians well: be they Reids, or Romneys. Just last week, Jan Shipps, a longtime scholar and canny observer of Mormon experience, wagered that Angle would beat Romney if he were on the ticket. I think she’s right. What’s happening in Nevada is the ugly down side of a speculation-and-spending fueled boom cycle, with many voters looking for a politician who will mirror their own feelings of fear and resentment. How ugl…

Hater Pastor Loses His Wife of 42 Years, Uses the Occasion to Trash Gays

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…halves of humanity coming together” within his heterosexual marriage is most striking to me, though. Complementarity is something that the religious right appeals to when they can no longer defend procreation as the reason for excluding gays and lesbians from marriage. Complementarity posits that men go with women because “Tab A” is mean for “Slot B.” You can’t have two Tabs and two Slots together since there is no “natural” fit. Duke University…

The Same Toxic Christian Right Theology Supports Both the Online Bullying I Experienced and the Cruel Anti-Trans Policy in TX — And it’s Not Remotely Fringe

By Chrissy Stroop

…status/1496482488130191368?s=20&t=BCVMOzDYWxTc8c9hU2_7iQ One Southern Baptist pastor even used the slur “tranny” in his tweet about the situation: https://twitter.com/NateSchlomann/status/1496553688759943169 Eventually, Denny Burk, a pastor and a professor at Boyce College, the undergraduate institution associated with Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, published a blog post about “the transgender, deconstructing exvangelical endorser of ‘Jesu…

On the 40th Anniversary of Hyde, A Theological Defense of Reproductive Justice

By Anita Little

…liticians, but also from black male clergy? To answer that question, we first must acknowledge the history surrounding the bodies of women of color. Particularly, for black women, our bodies have never been our own. After we left enslavement, it became very important for us to counteract those stereotypes of us as lascivious and sexually predatory. One of the ways we did that was through this hyper-surveillance of black women’s bodies and this ide…

Note for Today

By Amina Wadud

…bly integrated into everyday wear; and honestly speaking the dresses are just sack style, and I honestly do not imagine when or where to use them. Maybe I’ll have a lifestyle change and dress in white more often? Exercise and Diet Well, I’ve hit the awful plateau, 15 pounds down but gone in the first three weeks. I wish I had managed more than the once a day daily walk, too. This is not just vanity, nor even that pre-diabetes diagnosis, but I real…

Gas For Two Bucks a Gallon? Bachmann Taps a Pipeline to the American Sacred

By Rosamond C. Rodman

…iver between Kentucky and Indiana, causing indefinite closure of a major east-west interstate and river crossing, it wasn’t long before it came to be known as “Shermageddon.” These references reflect something larger, truer, more apt than the events they were coined to describe—in Eliadian terms, they were profane events positioned within a sacred reality, namely the invocation of a biblical reference to Har Megiddo or Mount Megiddo (in the Hebrew…

House GOP Hires Lawyer to Prevent Federal Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…his litigation which will consume 18 months or longer. As we noted, the constitutionality of this statute will be determined by the Courts, regardless of whether the House chooses to intervene.” If the Senate doesn’t approve the reallocation, and Pres. Obama rejects it, Boehner might not get the money he’s looking for—so much of Boehner’s moves to placate the anti-marriage equality crowd remain up in the air. The first case Boehner wants his new a…

A Truly Fearless Human Being: Rev. Howard Moody, 1921-2012

By Tom Davis

…friend of RD, Tom Davis. What I found is a life that defies both our coarsest stereotypes of the priggish preacherman and the conventional wisdom among today’s self-styled progressive religious leaders that finding “common ground” with uncompromising opponents is the best path to change. In addition to Moody’s work detailed above—most notable perhaps for the way in which he showed great leadership by following and learning from women, and not by l…

‘We’re all in this together’: The Perils of Kumbaya Rhetoric

By Peter Laarman

…ate their strength in relation to smaller businesses and as the American caste system grows still more rigid and more suffocating for those at the bottom. In a searing exploration of the liberal mindset in relation to policing, Yannick Marshall notes how the repeated mantra of “We will hold them accountable!” in the mouths of the liberals “assumes the benevolence of the violent” and functions to obscure the centuries-long persistence of lethal ant…

Richard Dawkins’ Atheist Academy of Unguided Truth

By Paul Wallace

…t I began to see that all true education is intensely personal. Dawkins’ distaste for an officially atheist academy may be mere iconoclasm. But maybe not. Maybe it’s closer to the truth to say he could never allow the kind of intellectual openness found routinely in parochial schools around the world. Imagine it! Who are you? Do you disbelieve in God? Why? Do you disbelieve in God because your mother disbelieves in God? Do you believe there’s no…