Religion Dispatches
…ng with a new word that I had learned: “lesbian.” I knew it was word that applied to me—and the more vernacular “dyke” that I had been called by some classmates. I didn’t like either of them. “Lesbian” sounded like a horrible disease (no offense to natives of Lesbos), and “dyke” was not yet an epithet I had learned to love for its amazing power and strength. After dark, when the downtown shops had closed and the streets were rolled up for the nigh…
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…ny reptiles, insects, and invertebrates to list. Black swans and mallards appear to be particularly unnatural (it is estimated that 25% of pairings of black swans are male-male; only slightly less for mallards). I had a friend that purchased a 50k breeding bull that had to be “put down” because of his economically questionable preference for steers. And then there are Roy and Silo, two male Chinstrap penguins in New York City’s Central Park Zoo th…
Read More…with the scary people who want to distribute the money differently and help poor people. Good that they’re lumping us in with the people who think such radical thoughts as: conservative religious nutjobs should not be given a free pass to run the nation, and gays and lesbians should enjoy equal protection under the law. Good that they think we’re a bunch of wild-eyed radicals. If I and the members of my denomination scare Glenn Beck, that’s a goo…
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…s book, by a black author, with black characters, drawn in almost string puppet formations, using primary colors throughout. The title is Made by God, So I must be Special. I love that book and now I pass it on to the next generation, my grandchildren. It is part of the Nana collection. The title says it all. With its sacred reminder, “by God,” it is obviously meant to affirm each and every child. In a world of phobias, prejudices, and discriminat…
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…ieces on how they are oh-so-confused about the hypocrisy of evangelicals supporting an immoral man like Trump). Keep in mind that the New York Times’ Elizabeth Dias, in addition to both Michael Gerson and Sarah Pulliam Bailey of the Washington Post,are all graduates of Wheaton College, an evangelical school whose faculty members are expected to sign a “Statement of Faith and Educational Purpose.” I’m sincerely convinced that unless we allow more v…
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