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A Primer on Activism from Unitarian Universalists

…an e-mail invitation to 30,000 people on the Standing on the Side of Love list asking them to join her in Phoenix. Rev. Paul Langston-Daley, minister at the West Valley UU Church in Glendale, served as a bridge between the national UUA and local organizing work. The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock provided travel support for those unable to get there themselves. Months of preparation went into making the experience a meaningfu…

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Your Freedom of Speech Ends Where My Life Begins

…owever, jumped by six percent. The FBI include “sexual orientation” in the list of statistics they collect from law enforcement around the country, but the federal hate crimes law does not include that category – something the House has been trying to change with H.R. 1592. Ironically, religious people, who are luckily suffering fewer attacks, are opposed to H.R. 1592 because it might limit their ability to use their words to spur even more attack…

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Eight Theories on the Prickliness of Mitt Romney

…resses him on a position get stonewalled and badgered? Not fun to watch or listen to, my friends. Not fun at all. Whence cometh the prickliness of Mitt Romney? Eight theses: A. a personality flaw B. a result of having been insulated by class privilege C. a result of developing his leadership style in an LDS institutional culture wherein leaders are expected to appear “flawless” and dissent and open disagreement is not sanctioned D. a consequence o…

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Tea Party Bullies on Homosexuality: “No Punishment Too Severe?”

…xuality, which Rushdoony did. But I have argued that this rather sensationalist approach to examining the place of Reconstructionism in  contemporary politics undermines efforts to see real influence. DeMint doesn’t advocate stoning, even though he aligns himself with Reconstructionists. He does advocate undoing decades of efforts to secure basic civil rights for gays and lesbians (and apparently for unmarried women as well). He does, it seems, su…

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On the “Shunning” of Marriage Equality Opponent Ryan T. Anderson: A Reply to Damon Linker

…in liberal values in the service of illiberal policies. At the top of this list was civility. I argued that some speakers have used the charge of incivility to silence or otherwise inhibit their critics. For my case study I used Ryan T. Anderson, who had written: The principal strategy of the forces that have worked for 20 years to redefine marriage to include same-sex unions has been cultural intimidation – bullying others by threatening the stig…

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Atheists Ignore Islamophobia at their Peril

…Newly Deconverted,” contained no mention of the Sikh shooting, but it did list an instance where a Florida door-to-door salesman was shot, and noted the recent mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado. PZ Myers, who is among the most visible atheist bloggers in the world, did write about the shooting twice, though one of his posts simply referenced the shooting as a way to condemn America’s “gun culture,” while the other focused on Pat Robertson’s comme…

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Moses on Facebook, Christian Pro Soccer, Televangelist Breakfast Cereal, Child Preachers

…sentenced to life in prison for sexual assault last week. The hand of St. James made it back to Reading Abbey just in time for St. James Day. A school board in Virginia has removed the Sherlock Holmes novel A Study in Scarlet from its sixth-grade reading lists because they found the book to be anti-Mormon. The Boston Globe reminds us all that the two Mormon GOP presidential candidates, Mitt Romney and John Huntsman, have different takes on their…

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

…Greensboro Massacre, the Groveland Four, and Selma—a tragically incomplete list. White supremacy is a destructive and disintegrating form of power. The creation of the other is a symptom of existential estrangement—separation from the self, others, life and the ultimate divine source of being. The “demonic” is what prevents a person from realizing itself and the human gift of living a uniquely fulfilled life in community. We prove our infection by…

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New History Finally Recognizes Afro-Creole Spiritualists

…men. Their race shaped their practice in ways different from white Spiritualists in the Northeast U.S. While many Spiritualists were abolitionists, their whiteness and white privilege was an ever-present part of their religious practice. American politics and society based their hierarchies in part on racial difference, but the spirits communicating with the Cercle Harmonique denied the ontology of race. Though many of their Spiritualist contempor…

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