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A Resurgence of “Ex-Gay Therapy” Under Trump/Pence? ABC News Report Offers a Platform to Hate Group Rep. Peter Sprigg

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ergypeople remain free to use various “therapeutic” measures to attempt to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity, despite broad scientific consensus that such changes are impossible.) Testimony from survivors could have provided critical balance in the piece and a powerful counter to Sprigg’s assertions. RD reached out to two of them. Carl Charles, a gay trans man and practicing attorney in New York City who spent nearly a year i…

Did Pope Francis Just End the Religion and Science Conflict?

By Donovan Schaefer

…ut in favor of an ambitious, activist agenda against anthropogenic climate change, Francis wades into an ongoing debate among the world’s most powerful countries about the interpretation of climate data. Specifically, Francis sides with the preponderance of scientists and against conservative politicians and business leaders in affirming that anthropogenic climate change is both real and urgent. He thus adds moral weight to the scientific consensu…

Sarah Palin: Obama Wants to Make White People Slaves

By Anthea Butler

…ahPac. To push back on the HBO movie, SarahPac commissioned a video, “Game change we can believe in,” a highlight reel of Palin on the 2008 campaign trail. Of course, the Pac is fundraising on the movie, hoping to get $20.12 for the 2012 race. While Rick Santorum has taken Palin’s 2008 role over as Super Christian out on the campaign trail (with songs being written about him, no less), Palin’s star is on the wane. Since proclaiming she would not r…

Prepare for Attack on Science by Newly-Elected Republicans

By Lauri Lebo

…ustries and Murray Energy, according to the Huffington Post. Other climate change deniers who were just elected or reelected to the Senate and whose top contributors are these same two companies include Hoeven, David Vitter (R-LA) and Jim DeMint (R-SC). Despite the fact that, just as with evolution, there is virtually no debate in the science community over the existence of man-made climate change, questioning it in the public sphere is pretty mu…

Post-Paris Reflections: We May Have to Learn to Hope

By Donna Schaper

…s they can, together, and still not have it be enough? Because more has to change. Frankly, everything must change. One thing that could derail this momentous agreement among the wise and weathered people of the world is the threat of terrorism. The lead news stories all these last ten days have been San Bernardino or Chicago or the French election, moving to the right in Islamophobia. What if good people and decent governments worldwide commit to…

Politics in a Time of Crisis: Sandy? Blame Socialism

By Haroon Moghul

…rankenstorm. We cannot of course trace any single weather event to climate change, but we can be left with certain critical impressions that should be part of our political conversation. First, we need government in times of crisis—those who are badly affected by storms are often afflicted for no particular reason, but still require help from their fellow citizens (consider my earlier question of what constitutes a crisis). The affected are just i…

In a Powerful Statement Black Presidents and Deans Say: No More Stolen Black Lives!

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…those entities currently employed in highjacking a legitimate movement for change in the nature of policing in the United States. These entities include accelerationist white supremacist individuals and organizations who are infiltrating these protests with the express intent of inciting violence and, ultimately, a race war that they believe it is possible to win. The sight of US military forces stationed in front of American citizens engaged in p…

Catholic Church is Lucky it’s Just Same-Sex Marriage

By Marian Ronan

…either in one “ovotestis” or with one ovary and one testis). An increasing number of public and commercial health insurance companies now include defined benefits for sex reassignment surgery, and the American Medical Association, the American Psychological Association and the National Association of Social Workers, have declared the denial of such benefits discriminatory. And intersex conditions are likely to increase, since some of them, at leas…

Dear White Evangelicals: A Black Square Ain’t Gonna Cut It

By Jhas Williams

…doubt that a start would have been not being able to count on one hand the number of Black children in my entire Christian school student-body. Do Black educators only exist in public schools? Of course not. Why then couldn’t we find more Black scholars to employ when it came to teaching children? I can tell you that I’ll recognize change as genuine when white preachers and ministers stop using Bible verses to pacify their white congregants by amp…

From “It’s Just Words” to Just Words: Speech Ethics in the Time of Trump

By Brad R. Braxton

…ho use their hope to construct and enact meaningful and significant social change.” Christian scriptures also inform my thoughts about speech ethics. The New Testament Book of James, for example, warns believers, and especially leaders, about the lethal consequences of an unbridled tongue: Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness….The tongue is a small me…