Kavanaugh Hearings Are a Commentary on Mormonism
I strongly suspect that what Senator Orrin Hatch found so objectionable about the Kavanaugh hearing was that women were allowed to ask questions of a man.
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This Radical Religious Freedom Dissent Reveals Kavanaugh’s Views on Sex and Power
Both the sweeping religious liberty claims defended by Kavanaugh and the assertions of his defenders come from the same place: a desire to reassert traditional, patriarchal sexual mores.
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Why White Women Are Leading Defenders of Kavanaugh
Central to victim shaming is the narrative that there are fundamentally good men who never cross the line but for the slutty behavior of irresponsible women and girls.
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Christian Pol, Attacked for Opposing ‘In God We Trust’ in School, Talks Church and State
I’m continually surprised that people who say they want less intrusive government are so eager to promote this intrusion into our personal lives.
Read MoreNeo-Nazis Call on ‘White Christians’ to Oppose Satanic Temple Rally
The convergence of conservative Christian and White Supremacist groups suggests this is really a struggle over who is a “real” American and who is not.
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How a Catholic-Majority SCOTUS Fulfilled an Evangelical Dream
This is not a majority Catholic court. It’s the Supreme Court that the strange alliance of the religious right built.
Read MoreTrump Pardons the Hammonds, Arsonists Who Inspired Bundy Standoff
Both this administration and this Supreme Court have proved all too willing, in recent months, to prioritize the individual entitlements and business interests of white Christian men.
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Life After ‘Roe’: Clergy Consider Handing Out Morning-After Pill in Church
“The thing most of us have been talking about is to encourage the use of medical technology, the morning-after pills and very good new drugs. There are already very interesting groups of women my age feeling we could take the risk of loading up our vans to take road trips and give them out at churches.”
Read MoreKavanaugh’s ‘Jesuitical’ Response to ‘Abomination’ of ‘Roe v. Wade’ in 2006
Jesuitical: crafty; sly; intriguing.
Read MoreKavanaugh, Yawn: Where’s Our Thirty-Year Plan?
When will we unite the fragments of important and useful single-issue activism under a shared understanding that we need to slay the dragon of finance capitalism joined to white supremacy?
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