Irony Really is Dead: GOP Plans to Send Adulterous Third Wife of Serial Philanderer as Ambassador to Vatican
The Republican Party has maintained a death-grip on protestations of moral authority on matters of…
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Why “Family Values” Defined Conservative Christianity (and Why “Religious Liberty” Has Replaced it)
From about 1970 until about 2000, American politics was largely driven by concern about the…
Read MoreMormon Church Policy on Children of Same-Sex Couples Violates its Own Principles
When we were kids growing up in the Mormon Church, my brother’s best friend Tony,…
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The Americans Season Finale: Teach Your Parents Well
Television’s best show explores faith, family ,identity, and the spectre of Reagan’s ‘evil empire’
Read MoreApocalyptic Christian Theology’s Role in Gov Shutdown
Values Voters Summit forces moderate Republicans to face some crushing facts.
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Marriage Equality: Race, Family Values, and the 99%
According to the US Census, families are becoming less nuclear, headed up by more single parents, childless couples, and LGBT couples with children. Yet family diversity is still only a revelation in the mainstream media, which continues to promote the model of nuclear familyhood, even if it is provisionally represented by elite white gay The Kids Are All Right-style yuppie throwbacks with photogenic children.
Read MoreObama Criticizes Black Fatherhood
Senator Obama has contributed to a conception of responsible African American fatherhood as the shocking exception as opposed to the standard norm.
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Raising Children the Right Way
James Dobson wants to teach parents how to win the war against their unruly children.
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Ignore the Rod: the Parental Rights Amendment Isn’t About Spanking
The United States is the only nation save Somalia that’s failed to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Armed with a doomsday ten-point plan including the end of spankings and the government preventing parents from bringing kids to church, the force behind the movement to prevent its ratification isn’t just a bunch of strict parents.
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RDPulpit: Excommunicating the Victims
While the family of a 9-year-old incest victim’s abortion is excommunicated, the perpetrator never even made it to the ecclesial radar screen. Let this case signal the end of any credible claim to authority of bishops and the dawn of a new era when local communities determine their own members. I daresay the world will be a safer, kinder place.
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