North Carolina Just Tried to Ban Marriage Equality Because “Almighty God” Said So
Lest anyone believed that North Carolina’s fake “repeal” of the odious, transphobic HB2 signaled a…
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Need for a Third Reconstruction
At a time when so much of American politics seems incited by fear and hatred,…
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Challenging Plantation Capitalism: Rev. Barber’s Holy Cause
From the very beginning of Rev. William Barber’s ministry in the state of North Carolina…
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Moral Mondays: The Battle For Justice Cannot Be Waged Only in the Courts
On a warm day in July 2013, I found myself on the wrong end of…
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A Third Reconstruction? Rev. William Barber Lifts the Trumpet
Chances are you have heard something about the Rev. William Barber II. He is the…
Read MoreDear Public Employee: Think the Government is “Hostile to Religion”? Get Another Job.
Same-sex marriage is now legal in North Carolina. It was, of course, bound to be…
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Why Atheists Should Fight For Establishment of State Religion
The debate over the “Defense of Religion Act” in North Carolina played out with the predictability of a sitcom. I offer this modest proposal, then, to remind both sides that if this is a war, then they have fought to a stalemate, and it is time for some new tactics, by which I mean: the history of religion in America demonstrates that the winner of the culture war will be the side that does the opposite of everything they are doing now.
Read MoreNC Pastor Says Gays Should Be “Penned Up With a Fence”
Last night on MSNBC I discussed this with Martin Bashir.
Read MoreKilling Love in North Carolina
A bump in the rocky road to marriage equality for gay and lesbian people.
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NC’s Gay Marriage Ban: “It’s Going to Hurt the Church”
The discussion surrounding NC’s Amendment 1 has taken the shape of a simplistic ideological battle over homosexuality and religion. “It’s as if some Christians feel like they have permission to discriminate or hate,” Jay Bakker told me. “And they get so obsessed with it that they ignore the fact that it would harm children, it would harm women, it would harm people in domestic partnerships. It’s like they’ve just become blind to that because they’ve built up such resentment towards gays and lesbians. And that’s really, really frightening to me.”
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