When Christianity and Feminism Don’t Get Along
The following is part of a real text conversation that took place February 2, 2012. ME: Did u know the “punishment” for men who rape virgins in the O.T. is they get a bride at a discount? Bill1phd: Well… there was also a death penalty if the virgin was engaged ME: But only if she [...]
God’s gift of rape?
The following is a real* text conversation that took place on February 24, 2012, between me and @Bill1phd, who describes himself as an “Educated Christian Progressive Liberal and PROUD American.” (FYI, he lives up to it, and he also has a PhD in world religion.) ME: Did you watch The Daily Show last night? I [...]
Show Me the Vagina!
If you inquired as to why #VaginaMovieLines was trending on Twitter on Thursday, June 14, you found out that Michigan state Rep. Lisa Brown was blocked from speaking on the state House floor, presumably as punishment for uttering the word “vagina” during a speech against a proposed ban on all abortions past 20 weeks. [...]
Why Black Voters Should Be Mad at Obama (and themselves)
I’ve spent the past several days absorbing commentary via social media and NPR about President Obama’s views on same-sex marriage and Black voters’ reactions to it. Both anecdotal evidence and real numbers suggest that if the president wanted to retain his most devoted voting block, he made a mistake on May 10, when he told [...]
WTF is going on in Arizona?
According to the Huffington Post and also reported in the International Business Times, Arizona state legislator Debbie Lesko has drafted a bill permitting non-religious employers to opt out of offering birth control coverage to their employees if they have a moral objection to it AND permitting those employers to ask their employees to prove they’re [...]
Deep South sexism and racism live on in Limbaugh
I’ve been reading At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape and Resistance—A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power. The book is about the Civil Rights Movement as a response to sexualized violence against African American women, and one of the go-to defenses for [...]
When man-made laws protect us from bad faith
Because faith is so personal, I try to avoid looking at it objectively or commenting on religions that are not my own. Additionally, I readily admit I’m not a scholar of one or of many religions. I read and study the Christian Bible because I’m a Christian and I believe my personal walk with Christ [...]
It’s about women, even when it’s about religion
At a hearing titled “Lines Crossed: Separation of Church and State. Has the Obama Administration Trampled on Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Conscience?” on Thursday, not a single witness who would have answered the question, “No,” was invited to testify. Democrats on the committee requested that, per the allowance of Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., [...]
Looking for Plan B: An open letter to girls
To a 16-year-old girl who wants to buy Plan B-One over the counter: Someone in the Obama administration you’ve probably never even heard of made an unprecedented decision concerning you last week. U.S. Health and Human Services Department Secretary Kathleen Sebelius decided that Plan B One-Step, which you probably know as the “morning after pill,” [...]
Let the hate show
When I read yesterday that Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church, a church in my lovely state of Kentucky, voted to ban interracial couples from its congregation, I thought, “So much for post-racial America.” While I was appalled, shook my head, and joined in with the “And they call themselves Christians,” chorus, I felt some vindication for [...]
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