Reading Time: 2 minutes When I first heard that Elon Musk was trying to buy Twitter, I was skeptical. It seemed like a stunt intended to get attention. He said he wanted to end the censorship of ideas. Conservative Twitter was all a flutter over the prospect, and many liberal-leaning users left for other platforms. I suspected it was […]
Hate Speech
Posted inLGBTQ
Should street preaching be considered hate speech?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Should it be so that just because something is in the Bible, it couldn’t or shouldn’t be viewed as hate speech?
Posted inLaw
Turns out, falsely shouting “Fire!” in a crowded theater may be okay
Reading Time: 6 minutes “It’s Time to Stop Using the ‘Fire in a Crowded Theater’ Quote.” This headline over a 2012 opinion piece in The Atlantic magazine concluded—wrongly, I think—that opinionators and random others had erroneously applied the famous quote to free-speech debates for decades and should stop. In fact, this most common interpretation of the quote is absolutely […]
Posted inRacial justice
It’s tough to be a white supremacist leader these days
Reading Time: 3 minutes The white supremacist group we’re discussing today, Patriot Front, utilized RocketChat to maintain their secrecy and privacy. It didn’t work.
Posted inLGBTQ, Religion
HB2: A Strangely Incomplete Crusade.
Reading Time: 10 minutes Today I want to look at one group that right-wing Christians routinely ignore when pursuing their agenda of stoking fear and increasing distrust of innocent people. This ignorance reveals much about exactly why they are persecuting trans people. But as we’ll see, their incomplete crusade will still have devastating results if it’s not stopped.
Posted inLGBTQ, Religion
Republican and Christian Leaders Are Asking Which Way Their Followers Went.
Reading Time: 9 minutes Someone needs to remind Republican voters and Christians alike that their leaders are trying to appeal to women, young people, LGBTQ people, and non-white folks, not insult and drive them away.
Posted inReligion
SCOTUS: Tony Perkins Has No Idea What End is Up, As Usual.
Reading Time: 9 minutes I had no idea Tony Perkins was as blitheringly ignorant, incredibly dense and intellectually dishonest as he is. Here are a few highlights of his rather dizzying thoughts from this rather excruciating interview.
Posted inGeneral
Interlude: The White Man’s Flag.
Reading Time: 6 minutes I can’t stop myself from briefly stepping back from our regularly-scheduled posts to add my wholehearted support for the people who are facing police brutality and oppression in Ferguson. It dismays me that so little has changed from decades past. There’s been a lot of ink spilled of late about it, but this post here […]
Posted inReligion
Love Is As Love Does
Reading Time: 8 minutes Today I want to talk about love. I know we’ve talked before about how many Christians have redefined the meaning of the word love to allow them to mistreat others. Abuse masquerading as love is one of the most defining elements to the makeup of a toxic Christian. Today, let me show you how we can see through a false facade of love.
Posted inReligion
Dear Christians: Please Quit Idolizing Disgusting Hate-Filled Bigots.
Reading Time: 13 minutes There’s this TV show about rich backwoods hicks with ZZ Top beards. It’s called “Duck Dynasty.” They own a successful hunting-goods company of some kind and they’re rich but they dress and groom themselves like any bunch of rednecks you’d see at any Southern Wal-Mart in the United States. They are, of course, extremely Christian […]