Reading Time: 2 minutes In the recent past, conservative Supreme Court Justices have legalized bigotry by allowing businesses owners to refuse service to select customers. Conservative justices might do this again, and again and again. America is not a country with a well-evolved service industry, and many business owners do not want to make profits by receiving money from […]
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Posted inPolitics
The danger of dumb: The long con of ‘stupid’ politicians
Reading Time: 3 minutes As a stripper, people often assumed I was dumb. Outside of the club, I loved proving that assumption wrong. That stereotype and others are one of the reasons I started writing in the first place. It’s not that I’m a MENSA member, but I don’t think I’m nearly as dumb as some people have thought […]
Posted inReproductive rights
Three paths in a post-Roe America
Reading Time: 5 minutes Will this ruling create popular fury and the downfall of the religious right? The birth of a new Gilead? Or a muddle in between?
Posted inLaw
How to speak originalist: The constitutional case for abortion rights
Reading Time: 13 minutes I am a cis woman who will probably never have an unplanned pregnancy. I’m asexual (ace). While some ace folk do have sex lives, for me and my body, barring an assault, an unplanned pregnancy is not in the cards. But empathy is something I have in abundance. As a child, I had a well-developed […]
Posted inReligion
SCOTUS Just Helped Christianity Decline Faster
Reading Time: 5 minutes Hi and welcome back! A couple of days ago, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) helped Christianity decline just a little bit faster. They made a pair of decisions that will hopefully jar quite a few Christians into wondering exactly why their imaginary friend doesn’t actually make their tribemates into better people. Today, […]
Posted inLGBTQ, Religion
Another Day, Another TRUE CHRISTIAN™ Hypocrite
Reading Time: 13 minutes In the lifetime of this blog, we’ve talked often about how hypocritical the most fervent Christians always turn out to be. We’ve established many times that hypocrisy isn’t a fluke or aberration of the religion but an absolutely inevitable outcome of its various teachings. In the wake of some absolutely explosive new allegations against one of Christianity’s most valiant culture warriors, we turn our attention once again to this simple fact.
Posted inReligion
The Religious Right Clearly Thinks We’re Idiots.
Reading Time: 10 minutes I’m noticing a trend lately with the Religious Right that might well baffle observers but which makes perfect sense within the strange subculture that its adherents inhabit: they act for all the world like they think we’re idiots. As usual, there’s a bit more to it than that, though. Today we’ll talk about three examples of what I mean.
Posted inReligion
Why “Separate but Equal” Doesn’t Work.
Reading Time: 10 minutes Whenever you hear about any institution or group that specifically singles out one group to hold all the power and exalts the voices of that group while stripping other groups of power and voices, abuse and scandals not only become more likely, but they become inevitable. There isn’t some other way that can work. Today we’ll talk about why and how that is.
Posted inReligion
Three Questions That Destroy Bigoted County Clerks’ Charade.
Reading Time: 11 minutes But I saw an image not long ago that really put things into perspective for me. It asks one of those questions that, once I’d seen it asked, made it impossible for me to see this issue of disobedient county clerks in any other way other than them behaving as petulant bullies.
Posted inReligion
I Don’t Think Anti-Gay Christians Really Trust Their God Much
Reading Time: 8 minutes Taken to the nadir, religion can become a means that truly predatory, shameless people use to gain social control and dominance over others, nothing more, and it is used or deployed rather than practiced or believed; the folks doing this might act like zealots, but really what they are is frauds who’ve found an angle–a foolproof one. And that’s why this week I was struck anew by just how little these zealots appear to truly trust in their god.