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SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE: Rick Santorum / “We will Never Have the Elite, Smart People on Our Side”
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Category Archives: Bigotry
POLITICAL PARODY: Wrong Direction / “Disclosure” / A Full Frontal Freedom Production
CHRISTIAN PRIVILEGE: Rev. Emily C. Heath / “How to Determine If Your Religious Liberty Is Being Threatened in Just 10 Quick Questions”
It seems like this election season “religious liberty” is a hot topic. Rumors of its demise are all around, as are politicians who want to make sure that you know they will never do anything to intrude upon it.
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Quick Questions.” Just pick “A” or “B” for each question.
1. My religious liberty is at risk because:
A) I am not allowed to go to a religious service of my own choosing.
B) Others are allowed to go to religious services of their own choosing.2. My religious liberty is at risk because:
A) I am not allowed to marry the person I love legally, even though my religious community blesses my marriage.
B) Some states refuse to enforce my own particular religious beliefs on marriage on those two guys in line down at the courthouse.3. My religious liberty is at risk because:
A) I am being forced to use birth control.
B) I am unable to force others to not use birth control.[…]
10. My religious liberty is at risk because:
A) I am not allowed to teach my children the creation stories of our faith at home.
B) Public school science classes are teaching science.
AMURIKAN CULTURE: Chuck Thompson / “Why Do So Many Southerners Think They’re the Only Real Americans?”
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Southerners love trashing the rest of the country (when did you last hear a kind Rebel word for New York, Detroit or San Francisco?), but when their blood is really up the go-to move down South is to dismiss their fellow citizens as un-American.
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Until enough Southerners are able to examine their society honestly—until they can begin to withstand external criticism without collapsing into blind hysteria—nothing will change.
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The majority of Southerners are not uneducated rednecks flying Confederate flags from the backs of their pickups.
I never claimed they were, in the book or elsewhere.
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However good and polite they may be, what the majority of Southerners are, and have always been, is willing to allow the most angry and “patriotic” firebrands among them to remain in control of their society’s most powerful and influential positions, be they in the realms of politics, business, education, religion or media.
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As far back as 1941, Southern journalist W.J. Cash was remarking on “the ancient incapacity of the great body of Southerners to examine and analyze a case realistically even when their own fate hinged upon it, the tendency to take the easiest answer as explaining all their ills.”
Related articles
- Books of The Times: ‘Better Off Without ‘Em,’ by Chuck Thompson (nytimes.com)
- Should the South secede? (salon.com)
EMPATHETIC MORALITY: “Dad Sports Skirt to Support Cross-dressing Son”
Many fathers insist that their cross-dressing sons change clothes before stepping outside—especially if neighbors are starting to snicker. A German dad is quickly becoming an international hero for taking an entirely different approach.
When Nils Pickert moved his family from open-minded West Berlin to a more conservative small southern German town, locals rolled their eyes at his dress-wearing son. His 5-year-old boy became too embarrassed to put on his favorite frocks.
Pickert decided to teach his son a lesson in self-confidence and started wearing skirts around town himself.
h/t: MoveOn.org
CHRISTIAN IMBECILITY: Dusty Smith / “Fuck Katt Williams!”
CONSERVATIVE MISOGYNY: “A Simple Flowchart For Anyone Who Feels They Are Entitled To Legislate A Vagina”
h/t: MoveOn.org
TEA PARTY: The Newsroom / “Tea Party is the American Taliban” / “The Tea Party and Koch”
TEA PARTY: The Newsroom / “The Tea Party and Koch”
REPUBLICAN FEAR: “Why Republicans Fear Same-Sex Marriage”
h/t: Planet Atheism
h/t: unreasonable faith
REPUBLICAN XENOPHOBIA: “Chris Matthews Calls Out GOP Chairman Reince Priebus on Xenobhobia”
Always Question Authority 