Culture Warriors category archive
In Spite of the Evidence 0
Dr. Jean Kim explores the magical thinnking of anti-vaxxers.
The Lies of the Land 0
Mike explores why evangelical “Christians” like Sarah Huckabee Sanders find it so easy to lie for Donald Trump (warning: language, vehemence).
Republican Family Values 0
Almost in passing, Leonard Pitts, Jr., notes a confluence. Follow the link for context:
“God as a License To Discriminate” 0
David and his guest discuss the history and meaning of “freedom of religion” in the context of U. S. history.
The Court Is in Sessions 0
Forewarning: The nuns “forced” to buy birth control Sessions referred to were not forced to buy birth control for themselves, as the clip below implies. They were ordered to provide for birth control in their employees’ health coverage.
Aside:
The right wing defines “religious freedom” as freedom for evangelical “Christians” to force their beliefs on others.
If a Hindu or Muslim or Buddhist or whatever were to refuse to bake a wedding cake for a Christian in protest of, say, forced conversions to Christianity in Spanish colonies in the 1500s, just to pick something out of thin history, you can bet that would be a whole nother story.
Facebook Frolics 0
One more time, the internet is a public place.
Suffer the Children 0
Brian Greenspun marvels at the Republican Family Values of ripping the children or immigrants and asylum-seekers from the arms of their parents. A snippet:
Through the decades, though, as the nature of human interaction and the darker human instincts overruled decency and neighborliness, there has never been the slightest concern about the role of government in the fight to protect children from harm.
Until Donald Trump.
Do please read the rest.