Culture Warriors category archive
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.
Rendering unto Caesar 0
Tony Norman reflects of the strange relationship between evangelical “Christians” and Donald Trump. A snippet:
Borderline Disorder, Chronic Dept. 0
At The Bangor Daily News, David Farmer reflects on this self-styled “nation of immigrants” and its historic hostility to immigrants. He fears history’s repeating itself in the land of the Trumpled. In the course of his essay, he tells a story:
She arrived in New York City, where the Irish were treated as outsiders and outcasts, where signs read “No Irish Need Apply.”
Irish housekeepers and nannies were so common, that the well-to-do referred to the young women as generic “Bridgettes,” the name stripped of its humanity and used instead as a description of a domestic servant.