Culture Warriors category archive
Republican Family Values 0
Boy, Republicans sure value themselves them families!
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.
You couldn’t make this stuff up.
Stray Thought, Sunday Dept. 0
I wonder whether the Evangelical right still teaches Sunday School children to sing
Red and yellow, black and white,
They are precious in His sight
and, if so, do they manage to do so with straight faces.
Men Are Pigs 0
The Seattle Times rounds up some #metoo moments. Here’s one:
“I love Asian girls,” the driver said. She told him she had a boyfriend. He suggested it might not last.
All the while, she thought in the back of her head, “He knows where I live.”
More moments at the link.
Republican Core Values 0
Atrios sums them up.
Failing the Test 0
Excerpt:
If God had wanted to send a test to American evangelicals . . . nothing could have shown them up more than the lust for power . . . .
Via C&L. (If the embed doesn’t work, follow that link. Damn computers.)
“Then Came a Stranger” 0
Tony Norman tells The Parable of the Evangelical Leaders and Their Grand Bargain.
Disciples of Trump 0
Chauncey Devega asks a question.
Why do white, right-wing Christian evangelicals support Donald Trump?
He then answers in a typically long, tightly-reasoned post. I urge you to follow the link and read what he wrote.
Both Sides Not 0
Eugene Robinson excoriates the hypocrisy of evangelical “Christian” “leaders” as regards Donald Trump. A snippet:
After all, Perkins’ predecessor at the Family Research Council, Gary Bauer, said this when Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky was revealed in 1998: “Character counts — in a people, in the institutions of our society, and in our national leadership.”
Apparently, it only counts when a Democrat is in the White House, not a Republican. I’m still looking for the Bible verse that spells out this distinction, but it must be in there somewhere.
Stormy Whether or Not 0
Dick Polman remarks on evangelical “Christians” ability to look the other way. A nugget:
