Culture Warriors category archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Clarence Page decodes de code.
Republican Thought Police 0
At AL.com, John Archibald looks at a bill currently being deliberated (I use that term very loosely) by the Alabama legislature (another term I use very loosely) and wonders
Could a librarian be arrested for shelving the Bible where minors can find it?
Follow the link to see what led him to ask such a question.
Republican Thought Police 0
Heaven forbic that students be exposed to knowledge.
The New Believer 0
F. T. Rea has a question:
Why has Donald Trump recently decided to become an unabashed, self-styled religious figure?
He also has some answers.
They’re at the link.
Establishmentarians and Originalist Sin 0
Chris Satullo argues that those who try to interpret the U. S. Constitution through the lens of a literal interpretation of Christian Bible ignore nuance, history, and context. Using some of the statements of Speaker of the House Mike Johnson as a starting point, he notes the following (emphasis added):
Yet, somehow, the Bible and the Constitution never seem to contradict what Mike was already fixing to do.
(snip)
The fundamentalist/originalist view that the text is inerrant and fixed in meaning – and that you have mastered that meaning – leads to some pitfalls.
Follow the link for a detailed and thoughtful parsing of pitfalls.
Republican Family Values 0
At Above the Law, Liz Dye follows the money.
Oink! Oink! 0
As much as the thought displeases me, methinks a convincing case can be made that (at least some) men are pigs, especially when you can hear them oinking in their own words.
The Blame Gamer 0
Afterthought:
“Woke” is worn out; “DEI” is the new proxy for “n-word.”
Establishmentarians 0
Missouri Republicans want to put proselytizers on the public payroll and deploy them to public schools.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At AL.com, Frances Coleman argues that the words might be different, but the thought’s the same. A snippet:
It may not have the same rhetorical ring as George Wallace’s “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever,” but it puts the point across.
Establishmentarians 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Leonard Hitchcock skewers the reasoning behind the Alabama Supreme Court’s recent IVF ruling. Here’s a tiny bit of his article:
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Moms for Libertines 0
Scott Maxwell is an optimist.
Precedented 0
Michael in Norfolk has seen it before the mythmaking before. A snippet:
More at the link.
(Broken link fixed.)
Stray Thought 0
I suspect that, if I looked up “truth” in my trusty Roget’s Thesaurus, which I’ve had for forty years, I would not find “divisive concepts” listed as a synonym thereof.
But, if I had an updated version, I think I just might.
Republican Family Values 0
An Arizona state legislator who is dealing with a non-viable pregnancy and who has suffered multiple miscarriages speaks powerfully of the agony she has endured because of Republican culture warriors and American Talibangelicals.
I knew someone who endured a miscarriage. It is not an experience I would wish on anyone, and it is certainly not an experience that should be mandated by government.
There is a reason the Founders mandated separation of church and state, and this is certainly one of them.
Video via C&L, which has commentary.
