Culture Warriors category archive
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.
Republican Thought Police 0
At AL.com, Kyle Whitmore reports on the Autauga-Prattville Library Board, which fired the library directory and now can’t get its story straight about why.
Facebook Frolics 0
Hate-full frolics by the America’s Talibangelicals.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Brandeis professor Robert Kuttner observes that
Republicans in the former Confederacy seem determined to refight the Civil War.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
American Taliban 0
A caller shares some stories about the antics of what he I think most aptly refers to as “Talibangelicals.”
Aside:
I was brought up Southern Baptist before the Texans took over the Southern Baptist Convention, or, to put it another way, when the SBC was sane.
I’ve read the Bible multiple times (mostly the Jerusalem translation, because in my opinion it best blends modern English with lyricism). It was a great comfort to me when my first marriage broke up. Nevertheless, I must say I haven’t read it recently, mainly as a visceral reaction to the antics of right-wing they-call-themselves Christian evangelicals merchants of hate.
These “Talibangelicals” worship no Jesus that I know.
Republican Family Values 0
Yearning for the good old days.
Establishmentarians 0
Long-time Baptist pastor Stephen Jones argues that right-wing extremist they-call-themselves Christians get it precisely backwards:
Follow the link for context.
Republican Thought Police 0
At AL.com, Williesha Morris catalogs the crazy. A snippet:
One library in north Alabama even flagged a book for removal because the author’s last name is Gay.
Read the rest.
Deep Uncovered 0
So much for attorney-client privilege.
Establishmentarians 0
Peter Montgomery reports on efforts by right-wing they-call-themselves Christians to keep the spotlight off their efforts to piggy-back on Donald Trump and turn the United States into a theocracy. Here’s a tiny bit:
Much, much more at the link.
Republican Thought Police 0
In the course of a longer article about the Republican Thought Police in Alabama, Dr. Robert O. White II reminds us something George Orwell once wrote:
Follow the link for the rest of White’s article.
Courting Disaster 0
Arizona Republicans choose to dishonor native daughter Distinguished Extinguished Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.
