There’s been a bit of a storm in the blogosphere over Obama’s gospel concert in South Carolina, which was aimed at courting black evangelical voters. Obama invited Donnie McClurkin, an “ex-gay” singer, to the event. After a bit of an uproar from gay bloggers, Obama hastily booked a white openly gay minister to deliver a [...]
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Some Notes on Obama’s McClurkin Affair
Posted in democrats, homos, religious right on October 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Delusional Hysteria from the Giuliani Camp
Posted in democrats, foreign affairs, republicans on October 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Andrew Sullivan thinks Giuliani is out of his mind for recent statements made regarding Clinton and Obama. Sullivan wonders, “If he is starting with this kind of unhinged claim, where will he end up?” Probably a legit concern. Or Guiliani could just be reverting to the general Republican campaign tactic of criticizing their [...]
Warren Buffett: Taxed Unfairly
Posted in Uncategorized on October 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Saw a ‘news’ report tonight on NBC Nightly News on how Warren Buffett thinks he and other billionaires don’t pay enough taxes (though it was reported in the Times Online in June):
Warren Buffett, the third-richest man in the world, has criticised the US tax system for allowing him to pay a lower rate than [...]
Frank Rich on the Decline of the Religious Right
Posted in religious right, republicans on October 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A good piece in NYT today. Money quote:
Backing a loser, they know, would even further diminish their waning Washington status in a post-Rove, post-Bush G.O.P. The more they shed their illusion of power, the more they imperil their ability to rake in big bucks from their apocalyptic direct-mail campaigns. They must choose mammon over God [...]
Dallas Launches Homophobic Anti-Saggy Pants Campaign
Posted in homos on October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The City of Dallas has just launched an anti-saggy pants campaign, which targets the “hip-hop style of wearing your pants low enough that your boxers are showin.” From NPR:
The campaign has a signature song, “Pull Your Pants Up,” by Dooney Da’ Priest, that links so-called saggin’ with being gay…
Andrew Jones commented on a line about [...]
Obama, Black Churches, and Gays
Posted in democrats, homos, religious right on October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Salon has an insightful article on Obama’s booking of an “ex-gay” gospel singer at one of his events, and homophobia in black churches generally:
On Thursday, as the tour began, Obama supporters from the African-American religious community and LGBT campaign leaders collaborated on a letter to the public that attempted to clarify their candidate’s decision to [...]
On Pornography
Posted in theory, women on October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From pornography one learns that forcible violation of women is the essence of sex. Whatever is that and does that is sex. Everything else is secondary. –Catherine MacKinnon, Sexuality, Pornography and Method: “Pleasure under Patriarchy
Some statistics on internet porn (wonderfully ironic) from GOOD Magazine:
Some things to think about. A particularly [...]
Giuliani on Gays
Posted in homos, religious right, republicans on October 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Jamelle gives a nice roundup commentary of Mr. Guiliani’s recent statements on gay marriage.
To add to that, one important distinction Mr. Giuliani misses is that in many regards, it is state legislatures, not ‘judicial fiat’, which are beginning to side in favor of equal partnership laws. The state legislatures of Connecticut, New York, California, New [...]
The 1960s Gay Rights Movement
Posted in homos on October 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We expose the institution of marriage as one of the most insidious and basic sustainers of the system. The family is the microcosm of oppression. Homosexual marriages submitting to the guildelines of so-called conventional rites must be classed as reactionaryMartha Shelley, Founder of the Gay Liberation Front, 1969
This was the face of the gay rights [...]
The Mixing of Religion and Foreign Policy
Posted in foreign affairs, religious right, republicans, theory on October 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story [...]
Romney on Obama/Osama. Same Thing Right?
Posted in democrats, religious right, republicans on October 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Romney makes this ridiculous gaffe (from the Caucus):
“I think that is a position which is not consistent with the fact,” Mr. Romney said. “Actually, just look at what Osam — uh — Barack Obama, said just yesterday. Barack Obama calling on radicals, jihadists of all different types, to come together in Iraq. That is the [...]
My Weekend with the Christianists
Posted in religious right on October 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Here’s my slightly delayed response to the Values Voter Summit, hosted by the Family Research Council, in DC over the weekend, which I attended. I thought I’d skip over reactions to the candidate statements and the straw poll at this point, as a lot was already said on those topics. I’d like to [...]
It Doesn’t Pay to Discriminate
Posted in homos on October 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that the local chapter of the Boy Scouts will have to pay $200,000 in rent if they wish to keep their headquarters in a city-owned building. The Scouts previously had to pay just $1–the increase reflects the market value of the property. The local Boy Scouts chapter will now either [...]
Cato Series on Religion and Politics
Posted in religious left, religious right on October 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This month, Cato Unbound (a project of the Cato Institute) is running a discussion on religion and politics. It’s worth checking out
Niebuhr on the Religious Left
Posted in religious left on October 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From Moral Man and Immoral Society:
Sentimentality is the peculiar vice of liberal Protestantism. By adjusting its faith to the spirit of modern culture it imbibed the evolutionary optimism and the romantic overestimates of human virtue, which characterized the though of the Enlightenment and of the Romantic Movement…
In spite of the disillusionment of the World War, [...]
The Muslim Left
Posted in religious left, religious right on October 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In follow up to the WSJ piece I linked to earlier today on the Christian Left, here’s a bit on the Muslim Left from Ali Eteraz, who has written a series of pieces on Islamic Reform in the Guardian. He writes:
I recommend creating a viable and well organised Muslim left. It would be an intra-religious [...]
Another Gay Anglican Row
Posted in homos, religious left, religious right on October 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It seems the conservative Bishops in Africa, Asia and South America are up in arms again over the the 177 to 97 vote by the Ottawa diocese on a resolution asking Bishop John Chapman to allow clergy within the Ottawa diocese to “bless duly solemnize and registered civil marriages between same-sex couples.” Reuters reports:
If [...]
WSJ on the Religious Left
Posted in religious left on October 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This piece concentrates on labor advocacy on the part of liberal/mainline Christian leaders in America:
Religious left leaders blindly refuse to acknowledge the considerable academic research showing that mandated wage hikes often eliminate the jobs of low-skilled workers — the very people whom it seeks to help. David Neumark, for example — a researcher at the [...]
The New Nostradamus
Posted in foreign affairs, theory on October 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I found this piece in Good Magazine on Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Chairman of NYU’s Politics Department and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. According to the article, Bueno de Mesquita has developed a game theoretical computer model that “can predict the outcome of virtually any international conflict, provided the [...]
Left/Right Brain Visual Test
Posted in amusement, theory on October 16, 2007 | 3 Comments »
An interesting little visual test to determine which hemisphere of your brain is dominant. From PerthNow:
If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa. Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see [...]
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