The Black Robed Men
James Dobson, the religious figure who all but dictates Republican social policy, just referred to Supreme Court justices as the modern equivalent of the KKK.
Read moreSociety
A general category for things related to our society and how we interact with one another.
Theocracy Watch
Is Scarborough honestly saying that Jesus Christ had a position in the last presidential election, that only Republican voters were true Christians?
Read moreThe Pope’s Gay Bashing
What’s maddening about this pope’s signature gay bashing is this: When the pope ? the dead one, the next one, the one after that ? says something stupid about homosexuality, straight folks take it to heart.
Read moreLurching Towards Fascism
“What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security…”.
Read moreThe Death of John Paul
Pope John Paul II has died. I’m not Catholic (nor am I one of the many ?former/recovering? Catholics), and I don’t have particularly strong feelings about this particular pope. But seeing the crowd gathered in St Peters Square has caused me to develop some thoughts on the history of the church and John Paul’s place in it.
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