“I think prescribed order is so important to many Christians because they fear freedom. They don’t trust themselves or others to do the right thing without strict rules to follow. I believe some of those in religious and political power take advantage of this anxiety and use it as a control mechanism.”
“My body is inseparable from my human experience and identity, and my body is inseparable from my identity as a Christian, because it was through my understanding of the incarnation that I was able to overcome modesty culture shame about my body and re-embrace it as beautiful and good. Same goes for my sexuality, actually.”
“I love my brothers enough to know that they are capable of making the choice not to objectify and demean their sisters — no matter what they look like or what they’re wearing.”
“With that answer, he showed an ignorance of women’s struggle and theological production for decades.”
“When a business based on ogling and being semi-inappropriate to women on the job bans you, you’ve really kind of hit a low.”
“Despite the fact that minors cannot, as a matter of law, consent to sex with an adult, it has been said that courts still embrace the idea of the ‘juvenile temptress’ and reinforce purity culture expectations on young victims that excuse predatory behavior by adults.”
“Until last week, Norfolk, Virginia police classified sexual assault claims to be ‘unfounded’ — by default.”
“What happened to my mother was a relic of an America that was not free nor equal nor very kind.”
“I’m not ready to answer that because you’re really going deep, and I have not thought about this, and I should have, before walking into any kind of interview.”
“Some men are so threatened by women having a voice — by women having a role in the public sphere — that they will stop at nothing to shut her up.”
“I would write more about this, but I need to hurry up and become a registered member of the Republican party! Haven’t you heard? They love Black folks over there, and they want us to join!”
“These kinds of procedures that are being put in place to slow the process down and make it likely that fewer Hispanics and African-Americans might vote, I think, are going to backfire because these people are going to come out and do what they have to do in order to vote. And I encourage that.”
“When this happens, the closet and not-so-closet racists start coming out of the woodwork. They see these signals as indications of implicit approval for their worldviews, and so they become emboldened to speak out and eventually to act out.”
“The saddest part of this entire story of course is the reaction from the NFL and the behavior of its gutless and disgraceful commissioner.”
“What white people fear, at bottom, is retribution. This is why discussion of actual injustice is supposed to be off-limits.”
“My problem is not that it makes white dudes feel defensive — that will happen literally no matter what, because white dude identity is founded on prickly defensiveness.”
“Violent crime has been falling in the past few decades. Those have been the decades in which American children no longer prayed or read the Bible in their public schools.”
“The [Southern Baptist Convention] told the Supreme Court that prohibiting Christian pastors from delivering a prayer to start official town meetings would effectively impose Unitarianism on the nation.”
“I said it because I believe that the Democrat Party has become an anti-God party, I think it’s an anti-life party, I think it’s an anti-family party.”
“I mean for goodness sake, grow up.”
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