"Test everything; hold fast to what is good."
“Had there been a Fox News back in 1960, I’m sure there would have been a Woolworth’s Lunch-counter Appreciation Day, too.” “The people who organized boycotts of these bigots and the places they represented back then were similarly accused of ‘intolerance’ at the time.” “If Mike Huckabee had declared yesterday ‘Homeless Appreciation Day,’ would the [...]
I suspect James McGrath is probably right when he says, regarding Chick-fil-A: “Satire is likely to be a more effective weapon in the controversy … than protests and boycotts.” That calls to mind an exchange from Robert Wiede’s Directors Guild interview with Mel Brooks: Q: On the surface, The Producers is simply good, silly fun. [...]
“I mean, it’s so unhealthy it’s probably killed more Southerners than crystal meth, Gen. Sherman, and illegal fireworks combined … but it’s undeniably tasty.” “The folks at FRC lie about the LGBT community and they spread hatred. Not mere disagreement, but actual hatred.” “Do all of my economic decisions ascribe to a morally perfect model? [...]
For all the buzz about “boycotting” Chik-fil-A, we haven’t really seen anything that formally organized yet. Basically, thus far, what we’ve seen is a big corporation telling part of the public that “We don’t want your money here,” and that part of the public unsurprisingly responding “OK, then, you can’t have it.” This latest corporate [...]
Inside the world of American evangelicalism, one must always have the proper stance. Stances, actually, plural, as one must have the proper stance on a whole host of subjects. “What is your stance on X?” is a common question in the subculture, with X including a wide variety of litmus tests such as abortion, homosexuality, [...]
Tweet from Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association: “New pill stops HIV virus. But won’t stop AIDS since caused by extensive inhalant drug use, not HIV.” So there it is. Bryan Fischer is an AIDS denier. The chief spokesman of the American Family Association is an AIDS denier. Do you need to know anything, [...]
Thinking a bit more about “Maybe God is a better person than you think,” I was struck by the sadness of that situation. It must be an awful thing to believe that God will not allow you to be as loving, merciful and generous as you wish you could be. It must be an awful [...]
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