Saturday Link Love: Christian School, Fred Phelps, and Margaret Sanger

Saturday Link Love is a new feature where I collect and post links to various articles I’ve come upon over the past week. Feel free to share any interesting articles you’ve come along as well! The more the merrier.

Note: Inclusion does not imply full agreement. 

Rapes, Daily Beatings, and No Escape: Christian School Was Hell For These Boys, on the Daily Beast—“Once at Blue Creek, the boys were cut off completely from the outside world, former students and their representatives claim.”

Yes, You Hate Me: Christians and Homophobia, on Daily Beast—“Christian culture has bent and twisted the word hate until it’s practically meaningless.”

Hate Crimes Against LGBT People Are Sadly Common, on FiveThirtyEight—“Taking into account the relatively small size of the LGBT population, these numbers are even starker.”

You Are Better Than Fred Phelps (and that’s why he was so dangerous), on Thalia’s Musings—“Fred Phelps and others like him let us believe that being better than them is good enough.”

Killing Us Slowly, on Kathryn Elisabeth, Person—“Just as surely as the shooter whose name I will not utter, you’re taking our lives.”

How False Narratives of Margaret Sanger Are Being Used to Shame Black Women, on Rewire—“Sanger opposed abortion. She believed it to be a barbaric practice.”

Facebook’s Ramadan greeting spreads dangerous myths about Islam, on The Independent—“Perhaps what is more disturbing is the little girl in the hijab.”