Postcards from the culture wars (8.11)

Postcards from the culture wars (8.11)

“Harold Scott says he was fired as superintendent of Parkview Christian Schools because he performed in a community theater production of The Producers.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHmYIo7bcUw

“Whatever group is out there trying to promote the pro-life message by handing out squish alien babies, stop. You’re doing more harm than good.”

“I made one change that day. I put Mr. in front of my name on my CV. It looked a little too formal for my liking but I got an interview for the very next job I applied for.”

“Calling abstinence birth control is like calling bald a hair color.”

They actually want to stop women from using birth control.”

“We hear a lot of talk about posting the Ten Commandments in courthouses, but we really should be reading the Sermon on the Mount and Matthew 25 outside every legislature.”

“The idea that service could be denied based on religious conviction didn’t survive the civil rights revolution and should not be revived now.”

“You know what, citizens, if you don’t have a gun, I’m telling you as a Christian chaplain, sell your clothes and buy a gun.”

“A proposal to ban the sale of firearms to individuals on the FBI’s terrorist watch list was defeated by House Republicans.”

“Not long after President Obama took office — it’s interesting how the radicalization of the GOP just happened to coincide with the Democrat’s inauguration — Republican policymakers began looking at the Bush/Cheney-backed energy bill as an authoritarian scourge that sought to take away Americans’ light bulbs.”

Science keeps getting in the way of far-right Republican talking points.”

“Is outright racism really any worse than simply not giving a damn if your only route to harming Democratic Party interests happens to require making it more burdensome for blacks to vote?

“I can’t think of any point in my years of growing up and living in the American South in which I’ve ever seen the bloody banner of that battle flag waved about without race, race, and more race being the subtext of the neo-Confederate waving and the neo-Confederate blather.”

“If somebody can’t get to King of Prussia by car, they shouldn’t be coming at all.”

They don’t want African Americans going on a consistent basis to Beavercreek.”

“There’s no indication of why non-Hispanic drivers aren’t getting tickets in Atherton. Maybe they all drive perfectly, and have their papers in order. That has to be it.”

“I call this racism. What do you call it?

Stupid facts. Always trying to get in the way of people’s racism.”

 


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