One factor that can drastically lower a person's credit score is if they are unemployed. This means that the mere fact that you need a job is now considered, by some companies, to be a reason not to give you one. Didn't poor people face enough Catch-22s already without these idiots having to invent a new one? Read more
What happened was an unmarried employee of San Diego Christian College turned up pregnant, so they fired her, allegedly for violating the "community covenant." But then they allegedly offered her old job to her fiancé -- the expectant father-to-be. If this woman had gotten an abortion, she'd still have her job. That's what San Diego Christian College apparently wanted her to do. That's certainly the incentive they've built into their "community covenant." Read more
I don't want to mock this child. She deserves more pity than scorn. She's parroting what she's been taught by wretched, hateful adults who have nurtured their hate and their ignorance until it is all they have left, all they treasure, all they need and want and desire. Their precious. Read more
Koop "interviewed experts and activists on both sides and found that even more so than in the debate over AIDS, anti-choicers skewed science to fit their point of view. After doing the research, he concluded that there: 'was no unbiased, rigorous scientific research on the effects of abortion on women’s health that could serve as the basis for a Surgeon General’s report on the issue.'" Read more
"Call me a bigot," says bigot; "Why not let God teach our children about sex?" asks a not-at-all creepy author; George Orwell warned us about this in "1994," says education expert; and other recent remarkable statements from our noble culture-warriors. Read more
Corruption A: Emphasize the hope for eschatological justice to the neglect of justice in this world and you end up with the "pie in the sky when you die" opiate used to justify every oppressive caste system from Bombay to Alabama. Corruption B: Emphasize justice in this world to the neglect of the hope for eschatological justice and you begin thinking that you can impose perfect, infallible justice here in the temporal realm — an idea that quickly gallops off into oppressive theocracy of one form or another. Read more
"Concubines." Look it up. Get out a concordance and do a good old-fashioned evangelical word study. The Bible is teeming with concubines. The Bible is filled with men who kept them, and whose keeping of them is presented as evidence of their prosperity and of divine blessing and reward for their righteousness. Read more
I've got nothing to add to these except to say that they are beautiful accounts beautifully told and that you will want to read them. One deals with death, one deals with birth, so let's take them in their proper order. Read more
Part of Perkins’ problem here — or at least part of the problem he’s pandering to — is the popular evangelical notion that there’s really no such thing as mental illness, only sin. (The secular parallel to this in conservative ideology is that there’s no such thing as mental illness, only irresponsible personal choices.) Read more
We can only make sense out of the idea that sin is "genetic" if we're also willing to make nonsense out of the ideas of justice, mercy, redemption, atonement, and forgiveness. And I'm rather fond of those. Read more
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