“I commend each of you that is coming forward today for your courage. I think you do realize that by law, the Commonwealth of Virginia does not allow me to issue those marriage licenses to you,” Ferguson said. “I hope that if laws do change in the future, that you will choose to return one day to Arlington County to receive a marriage license.” Read more
It doesn’t have to be that exact word, of course, but some such indicator has to be included so that readers know what they’re reading. They need to be told the truth about whether they’re being told This Is What Happened or they’re being told This Is What We’ve Heard Happened, which is not at all the same thing. Read more
This is a deliberate lie. This is a deliberate lie that white evangelicals are eager to believe because it allows them to pretend that Planned Parenthood is utterly wicked and therefore that they, by opposing Planned Parenthood, are utterly righteous. Read more
Mike Todd posted this picture of young students in a class that meets outdoors, beneath a bridge, in a New Delhi slum. I'm reposting it here simply so I can occasionally show it to my daughters as a reminder when they have to struggle through the unpleasant parts of school. Read more
I'd second the motion to include Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter From a Birmingham Jail" in the Christian canon. It's a prison epistle from an apostle of Jesus Christ. The New Testament is where we usually keep those. It would fit right in. Read more
"We support biblical families," Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy says of his fast-food corporation. So let's take a look at some of those biblical families. Today's entry: Ownership of slave children. Read more
I heard that and expected those allusive, alliterative references to be left to stand alone, but then President Obama went on to make a more specific and explicit endorsement of the continuing struggle for the rights pursued by the unruly patriots of Seneca Falls and Selma and Stonewall. Read more
"The Cheetoh-factor, in which every additional adjective makes the noun in question less true." Read more
"Ultimately I choose to live without guns because, a) I don’t hunt, b) I’m not a police officer, c) I choose to live gently in a violent world." Read more
"We support biblical families," Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy says of his fast-food corporation. So let's take a look at some of those biblical families. Today's entry: Go to my kindred. Read more
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