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“The Blacks vs. The Gays”

By ~LS~ On July 18, 2009 · Add Comment · In Feminism, Politics, Race and Racism and tagged Tagged With: Politics, Queer, Race, Religion

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference has recently had some internal conflicts over gay rights and Proposition 8. I learned about this from a group on Facebook called the Empowering Spirits Foundation. Apparently the national SCLC leadership has threatened to remove the Los Angeles chapter’s president (Rev. Eric P. Lee) because of his outspoken support of gay marriage. My first response was of course, SCLC…Southern…Christian. What should we expect? But it’s disheartening nonetheless.

The tension between “blacks and gays” (a linguistic construction that perpetuates the invisibility of gay blacks, not to mention the complete absence of the L, B, and T part of GLBT or of any other non-white queer in this struggle) has been part of the national discussion of Proposition 8 for a while now. This tension is particularly painful when the media cites various statistics around the country that show black people reject gay [...]

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Sarah Palin is a Pentecostal

By ~LS~ On September 25, 2008 · 2 Comments · In Politics and tagged Tagged With: Politics, Religion

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Abstinence Only Sex Ed

By ~LS~ On July 13, 2008 · Add Comment · In Feminism, Politics and tagged Tagged With: Feminism, Politics, Religion, Sex

According to a new report from the government, teenage birthrates are rising. I read about this report on Bloomberg.com in an article that points out how this is an increase for the first time in fifteen years. Although the article doesn’t make any sort of reference to sex education, I’m afraid that the information in this report will be used to increase support for the Bush administration’s abstinence only programs, even though studies have shown that these programs are dismal failures (see, for instance, this Fox news article for a “fair and balanced” report).

For a humorous look at this failure, see Susie Bright’s take on it. She ends her commentary with the following:
Clearly, more needs to be done to frighten and guilt-trip kids and confuse them about sex. In the Bible when someone has carnal relations with someone the verb “know” is [...]

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Pentacostalgon

By ~LS~ On July 9, 2008 · 1 Comment · In Politics and tagged Tagged With: Politics, Religion

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Pew Study on Religion

By ~LS~ On June 27, 2008 · 1 Comment · In Politics and tagged Tagged With: Politics, Religion

Of course Dinesh D’Souza had to go and comment on the Pew Study on Religion, too. He makes the same point that I cited in my blog post below about people being shallow, but of course he frames them in a usual anti-postmodernist screed. He writes:
There are two kinds of pluralism: the kind that holds that truth does not matter, and the kind that holds that truth matters greatly but as flawed human beings our reason and experience gives us only limited access to the truth. The first kind of pluralism is deadly for religion, and is typically embraced by flaccid people who are too lazy to think or who have been seduced by postmodernist flimflam. The second kind of pluralism is the shared ground of debate between intelligent believers and unbelievers. The stakes could not be higher.

This line of thinking is so frustrating [...]

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Some thoughts on the Pew Forum’s religion survey

By ~LS~ On June 24, 2008 · Add Comment · In Politics, Race and Racism and tagged Tagged With: Religion

The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life conducted a survey about American’s religious beliefs, and it confirmed what I’ve thought about as some crazy religious beliefs in our country.

According to the survey, most of the people who identify with Evangelical Christianity think that there’s more than one way to interpret the Bible, and that there’s more than one way to get to ‘eternal life.’ These beliefs completely counter the most fundamental of Evangelical teachings. First of all, I have to say ‘Thank God” people believe this way, but the ironies abound. My protestant students, for instance, think the Catholics are just like them, without understanding the basic conflicts between Catholicism and Protestantism, never mind fundamentalist Christianity. Catholicism is a cult, according to most protestant or evangelical based religions, and many people forget that Catholics were strung up by the KKK or put in camps by the Nazis. [...]

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