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Tag Archives: Christianism
The Daily Tweets, 2010-01-13: Haiti earthquake
Today's tweets were dominated by news of yesterday's magnitude 7 earthquake in Haiti, the idiotic statement about the earthquake by Christianist Pat Robertson, & the Prop 8 trial in California.
Posted in The Daily Tweets Also tagged Bent Alaska, Christianity, earthquake, Firedoglake (blog), FiveThirtyEight.com, Haiti, in the news, lgbtq, Marriage equality, natural disaster, Pat Robertson, Prop 8, Red Cross, Sarah Palin, Wyclef Jean, Yéle Haiti Leave a comment
The Daily Tweets, 2010-01-04: Back to work
Back to work for the first time since the eve of Christmas Eve. Happy new work year! #fb #
One best recent thing in my life: finding that Natural Pantry now carries St. Dalfour’s Organic Black Cherry Tea. Having a cup now. Mmm! #fb #
RT: @CapricaSeven: Heh! RT @TheOnion NEWSWIRE: New ‘Battlestar Galactica’ Spin-Off Retells [...]
How to be a friend to an accused serial rapist
Accused serial rapist Anthony Rollins is an Anchorage police officer whose alleged crimes were perpetrated against at least 6 women while he was on duty. Members of his church, Lighthouse Christian Fellowship, are packing the court in droves. Are they helping him face the consequences of any crimes he committed? Or are they merely showing up in Christianist solidarity?
Q & A: What happens when you click “Volunteer” at the Alaskans for Parental Rights website?
Q. What happens when you click "Volunteer" at the Alaskans for Parental Rights website? A. You get taken to the “Volunteer” page for the “Yes on 8” website. Yes on 8 is the campaign in California to deny the equal right to marry to same-sex couples. Here's further evidence of linkages showing how Alaska’s Christianist right is dependent upon financial, organizational, and ideological support from outside the state.
Posted in Alaska politics, Marriage equality Also tagged abortion, Alaska Family Council, Jim Minnery, same-sex marriage 1 Comment
James Dobson’s God is a child abuser, & so is Jerry Prevo’s
Max Blumenthal's new book Republican Gomorrah talks among other things about corporal punishment in Christianist practices of child discipline -- practices taught by Focus on the Family leader James Dobson and, at least in 1985, Anchorage Baptist Temple pastor Jerry Prevo.
Waking from the grey
The grey is a term I have for one of my modes of experiencing depression. I wrote about it three years ago:
The grey is like a great grey landscape of bleakness, just dust & stones. Emotionally dead: I can’t rouse me, nor can anyone else, to laughter or fun, certainly not joy; but nor can [...]
Christianist, defined
I first used this term in the post “The new Carrie Prejean?” I’m using often enough that it seems helpful to break the definition I used there out into a separate post.
Christianist is a term I first heard from Atlantic Monthly blogger Andrew Sullivan — a useful term that to me conveys not Christiantity as [...]
The Daily Tweets, 2010-01-22: U.S. Supreme Court sells out democracy to highest corporate bidders