Category: American Theocracy: Analyzing the Religious Right
GOP is party of the status quo: no room for gays?
It isn’t an uncommon approach for change. With any oppressive organization or entity, some promote change from the outside and some work for change from the inside. But it is challenging to see how any gay, lesbian, bi, or trans
Is Robert Gagnon Gay?
Gagnon's name surfaced yet again in a Google alert for "Homosexual." The linked post is the start of a review of something Gagnon wrote which is supposed to be a secular justification against homosexuality. What does the Biblical Scholar have
The coming segregation against the gays?
I simply want to highlight the shift in Far Right efforts to protect beliefs rather than protecting the exercise of religion, and the ramifications it can have towards creating the ability to legally segregate and discriminate.
The Far Right Extreme and Criminality
The best defense against these extremist zealots, is to continue to broaden cultural support for acceptance of all LGBT persons. The more acceptance and respect are the cultural norm, then the more the extremists are at the fringe and less
Anti-gay zeal creates criminals: VA Pastor sentenced for aiding in kidnapping.
But the Religious Fundamentalists are not a joke, and the LGBTQ community needs to consider seriously what their opposition may mean for us. It should not slow us down as we seek full equality, but we recognize the lengths they
Sexual Orientation, Choice, and Minority Status
The "fundamental principle" that Civil Rights leaders fought for is quite simple. No one group of individuals has a right to decide to discriminate against another identifiable group simply because they don't approve or like that other group.
What God Reserves: at least according to the Homo-haters.
For me, that is the dividing line between Christians and Christianists. The former walk their own walk while the latter attempt to control others.
Immigration and the American Theocracy
But in Reed's use of scripture is a darker motivation, the destruction of a Constitionally based legal system in the US. Our legal system grows from the Engliush legal system, and connected to the earlier Roman legal system. It isn't
Back to the Dark Ages: The American Theocracy in Action
In reality, Pastor Bell gives God no money what-so-ever. God doesn't accept US currency. This focus on God, and this fallacy of what we give to God, is a step back to the Dark Ages or further. It is one
The Very Un-Christian Christianist Religious Right
As the LGBTQ community sees massive and growing cultural support for Equality, we must not turn a blind eye to the Far Right extremists who are not going to go away quietly. They believe they need Special Forces strategies, and
