Recent Posts Tagged With 'civil rights'

• The Manhattan Declaration

  Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 16:21 in religion, christianity, civil rights, church and state, the constitution

  I said earlier that the Religious Right had declared war on America, and not only on America, but on the very fabric of American democracy. This just in from Americans United for Separation of Church and State (www.au.org): November 20, 2009‘Manhat...

• The Tyranny of State Legislatures

  Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 06:55 in religion, politics, civil rights, church and state, the constitution

  In 38 States Being Gay is a Terminable Offense I was horrified by this example of how allowing the States to "protect our rights" is a meaningless statement.James Madison, author of the Constitution, wrote that the federal government's purpose is to ...

• Liberals: The Children of Liberty

  Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 10:51 in politics, christianity, philosophy, civil rights, church and state, extremism, intolerance, the constitution, wall of separation

  Here is my new article, published by ProgressiveNation today: Liberals: The Children of Liberty....

• Extremist Scholarship

  Posted on Thursday October 1st, 2009 at 07:01 in religion, christianity, civil rights, paganism, polytheism

  I started reading archaeologist Willim G. Dever's Did God Have a Wife? Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel, and immediately came upon some thoughts of his that touched upon the points I was trying to make here with regards to feminist sch...

• An Unexpected Proponent of Gay Marriage

  Posted on Wednesday August 19th, 2009 at 09:53 in religion, blogging, civil rights, same-sex marriage

  This story really struck me and I wanted to share it here. It's posted to Digg and I've made a comment there so I'll leave it there instead of reposting it here. Here is the link.Just as a final note, I'm going to be away in Minnesota over the weeken...