Arizona Catholic school baseball players won’t make it to second base with a girl
As it is written, “Engage thyself not in coeducational sporting endeavors, lest thou get thine ass kicked by a gi-irl.”
...read moreInstead of playing in a championship baseball game, Paige Sultzbach and her team won’t even make it to the dugout.
A Phoenix school that was scheduled to play the 15-year-old Mesa girl and her male teammates forfeited the game rather than face a female player.
Christian group invites Thai sex workers to come to Daddy
This is the story of a video by eleven young women from the U.S.–almost exclusively white–who went to Thailand to save the “bar girls” to Jesus. “We found that we were the perfect ones to fight for them,” say the title cards. “Because we used to be women in chains… Just like them.”
...read moreChastened?
Here’s the tl;dr for this post: Dawn Eden made herself a nuisance to this blog and others about five or six years ago. Just Google her name along with that of pretty much any feminist blogger or blog and you’ll see what I mean. Now she’s reared her head again, mentioning me and this blog (and my reviews of her first book) in an interview about her new book. I don’t care all that much about what she said about me, personally, but the interview and book bring up a lot of issues that Dawn and I (as well as other feminist bloggers) have gone at each other over before and which I feel merit a response. Dawn has long been an engaging if fundamentally dishonest writer, particularly on the subject of feminism and women’s sexuality, and in the interview and her book, she accuses feminists of, essentially, causing child sexual abuse by supporting sexual freedom for adult women. In addition, there’s a good bit of inside-baseball stuff about the Catholic church and the clerical sex abuse scandal, and how Dawn addresses – or rather, fails to address – that scandal in the context of a book, written from a specifically Catholic perspective, about using Catholic writings and teaching as a means of healing from childhood sexual abuse.
...read moreNuns should stop helping the poor so much and focus more on taking away women’s rights
So says the Catholic church hierarchy, which is also mad that nuns — who are mere women — have the nerve to hold opinions of their own:
...read moreThe Evangelical Christian Movement – Harm Reduction
I’m a solutions oriented person. Find a problem and fix it, I always say. Okay, usually I don’t say that…I just proceed with the fixing. But, to be honest, I’m not sure there are “solutions” in this particular situation. People are and, in my view, should always be free to believe and to worship as they deem necessary limited only by the principle that they are not permitted to cause direct harm to others. In a pluralistic world the best that we can do is try to convince people to agree with us instead of with them. And it’s my guess that no matter how brilliant our arguments are, there will still be a non-zero number of people who will consider me to be possessed by a demon. The question then is not “how do we stop people from believing things” since…well, I think Hagee said it best:
...read moreThe Evangelical Christian Movement – Methods Part 2
As promised in this post I’m going to continue the analysis into the Evangelical Christian Movement’s methods for achieving social and political change. I suspect that this post may be…shall we say… controversial? The methods up for discussion today are community activism and child rearing.
...read moreThe Evangelical Christian Movement – Goals and Methods
I touched briefly on the goals of the Evangelical Christian Movement last time, but I wanted to take a couple paragraphs here to address them explicitly. In the broadest sense, the goal of both the modern and historical Evangelical Movement has been to convert as many souls to Christ as possible. For some sects this is the mission given to them by Christ. For other sects, this is how they will build the Army of God to defeat Satan and all his minions. For other sects, this is how they show God’s love.
...read moreThe Evangelical Movement: Part II
The Evangelical Christian Movement is a broad social and political group dedicated to reproducing a set of values that are antithetical to the very concept of social justice and equality.
...read moreThe Evangelical Christian Movement: An Introduction
Have you noticed a trend emerging from some of the more horrifying news reports recently?
...read moreShockingly, Catholic Bishops’ hostility to birth control is not about religious liberty.
Last week, the Obama administration instituted a new rule requiring institutions to provide birth control for their employees, with exceptions for primarily religious institutions — they didn’t have to provide birth control if it violated their conscience. Seems like a good compromise, right?
...read moreReligion and Modesty
Some excellent thoughts from an Orthodox rabbi:
...read moreThe ultra-Orthodox men in Israel who are exerting control over women claim that they are honoring women. In effect they are saying: We do not treat women as sex objects as you in Western society do. Our women are about more than their bodies, and that is why their bodies must be fully covered.
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