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Understanding (and Misunderstanding) Gay Rights
Matthew Rozsa deconstructs the dangerous logic being used by the anti-gay rights movement in America today. — Over the last week or so, there has been a growing problem with the logic of the anti-gay...
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A Gay Dad Sounds Off On the Kentucky Clerk’s Refusal to Issue Gay Marriage...
My open letter to the woman who refuses to do her job. I tell her what her governor, the US Supreme Court and the American public will not. You’re being used. — Breaking: Kim Davis is likely going to...
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Kim Davis is No Civil Rights Leader
The defiant Kentucky clerk is an insubordinate politician at best, and, at worse, a civil rights violator. — Mrs. Kim Davis, the defiant Kentucky clerk who was jailed after refusing to issue marriage...
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Bigotry & Repression in “Religious” Guise
Kim Davis has yet to satisfactorily answer what kind of good does withholding a marriage license and the dream of a life together for a same-sex couple produce? — Rowan County, Kentucky Clerk Kim...
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Ahead of Republican Presidential Debate, Candidates on the Wrong Side of History
View image | gettyimages.com One Presidential candidate shamed a movement, another offered to serve the jail time of a religious martyr and a Governor praised stop-and-frisk. — The first full week of...
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Kim Davis and the Challenges of Civil Disobedience
Ariel Gordon discusses how you can be pro-gay rights and still question the ethics of Kim Davis’ civil disobedience. — It is seldom that I comment on pop-news, but there are stories that come along...
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Dad’s Hot Topic: Kim Davis And The Lessons She Taught Me To Teach My Daughters
In a world where controversial ‘Hot Topics’ are abuzz, Brian Gawlak finds the teachable lessons on trending issues. — “Hot Topics” seem to be flooded right now by polarizing figures, regardless of...
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Our Privileged Legacies
Patrick Paglen discusses how privilege is rooted in our love for the legacies bequeathed to us from our ancestors. Over the summer, I have been thinking about what it means to inherit something. It’s...
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That “Old Time Religion” Isn’t As Old As You Think
View image | gettyimages.com Fundamentalist Christianity is a relatively new version of an old religion with an American twist. —— Kim Davis catapulted to, she says, unwanted fame, by refusing to give...
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Mike Huckabee, From Bad Historian To Racist
View image | gettyimages.com Christopher MacNeil challenges Mike Huckabee’s recent political statements and asks the former governor to be held accountable. _____ In 1857, The U.S. Supreme Court...
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Dangerous Tipping Point: Implied Political Power and the Religious Right’s...
View image | gettyimages.com Kim Davis will not win her showdown, but we would all do well to suit up for another civil liberties’ battle. — A ruling Sept. 15 by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals and...
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Kim Davis, Would You Mind Terribly Just Going Away?
View image | gettyimages.com Did Davis collect marriage licenses issued to gay couples during her jail hitch and issue new ones that removed all mention of the Rowan County clerk’s office and its...
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Have Kim Davis & Co. Played Their Folding Hand?
View image | gettyimages.com Davis’ refusal to adhere to federal law could ultimately remove her from office. If she is deemed a public relations embarrassment, too it may be enough to begin the...
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Kim Davis, Donald Trump, and the Maddening Paradox of Ignoring the Obnoxious
There is a terrible paradox that arises when a writer tries to deal with Kim Davis or Donald Trump. — The Internet is understandably indignant that Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who was jailed...
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Are You Hiding Bad Behavior Behind Your Religion?
Claiming grace and forgiveness doesn’t mean you can be a jerk to everyone else. —— In August of 2015, Michigan Republican Representative Todd Courser devised a plan to cover up his affair with fellow...
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Christian Student Expelled From University After Opposing Gay Marriage On...
Embed from Getty Images What is a matter of opinion and what is a conflict of interest/human rights issue? — A 38-year-old Christian postgraduate student in the U.K. has been expelled after he made a...
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The Christian-Political Machine Is Undermining Democracy
Many people may be surprised to learn how easy it is for religious groups to lobby politicians. In 1970, there were roughly 40 groups in Washington D.C., now there are over 200. As of 2011, according...
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The Animus Against Gay Marriage Foe Kim Davis
> Source: 30dB.com – Kim%20Davis That’s because Kim Davis, the county clerk who made headlines in 2015 for refusing to issue gay marriage licenses, is up for re-election. According to Reuters, many...
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