This link is about the son of Virginia State Senator Creigh Deeds, who suffered a mental illness and was unlucky enough to need long-term professional care in a country that really doesn’t care about the mentally ill. We’ll talk tomorrow about the creationism debate, but I saw this and really Read more
This blog writes itself. Case in point: The night before last, my doorbell rang. I wasn’t decent, so Mr. Captain answered it. I heard a brief conversation, ending with him politely declining whatever the person at our door wanted to sell, and when he got back, I asked who it’d Read more
It’s been a really bad week to be a moralistic, paternalistic, patriarchal, slut-shaming, ignorance-glorifying Christian. We’ll talk about Mary Sues tomorrow, but I wanted to mention this while it’s on my mind, these two news pieces that I recently saw: First up, of course, is the news that abortion rates Read more
I realized something yesterday: It is not the person performing a loving deed who gets to decide if that deed is actually loving. It is the target of that deed who gets to make that call. The person receiving that deed acts as the referee here. That person’s call trumps whatever the doer of the deed thinks of it. I never learned that truth while I was Christian–and I can see that a lot of Christians today haven’t learned it either.
Insufferable misogynist Ross Douthat is wringing his hands over sex and no-fault divorce again. If women aren’t properly terrified of the “consequences” of sex and properly reined in to marriages they can’t easily escape, then the world will end. Pat Robertson thinks that women who demand equal rights will end Read more
I didn’t feel like updating the story I did about the Grammys yet again (hopefully the link works this time), but two more things about it that I thought were interesting and might be of interest to y’all as well: * A Christian rapper has done exactly what Christians have Read more
Many years ago, I was in a Bible study with a bunch of older married women one rainy, dark weeknight. Or rather, I was running late to a Bible study. I still don’t know what possessed me to get into this group; I think I was feeling it out for Read more
Sexism is over. Rand Paul said so, so we can all just relax.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUM6JKkcYH4] In 2014, the band Macklemore and Mary Lambert performed their song “Same Love” live at the Grammy Awards. During that performance, a bunch of people got married in a ceremony officiated during the song by Queen Latifah–some same-gender, some mixed-gender, all very sincere and happy to be getting Read more
I saw this piece about how life is better now that some folks are out of Christianity and it made me think about why I’m happy to be out. It might not be why you think, though. I feel uncomfortable making too much noise about the matter. To me, it’s Read more