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Category Archives: In The News
Trayvon Martin and the myth of a post-racial America
The lukewarm response from many white Americans to the murder of Trayvon Martin has been upsetting – but I think it has less to do with overt racism, and more to do with white America’s reluctance to believe that racism is alive and well in America, and not just a part of our past. Continue reading
Sometimes I get to feel like I work with super heroes.
So a high school principal in Tennessee, Dorothy Bond, was using the PA system to preach about Jesus Christ and his sacrifice. She was holding assemblies to tell her students that gay people “weren’t on God’s path” and were “going … Continue reading
Posted in ACLU, Gay and Lesbian, In The News, Personal, Politics / Religion
Tagged ACLU, LGBT, Scary Government
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Oscars, 9/11, and Lazy Writing
At Gawker, Tim Grierson and Will Leitch think it’s wrong to hate Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. I’ve been pretty hard on Extremely Loud, and I’m not about to stop now. Nor am I going to go see it. From … Continue reading
Posted in In The News, Pop Culture
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Conscientious Objections
Well, this is pretty on-the-nose. From Matt Bors:
Posted in Blogroll, In The News, Politics / Religion
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Winning the Future
My mother and I started the morning in a courtroom, observing a legal challenge to Conshohocken Borough’s new law protecting LGBT residents against discrimination. There were eight of us in the audience, all supporters of the law, while the plaintiff (who was … Continue reading