Here we go again. Campaign by dog whistle. How much did it cost Jessica Kohn to spam her little campaign plug into my iMessages account? And who paid for it? But she sent it to me, and I will respond. The first sentence of the message in the screenshot carries all the weight: Jessica KohnContinue reading “Again with “parental rights”: the return of a dog whistle”
Tag Archives: LGBTQ
The strong, the weak, and the church’s sex-and-gender crisis (Romans 15:1–7)
How does Romans 15:1–7 bear on the question of full welcome for gays in the church?
Eliminationist homophobia in Ottawa County
Most eliminationist homophobes would be aghast at any suggestion that they are promoting genocide, but from the hateful speech that we hear from some of them, even in public places such as our school board meetings, I believe that some of them, if given access to a button which if pushed would instantly obliterate 400 million people (a very crude estimate of the number of people in the world who identify as LGBTQ), would quickly and gladly push that button.
Two paths diverge: positive and negative examples at the February school board meeting
The February 2023 meeting of our community’s school board offered both positive and negative examples of how to talk together.
Everyone Needs Compassion
At the monthly meetings of the Board of Education of Caledonia Community School, members of the public are allowed to make three-minute addresses to the trustees. Here is what I said tonight. Two words from me tonight: compassion and sex. Compassion comes first. And last. I know a song: “Everyone needs compassion.” It’s true. LifeContinue reading “Everyone Needs Compassion”
Why Christotrumpians admire Putin
The people who reduce the Trump-Biden choice to anti-abortion versus pro-abortion are victims and perpetrators of the same malignant fallacy as those who reduce the Russia-Ukraine situation to anti-transgender-rights to pro-transgender-rights.
Divine child abuse, or human God abuse?
You don’t have to be paying excessive attention to theological questions to know that some theologians have denounced certain ways of understanding the atonement (for example) as tantamount to portraying God as an abusive parent, and that some people have reacted—using what I think of as the (non)logic of NYA-nya-nya-NYA-nya, which in the past severalContinue reading “Divine child abuse, or human God abuse?”
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