Category: Sunday’s Sermons: Detailing the South’s Favorite Thing to Bring Up (Religion) and Their Least Favorite Thing to Bring Up (Race)

For once the title of an Alabama Liberal post isn’t a rhetorical question, because it’s honestly a stumper for me. How is it possible that the “Kris-chins” that make up the Republican party’s largest block of voters (social conservatives) and who they couldn’t win many races without have become so blood thirsty? For the better…

That potentially infuriating title isn’t meant to signal that I already know the answer (unlike most pieces on this site), and I want to say upfront that I legitimately don’t know. On the one hand, it is the ten year anniversary of the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, a massive event that ripped a hole…

So Thursday on the site we had a take down of Libertarianism, but no true rebuke of the bogus mythology would be complete without mentioning this cult’s leader: Ayn Rand. I’m not saying she started Libertarianism–in fact, she didn’t–but more than any one figure, she is the person they look up to. If this movement…

Last week The Daily Show ran a piece about how the news media is unfairly ignoring Ron Paul. It was funny, truthful, and I even went to their facebook page to talk about it. Unfortunately, hundreds of people had already beaten me to it. There were perhaps half-a-thousand comments all expressing gratitude for the Paul…

Today we have a real interesting match up. Most weeks I’m forced to choose which theme I want to go with, religion or race, BUT this week we get to speculate on which one the American people would be more comfortable with: a black president or a president that isn’t protestant. [Only one president has…

So all over the internet I’ve been seeing ads saying “Conventional Marriage Under Attack!” and “Stop the threats to REAL marriage!” Now I didn’t realize gay marriage was such a threat to conventional marriage or exactly how it threatens it. Have homosexuals acquired a gay atomic bomb? Will it be dropped from Neil Patrick Harris’s…

In Thursday’s editorial I pointed out the horrifying possibility that Michelle Bachmann could win the Republican nomination. This is terrifying for many different reasons I won’t get into just in the interest of length, but I will single out Bachmann’s “War on Science.” She doesn’t believe in climate crisis, stem cell research, homosexuality (her husband…

A couple years back there was a great non-fiction book written about how Kansas morphed from an outpost of liberalism into arguably the most conservative state in the country (take out Utah, Arizona, Montana, and Alabama and it isn’t so arguable). It also covered how residents of Kansas routinely vote against their own economic interests…

In recent years it’s hard to imagine a person who has so personified a single issue as Dr. Kevorkian embodied the issue of Euthanasia or assisted suicide. He was an icon for the hard-to-talk about issue of patients that were terminally ill, suffering, and ready to die. The news media called him Dr. Death, the…

The abortion card. There is no one issue more controversial in the deck of cards that makes up American politics in 2011. You can’t reason with it, level with it, soothe it, or bury it. Knowing the irrationality of the issue, the side in favor of it just hopes it isn’t (for the 400th time)…

The majority of Republican voters would be social conservatives (no abortion, no gay marriage, prayer in school, any religious issue), voting more about culture than the right wing’s economic policies, which many actually don’t like but barely pay attention to. BUT the people actually in charge of the party are fiscal conservatives (love of money…

So yesterday was May 21st and–if we believe some true believers–the world should have ended. It’s fair to note that most Christians didn’t actually believe this was the day, and that only one mega church (led by 89 year old doomsday-er Harold Camping) really pushed this date as the end. BUT it wasn’t just followers…

For the past few weeks we’ve talked about race, but on Easter Sunday it’s only right to refocus on religion. Years ago some ingenious marketer first created the WWJD bracelets. But instead of what he’d do I’m much more drawn to the interesting—but unanswerable—question of “What Would Jesus Think?” Currently in our national debate on…