William Lindsey

LATEST ARTICLES ( 3425 )

• America Magazine Features Confession of "Porn-Addicted" Priest: In Era of...

  

  Among many disappointing aspects of the papacy of Francis: the stepped-up clericalism.We're really supposed to be riveted by a confession of a priest in... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• As GOP Moves to Strip Healthcare Coverage from Millions, U.S. White Christian...

  

  In what I posted earlier today, I provided an excerpt from an article David Roberts has just posted at Vox, analysing the "tribal epistemology" that holds... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• "Alt-Right Supplied Trump with His Agenda; the Christian Right Supplied Him...

  

  Sarah Posner, "How Donald Trump Hijacked the Religious Right": There is no way of knowing how many Americans consider themselves to be alt-right Christians—the... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Irish Diaspora, Donald Trump, and Race Matters: We. Must. Talk. About. Race.

  

  Travis Gettys, "'Irish Slaves': Historian Destroys Racist Myth Conservatives Love to Share on Facebook":The myth [that there were Irish slaves in the new... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Rachel Held Evans Responds to Rev. Mike Huckabee's Defense of Trail of Tears:...

  Hard to believe there are some like @GovMikeHuckabee who see the Trail of Tears as a bright spot in American history. https://t. Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Liberal "Practicing Catholics" Express Shock That Trump Was Elected; I Don't...

  

  When I read a liberal Catholic commentator (who happens to be white, heterosexual, and married) touting himself/herself as a "practicing Catholic," and lamentin... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• "A Hard Core of Those Enthralled by Trump Cannot Be Convinced Otherwise":...

  

  John Feffer, "The Trump Dystopian Nightmare: Nuclear War, Climate Change and a Clash of Civilizations Are All on the Horizon":Here was this extraordinarily... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• "The Abdication of Civil (and Gospel) Responsibility by White Churches Is to a...

  Bottom line: we would not be where we are, the Trump nightmare as 24 million face loss of healthcare, without white "pro-life" Christians 1)— Bill Lindsey... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Important Finding in New PRRI Survey: "White Evangelical Protestants Stand Out" ...

  

  Yesterday, the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) published the findings of a survey it conducted in February 2017, which breaks down perceptions of... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Reactions to the Trumpcare "Healthcare Plan" = Tax Cut for the Super-Rich: "How...

  

  Matt Shuham at Talking Points MemoDavid Dayen, "The Republican Health-Care Bill Is the Worst of So Many Worlds":Fundamentally, the ACHA is a tax cut bill,... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Religion and Politics in the News: "It Is No Surprise to Me That Online Debate...

  

  An assortment of items I've read in the past few days on religion, politics, culture — and their intersection — in American public discourse right now; these... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Trumpcare, Some Questions You Might Ask: Will the "Pro-Life" Catholic Bishops...

  True headline 1: the bill is basically a tax cut ($600 billion) funded by gutting Medicaid. 4— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) March 7, 2017To borrow shamelessly from... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• With Help from Conservative Catholics, White Evangelicals Broke America:...

  Another look at the white vote in 2016 by education and age(data via CCES and @A_agadjanian) pic.twitter.com/MPiIuzBpoR— Will Jordan (@williamjordann) March 5,... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Catherine Corless' Research About Mass Grave at Irish Catholic Home for Unwed...

  

  When Catherine Corless's research suggesting that there was a mass grave at a home for unwed mothers and their children at Tuam in County Galway, Ireland,... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Good, Bad, Ugly: Week in News — "We Judge This to Be Hypocrisy Unprecedented in...

  

  Journalists know: When leaders go berserk, furiously denying there's anything going on, blaming others--that's when you're getting close. Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Is the Term "Shyster" Anti-Semitic? A Footnote to Yesterday's Posting

  

  I'm grateful to Cleveland Girl for a comment yesterday when I used the term "shyster" in a posting. She tells me that the term has anti-Semitic overtones. Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Authoritarian Shysters Do Not Want Us Making Connections; Making Connections Is...

  

  Charles Pierce then adds,Authoritarianism is bone deep in these guys. It is their instinct, their unconquerable reflex, to reach for the most repressive solutio... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Wendell Griffen on White Christian Nationalism and Costly Grace in Era of...

  

  Wendell Griffen, in his just-published Fierce Urgency of Prophetic Hope (Valley Forge: Judson Press, 2017): White Christian nationalists who elected President... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Trump's Clear Signal That Some Count and Others Don't: Another Wave of Bomb...

  NBC News confirms there has been another wave of bomb threats against Jewish Community Centers and schools across the country pic.twitter. Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Notes on "Moonlight": The Price Men Pay for Showing Vulnerability — And the...

  

  As it happens, Steve and I watched "Moonlight" Saturday evening, and yesterday, I put together a set of notes about the film — not dreaming it would (as it... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY