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Recently, the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood released something called “The Nashville Statement“. I suspect normal folks are blissfully unaware of this development. Those of us with any kind of connection to progressive theological circles? We aren’t so lucky. That’s folks in those progressive theological circles have lost their fucking minds about the Nashville …
Continue reading “The Nashville Statement and the Progressive Response”
Yesterday, President Trump (I throw up in my mouth a little every time I say that) hit us with another tweetstorm to announce a new “policy”. In this latest one, he…, shit, just read it for yourself: …
Continue reading “Trump Reinstates Ban on Transgender People in the Military”
In August of last year, the darling of the progressive Christian world, John Pavlovitz, wrote a post titled Repeat After Me: “There is No Such Thing as a “Homosexual Lifestyle.” What?!? No homosexual lifestyle? I find that hard to believe. I mean, if there’s no “homosexual lifestyle”, that means I’ve been an asshole for absolutely no …
Lately, I’ve seen a few straight progressive bloggers write about parenting children who are LGBT. It might be speculation about how the author would react to the news that one of their kids is gay. Or, it could be an open letter telling parents what they should say to their LGBT kid. As the parent of …
Yeah, I know I haven’t written in a while, but this school thing takes a lot more time than I expected. Between my class schedule and homework, my blogging frequency has dropped off dramatically. But, a recent development has prompted me to shake the dust off of the Progressive Redneck and dispense my own particular …
Continue reading “Pat McCrory to Charlotte: Let’s Make A Deal”
Wednesday evening, my son Parker and I spoke to some of the members of our church family about our experiences with transgender issues; he, as a trans man and me as the father of a person who is transgender. This is the video of that talk. If you can’t watch it, what follows is a …
Last month, the American Family Association kicked off their #BoycottTarget campaign, which aims to push Target into changing its trans-inclusive bathroom/dressing room policy. Recently, Faith2Action joined in this effort with their “Don’t Target Our Daughters Day” protests scheduled for June 4th. As Enid Strict would say: To promote their protest, the group has put out a video. Perfectly …
The rest of the country has not been kind to North Carolina the past few month. Since the passage of HB 2 in March, the state has lost as much as $500 million in economic activity, seen shows cancelled by popular performers, faced travel boycotts from multiple states and countries, and become the butt of cruel jokes. All …
As if things weren’t crazy enough with this bathroom business, America’s favorite holier-than-thou prigs, the American Family Association, weighed in on the issue with their #BoycottTarget campaign. On April 19, the country’s second largest retailer issued a press release stating, “…we welcome transgender team members and guests to use the restroom or fitting room facility that corresponds …
Last year, in a moment of what can only be called “insanity”, I decided that continuing my education would be a nice thing to do with all the time on my hands since retiring. While it has been…, let’s say, challenging, at some points, at others, it has been incredibly interesting. Take, for instance, the banned book essay …
Continue reading “What Does “Alice in Wonderland” Have to Do With HB 2?”
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