Archive for March, 2014

Hate Swallows: Reflections on the Passing of Fred Phelps

March 20, 2014, filed under Essay Archive; No Comments.
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By the time you read this, Fred Phelps will be dead. Fred Phelps, who more than anyone in the last two decades has come to symbolize the most viscerally evil edge of Christian heterosexism — and who made a name for himself by picketing the funerals of soldiers killed in combat with “God Hates Fags” […]

Bearing False Witness: Reflections on Being Attacked by Lying Right-Wing Christians

March 13, 2014, filed under Essay Archive; No Comments.
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I guess it would be too much to ask for honesty from a decidedly right-wing, reactionary and Christian supremacist bunch such as publishes LifeSiteNews, but ask I will in any event. Or rather, I won’t ask, and won’t expect it; instead, I will simply respond to the absurd, dishonest characterization of me that appeared in […]