This doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll reverse the lower court ruling in favor of a gay couple discriminated against by a baker who also happens to be a religious bigot, but it raises the possibility. Well, ask yourself this: If a baker can refuse to sell a cake to a gay couple, then why [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Religion’
June 9th, 2017 - 6:00 am § in Hypocrisy, The Ave Scene
Black and Jew, Then and Now
As we see angst over a Jewish professor caught in the poisonous mix of white guilt and racism at Evergreen College, it is useful too look back a hundred years when the progressive Jewish newspaper, The Forward, introcuced WEB DuBois to what was then the Jewish left. “When the immigrant from [...]
An Abrahamic Answer to Israel=Palestine
The Abrahamic Union: a Confederate solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Yakov Nagen Yakov Nagen is a Rabbi at the Yeshiva of Otniel, located near Hebron. On the day of Shimon Peres’s death, my neighbor Natan Meir stood before 100 Jewish and Arab interfaith activists and spoke of Peres’s[...]
BREAKING NEWS: 5/29
TRUMP: Trump Tells ‘Confidants’ U.S. Will leave Paris Climate Deal AFTER BREXIT: ‘Brexit’ Britain’s Mediocre Economy Gets Worse AFTER TRUMP: With Oklahoma budget in crisis, many Oklahoma schools hold classes four days a week ISRAEL: Does Israel have a nuclear ICBM? I[...]
IVANKA INVENTS A FEMALE YARMULKE
The Ivanka Kippa is part of her new line of fashion accessories for observant women. Mrs, Kushner is also working with friends form the orthodox Jewish community to offer wigs and the wives of the Saudi King to introduce a like of burkas and for the more daring diaphanous head scarves.[...]
May 21st, 2017 - 12:59 am § in Hypocrisy
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: ‘Naughty’ Pope pours cold water on talk of Virgin Mary appearing in Bosnia
While canonizing the two child shepherds whose vision of Mary, adding Portugal’s Fatima to France’s Lourdes as a site fore veneration, Pope Francis said he knew he was being “naughty” in doubting the Medjugorje phenomenon in Bosnia, in which six youngsters reported seeing vis[...]
The Fallacy of RACE
WHAT “RACE” IS THIS MAN? “I’ve been called a n—-r before by white kids,” Joseph said. “I’ve experienced being rousted by the police, with some friends. I’ve had the so-called — if there are typical, you know — black experiences. I’ve ha[...]
April 24th, 2017 - 7:57 am § in Uncategorized
African Pride
Chinazor Onianwah This is stupid at every level. Many Africans do not appreciate their culture until a white man embraces it. Before Bo Derek adorned her coif with corn rows, blacks in America shunned braiding their hair or looking African. Same Africans who gave up their religion for Christianity a[...]
April 23rd, 2017 - 8:28 am § in Donald Trump, Environment, Hypocrisy, Politics, Science, The Ave Scene, UW
Was The March for Science a Bad Idea? I
On Saturday, UW faculty took very different paths in the March for Science. Some of us stood aside, concerned that the March might politicize science, others celebrated science by joining with the the crowd marching in the Seattle rain. Cliff Mass was among those who stayed away. Cliff is [...]
April 23rd, 2017 - 12:56 am § in Hypocrisy
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Bill O’Reilly Meets Pope
ROME — Bill O’Reilly, the embattled Fox News host, now dismissed from the alt right, pro Trump media after facing a barrage of sexual harassment accusations, met Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square last Wednesday morning during the pontiff’s weekly general audience. Mr. O’Reilly sat in a [...]