Leadingchurch.com

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We now recognize how important it should have been for the movement to understand how racism intersected with sexism and heterosexism. Although women were essential to the success of “the movement,” they too often were viewed as “assistants and helpers” rather than as leaders. And although the Rev. Martin Luther King resisted the efforts of some of his colleagues to dismiss Bayard Rustin, the brilliant organizer and justice thinker who was gay, they did not view heterosexism as an “ism” to be confronted.

• Dreher
• Unequally Yoked
• Scott Alexander

http://erlc.com/resource-library/articles/methodists-long-arc-toward-orthodoxy

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/alarmism-transgendered-kids/

http://www.weeklystandard.com/can-social-conservatism-survive-trump/article/2002592

http://diaconalministries.com/a-part-of-the-body/

XOJane

Everydayfeminism.com is unbelievable. I couldn’t curate a collection of ideas that better illustrate the new religion, and how impossible it is in its legalisms and thought crimes. Conservative religious people should be pretty familiar with legalism, moralism and thought crimes combined with self-doubt and the scrutiny of others. Just a brief perusal of this sight yields a flurry of features that if I took seriously would bind me into a world of self-righteous self-doubt that I’d be crying for “organized religion” in a New York minute.

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Diva Eytcheson, 50, is less sure. As with Kuchynka, this will be her first Reason Rally. Her atheism is important in the voting booth, she said, but other identities she claims — abortion rights advocate, feminist — are equally and sometimes more important, she said.

“I vote more on social causes and hindering the pork in politics than I do on atheism alone,” said Eytcheson, who is traveling from Denver to attend the Reason Rally. “Every issue has its complexities and there is no such thing as black and white.”

“As long as we continue to get letters from high school students kicked out of their houses because they don’t share their parents’ religion, or from parents denied the opportunity to see their children because they don’t believe in God, we have to fight,” she said. “If the steps stand for something, it is that dream of inclusivity and equality, and that is what we want — to be seen and recognized and viewed as equals.”