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How to be a friend to an accused serial rapist
Accused serial rapist Anthony Rollins is an Anchorage police officer whose alleged crimes were perpetrated against at least 6 women while he was on duty. Members of his church, Lighthouse Christian Fellowship, are packing the court in droves. Are they helping him face the consequences of any crimes he committed? Or are they merely showing up in Christianist solidarity? Continue reading
Posted in Alaska justice system
Tagged AKMuckraker, Alaska Commons, Anchorage Police Department, Anthony Rollins, Celtic Diva, Christianism, John Aronno, Lighthouse Christian Fellowship, Mudflats (blog), religion, sexual assault, STAR (Standing Together Against Rape), violence against women
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The Daily Tweets, 2009-10-07: Happy birthday, barcodes!
RT @outeralliance: Outer Alliance plans blogging event for 10/11 Coming Out Day http://bit.ly/1cBuUB #outeralliance # NYT: the e. coli-nization of ground beef. This does not make me eager to line up for a hamburger. http://bit.ly/1wTyu4 # Parents get jail terms … Continue reading
Posted in The Daily Tweets
Tagged Barack Obama, Christianism, ground beef, iPod, John McCain, Levi Johnston, livesnark, Outer Alliance, Sarah Palin, sexual assault
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Q & A: What happens when you click "Volunteer" at the Alaskans for Parental Rights website?
Q. What happens when you click “Volunteer” at the Alaskans for Parental Rights website? A. You get taken to the “Volunteer” page for the “Yes on 8” website. Yes on 8 is the campaign in California to deny the equal right to marry to same-sex couples. Here’s further evidence of linkages showing how Alaska’s Christianist right is dependent upon financial, organizational, and ideological support from outside the state.
Posted in Alaska politics, Marriage equality
Tagged abortion, Alaska Family Council, Christianism, Jim Minnery, same-sex marriage
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James Dobson’s God is a child abuser, & so is Jerry Prevo’s
Max Blumenthal’s new book Republican Gomorrah talks among other things about corporal punishment in Christianist practices of child discipline — practices taught by Focus on the Family leader James Dobson and, at least in 1985, Anchorage Baptist Temple pastor Jerry Prevo.
Waking from the grey
The grey is a term I have for one of my modes of experiencing depression. I wrote about it three years ago: The grey is like a great grey landscape of bleakness, just dust & stones. Emotionally dead: I can’t … Continue reading
Christianist, defined
I first used this term in the post “The new Carrie Prejean?” I’m using often enough that it seems helpful to break the definition I used there out into a separate post. Christianist is a term I first heard from … Continue reading
Debbie Ossiander & the Christianist filibuster
Is Debbie Ossiander cooperating intentionally or unintentionally with Prevo & co.’s filibustering techniques? And let’s not forget those Mat-Su witnesses she’s allowing to testify.
The new Carrie Prejean?
In what looks like another of last Tuesday’s ploys by Prevo & company, an obvious attempt to bait LGBT people & our allies into turning the newly-crowned Mrs. Alaska United States® into another Carrie Prejean, martyr of the religious right.
Posted in Ordinance, The incredibly true adventures of Rev. Jerry Prevo
Tagged AKMuckraker, Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, Andrew Sullivan, Assembly public hearing, Carrie Prejean, Christianism, cynical ploys, Jerry Prevo, June 9 public hearing, lgbtq, Mrs. Alaska United States, Mudflats (blog), Philip Munger, Progressive Alaska (blog), Reneé Scott
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