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\"Hypocrites!<\/a><\/p>\n

On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions. If you read some\u00adthing fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading please pass it my way.<\/p>\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n
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  1. On Polit\u00adi\u00adcal Cor\u00adrect\u00adness<\/a> (William Dere\u00adsiewicz, The Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Schol\u00adar): a long and thought\u00adful arti\u00adcle. \u201cSelec\u00adtive pri\u00advate col\u00adleges have become reli\u00adgious schools. The reli\u00adgion in ques\u00adtion is not Method\u00adism or Catholi\u00adcism but an extreme ver\u00adsion of the belief sys\u00adtem of the lib\u00ader\u00adal elite: the lib\u00ader\u00adal pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal, man\u00adage\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal, and cre\u00adative class\u00ades, which pro\u00advide a large major\u00adi\u00adty of stu\u00addents enrolled at such places and an even larg\u00ader major\u00adi\u00adty of fac\u00adul\u00adty and admin\u00adis\u00adtra\u00adtors who work at them. To attend those insti\u00adtu\u00adtions is to be social\u00adized, and not infre\u00adquent\u00adly, indoc\u00adtri\u00adnat\u00aded into that reli\u00adgion.\u2026 I say this, by the way, as an athe\u00adist, a demo\u00adc\u00adra\u00adt\u00adic social\u00adist, a native north\u00adeast\u00adern\u00ader, a per\u00adson who believes that col\u00adleges should not have sports teams in the first place\u2014and in case it isn\u2019t obvi\u00adous by now, a card-car\u00adry\u00ading mem\u00adber of the lib\u00ader\u00adal elite.\u201d<\/li>\n
  2. Sim\u00adi\u00adlar: Is Inter\u00adsec\u00adtion\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty a Reli\u00adgion?<\/a><\/span> (NY Mag, Andrew Sul\u00adli\u00advan): \u201cIt posits a clas\u00adsic ortho\u00addoxy through which all of human expe\u00adri\u00adence is explained \u2014 and through which all speech must be fil\u00adtered. Its ver\u00adsion of orig\u00adi\u00adnal sin is the pow\u00ader of some iden\u00adti\u00adty groups over oth\u00aders. To over\u00adcome this sin, you need first to con\u00adfess, i.e., \u2018check your priv\u00adi\u00adlege,\u2019 and sub\u00adse\u00adquent\u00adly live your life and order your thoughts in a way that keeps this sin at bay. The sin goes so deep into your psy\u00adche, espe\u00adcial\u00adly if you are white or male or straight, that a pro\u00adfound con\u00adver\u00adsion is required.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Con\u00adsis\u00adtent Veg\u00ade\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adan\u00adism and the Suf\u00adfer\u00ading of Wild Ani\u00admals<\/a> (Thomas Sit\u00adtler-Adam\u00adczews\u00adki, Jour\u00adnal of Prac\u00adti\u00adcal Ethics): argues that \u201c\u2026wild ani\u00admals have worse lives than farmed ani\u00admals, and that con\u00adsis\u00adtent veg\u00ade\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adans should there\u00adfore reduce the num\u00adber of wild ani\u00admals as a top pri\u00ador\u00adi\u00adty.\u201d<\/li>\n
  4. What Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty in Chi\u00adna Is Real\u00adly Like<\/span><\/a> (Col\u00adin Clark, Gospel Coali\u00adtion): \u201cFirst and fore\u00admost, house church lead\u00aders aren\u2019t under\u00adground because of the extent of gov\u00adern\u00admen\u00adtal med\u00addling, but because of the mere fact of it\u2026. Extend all the appar\u00adent olive branch\u00ades you want, but Jesus Christ is still the head of the church, not the TSPM and not the CCC.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Why the courts were wrong to rule against a florist who declined ser\u00advice to a gay wed\u00adding<\/a> <\/span>(Robert Vis\u00adch\u00ader, Amer\u00adi\u00adca Mag\u00ada\u00adzine): \u201cThe florist, Bar\u00adronelle Stutz\u00adman, had served the gay cus\u00adtomers, Robert Inger\u00adsoll and Curt Freed, many times over a num\u00adber of years, includ\u00ading by pro\u00advid\u00ading flow\u00aders for birth\u00addays and oth\u00ader per\u00adson\u00adal events; she object\u00aded only to pro\u00advid\u00ading flow\u00aders for their wed\u00adding. The court declined to rec\u00adog\u00adnize such a dis\u00adtinc\u00adtion, find\u00ading that a refusal to pro\u00advide ser\u00advices for a wed\u00adding between mem\u00adbers of the same sex amounts to dis\u00adcrim\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion based on sex\u00adu\u00adal ori\u00aden\u00adta\u00adtion.\u201d The author is the dean of a law school and this is one of the more thought\u00adful and com\u00adpre\u00adhen\u00adsive pieces I have seen on this issue. Relat\u00aded: UW Madi\u00adson Stu\u00addents On Reli\u00adgious Free\u00addom<\/span><\/a> (YouTube): I am skep\u00adti\u00adcal of videos like this (how many peo\u00adple did they inter\u00adview and cut out?), but it def\u00adi\u00adnite\u00adly reflects a ten\u00adden\u00adcy many col\u00adlege stu\u00addents have \u2014 they instinc\u00adtive\u00adly sup\u00adport reli\u00adgious free\u00addom when it\u2019s not for evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals.<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Dream\u00ading of life with\u00adout the GOP? Wel\u00adcome to California\u2014where things are far from per\u00adfect<\/a> (Conor Frieder\u00ads\u00addorf, LA Times): \u201cWe\u2019re a case study in what a polit\u00adi\u00adcal com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty looks like when Repub\u00adli\u00adcans wield lit\u00adtle or no pow\u00ader \u2014 and an ongo\u00ading refu\u00adta\u00adtion of the con\u00adceit that but for the GOP, the Unit\u00aded States would be free of dys\u00adfunc\u00adtion.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Things Glen Found Amusing<\/h3>\n