(Cross-posted with author’s permission from WallWritings Friday, May 9, 2008)

Guest Column by Andrew Weaver

Milo's Note: Andrew is one of the originators of the protest to locate the Bush library at Southern Methodist University and has been a primary source for several of my diaries on the subject. Andrew is a United Methodist minister and research psychologist living in New York City. He is a graduate of The Perkins School of Theology, SMU. Thanks for your good work, Andrew!

I haven’t told my son yet that the denomination in which his father has been a minister for his entire career has decided once again not to remove the stain from its official policy that homosexuality is “incompatible with Christian teaching.” I doubt that he cares now. He has already felt the sting of rejection, which is now mutual.

From Hyer Standard.Com

 And What Difference Does It Make To Me?

In his nationally televised speech tonight, Barack Obama tried to convince American voters that when Jeremiah Wright screams "God damn America!" in Trinity United Church of Christ, and the congregation cheers, it's just a holdover of bitterness from the days of Jim Crow, just an isolated outburst of justifiable indignation.

But "God damn America!" is a fundamental component of Pastor Wright's world-view, systematically developed in the black power theology of his mentor, Professor James Cone of the Union Theological Seminary.

An urban Representative in Oklahoma has just become a national star on the political stage. Sadly, for her of course, is the reason she is such a rising star is because she's also a rising joke.

GOP State Representative Sally Kern looks like an unassuming old lady. The typical small town woman you expect to be at home baking pies for grandchildren. But no. In secret, (at least in the past) Sally Kern, has been living her life as a homophobic, racist, teacher hating, children hating, intolerant Republican leader and wife to the pastor of the Olivet Baptist Church.

There was a great story on NPR yesterday that captured my attention. Pew recently released their extensive 35,000 person survey that examines the role of faith in daily lives and in political affiliation.

Here is a video that talks about it in an overview.

I wrote The Genocide of Matriarchal Societies in April of last year (2007), and there is some additional information I want to share along those general lines now. We’ll pick up where we left off and the answer to “Where Are All Your Women” will be made chillingly clear as to why they are “Missing In Action” after we recognize that a woman is set to be beheaded for “practicing witchcraft.” First however, we will reread the words of Archie Fire Lame Deer and relish in the scholarship of Barbara Alice Mann.

Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing


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As the presidential campaign gains momentum in favor of change, it would appear that the neo-cons, the hierarchy of the status quo, remain curiously calm. The Democratic frontrunners and the National Committee would collectively commit a grave error by breathing any sigh of relief upon the departure of Karl Rove from his perch in the Oval Office.

The mind reels.

I came across a video, hosted by the notorious Bible-thumper Pat Robertson that, with the straightest of faces, discusses how an American highway called Interstate 35 (or I-35), which stretches from Laredo Texas to Duluth Minnesota, completely bisecting America, is possibly "highway" referenced in Isaiah 35.

They believe I-35 is part of scriptural prophecy and, among other things, it can cure homosexuality.

Video and commentary after the leap of Faith.

Even before the Declaration of Independence, the phrase of "No Taxation Without Representation" echoed among the American colonists as they were struggling to shrug-off the rule imposed by England:

"No taxation without representation" was a slogan in the period 1763-1775 that summarized a primary grievance of the American colonists in the Thirteen colonies. The colonists complained that taxes were imposed by Parliament without the consent of the colonists, which violated the traditional Rights of Englishmen dating back from the Magna Carta. The point was that the colonies had no representation in Parliament; the British responded that they were "virtually" represented. The Americans said these "virtual representatives" knew nothing about America. The Americans rejected the Stamp Act 1765 (which was repealed), and in 1773 violently rejected the tax on imports at the Boston Tea Party. When Great Britain began to crack down on the illegal activities performed by the colonists, the colonists formed militias and seized control of each colony, ousting the royal governors. The complaint was never officially over the amount of taxation (the taxes were quite low), but always on the decision-making process by which taxes were decided in London, without representation for the colonists in British Parliament. In February, 1775, Britain passed the Conciliatory Resolution which ended taxation for any colony which satisfactory provided for the imperial defense and the upkeep of imperial officers.

The phrase "No Taxation Without Representation!" was coined by Reverend Jonathan Mayhew in a sermon in Boston in 1750. By 1765 the term "no taxation without representation" was in use in Boston, but no one is sure who first used it. Boston politician James Otis was most famously associated with the term, "taxation without representation is tyranny." [1]

By the 1760s the Americans came to believe they were being deprived of a historic right.[2] LINK