Author: Burr Deming

I was moved as a friend once described how it was to be pursued and sometimes beaten as a child by those calling him “Christ Killer.” The worst part, at least for him, was the constant role of outsider: always being the other. An irony is that Jesus was not crucified because he was rejected by the Jews of their day. In fact, his great and growing popularity contributed to the determination of some to have him eliminated.

Fortunately, conservative Christian fundamentalist leaders have largely purged from their midst anti-Jewish bigots and haters. Sadly, those same fundamentalists are still plagued by other hatreds and a persistent literalism that seems willfully to miss the teachings of our Lord. Continue reading “Forgiving James Dobson”

For all the loathing many white Americans may feel toward the rhetoric of Jeremiah Wright, and the anger and bitterness expressed by others, we should be aware that the divide was started centuries earlier, and not at all by the people who then pretty much all lived in sub-Saharan Africa.

That much is so apparent that it is beyond cliché. The question that interests me is why the timeline is measured in centuries. Why not millennia? Continue reading “How Racism Began”

Key GOP radical idea:
State Legislatures can overturn any Presidential election result they don’t like.
 
Key winning oral argument against by Neal Katyal:

It is rejected by the Articles of Confederation, rejected by the early state constitutions, rejected by the founding practice, especially, New York where judges vetoed federal election bills. It’s also rejected by this court, and cases such as Smiley and Hildebrandt.