Intolerance Watchtag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-5033042006-10-29T17:46:45-06:00Who's intolerant today?TypePadWhat if God loses the war in Iraq?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-137441682006-10-29T17:46:45-06:002006-10-29T17:46:45-06:00An article by Gary Wills (one of my favorite intellectuals) in the current issue of the New York Review of Books asks a great question after making a great point: There is a particular danger with a war that God...Alex Kanakishttp://intolerancewatch.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/10/wow_what_if_god.htmlBook Watch: Is There a Culture War?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-137022652006-10-27T17:05:00-05:002006-10-27T17:05:00-05:00Is There a Culture War? A Dialogue on Values and American Public Life That's the title of a new book edited by E.J. Dionne and Michael Cromartie and written by James Davison Hunter and Alan Wolfe. Here's a description of...Alex Kanakishttp://intolerancewatch.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/10/book_watch_is_t.htmlGet out of our big tent!tag:typepad.com,2003:post-136180472006-10-24T11:16:16-05:002006-10-24T11:16:16-05:00The Republicans like to present themselves as tolerant. They've even coined a term for their party's tolerance -- the big-tent party. The big tent metaphor is supposed to connote a place big enough to include all walks of American life....Alex Kanakishttp://intolerancewatch.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/10/get_out_of_our_.htmlSlapping every soldier in the facetag:typepad.com,2003:post-135490962006-10-20T17:23:03-05:002006-10-20T17:23:03-05:00Whoa! Tony "Pretty Boy" Perkins is not acting like a man of "values." He sent out a press release today to spin the news that the evangelical right is demoralized and likely not to show up at the polls in...Alex Kanakishttp://intolerancewatch.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/10/slapping_every_.htmlScary shit over at the American Family Associationtag:typepad.com,2003:post-135332622006-10-19T21:41:30-05:002006-10-19T21:41:30-05:00I got a press release from Don "The Wild Man" Wildmon today ranting about how "Ford Continues Showing Support for Homosexual Marriage." If your not familiar with Brother Don, he's the Founder and Chairman of the American Family Association. And...Alex Kanakishttp://intolerancewatch.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/10/i_got_a_press_r.htmlSelectively using the pasttag:typepad.com,2003:post-135226782006-10-19T11:57:29-05:002006-10-19T11:57:29-05:00In today's Houston Chronicle, an article regarding Alvin ISD's banning the Confederate flag made me think (again) about the selective use of the past by Southern racists (a group made up of %99.99 religious-right types). Whenever there is a displaying-the-Confederate-flag...Alex Kanakishttp://intolerancewatch.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/10/selectively_usi.htmlHey, yo! It's time to smear Kuotag:typepad.com,2003:post-134882522006-10-17T17:19:09-05:002006-10-17T17:19:09-05:00The smear gang is coming for David Kuo. That means an assassination attempt on his character's ass. I say "assassination attempt" because I just don't think this campaign will be that successful. The religious right has too much of their...Alex Kanakishttp://intolerancewatch.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/10/hey_yo_its_time.htmlNot the status Kuotag:typepad.com,2003:post-134693702006-10-16T19:54:06-05:002006-10-16T19:54:06-05:00The poor Bush Administration has been getting bitch slapped lately (and rightly so). Now it's from his own side. David Kuo, former #2 in the Bush administrations Office of Faith-Based Initiatives and author of the new book Tempting Faith, joined...Alex Kanakishttp://intolerancewatch.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/10/not_the_status_.htmlScary movie: They are everywhere! tag:typepad.com,2003:post-134687552006-10-16T18:57:03-05:002006-10-16T18:57:03-05:00Today I received an email from Defcon regarding a short movie they've put together to get the progressives to the voting booths this November. Check it out. Dear Alex, They are in our nation's capital. They are in our states....Alex Kanakishttp://intolerancewatch.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/10/today_i_receive.htmlHere's how you help the poortag:typepad.com,2003:post-134058962006-10-13T10:19:21-05:002006-10-13T10:19:21-05:00Christian missionary zealots think helping the poor around the world means first and foremost putting Jesus in the heart and then a little food in the belly. According to the missionaries, food helps short term, but Jesus saves the soul...Alex Kanakishttp://intolerancewatch.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/10/heres_how_you_h.html