This is my President.

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One of Trump’s biggest supporters weighs in

David Duke, white supremacist and former Grand Duke of the KKK, for one, is thrilled that Drumpf won the Indiana primary, and you can listen to him here. (A warning? It’s David Duke, so it’s horseshit. I’m only posting it because those who are supporting Trump for president need to meet their fellow travelers.)

Welp…

Did anyone within the sound of this blog post ever think the above spectacle would lead to yesterday’s spectacle in Indiana (that included TrusTED Cruz’s dropping out)? And then Bernie Sanders takes the state. Go figure. Mind? Boggled.

Dear Syrian refugees: Come to CT.

The New York Times carried a story today about a Syrian family whose members waited three years to be accepted into the U.S. The story includes the work of Chris George, and his wonderful Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services in New Haven, which has done incredible work getting new Americans settled. The family, whose members waited in …

If “religious” people can raise money for a pizza joint…

…what might we all do for runaway/homeless youth? Check this out. And then please consider donating to the True Colors Fund. For more on people donating to a pizza joint (Memories Pizza of Walkerton, Indiana) that won’t (knowingly) cater any wedding for the LGBTQ community — and good Christ, who orders pizza at a wedding, …

I am not yet willing to let go the notion of “religious freedom”

Mary sent this, a telling essay about what the Real Jesus would have done in the whole Indiana/Arkansas/Ain’t-no-gay-gonna-eat-a-cake-I-baked mess. He would have baked them the cake. In fact, he would have baked them two. “Dear American Christians.” Go ahead, Bro. Eric Folkerth.

As we all take a deep breath over religious freedom

DickG. sends this, a ThinkProgress piece on the failed attempt by some conservative Christians to infuse the discussion about religious freedom with homophobia. It’s interesting, and contains this: …some sociologists argue that Christianity’s unusual inclusiveness is precisely what helped it to grow so quickly, what with it famously expanding its ministry to both Jews and …

Don’t sign it, Asa

The Arkansas legislature has passed to Gov. Asa Hutchinson a “religious freedom” law similar to the one that has caused the uproar in Indiana and elsewhere. Gov. Hutchinson is a 1972 graduate of Bob Jones University, the ultra-conservative institution of higher learning whose policies (and graduates) would be funny if they weren’t so very sad. …

Where do you fall on the implicit bias scale?

In the journalism ethics class I teach at Manchester Community College, we’ve been talking about implicit bias, and how that affects journalists in their reporting and writing. So the assignment — voluntary though it may be — for today’s class is to go to Project Implicit and take a test. The class was assigned to …

Sometimes? Right’s right.

Connecticut is the first state to boycott Indiana, after that state’s new, discriminatory “Religious Freedom” law, which is uniquely bad. Why “uniquely?” From that ThinkProgress piece: Under that section, a “person” (which under the law includes not only an individual but also any organization, partnership, LLC, corporation, company, firm, church, religious society, or other entity) …