For most readers, A Year of Biblical Womanhood won’t prompt any pearl-clutching. Its author is a devout Christian, the large Christian publisher Thomas Nelson is publishing it, and Evans calls its content “super-PG”—no bad words, and “not even that aggressively egalitarian or feminist.” There are actually two vaginas in the book: One is an anatomical reference to a woman raped in the Congo, which no one in the publishing process had a problem with. The troublesome instance is from a passage about a 16-year-old Evans signing an abstinence pledge card at a youth rally at church. “I signed my promise to God and my vagina,” she writes. That kind of cheeky reference stuck out to editors trying to conform to LifeWay’s unwritten standards…. And Evans sees a difference between the leeway afforded to male and female authors. She rattles off several recent books written by men that include less-than-clinical usages of boobs and testicles. LifeWay carries powerful pastor Mark Driscoll’s recent advice book Real Marriage, which includes approving descriptions of anal sex, role playing, and sex toys within a conservative theological framework. (Driscoll wrote the book with his wife, Grace.)
Her Year of Living Biblically: An evangelical blogger spent 12 months following the Bible. Then she wrote a book about it. Now some Christian bookstores won’t sell it.: I never cease to be amazed at how disturbingly uptight and narrow-minded some Conservative Christians can be. Vagina? That’s the name for a part of the female anatomy, NOT proof positive that a woman wants to bone the San Francisco 49ers’ defensive secondary.
Robertson: Gays and Liberals ‘Don’t Want Freedom’ but ‘Want a Dictatorship’: If by “dictatorship” you mean “any system that’s not a Dominionist Theocracy in which the Rabid Religious Right is in absolute and complete control,” then, yeah, I guess Robertson’s right.
Why Do the Craziest Religious People Get the Most Attention?: Because the majority of good and decent Christians who actually try to live their beliefs are…well, boring.
Catholic Org Pours Millions into Anti-Equality Fight: How are you going to know that your beliefs make you superior without a class of people that you can justify oppressing and treating as second-class citizens?
NOM’s William Owens: Democrats are a ‘Demonic Party’: When Republicans are your standard of decency, morality, and godliness, we’re all in big trouble.
When Did Christians Stop Seeking Martyrdom?: Uh…perhaps when they discovered that becoming a martyr meant they had to die.
Robison: America is Falling ‘Under the Control of Ungodly Forces’: Or, as I generally refer to them, “Republicans.”
Another Right-Wing Phony Embroiled in Sex Scandal — Why Does Sexual Hypocrisy Flourish on the Right? What is it about the Rabid Religious Right that makes them such hypocrites when it comes to sex? Do they really believe the rules they espouse and demand others adhere to don’t apply to themselves as well??
D’Souza Accused Obama of ‘Attacking the Traditional Values Agenda’ Just Before Sex Scandal Revelations: What is it about the Rabid Religious Right that makes them such hypocrites when it comes to sex? Do they really believe the rules they espouse and demand others adhere to don’t apply to themselves??
Bill Maher to Right-Wing Christians: If You Do God’s Work, Why Are You Always Wrong?: Because they’re doing work that justifies their own prejudices and bigotry. It really has little, if anything, to do with the teachings of Jesus Christ; it’s all about feeling righteous, uber-Jesus-y and superior to non-Christians.
Scarborough: God Allowed Benghazi Attack Because ‘America is Mired in Sin’: Right; nothing like using the tragic death of Americans abroad to support your narrow religious/political agenda, eh? I wonder how Rick Scarborough can look at himself in the mirror without seeing a miserable excuse for a human being? If Scarborough’s a Christian, I’m the Queen of England.
Suggestion That Jesus Was Married Sends the Christian Right into a Tizzy: There are few things more satisfying and entertaining than watching the Rabid Religious Right working itself into a self-righteous lather.
