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Tuesday, May 05, 2015
Not the Sermon on the Mount
More evidence of what's really up with the lust to put "In God We Trust" on courthouses, school houses, and outhouses -- it's an aggressive, bullying, in-your-face mixing of religion and politics meant to intimidate.
It's force, not faith.
3 comments:
Jesse Steele
said...
Cause FREEDOM!*
*Provided you are white, straight, christian, republican, and lack a uterus.
The bigotry seems to become more outspoken every day. http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/community/news-alliance/wbtv-news/article20593905.html
J.W. Williamson was the founding editor in 1972 of the Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, which he edited until July of 2000. He has taught college classes in Appalachian history, cultural politics, and literature, and he has lectured widely on the pop-culture history of "Appalachia" in the American consciousness. His books include Interviewing Appalachia, Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films, and Hillbillyland: What the Mountains Did to the Movies and What the Movies Did to the Mountains. He has won the Thomas Wolfe Award given by the Western North Carolina Historical Society, the Laurel Leaves Award given by the Appalachian Consortium, a special Weatherford Award given by Berea College, and the Cratis Williams-James Brown Award given by the Appalachian Studies Association.
The views expressed on WataugaWatch are solely those of J.W. Williamson or individual contributors and are not necessarily shared nor endorsed by the Watauga County Democratic Party nor by any other adults of sound mind in this or any other universe.
3 comments:
Cause FREEDOM!*
*Provided you are white, straight, christian, republican, and lack a uterus.
That the NCGOP has forgotten the first amendment is a travesty.
The bigotry seems to become more outspoken every day. http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/community/news-alliance/wbtv-news/article20593905.html
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