Some assume that quoting an anti-gay gay means they aren't bigoted. Citing a bigot, even one who is a member of the group against whom he is bigoted, does not exonerate you. If anything, it shows how desperate you are to justify your position.
Sanjay Sanghoee | Posted 05.14.2012
Giving someone like Ted, Rush or Glenn a national megaphone to advocate bigotry, while making a massive profit out of it, has nothing to do with protecting the First Amendment, but with making lots of money. It is big business, pure and simple.
James Peron | Posted 04.05.2012
These consequences of anti-gay Christian fundamentalism include suffering children, sons who hang themselves, older brothers who vanish from the family, distant grandchildren, and lonely deathbeds. All this, they tell us, is done out of love. How much worse could hate be, then?
Stephen Herrington | Posted 04.02.2012
I mourn for Trayvon. I mourn for Tulsa. I mourn for a hundred years of lynching. I mourn for three centuries of slavery as I mourn for Wounded Knee and the Trail of Tears.
James Zogby | Posted 03.31.2012
There must be an acknowledgment of the wrong that has been done to our communities and to our country's ability to respectfully engage with Arabs and Muslims. This is vital to our future as Americans.
Gary Shapiro | Posted 05.26.2012
In her March 18 column, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd wrote a scathing and nasty indictment of Presidential candidate Mitt Romney based on his...
Hamilton Fish | Posted 05.03.2012
Political campaigns at their best are a kind of morality play, and now a primary season that was supposed to be about the economy has suddenly erupted into a fury of bigotry and religious zealotry.
Rev. Susan Russell | Posted 04.28.2012
Yes, I rise to defend bigotry -- but not to defend acts of bigotry that get in the way of our being that nation "with liberty and justice for all." Rather, I rise to defend the naming of those acts as bigotry.
The Huffington Post | Rebecca Searles | Posted 03.28.2012
Are racists dumb? Do conservatives tend to be less intelligent than liberals? A provocative new study from Brock University in Ontario suggests the an...
Monique Ruffin | Posted 03.25.2012
Newt Gingrich is the gift that keeps on giving. Why? Because he brings out from the cover of darkness the shadow that exists within us. He makes no apologies for, nor acknowledges his actions that most of us find unforgivable and shameful.
Seth Engel | Posted 03.16.2012
I believe that, if one has the economic opportunity to do so, travelling is in fact the most American thing you can do.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 03.03.2012
Paul's oft times uttered quip that private business owners have an absolute right to decide what to do with their own property; to make his point that it is legally wrong to tell private business owners what they can do with their business is laughable.
Deborah Gaines | Posted 02.21.2012
My youngest son was entranced by his buddy's Christmas Village and helped "redecorate" it with tanks and soldiers -- now part of their Christmas tradition. "The price of peace is eternal vigilance," his father laughed. All this makes me profoundly uncomfortable.
Christian Piatt | Posted 02.20.2012
In railing against the depiction of Muslims as mainstream Americans, the forces behind FFA expose in their own ranks the very fundamentalist type of aggression they claim to fear.
Abdulrahman El-Sayed | Posted 02.11.2012
By pulling its advertisements from a television show meant to normalize the Muslim experience, Lowe's and other corporations have tapped into that murky history of institutional discrimination.
Kari Ansari | Posted 02.11.2012
Sadly, a small group of anti-Islam bigots were able to hoodwink a major American retailer into thinking an innocuous show is some sort of stealth jihad on America.
Abraham H. Foxman | Posted 01.15.2012
All candidates of good faith must swiftly, publicly and definitively reject and repudiate religious-based election appeals.
Jorge-Mario Cabrera | Posted 12.20.2011
If Clear Channel is sincere about their intent to serve Los Angeles' diverse communities they should take John and Ken off the air immediately.
James Peron | Posted 12.13.2011
Since fundamentalists make up the bulk of the Religious Right today, and they loathe their Mormon and Catholic allies, what keeps this coalition together? Only finding a perceived enemy, whom they all hate more than each other, allows them to work together.
James Peron | Posted 12.05.2011
The complaints that were made about Irish immigrants are pretty similar to those we hear today about Mexican immigrants. The xenophobes insisted the Irish were lazy, prone to crime, drank too much, and were stealing jobs from good white Americans.
Noah Baron | Posted 11.22.2011
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" might be over, but the legacy of second-class status for LGBT Americans, including those who serve in the military, is not.
Daniel Cubias | Posted 11.01.2011
Does being an activist for your own race mean discriminating against others?
Abraham H. Foxman | Posted 08.30.2011
If the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor was, in the words of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the "date that shall live in infamy," 9/11 was the "day that hate became everyone's problem."
Randy Turner | Posted 10.10.2011
Who could argue with such an outpouring of humanity? Who could argue with the evidence of the effect Joplin has had on the world? Sadly, some of those who are arguing come from within Joplin.
Zach Weisberg | Posted 09.13.2011
While surfing (like most sports) can be a transcendent unifier, it has also developed an astoundingly ironic and nuanced culture. To a large extent, surf culture thrives on divisiveness.
James Peron | Posted 05.16.2012