Published: Salon (September 10, 2015), The Daily Dot (September 8, 2015) In a mission to cast Kim Davis—the Kentucky clerk who has been temporarily jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses—as a martyred culture warrior, conservatives are comparing her...
Understanding (and Misunderstanding) Gay Rights
Sep 1, 2015 | Civil Liberties, Gay Rights and Other LGBTQIA Issues, Religion and Religious Issues
Published: The Good Men Project (September 1, 2015) Matthew Rozsa deconstructs the dangerous logic being used by the anti-gay rights movement in America today. — Over the last week or so, there has been a growing problem with the logic of the anti-gay rights movement....
Josh Duggar’s hypocrisy is part of a much larger cultural problem
Aug 21, 2015 | Gay Rights and Other LGBTQIA Issues, Gender and Sexism, Mental Illness, Religion and Religious Issues, Scandals
Published: The Daily Dot (August 21, 2015) America’s most high-profile Christian conservatives often use their social media platforms and media prominence to extol the virtues of chastity—only to get caught up in sex scandals. The most recent example comes by...
A Few Thoughts on Racist Tweets
Aug 18, 2015 | Gay Rights and Other LGBTQIA Issues, Gender and Sexism, Race and Racism, Religion and Religious Issues, Salon.com
Published: The Good Men Project (August 18, 2015) Political articles have been written for millennia, but thanks to the Internet, anyone with the right technology at their disposal can voice their opinions on the published work produced by professional writers....
Why Huckabee’s ‘oven’ remarks won’t win Jewish votes
Jul 27, 2015 | Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), Jewish Experiences, Political Parties, Religion and Religious Issues, Republicans
Published: MSNBC (July 27, 2015) When Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee claimed last weekend that President Obama would ultimately “take the Israelis and march them to the door of the oven,” the former Arkansas governor wasn’t being simply hyperbolic...
2 Ways Homophobes Will Cope with Post-Obergefell America
Jun 30, 2015 | Conservativism, Gay Rights and Other LGBTQIA Issues, Political Ideologies, Religion and Religious Issues, Salon.com
Published: Good Men Project (June 30, 2015), Salon (July 4, 2015), Interview on LeGrande Green (August 4, 2015) SCOTUS' decision transformed the country, but don't expect its opponents to go quietly into that good night For the sake of argument, let’s take it as...
The 4 worst things about Jeb Bush’s campaign announcement
Jun 16, 2015 | Conservativism, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), Internet Culture, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Religion and Religious Issues, Republicans
Published: Daily Dot (June 16, 2015) If Jeb Bush is elected to the presidency in 2016, his victory will officially transformed the Bushes into the most successful political dynasty in American history. Never has a single direct family line produced three presidents...
Everbody hates Rick Santorum
Apr 9, 2015 | Conservativism, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), Gay Rights and Other LGBTQIA Issues, Pennsylvania, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Religion and Religious Issues, Republicans, Salon.com
Published: Salon (April 9, 2015) How the former GOP heavyweight became a political irrelevancy 2016 is heating up. Indiana's anti-gay law dominates the headlines. And nobody is paying attention to poor ol' Rick As Americans brace themselves for Rand Paul’s...
Sneaky Homophobes Are Undermining Gay Rights Progress
Mar 3, 2015 | Conservativism, Gay Rights and Other LGBTQIA Issues, Political Ideologies, Religion and Religious Issues
Published: Good Men Project (March 3, 2015) Matthew Rozsa explains how bigotry and lack of honor go hand-in-hand. ___ To understand why public trust in our government and political parties has reached historic lows, simply look at the latest maneuver by social...
Why teens are joining ISIS
Mar 3, 2015 | Millennials, Religion and Religious Issues, Terrorism
Published: Daily Dot (March 3, 2015) A New York Times article published last week drew attention to the growing trend among affluent, intelligent, and socially well-adjusted young women joining ISIS or other Islamic terrorist organizations. This phenomenon struck the...