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Westboro Baptist Church is known for their protests against homosexuality and for their oppressive thinking. Warren Blumenfeld explains the appalling assumptions behind their oppressive tactics towards Jews and the LGBT community, and what others are doing to counter their demonstrations.
The coalition, Faith in Public Life, announced their national mobilization plans for the 2014 elections last week. Under this coalition, progressive faith communities are taking back the words commonly associated with the Religious Right — Faith, Family, Freedom, the Flag and Values — and fitting them into progressive terms as they work together towards social justice, changing the discourse for this election season.
After twenty-year-old Daniel Pierce was disowned by his family when he came out as gay, a peer community of youth arose on social media to stand by his side. Warren Blumenfeld reflects on the youth’s approach and the modern generation’s determination in eradicating oppression.
Warren Blumenfeld asks Pope Francis to uses his influence and power to turn away from adhering to and promoting society’s gender roles.
Warren Blumenfeld reflects on the history of segregation in US schools since Brown v. Board of Education., highlighting that the persistent inequities in education are rooted in and continue because of our society’s racial inequality.
“Many black people and other peoples of color see “race” and racism as salient and central to their reality. Many white people — excluding members of the more race-conscious extremists groups — consider “race” as a peripheral issue, and may even consider racism as a thing of the past, or as aberrations in contemporary U.S. society. Since the 1960s, many people of color have embraced and expanded the definition of “racism” to reflect contemporary realities, while many white people have not.”
Warren Blumenfeld offers his commentary on race, critical multiculturalism, and how we as a society can use social justice to break down the barriers between us.
How can we trust the promises political candidates make? Warren Blumenfeld suggests that in order for democracy to work, we must be an educated electorate and use our voting power.
Florida pastor, T.W. Jenkins, canceled Julion Evans’s funeral when he found out Evans was married to a man. Warren Blumenfeld comments on how other faith communities are treating LGBT people and hopes Jenkins apologizes.
Questions about internalized oppression have been the backbone of Warren Blumenfeld research, and even before he came to consciousness of this fact, his research was his therapy, for it had challenged and continually challenges him to change and to grow.
Rather than characterizing immigration and migration issues as humanitarian concerns, the anti-immigration activists connect the narratives representing immigrants and migrants to our borders to the language of disease, crime, drugs, alien and lower forms of culture and life, of invading hoards, of barbarians at the gates who if allowed to enter will destroy the glorious civilization we have established among the lesser nations of the Earth.