Blogwatch: Death, Resurrection, and Court Rulings
No doubt you’ve all heard by now about the Supreme Court’s ruling yesterday upholding a law banning “partial birth abortion.” I am not going to be commenting on this ruling, but I’m going to point out that SCOTUSBlog has tons of commentary. And here’s what Jack Balkin, and Fred Vincy have to say. The Volokh Conspiracy seems to be focusing mainly on the implications of the ruling for the Interstate Commerce Clause. This isn’t at all an attempt to do a comprehensive round up on the decision; it just happens that these are the legal blogs I actually read.
My favorite ex-gay blogger attends the road show of one of my favorite ex-ex-gay bloggers, and does a review of Peterson Toscano’s Doin Time in the Homo No Mo Halfway House.
Christy on Via Crucis 2007: The angel speaks to the women.
I’ve thought about what it would be like to be these women – Joanna, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and nameless others. They were mourning, and then they were perplexed, and then they were terrified – and then no one believed them. They were probably used to men not hearing them. It was a terribly misogynistic society, and women were denied access to God and power and property. Women were considered more naturally sinful then men, so of course, no messenger of God would bypass the manly disciples to appear to a bunch of women – especially when the message was something as earth-shattering as the resurrection of the Son of God…..
Just as the disciples needed to listen to the women for their own benefit, we all need to hear from the people in our blind spots, because they may come bearing news we need to hear, and their tales of the Divine may be precisely what we are desperately hoping for. Like the disciples, we all lock ourselves in little rooms with our friends, and then wonder why God seems dead. God shows up where She damn well pleases, unexpectedly, and to all the wrong people. In a world this full of death, I don’t think we have the luxury of ignoring anyone with a story to tell of signs of life.
Holy Heroes: a new blog about the religious lives of comic book superheroes.
You’ve probably already seen or heard about this one by now, but I still have to link the story of the Israeli professor and Holocaust survivor who saved the lives of his students at Virginia Tech by leaping between them and the gunman. (Hat tip to Jill at Feministe and, actually, several other people.)
Iraqi Relief Agencies in Desperate Need, and here’s how to donate to them.