Both times that Attorney General Marty Jackley has held a press conference in Platte—on November 3 and yesterday, March 16—he has had a local pastor open the meeting…
Tag: religion
Holy cow—is the process working? Are Republican legislators realizing they could lose their seats if they don’t listen to the people and the law? Rep.…
Seconding Rev. Steve Hickey’s effort to stop House Bill 1161 (which gets second reading on the House floor today! call now, say “Vote NO!”) are the…
Governor Dennis Daugaard has to decide whether to sign House Bill 1008, the paranoid potty bill that the Legislature passed on its irrational fears of transgender children.…
While boycott talk bubbles (that’s been a popular post today), I have a practical question about House Bill 1107, Rep. Rev. Scott Craig’s “religious freedom” bill: just what…
House Bill 1107 would allow business owners to actively discriminate against LGBTQ South Dakotans, unmarried parents, and anyone else whose sexual habits contravene their religious beliefs. Is it time for South Dakotans who believe such…
Stu Whitney looks at the South Dakota Legislature’s willingness to stigmatize and deny equality to people who don’t look or love the way their Ward-and-June morality says they should and…
A little like me, Senator Bernie Sanders stands outside America’s Christian mainstream. Sanders is Jewish; I am an atheist (although I’ve been told occasionally that I look like a rabbi). Like me, Senator…
I took apart Senator Jeff Monroe’s retread proposal to sneak his religion into science class when he announced his intention to retry his creationism legislation early…
In other efforts to hang the “Different People Not Welcome” sign on South Dakota, the South Dakota Legislature continued its war on transgender kids this week.…