Oh, the things my neighbors say. As a volunteer committee meets to discuss how to include the 200 to 400 refugees currently living in Aberdeen in…
Tag: religion
How do we govern at the end of the world? A couple weeks ago, Dale Bartscher of Family Heritage Alliance blogged about his disappointment with the…
In today’s self-abuse file, I peruse the Family Heritage Alliance website and find this odd note from John Dennis: People will gather on April 22…
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…
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…