Fresh Items @ Talk to Action

Regular readers of this site know that I am involved in developing a project called Talk to Action.

It will be a fully interactive site devoted to challenging the theocratic Christian Right in its many manifestations. I will have more to say about this in the next few days.

Meanwhile there is good stuff being posted on the temporary Talk to Action blog. Two fresh posts are indicators of the kinds of things we will be writing and talking about. Check 'em out. Comment if you like.

Joan Bokaer, the founder of Theocracy Watch considers the status of the church-state separation in the wake of the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O'Conner who provided the pivotal vote in the recent Ten Commandments cases decided by the court. Bokaer zeros in a a quote from one of those cases.

O'Conner wrote: "Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?"

Pastordan, a minister in the United Church of Christ, writes:

"...you may have heard about a recent attack on a UCC church in Middlebrook, Virginia. The interior was trashed, the walls were spray-painted with hateful, homophobic epithets, and the vandals attempted to start a fire with the congregation's hymnals. The attack came days after the UCC's General Synod approved a resolution affirming same-sex marriage.

As I say, you may have heard about this--as long as you don't rely on news outlets geared to conservative Christian churches.

I've checked. So far, there's been no report on the assault from the Christian Bible Network, none from the Christian Post, nor from Persecution.org or Voices of the Martyrs. The websites of Albert Mohler, Gary Bauer, Jerry Falwell, and Pat Robertson are all silent. Christianity Today's Weblog, which carries news of just about everything happening in the Christian world, has yet to carry the news. Nor has Agape Press, which picks up within days stories of persecution--no matter how minor--against Christians around the world."

So I have to ask: why not? Why this silence?

Where is the outrage?"

Joan and Pastordan will be regular contributors when we launch the fully interactive Talk to Action site.