Blogaround

1. Why we don’t want cops at Pride celebrations (June 7)

2. Christ in the Trailer: A Lesson about Migration and Greed from a Literal Hell (June 29) [content note: graphic descriptions of dying]

3. For China’s Same-Sex Couples, Even Guardianship Is Often Out of Reach (June 30) "One well-known case occurred in 2020 in the northeastern city of Shenyang, involving a lesbian couple in their late 80s who had lived together for more than 50 years. After one of the women became mentally impaired, her partner found herself cut out of the medical and financial decision-making process in favor of the woman’s biological relatives. In flagrant disregard of the decades the two spent together, the relatives sold the couple’s house, which was under the impaired woman’s name."

4. 10-year-old rape victim forced to travel from Ohio to Indiana for abortion (July 3)

5. For Rural Chinese Women, a Plot of Land Is Too Much to Ask (July 2) "When Ren went to the village committee to register as a separate household and apply for a residential plot, she remembers being told that 'only men were eligible, and women can forget about it.' On her way home, she passed a wall-painted slogan from the one-child policy era urging people not to abort girls: 'Sons and daughters are equally valuable — daughters also carry on the family line!' She felt it was deeply ironic."

6. 7/4 Flashback: Douglass (July 4) "The fact that the church of our country, (with fractional exceptions), does not esteem 'the Fugitive Slave Law' as a declaration of war against religious liberty, implies that that church regards religion simply as a form of worship, an empty ceremony, and not a vital principle, requiring active benevolence, justice, love and good will towards man." PREACH!

7. Report Backs Abuse Allegations Against Chris Rice (June 23) This is the guy with the song about what if Scooby Doo got saved. It turns out he abused boys in a church youth group.