By Miguel De La Torre In meetings at GOP headquarters across the country, one can almost hear the party bosses ordering the delivery of binders of Hispanics. This is not all bad. The Latina/o community, and by extension the United…
Binders of Hispanics
By Miguel De La Torre In meetings at GOP headquarters across the country, one can almost hear the party bosses ordering the delivery of binders of Hispanics. This is not all bad. The Latina/o community, and by extension the United…
Seattle church holds group wedding
By Bob Allen Twenty-five same-sex couples exchanged vows in a group wedding ceremony at First Baptist Church in Seattle Dec. 9, the first day that gays could legally marry in Washington State. Hundreds of couples stood in lines on Thursday…
Immigrants and other neighbors God told me to love, Part 2
I applaud, for whatever motives, that I was invited a “National Strategy Session and Advocacy Day” convened this week in Washington by Mark Shurtleff, Republican Attorney General of Utah. I was interested in the meeting—any meeting that has both Jim…
ACLU protests sentencing teen to church
By Bob Allen The American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma has filed a judicial complaint against a Southern Baptist judge who required a teenager to attend church for 10 years as a condition of probation for manslaughter. The complaint filed…
Immigrants and other neighbors God told me to love, Part 1
In past months, I have received invitations to attend meetings on the issue of immigration. I have expressed myself both publicly and privately to my lawmakers about what I think about the issue and have written about the matter. It…
Senate rejects UN disabilities treaty
By Bob Allen Religious Right leaders claimed victory Dec. 4 after Senate Democrats failed to muster a two-thirds vote necessary to join a United Nations treaty modeled after the Americans With Disabilities Act establishing international standards for the rights of…
A house divided still
Stephen Spielberg’s “Lincoln” pulled in $34 million over the Thanksgiving weekend, running a distant but respectable third behind the new Twilight and James Bond movies. When I saw the film over the weekend, the audience applauded as the credits rolled….
BWA Human Rights Day Dec. 9
By Bob Allen Timed nearest to the anniversary of the Dec. 10, 1948, adoption of the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights, Human Rights Day has been sponsored for more than 20 years by the Baptist World Alliance. This year the…