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** School Says White, Middle-Class, Christian Boys are "Privileged"------------------------------------------------------------
If you are a white, heterosexual, Evangelical Christian, male whose parents are still married and can afford to send you to summer camp – then you may be privileged, according to the West Bend School District in Wisconsin.
As many as 150 students at Badger Middle School were given an optional “privilege test.” The 55 questions covered a wide range of topics from sexuality and race to religion and economics.
Among the items on the questionnaire:* I am white
* I have never tried to hide my sexuality
* I feel comfortable in the gender I was born in
* I have never been called a derogatory term for a homosexual
* I ever doubted my parents’ acceptance of my sexuality
* My parents are heterosexual
* My family can afford a therapist
* I have never been called a terrorist
* Nobody has tried to “save me” from my religious beliefs
* I feel privileged because of the identities I was born with
* I have never been mocked for my accent
* I have never been told that I “sound white”
* I am a man
* I went to summer camp
* I have never been catcalled
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Oregon Court upholds $135,000 Fine Against Christian BakersThe Oregon Court of Appeals upheld a decision that forced two Christian bakers to pay $135,000 to a lesbian couple who said they felt “mentally raped” when the bakers declined to make a wedding cake.
“Freedom of expression for ourselves should require freedom of expression for others,” First Liberty Institute president Kelly Shackelford said.
First Liberty, one of the nation’s most prominent religious liberty law firms, represented the Kleins.
“The Oregon Court of Appeals decided that Aaron and Melissa Klein are not entitled to the Constitution’s promise of religious liberty and free speech,” Shackelford said.
The Kleins, who owned Sweet Cakes By Melissa, made national headlines in 2013 when they declined to make a wedding cake for Rachel and Laurel Bowman-Cryer.
The Christian family was subjected to a homo-fascist mob that boycotted their business, threatened other wedding vendors and subjected their young children to death threats.
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** College Teaches Students about "Queering the Bible"
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One of the nation’s most prestigious liberal arts colleges is advancing a “queer theology” agenda with hopes of destabilizing traditional beliefs about what the Bible says about gender and sexuality.
Swarthmore College, founded by Quakers, is offering courses in “queering the Bible” and “queering God.”
“Queering the Bible” is a one-credit class that surveys “queer and trans readings of biblical texts.”
“By reading the Bible with the methods of queer and trans theoretical approaches, this class destabilizes long held assumptions about what the Bible – and religion – says about gender and sexuality,” the course description reads.
The school’s religion department is also teaching a class that questions the sexuality of the Almighty called, “Queering God: Feminist and Queer Theology.”
“The God of the Bible and later Jewish and Christian literature is distinctively masculine, definitely male. Or is He?” the course description reads. “If we can point out places in traditional writings where God is nurturing, forgiving, and loving, does that mean that God is feminine, or female?”
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