Williamette Week: The Cake Wars
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"Cake Wars" is funny. What is there that won't eventually be turned into a weapon, or battlefield, in the culture wars? I loved it when Big Bird suddenly became a political football in the last election.
ReplyDeleteIt gives Eddie Izzard's "cake or death" a new slant.
That they would casually offer cakes for other taboo occasions, but not for a gay wedding, does suggest there's some real animus at work. Why Christianity settled on homosexuality rather than any of the other Leviticus taboos to get its magic underwear in a twist about, remains a mystery.
Infidel -- They definitely nurse a burning hostility toward LGBTQ people that they don't nurture toward mixed fabric, pork, shellfish, menstruation, or companion planting. I think it's because LGBTQ rights are such a threat to their patriarchal notions of gender and sex. It's also why abortion, contraception, and feminism are such boogeymen to the Religious Right.
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Just read the 20 truths piece. I liked the point about children not "belonging" to parents. I was also a little shocked by the idea of an "unschooling" movement.
ReplyDeleteDonna -- Fundamentalists definitely see children as the property of their parents, hence their disdain for children's rights and their enthusiasm for "parental rights". In extreme cases, this attitude can foster abusive behavior (see the writings of the Pearls, for instance). It's a toxic attitude that needs to go.
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