Fascism and Christian Nationalism with Billie Hoard, Part II
Release Date: 11/09/2023
Interview with Pastor Kari
Queer PoliFaith
Welcome back to Queer PoliFaith! Today's episode is an interview with Pastor Kari Parsons about a sit in in a Senate office building in January. We talk about how everything was organized, how the sit in went down, how the Capitol police reacted, and what it was like to be detained as well as why it was important that this sit in happened. You can find out more about the sit-in . To find out more about Christ the Servant Lutheran Church, go . I think you'll really enjoy this interview and the next couple of week's interviews. I am hoping to have the interview with Mae and Bill about Christian...
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Interview with Mae
Queer PoliFaith
Welcome back to Queer PoliFaith! Today, we have my interview with Mae about her dissertation. The episode is a little longer than normal, but it is well worth listening to. I hope you will enjoy this episode and have been enjoying the last several episodes about her dissertation. In the interview, we talk about the dissertation, she explains a few concepts better than I did, and we go over a few things in more detail than I was able to in my discussion of the dissertation. She also corrects my pronounciation of a couple of names that I got incorrect (my bad!). Our next episode will be in three...
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Mae's Dissertation, Part 3
Queer PoliFaith
Welcome back to Queer PoliFaith! Today, we are going to continue going over Mae's dissertation An Accessible Image: Reconstructing the Imago Dei for a More Inclusive Anthropology. Today we are going over Chapters 6 ("An Accessible Difference") which is about how the ideas presented in the dissertation will affect various areas of philosophy and 7 ("Concluding Remarks") which will finish our look at Mae's dissertation. Our next episode will be in three weeks on April 16th and will be my interview with Mae about her dissertation. As always, please rate and review the podcast on...
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Mae's Dissertation, Part 2
Queer PoliFaith
Welcome back to Queer PoliFaith! Today, we are going to continue going over Mae's dissertation An Accessible Image: Reconstructing the Imago Dei for a More Inclusive Anthropology. Today we are going over Chapters 4 ("The Image of God, Disabled") and 5 ("A Transcendent Community"). Due to the complexity of the topic, we will need a third episode to complete our review of the dissertation. In our next episode, we will finish going over the dissertation. As always, please rate and review the podcast on whatever platform you listen to it on. You can follow the podcast on Instagram or Threads...
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Mae's Dissertation, Part 1
Queer PoliFaith
Welcome back to Queer PoliFaith! Today, we are going to start our look into Mae's doctoral dissertation called An Accessible Image: Reconstructing the Imago Dei for a More Inclusive Anthropology. I was originally planning on taking 2 episodes to look at the dissertation, but I realized it may take 3 episodes. So be prepared for that, I'll know by the end of next episode. The dissertation takes a bit to get through because it has a lot of philosophical and theological concepts that are not always the easiest to explain, no matter how well Mae writes. But it's worth the effort to get...
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Hosanna Tabor v. EEOC
Queer PoliFaith
Welcome to season 5 of Queer PoliFaith! In today's episode, we are doing a few things. First, I talk about the first part of the season including the schedule, the theme, and other odds and ends. Then, I get to the meat of the episode. Today, we are going to talk about the Supreme Court case Hosanna Tabor v. EEOC. It's a case about churches, disability, and who is a minister. It is a difficult case because there are aspects that are understandable and aspects that are not. I delve into each area. In two weeks, we will have part one of two parts about Mae's doctoral dissertation. I talk about...
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On Bullshit
Queer PoliFaith
Welcome to the season finale of Queer PoliFaith! Today's episode is a conversation I had with Billie and Paul Hoard about bullshit. It is part 2 of our conversation about their book Eucontamination: Disgust Theology and the Christian Life from August 28th. It is a really fun conversation that is quite important. The word "bullshit" is (unsurprisingly) used quite a bit. It is being used in a academic way, but if the word offends you, you may want to just skip this conversation. I hope you listen because it is quite informative and important to what is going on around us now. We'll be back...
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Medina v. Planned Parenthood
Queer PoliFaith
Welcome to today's episode of Queer PoliFaith! In this penultimate episode of season 4, we'll be talking about the case Medina v. Planned Parenthood in which the Supreme Court decided to cut off one avenue people have of protecting their rights and allowed states to cut Planned Parenthood off from Medicaid funding. Our other case is McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates v. McKesson Corp where SCOTUS continued its assault on the administrative state by stating that, in certain circumstances, the courts do not have to follow an agency's interpretation of the law. Our next episode will be in 3 weeks...
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Kennedy v. Braidwood
Queer PoliFaith
Welcome to today's episode of Queer PoliFaith. Today we are talking about the case Kennedy v. Braidwood. We will also be looking at Gutierrez v. Saenz and Hewitt v. US. Kennedy v. Braidwood is another attack on the ACA, this time via the preventative services mandate. I don't spend as much time on the case itself as I normally do because the issues at play are ones we've seen before. Instead, I spend time analyzing the impact that getting rid of this mandate would have via my own personal experiences. Our next episode will be on November 20 and will be about the case Medina v. Planned...
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FDA v. RJ Reynolds and Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton
Queer PoliFaith
Welcome to today's episode fo Queer PoliFaith! Today, we are talking about 2 different cases: FDA v. RJ Reynolds and Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton. Both are important enough that I decided that they both deserved to be talked about. We take a brief look at Diamond Alternative Energy v. EPA. FDA v. RJ Reynolds is a case about whether or not retailers who sell tobacco products can take part in a lawsuit denying a company the ability to manufacture a product (in this case e-cigarettes). At its base, this case truly is about the conservatives on the Supreme Court taking apart the administrative...
info_outlineToday, we have Part 2 of my conversation with Billie Hoard about fascism and Christian Nationalism. We bring queerness into the conversation and talk about how queerness and fascism use each other, how fascism and fascistic ideas have roots in the early US (and even before), fascism in different countries, how the Weimar Republic was friendly to queer people, and there are pop culture references to Babylon 5 and Battlestar Galactica. It is a longer conversation (about 72 and a half minutes!) but I think it is well worth listening to, especially because we talk about the beyond scary similiarties between fascism in Nazi Germany and the MAGA movement.
After this episode, the show will go on hiatus for an undetermined period of time until I can figure out a way to make the show sustainable. I have been tossing ideas around and if anyone has ideas, please feel free to let me know.
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