Gods Gays Guns

Author : Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou
Publisher : Chalice Press
ISBN 13 : 9780827212855
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gods, Gays, and Guns written by Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou and published by Chalice Press. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Democracy and god have failed" captures the spirit of this provocative collection of essays. Arguing that the religion must be used for the expansion of democracy, Gods, Gays, and Guns takes up the topics of gay marriage, economic justice, and social movements. Written in Parisian cafes, London's ghettos, and the aftermath of Haiti's earthquake and post-Katrina New Orleans, Gods, Gays, and Guns is a spiritual tour-de-force, revealing a crisis of faith in religion and democracy. With an unflinching pen, Rev. Osagyefo Sekou challenges the reader to rethink the meaning of the role of religion in our global democracy.

Author : Mike Huckabee
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466866713
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy written by Mike Huckabee and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestseller from a presidential candidate for the 2016 election! In God, Guns, Grits and Gravy, Mike Huckabee asks, "Have I been taken to a different planet than the one on which I grew up?" The New York Times bestselling author explores today's fractious American culture, where divisions of class, race, politics, religion, gender, age, and other fault lines make polite conversation dicey, if not downright dangerous. As Huckabee notes, the differences of opinion between the "Bubble-villes" of the big power centers and the "Bubba-villes" where most people live are profound, provocative, and sometimes pretty funny. Where else but in Washington, D.C. could two presidential golf outings cost the American taxpayers $2.9 million in travel expenses? Government bailouts, politician pig-outs, and popular culture provocations from Jay-Z and Beyoncé to Honey Boo-Boo to the Duck Dynasty's Robertson family. Gun rights, gay marriage, the decline of patriotism, and the mainstream media's contempt for those who cherish a faith-based life. The trouble with Democrats, the even bigger trouble with Republicans, our national security complex, and how our Constitution is eroding under our noses. Reflections on our way of life as it once was, as it is, and as it might become...these subjects and many more are covered with Mike Huckabee's signature wit, insight, and honesty.

Author : Piers Morgan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476745056
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shooting Straight written by Piers Morgan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The host of CNN's "Piers Morgan Live" chronicles his career with CNN as impacted by such historical events as the defeat of Osama bin Laden and the tragic school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut.

Author : John Eidsmoe
Publisher : Vital Issues Press
ISBN 13 : 9781563840432
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gays & Guns written by John Eidsmoe and published by Vital Issues Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on his own personal and religious views, the author voices objections to certain people serving in the military--not due to their abilities or patriotism but on the sole basis of their sexual orientation.

Author : Richard Stanley
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532037716
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reagan Years: a Social History of the 1980’S written by Richard Stanley and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ronald Reagans legacy as president is nearly unparalleled in American history due to his domestic and foreign policy leadership. Reagans contrarian insistence on advocating limited government and supply-side economics drew much bipartisan criticism, causing the Great Communicator to take his argument that lowering taxes would encourage economic growth directly to the people. The result? Congress granted $750 billion in tax cuts in 1981. The Reagan Revolution had begun. By mid-1983, the nations economy was booming. On President Reagans first day in office, the Iran Hostage Crisis finally came to an end. Fifty-two American embassy personnel held hostage by a defiant Iran during the last four hundred-plus days of the Carter administration were freeda definite win for all Americans. But Reagan soon was widely criticized for insulting Russias leaders by calling the Soviet Union the evil empire. Later, Reagan was criticized at home and abroad for challenging Soviet premier Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. Reagans most criticized proposal of all, however, was his insistence on developing his Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)space weapons to defend America from incoming Soviet nuclear missiles. Domestic critics dismissed his proposal as a Star Wars fantasy (but the Soviets feared SDI). By December 1991, it was clear that Reagans Star Wars fantasy helped cause the bankruptcy and total collapse of the Soviet Union, bringing a peaceful end to the decades-long Cold War.

Author : Harry L. Wilson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742553484
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guns, Gun Control, and Elections written by Harry L. Wilson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gun-related violence remains an intractable problem despite a decline in the past decade. Some believe the solution lies in stricter gun control laws while others think these measures would be ineffective or counter-productive. Guns, Gun Control, and Elections examines current gun control policy and explains how it was adopted by discussing the roles and interactions of elected officials, interest groups, political parties, and the public. Original research on media coverage and public opinion as well as a chapter on state policy (Virginia) make the book both informative and accessible. The book focuses on the utility of gun policy, and its discussion of policy impact is grounded in real-world politics. Wilson also highlights the importance of gun control in the Presidential elections of 2000 and 2004 as well as in some U.S. Senate and statewide campaigns.

Author : Bruce Simpson
Publisher : Unequal Justice
ISBN 13 : 9781932657098
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gay Face of God written by Bruce Simpson and published by Unequal Justice. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gay community has triggered the greatest social debate in American history since the Civil Rights movement of the 1960?s. Not only has gay marriage seized the total attention of the American conservative movement, but also the medieval and border-line hysterical consciousness of the Roman Catholic Church as well as other churches worldwide. This is the story of a man born of an act of violence who grew up as a gay man to become an Archbishop in the Old Catholic Church in America. Archbishop Bruce J. Simpson?s theology and beliefs on the subject of the GLBT community and its place in the world and in particular in the Church, flies in the face of most traditions and governmental positions. These positions and beliefs have been formed out of his unique experiences growing up in the military, police departments, brief connection with the Saudi Royal family, federal Government and the Roman Catholic Church. His story both saddens one at the trials faced in his youth, to joy at his many successes as an adult gay man in America.

Author : Michael Takiff
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300168888
Total Pages : 715 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Complicated Man written by Michael Takiff and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 715 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An astonishing collection of 171 interviews with Clinton’s friends, foes, admirers, and detractors as well as reporters and political analysts.”—Booklist (starred review). Though Bill Clinton has been out of office since 2001, public fascination with him continues unabated. Many books about Clinton have been published in recent years, but shockingly, no single-volume biography covers the full scope of Clinton’s life from the cradle to the present day, not even Clinton’s own account, My Life. More troubling still, books on Clinton have tended to be highly polarized, casting the former president in an overly positive or negative light. In this, the first complete oral history of Clinton’s life, historian Michael Takiff presents the first truly balanced book on one of our nation’s most controversial and fascinating presidents. Through more than 150 chronologically arranged interviews with key figures—including Bob Dole, James Carville, and Tom Brokaw, among many others—A Complicated Man goes far beyond the well-worn party-line territory to capture the larger-than-life essence of Clinton the man. With the tremendous attention given to the Lewinsky scandal, it is easy to overlook the president’s humble upbringing, as well as his many achievements at home and abroad: the longest economic boom in American history, a balanced budget, successful intervention in the Balkans, and a series of landmark, if controversial, free-trade agreements. Through the candid recollections of Takiff’s many subjects, A Complicated Man leaves no area unexplored, revealing the most complete and unexpected portrait of our forty-second president published to date. “Packed with fascinating personal perspective and testimony.”—Nigel Hamilton, bestselling and award-winning author of American Caesars

Author : Warren J. Blumenfeld
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781433191862
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God, Guns, Capitalism, and Hypermasculinity written by Warren J. Blumenfeld and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book covers issues of firearms violence and efforts at common sense reform from multiple perspectives, including a culture and climate of firearms addressed from a historical, social, governmental, legal, and psychological perspective; political activism and organizing strategies; and options for reform.

Author : Amanda Marcotte
Publisher : Seal Press
ISBN 13 : 1580053491
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Get Opinionated written by Amanda Marcotte and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those who like their politics blunt, raw, and uncompromising comes Get Opinionated—a guide to the issues you care about: environmentalism, reproductive rights and access, taxes and public wealth, GLBTQ rights, health care, the War on Terror, the War on Drugs, and the Culture Wars. Get Opinionated will help you find your political voice and galvanize you into action—or at least help you understand which issues you care about (or which ones most piss you off)—and why.