The Rev. Madison Shockley on Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines

Racist Judge Inadvertently Makes the Case for Gay Marriage

2009-10-29T08:24:33+00:00

The marriage equality movement has been severely damaged by the argument that those opposed to same-sex marriage would be forced to perform weddings against their will.

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The Death of Death Panels

2009-08-21T23:15:52+00:00

The demise of the recent “death panels” debate was quick and painless—unlike so many of the deaths that will occur among those who will now be without the benefit of their doctor’s knowledge of the dying process.

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Obama’s Dangerous Dance With Crowley and Gates

2009-07-30T17:30:19+00:00

Let me declare my bias up front. No, I am not a friend of Henry “Skip” Gates, but I had an encounter with the Cambridge police similar to that of the good professor—36 years ago!

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To This Minister, Prop. 8 Is Repugnant

2008-11-04T07:03:00+00:00

The thousands of same-gender couples who have married in the few months since the California Supreme Court cleared the way are in fact married. The notion that a majority vote by people who are not party to these marriages of love, commitment, care and family will have the power to impose a divorce on these couples is flatly repugnant.

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Rev. Wright on the Battlefield

2008-03-18T11:46:01+00:00

Missing from the media hullabaloo surrounding the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright Jr.‘s now-infamous sermon (a particular sample of which is still playing in heavy rotation on countless broadcast stations) were some key contextual details about Wright’s church, black Christianity and Barack Obama’s personal history.

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One Giant Leap for America

2008-01-15T02:05:01+00:00

Barack Obama represents not just a bridge between America’s various cultural, racial and spiritual communities. According to Madison Shockley, the eminently qualified Sen. Obama holds out the promise of a much-needed healing for America by “just standing there allowing us to say ‘Yes’ to him.”

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Romney’s Religious Dodge

2007-12-14T05:15:00+00:00

In the first of a new Truthdig series on religion and politics, the Rev. Madison Shockley analyzes Mitt Romney’s recent landmark speech and finds that America’s most famous Mormon is trying to have it both ways.

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Barack’s Racial Balancing Act

2007-01-23T05:11:00+00:00

Sen. Obama’s multiracial heritage could help mend the great fissure in American society.

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Rev. Madison Shockley: Christian Coalition in the Fray

2006-05-02T17:03:00+00:00

The religious advocacy group is inserting itself into the fight over the San Diego congressional seat of disgraced ex-Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham.

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You Mean Jesus Didn’t Have a Bodily Resurrection?

2006-04-13T18:10:00+00:00

Interested in a real Paschal Mystery this Easter? How ‘bout this? Why does the Catholic Church insist that Jesus had a bodily resurrection, when Paul clearly says in Corinthians 15:44: “It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body.

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