The anti-LGBT rhetoric from the religious right may be less strident in tone, but the implications that these are harmful and evil people are still fervently on display from the Right, says the author of a new book called “How They See Us: Unmasking The Religious Right War on Gay America.”
Host Jamila Bey spoke with Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters blogger and activist Alvin McEwen to discuss his book.
It was May 20, 1983 when Bill Cosby took to the stage to share his ideas about marriage and family, children and parenting, and one memorable poorly behaved toddler on a plane.
“Himself” spawned a hit NBC series, a spinoff, books and even a knockoff cartoon black doctor dad who just never stopped giggling.
Host Jamila Bey spoke with Heywood Turnipseed, Jr., Ralph Cooper III and Steve Hill, a trio of African American comedians who are also fathers, to discuss the legacy of this classic comedy.
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It’s been an eventful week in secularism, and the Sex Politics And Religion Hour talks with experts about what are some of the goings on in Virginia, Arizona and Pennsylvania.
In Virginia, Republican Party members nominated E.W. Jackson to run for lieutenant governor in the upcoming gubernatorial race. Jackson is a reverend and an attorney, and he’s known for opposing gay rights, marriage equality and for being quite wrong on the purpose of the 3/5th’s compromise.
Host Jamila Bey spoke with GOP strategist and political commentator Raynard Jackson (no relation) to discuss the nomination of Jackson.
Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania, a Philadelphia-area couple who lost a second child to a curable infection when they chose faith healing over medicine for the 2-year-old boy has been convicted.
Bey spoke with activist Ernest Perce to discuss the conviction and a number of religiously motivated laws which are being proposed and even implemented in the commonwealth.
Finally, in Arizona, a federal court overturned a 20-week ban on abortion procedures and a state lawmaker outed himself as an atheist by quoting Carl Sagan in lieu of offering a prayer before the legislature.
Bey spoke with Serah Blain, executive director of the Secular Coalition for Arizona, to discuss the stories.
Australian singer, songwriter Shelley Segal joins the SPAR with Jamila to talk and sing about many of the topics that have compelled her art, including religiously-imposed sex segregation, the horror of a life lived longing for an afterlife, and the unbelievable adorableness of wallabies.
Host Jamila Bey spoke with Segal to discuss all of this and more.
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Russian adoption in the U.S. is an issue that’s been fraught with controversy and lack of understanding. Filmmaker Sarah McCarthy’s documentary, “The Dark Matter of Love,” shares the story of the Diaz family who adopted five-year-old twin boys and an 11-year-old girl from Russian orphanages.
The children struggle, as does the Diaz’s only biological child, to make sense of their new circumstances, and over two years, McCarthy chronicles the family’s devotion to making a new and loving home.
Host Jamila Bey spoke with McCarthy and Claudio Diaz who believes that more families should be open to expanding their families via international adoption.
Host Jamila Bey spoke with Wells to discuss his vision for a Washington, D.C., that’s a model for the country.
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