The New Southern Baptist President Wants to End Abuse in the Church While Sticking to Tradition
Mother Jones illustration; dwleindecker/Getty Images; Sean_Warren/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Southern Baptist Convention elected a new leader Tuesday in Dallas amid an unprecedented conversation about gender. J.D. Greear, the pastor at The Summit, a North Carolina-based Baptist megachurch, won 69 percent of the vote at the Baptists’ annual conference.…
School Officials Tried to Stop Her From Talking About Sexual Assault. She Wouldn’t be Silenced.
Lulabel Seitz after her microphone was shut off.Erik Castro/The Press Democrat/AP No, Lulabel Seitz would not shut up. The first in her family to graduate high school, the Petaluma, Calif., senior wouldn’t let school administrators stop her from publicly talking about sexual assault at school. “Let her speak!” her classmates shouted when her mic was cut,…
With “Rape Jokes,” Cameron Esposito Turns the Lowest Form of Comedy Into Something Groundbreaking
Graham Fielder Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Cameron Esposito has never been shy about getting personal on stage. “Chunks of my body are being smashed out of my body by my body!” she declared in a memorable joke about menstruation a few years ago. But until now, the stand-up comic…
This South Carolina Primary Will Test Whether Democrats Are Willing to Overlook Domestic Violence
Mother Jones illustration; Facebook Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For the past year, Archie Parnell, a former Goldman Sachs managing director and former tax attorney for ExxonMobil, has been among the candidates the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee viewed as contenders to fulfill their dreams of a Blue Wave in the 2018…
California Judge Will Lose His Job Over 6-Month Sentence in Stanford Sexual Assault Case
Jeff Chiu/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Two years since former Stanford student Brock Turner was sentenced to just six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, voters in Santa Clara County, California, voted to recall the judge who sentenced him. Judge Aaron Persky of the Santa Clara County Superior Court will promptly…
California Bans State-Funded Travel to Oklahoma in Response to LGBT Adoption Law
lazyllama/Shutterstock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced on Friday that California will ban state-funded travel to Oklahoma because of a new law that allows private agencies to refuse to place children with same-sex couples. Starting June 22, Oklahoma will become the ninth state where California…