If The Family Action Council’s Lips Are Moving…
The folks at the Family Action Council of Tennessee suggest that they stand like a rock on their principles. That shouldn’t be particularly hard for them...
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Jan 11, 2012 | Uncategorized | 2
The folks at the Family Action Council of Tennessee suggest that they stand like a rock on their principles. That shouldn’t be particularly hard for them...
Read MoreIn light of yesterday’s post and emails we received, the following is a July 31, 2011, sermon by Rev. Steve Montgomery of Idlewild Presbyterian Church that was particularly insightful: Levistiscus 18:19-30s; Acts 8s:26-4s0...
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Sep 26, 2011 | 69
I remember sitting as a child in my family’s Southern Baptist Church while the preacher interpreted Bible verses to justify segregation and discrimination of African-Americans and how God was fine with the way things were. I...
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Jul 1, 2011 | Uncategorized | 1
A note from Bill Day: On Saturday, June 25, 2011, I did the original ‘I love NY Gay Marriage’ art in celebration of this historic event. After sending it out to syndication, it became a huge success all over Memphis....
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Aug 25, 2010 | Planning and Urban Design | 11
These are days when optimism and hopefulness have actually been realistic attitudes for us in Memphis. Yesterday’s Memphis City Council meeting was a reality check, showing that we have a ways to go. It’s no secret that...
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Aug 10, 2010 | 4
Our rabbi, Micah Greenstein of Temple Israel, delivered this statement yesterday as one of the religious leaders speaking for the proposed anti-discrimination ordinance before Memphis City Council: As a fomer President of the...
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Jun 2, 2009 | 0
Coverage by the news media about the passage of the anti-discrimination resolution by the Shelby County Board of Commissioners suggested to some that yesterday’s vote was a Pyrrhic victory.That’s not true. The shift...
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Jun 1, 2009 | 0
Memphis has no margin for error.Because of it, decisions like the one today on a county anti-discrimination ordinance are much more than parochial controversies. To the contrary, all that we do now is amplified and magnified,...
Read Moreby Bill Day. Memphian Bill Day is two-time winner of the RFK Journalism Award in Cartooning. His cartoons are syndicated internationally by Cagle Cartoons. Cartoons Archive →
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