Sadly, despite that, somewhere between 40-50% of the country will still vote for them. You can hope for closer to the 40%, but it's still going to be 40% in the EC overrepresented states.
It’s easy to get despondent, but with the number of own-goals being produced by the GOP, there may be more voter defections. Nonetheless, supporters of democracy can’t take anything for granted.
You failed the test! The movie's spelled GATTACA because the letters are pinched from the molecules that make up DNA.
In a LA Times article from 1986, SCOTUS at the time was clearly divided on abortion:
Louisiana has classified two abortion medications as controlled substances.
I certainly hope there's a blue wave this Nov.
I certainly hope there's a blue wave this Nov.
“fun” time in Texas. Texas medical board has been asked to clarify the abortion ban. The result is predictable.
So just this week, the GOP blocked a bill in the Senate that would federally guarantee the right for people to use contraceptives. I'm sure they'll chant "State's Rights" but as we saw less than a month ago, the GOP governor of Virginia vetoed a similar bill on the state level there. They are telling us their agenda.
Youngkin campaigned as a moderate—and largely won on some voters' concerns over "CRT"—through which his opponent was caught flat footed. His record in office proves he's anything but. Luckily, Virginia's governors are limited to a single term. Hopefully, Virginians will choose more wisely next time.
Cloture votes can be the gift that keeps on giving. Bring it back every time Democrats want to pound on the point.
Remember, to get control of the House Democrats need to get 55 or 56% of the popular vote due to Gerrymandering and how representation is divided between the states. A 51% Democratic vote probably, not assuredly, gets Biden back in the White House, but it probably loses the Senate and definitely loses the House.
From the "fuck the NYT" department, I call your attention to the lede in the below screenshot, underlined in red:
The problem is that the "fetal personhood" movement, by the nature of it's subject, goes far beyond the mere equation of the fetus and embryo with "human life": it privileges those unborn entities with rights superior to the mother.
Nobody serious denies that a fetus or embryo is a form of "human life". By sliding back and forth between claims about "human life" and "personhood", the evangelicals are gaslighting the public. Above, we see the NYT laying pipe and installing lanterns for that effort.
The problem is that the "fetal personhood" movement, by the nature of it's subject, goes far beyond the mere equation of the fetus and embryo with "human life": it privileges those unborn entities with rights superior to the mother.
Nobody serious denies that a fetus or embryo is a form of "human life". By sliding back and forth between claims about "human life" and "personhood", the evangelicals are gaslighting the public. Above, we see the NYT laying pipe and installing lanterns for that effort.
Anti-abortion forces now oppose IVF.
It's an entirely predictable consequence of moderates filtering out as the organization becomes more extreme and continues to decline. In my own extended family, only one of the millennial generation didn't defect to a more liberal non-denominational church, and most of them are Trump voters, so it's not like we're talking about people with a low threshold for nonsense.
I'm not sure I follow the point about the NYT though. The headline and associated blurb appear factual.
I'm not sure I follow the point about the NYT though. The headline and associated blurb appear factual.
It is possible my church will exit South Baptist in future given SB's stand on women leadership. I am not sure what my church stand on IVF.
I mean the current church I am attending may exit SB denomination, not me leaving my current church. SB actually kick out number of big churches recently.
Southern Baptists expel California megachurch for having female pastors
The Southern Baptist Convention also voted in favor of a constitutional amendment that would require that only men be employed as qualified pastors at member churches.
www.cbsnews.com
Not a congregant myself, but know many who are. There are ties that go back generations for some, and strong community bonds. For certain people, it's easy to walk—but not for others. And not talking cult-like devotion. Many friendships and relationships could be upended by leaving.
Honestly, it's why a lot of people go to church at all. Many of those people around you in the pews may very well not believe the same things you do.
The governor of Louisiana signed a law requiring the 10 Commandments be displayed in every classroom.
How much money will the state waste defending this unconstitutional law? Will the Supreme Court rule for or against it?
I'd suggest that Biden should withhold Federal education money from Louisiana but I have a tough time punishing kids over what religious assholes do.
Gift article:
How much money will the state waste defending this unconstitutional law? Will the Supreme Court rule for or against it?
I'd suggest that Biden should withhold Federal education money from Louisiana but I have a tough time punishing kids over what religious assholes do.
Gift article:
From the article
Someone has clearly never heard of Hammurabi. Who (a) actually definitely existed and (b) lived 2-400 years before Moses (supposedly) did.
(Yes, I know, tilting at windmills and all that)
Someone has clearly never heard of Hammurabi. Who (a) actually definitely existed and (b) lived 2-400 years before Moses (supposedly) did.
(Yes, I know, tilting at windmills and all that)
Why doesn’t anyone try to hang up the beatitudes? Oh right, because “blessed are the poor” and “blessed are the meek” aren’t the parts of Christianity that matter…
It’s also been argued that the Ten Commandments were heavily influenced by the Code of Hammurabi. Imagine this little historical footnote will be omitted.
Centuries older are the oldest surviving written set of laws, those of Ur-Nammu. And those are only the oldest that we've found so far.
Forgot to expand on that, was phone-posting.
The very fact that this Christo-fascist wing of the right-wing in the US is ignorant enough to put forward Moses as "the original lawgiver" while signing laws forcing their ahistorical version of history on public schools is proof enough that they desperately need education more than the kids do and should be taking lessons from the tykes, not the other way around.
The very fact that this Christo-fascist wing of the right-wing in the US is ignorant enough to put forward Moses as "the original lawgiver" while signing laws forcing their ahistorical version of history on public schools is proof enough that they desperately need education more than the kids do and should be taking lessons from the tykes, not the other way around.
It's not about historical accuracy or anything.
It's just christofascist assholes reading the SCOTUS room and betting they can get them to overturn state/religion separation in the classrooms.
Alito messaged that they should take the next step to establishing their Christian theocracy and they are following that lead.
It's just christofascist assholes reading the SCOTUS room and betting they can get them to overturn state/religion separation in the classrooms.
Alito messaged that they should take the next step to establishing their Christian theocracy and they are following that lead.
I think they are more properly recognized as a post-christian cult. It's not an errant version of something previous, it's the new and still quite malleable beliefs of something new.
Didn’t we just have the same issue couple years ago? I think some judge want to put Ten Commandments in the court house?
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I read somewhere on Bluesky that the Louisiana law was clearly unconstitutional. But it was done as a way to have it escalated easily up to the Supreme Court, to be ruled as constitutional anyway.
Bluesky
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That was my first thought. Our compromised SCOTUS certainly has a good chance of helping to usher in theocratic authoritarianism.
Wait I thought the 10 rules for me not for thee were given straight by God. Moses was just the UPS delivery guy.
Did church lie?
I am also failed on the logic used here. There were God given rules before the 10 commandments. 10 commandments is more a standardization IMHO.
It's a rabbit hole. You don't hear much about them, but the NAR types are increasingly influential and in surprising places, and it's pretty far from what most raised in more traditional Christianity would find recognizable.
Heck, there were laws in Egypt before Moses was ever born according to the story of Moses' birth.