dawnnikol
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'A life without books is a life not lived.' Jay Kristoff
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Sept 21, 2015 18:39:25 GMT
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Post by dawnnikol on Aug 22, 2023 15:08:07 GMT
Meanwhile in Florida, this letter is just peachy:
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Post by epeanymous on Aug 22, 2023 17:07:05 GMT
It is just absolutely amazing to me that it is 2023 and we are still doing this.
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dawnnikol
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'A life without books is a life not lived.' Jay Kristoff
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Sept 21, 2015 18:39:25 GMT
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Post by dawnnikol on Sept 23, 2023 16:43:20 GMT
Openly gay country singer pulls out of show after phone call from organizers."Mac, who is gay, was set to headline the Logan County Tobacco and Heritage Festival Grand Finale concert on October 14 in Kentucky. However, he pulled out of the show after receiving a call from one of its organizers. "This is not the video that I thought I would be making today, but here we are," Mac began in the clip posted to his social media. Mac added that the person told him some of the concert's board members and "some people in town who had questions about what kind of performance I would be putting on." "[They] wanted to ensure that I would not be promoting homosexuality or sexuality in a family-friendly environment – I don't really know what they expected I was gonna do other than just come and put on a hell of a show like we do," Mac said. Newsweek contacted the Logan County Tobacco and Heritage Festival by email for comment. Mac said the person on the phone said people were very upset that a gay person was headlining the festival and threatened to protest at the show. Mac described the threats as disheartening and, even though he didn't want to disappoint "the people who need to see me most there in that space" nor "cave and let those [critics] win", he canceled his appearance at the festival."
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dawnnikol
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'A life without books is a life not lived.' Jay Kristoff
Posts: 9,460
Sept 21, 2015 18:39:25 GMT
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Post by dawnnikol on Oct 19, 2023 12:06:16 GMT
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dawnnikol
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'A life without books is a life not lived.' Jay Kristoff
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Sept 21, 2015 18:39:25 GMT
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Post by dawnnikol on Nov 12, 2023 13:21:32 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Nov 12, 2023 18:09:08 GMT
There is a program on MSNBC tonight at 10:00pm ET about a Marine who served long before 'don't ask don't tell...'
'The Turning Point: Serving in Secret'
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 23, 2024 16:57:07 GMT
Republicans are definitely trying to undo marriage equality. Republicans like the ones in Tennessee and Alito are prioritizing religious beliefs over civil rights. And they're willing to take away civil rights. I like Fetterman's response. www.nytimes.com/2024/02/20/us/alito-supreme-court-same-sex-marriage.htmlJustice Alito Renews Criticism of Landmark Ruling on Same-Sex Marriage
In a statement, the justice raised concerns that those with “traditional religious views” would be “‘labeled as bigots and treated as such’ by the government.”
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. on Tuesday renewed his criticisms of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision recognizing the right to same-sex marriage, saying that people who oppose homosexuality risk being unfairly “labeled as bigots and treated as such.”
The justice included his warning in a five-page statement explaining why the court had rejected a request to hear a Missouri case about people removed from a jury after voicing religious objections to gay relationships. The case, Justice Alito wrote, “exemplifies the danger” from the court’s 2015 decision, Obergefell v. Hodges.
The ruling, he added, shows how “Americans who do not hide their adherence to traditional religious beliefs about homosexual conduct will be ‘labeled as bigots and treated as such’ by the government.”
The statement appeared to offer a glimpse into Justice Alito’s continued discontent with Obergefell v. Hodges, in which the court, by a 5-to-4 vote, guaranteed a right to same-sex marriage, a long-sought victory in the gay rights movement.
In the years since, Justice Alito and Justice Clarence Thomas, who both dissented from the 2015 decision, have appeared to urge the court to reconsider the ruling. The court, they have contended, invented a right not based in the text of the Constitution; they said it had cast “people of good will as bigots.”thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/4482053-tennessee-governor-signs-bill-allows-public-officials-refuse-perform-same-sex-marriages/Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) signed a bill Wednesday allowing public officials to refuse to perform same-sex marriages.
State lawmakers approved Tennessee House Bill 878 last week. The legislation states people “shall not be required to solemnize a marriage” if they refuse to doing so based on their “conscience or religious beliefs.” According to the Tennessee Legislature website, the governor signed the bill Wednesday. |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 23, 2024 17:04:38 GMT
The Alabama ruling is also a move against LGBTQ+ being able to make families!!
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Understand I do not believe this, but if they are going after same sex marriages why not inter racial marriages..
Oh, I know... Clarence and Ginni are the exception....
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 23, 2024 17:26:47 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 23, 2024 21:26:17 GMT
TFG demands that Alabama fixes the Alabama Supreme Court ruling...
More in a bit..
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dawnnikol
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'A life without books is a life not lived.' Jay Kristoff
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Post by dawnnikol on Feb 24, 2024 10:51:00 GMT
Meanwhile in Oklahoma, a State Senator had this to say in response to questions regarding the murder of a 16 year old in the bathroom:
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 24, 2024 12:42:00 GMT
What an awful piece of dung ^^^^. !!!
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Post by mollycoddle on Feb 24, 2024 13:02:07 GMT
I have often said check out those churches, pastors and priests for who is really grooming and assaulting kids. It IS curious that so many sexual predators seem to be affiliated with religion. 🤔🤨 |
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Post by Merge on Feb 24, 2024 13:21:34 GMT
I have often said check out those churches, pastors and priests for who is really grooming and assaulting kids. It IS curious that so many sexual predators seem to be affiliated with religion. 🤔🤨 Toxic patriarchy. |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 25, 2024 0:45:45 GMT
Spot on.
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Post by Scrapper100 on Feb 25, 2024 3:02:57 GMT
Meanwhile in Oklahoma, a State Senator had this to say in response to questions regarding the murder of a 16 year old in the bathroom: So in another words he doesn’t see anything wrong with it snd this will just spur more violence  |
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 26, 2024 16:20:54 GMT
A lesson for Republicans that will regrettably, fall on deaf ears www.nytimes.com/2024/02/26/opinion/nex-benedict-nonbinary-death.htmlOf all the wrenching details that have emerged in news coverage of Nex Benedict’s death, the one that broke my heart in two was a comment by the woman who raised them. “Nex did not see themselves as male or female,” Sue Benedict told Bevan Hurley of The Independent. “Nex saw themselves right down the middle. I was still learning about it, Nex was teaching me that.”
This grandmother in Oklahoma wasn’t condemning a child she didn’t understand. She was listening. She was learning. She was trying to understand. Don’t we all owe it to our children to listen? Don’t we owe it to all the young people in our care — in our families and in our communities — to try to understand the world as they are experiencing it?
But Republican leaders are working overtime to roll back hard-won L.G.B.T.Q. rights, and the only way they can do that is by interrupting any impulse toward empathy and compassion in their constituents. By interrupting any impulse simply to live and let live.
They don’t want to understand, and they don’t want other people trying to understand, either. They don’t want students reading books that acknowledge the full humanity of their queer friends. They don’t want them reading books that answer questions about what it means to be gay or bi or trans or nonbinary or simply questioning. They don’t want people to understand the danger they have put L.G.B.T.Q. people in. Republican politicians don’t want to understand any of this. They have decided it’s evil.
I once witnessed a woman shut down a round of judgmental gossip about a political figure who’d been caught in an extramarital affair. “That’s not our job,” she said mildly when someone asked her opinion of the scandal. Pressed to explain, she quoted the Gospel of Matthew: “Judge not, that ye be not judged.”
She was saying that it’s God’s job to judge right from wrong. It wasn’t her job. As long as they aren’t hurting anybody else, people could go about living their own lives as they see fit. If God had an issue with it, they’d find out in due time.
It’s hard not to wonder what kind of culture we’d have right now if every politician who claims to be promoting “Christian values” took Christ’s words in the Gospel of Matthew as actual gospel. If every grandmother in every red state would take the time to listen to children who are trying to explain — or just to understand — their own identity. |
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