BDS/Chrisitan Sharia news

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Scott Pruitt’s faith guided his time in office and shielded him

He argued that God gave mankind “dominion” over the environment.

taken against Pruitt’s wider willingness to allow very particular evangelical strains of theology to define his approach to the environment,

as well as an administration where the performance of Christian nationalism is all but mandatory,

his words take on a more troubling character.

The assertion that God made Donald Trump president, :lol

and that Trump is thus directly favored by God, :lol

is well-established in the Trump administration. :lol

Major figures in Trump’s unofficial evangelical advisory cabinet, such as

pastors Robert Jeffress and Paula White (https://www.google.com/search?q=paula+white+trump+chosen+god&oq=paula+white+trump+chosen+god&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i59l5.3908j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8),

have frequently, publicly leaned into this idea. Jeffress has frequently thrown pro-Trump rallies as part of his megachurch services, including making “Make America Great Again” into a hymn (https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/7/4/15913590/muscular-christianity-make-america-great-again-trump-hymn).

Other figures in Trump’s orbit have likewise leaned into the notion that

he’s a modern-day King Cyrus (https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/3/5/16796892/trump-cyrus-christian-right-bible-cbn-evangelical-propaganda) (the Persian king chosen by God to deliver the Jewish people from exile in Babylon).

The idea that the

Trump presidency is rendered legitimate by God’s providence is a sustained part of Trump’s wider political strategy.

Pruitt has long allowed particular strains of evangelical theology to define his approach to his office.

He launched his early career (https://www.npr.org/2018/05/01/607181437/on-fire-for-gods-work-how-scott-pruitts-faith-drives-his-politics) as a lawyer arguing religious freedom cases.

Faith-based issues —

including federal funding of faith-based programs and legislation of abortion restrictions —

defined his time in the Oklahoma State Senate.

As chief of the EPA, however, Pruitt embraced a particular school of evangelical thought that sees

human beings as having the God-given, inalienable right to do whatever they want to the planet.

The way he was able to

cast deregulation as, in part, an evangelical faith issue,

allowed him to successfully maintain a solid base of evangelical support for mass rollbacks in environmental protections.

Pruitt has frequently invoked a Bible verse often used by proponents of this school of thought to legitimize loosening environmental restrictions:

Genesis 1:28, in which God tells his new human creations,

“Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and

have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth”

Pruitt told (http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2018/february/unraveling-the-weaponization-of-the-epa-is-top-priority-for-scott-pruitt) the Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody, “The biblical world view with respect to these issues is that we have a responsibility to manage and cultivate,

harvest the natural resources that we’ve been blessed with to truly bless our fellow mankind.

Pruitt’s evangelical credentials have made him highly useful to Trump, and Pruitt, Kaufman says,

“has played an outsize role in courting leaders on the evangelical right.”

Pruitt’s evangelical bona fides and ability to engage with the

evangelical leaders who are, increasingly, shoring up Trump’s base may have better allowed him to weather some of his early scandals and last as long as he has.

https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/7/6/17540474/scott-pruitts-faith-epa-resignation-evangelicalism (https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/7/6/17540474/scott-pruitts-faith-epa-resignation-evangelicalism)

How many evangelicals will sicken and/or die from their boy Pruitt's fucking up the environment?

Pruitt was only interested in "harvesting the natural CARBON resources",

and not any of the natural wind or sun resources.

Evangelical cult is a pretty sick bunch of Bible humpers.

[Blake]

Draining the swamp

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Anti-LGBTQ hate group asks the Supreme Court to formally foreclose protections for LGBTQ workers (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/25/1783381/-Anti-LGBT-hate-group-asks-the-Supreme-Court-to-formally-foreclose-protections-for-LGBT-workers)

the Sixth Circuit’s decision in favor of a transgender plaintiff (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/3/7/1747271/-Double-legal-victories-for-the-LGBT-community-create-momentum-for-workplace-protections) discriminated against by the funeral home she worked for,

siding with the Obama-era Equal Employment Opportunity Commission—a proponent of protections for LGBTQ workers.

“Discrimination on the basis of transgender and transitioning status is necessarily discrimination on the basis of sex,” wrote the Sixth Circuit panel.

That ruling was all the more remarkable because that

appeals court is usually fairly conservative; it’s the court that hears appeals from Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee.

Now in July it’s time to review the very predictable petition for certiorari—a.k.a. plea for the Supreme Court to hear an appeal—filed by the

Alliance Defending Freedom, (https://psmag.com/social-justice/how-the-right-has-inverted-religious-liberty) an anti-LGBTQ hate group

focused on eroding LGBTQ rights in law and promoting a perverted concept of “religious liberty,”

The case is EEOC v. Harris Funeral Homes, and ADF is

urging SCOTUS to overrule the six federal appellate courts (https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/07/23/you-dont-want-second-best/anti-lgbt-discrimination-us-health-care) that have held that

the “sex” of “sex discrimination” in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, meant to ban workplace discrimination,

also protects employees from being discriminated against on the basis of gender identity.

Another two appeals courts have ruled that sex discrimination also covers sexual orientation, by the way.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/25/1783381/-Anti-LGBT-hate-group-asks-the-Supreme-Court-to-formally-foreclose-protections-for-LGBT-workers?detail=emailLL

[Spurtacular]

Draining the swamp

:lmao Triggered cuck.

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Jeff Sessions vows to protect people of faith with new (http://theweek.com/speedreads/787667/jeff-sessions-vows-protect-people-faith-new-religious-liberty-task-force)'religious liberty task force' (http://theweek.com/speedreads/787667/jeff-sessions-vows-protect-people-faith-new-religious-liberty-task-force)

the force will be tasked with implementing the "religious liberty guidance (https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1001891/download)" that the Trump administration issued last year, which underlined the Constitution's protection of religious freedom.

Sessions told the audience at the DOJ's Religious Liberty Summit that the

U.S. has become less welcoming to people of faith.

(make that CHRISTIAN faith only :lol)

Sessions argued that

"a dangerous movement, undetected by many, :lol

is now challenging and eroding our great tradition of religious freedom."

http://theweek.com/speedreads/787667/jeff-sessions-vows-protect-people-faith-new-religious-liberty-task-force

============

this must be an example of what racist JeBo is talking about

FFRF, parents, score appeals court victory against praying Calif. school board

https://ffrf.org/news/news-releases/item/32689-chino

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This another rightwing mentally ill motherfucking grifting so-called asshole

Jim Bakker: ‘They’re Going To Begin To Kill The Christian Leaders In This Country’

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/jim-bakker-theyre-going-to-begin-to-kill-the-christian-leaders-in-this-country/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=rww&utm_campaign=bestof

==============================

Televangelist Jim Bakker Forgives Everyone For Being Mad He Stole Money From Them

http://www.landoverbaptist.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/1410800184404_wps_45_U_S_marshals_escort_forme-620x264.jpg


Jim Bakker models True Christian™ mercy by forgiving those who got upset and had him thrown in prison.

Bakker forgives the 116,000 “Praise The Lord” cable show followers he defrauded out of $158 million,

those who charged him with the eight counts of mail fraud,

15 counts of wire fraud and

one count of conspiracy, and

the judge who sentenced him to 45 years in prison.

Miraculously, he was offered a new sentence hearing three years later, and

it was determined by Judge Potter, himself a Christian, that Christians are unfairly persecuted, :lol

lampooned as “saps from money-grubbing preachers or priests,”

and so his sentence was reduced to eight years.

He was released after five.

Still,

he lost his reputation,

his tv show, his mistress, and

some $500,000.

He now sells buckets of freeze-dried food

to help people feel less afraid in face of the impending doom he is convincing people to expect.

http://www.landoverbaptist.net/index.php/2016/07/11/televangelist-jim-bakker-forgives-everyone-for-being-mad-he-stole-money-from-them/

[Blake]

https://www.jimbakkershow.com

[koriwhat]

:lmao Triggered cuck.

indeed :tu :lol

[Blake]

Triggered druggy ^

[koriwhat]

Triggered druggy ^

https://wnxvq1xxnyh3nwmdu3caf4yg-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/couch-with-pee-before.jpg

upgrade that old couch of yours already cuck. not a good look when your boyfriend comes over and has to see your tear soaked cushions from that time you pretended to be straight but were still too much of a pussy to be a man and handle your shit correct!

[Blake]

Triggered druggy ^

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Trump’s Labor Department Is Expanding Its Imposition of Religious Fundamentalism

The new appointee to the Department of Labor's Wages and Hours Division potentially has influence over its policies regarding family and maternity leave for private employers and government contractors.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) moved

to further cement the imposition of fundamentalist Christian religious beliefs on economic and employment policies

last week through a new directive and an appointment to the federal agency.

So-called religious freedom and natural law advocate (https://jameswilsoninstitute.org/about/2016-fellowship) Steven Begakis

was on Monday appointed (https://www.bna.com/religious-freedom-advocate-n73014481666/) policy adviser to the agency’sWages and Hours Division (WHD), which oversees enforcement of rules regarding family leave, wage theft, and employment discrimination.

The news came just after

DOL’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) on Friday announced (https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/ofccp/ofccp20180810) a directive instructing its staff to “in all their activities … take into account recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions and White House executive orders that protect religious freedom,”

The DOL directive (https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/directives/Dir2018-03-ESQA508c.pdf) imposing religious beliefs sets out new guidelines

for the OFCCP to follow “in anticipation of an addition to the Department’s regulatory agenda followed by rule-making informed by public comment.”

it does task OFCCP auditors with granting companies—including those with no formal religious affiliation—a religious exemption from LGBT discrimination charges, if certain requirements are met.”

“This is an attempt to encourage businesses to take taxpayer dollars and then fire people for being transgender,”

“Religious organizations have ample protections under federal law, but they are not allowed to use federal money to discriminate against people.

The language of this directive is so broad and so vague because it is

part of a long line of attempts by this administration to sow confusion and encourage any employer to act on their worst prejudices.

No employer should be allowed to use taxpayer dollars to fire someone because of who they are.”

https://rewire.news/article/2018/08/15/trumps-labor-department-is-expanding-its-imposition-of-religious-fundamentalism/

"religious freedom" is actually Christian Sharia extremism to persecute people for "un Biblical" behaviour.

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The Health Department’s Christian Crusade

The religious right has infiltrated the office of Health and Human Services, and reproductive rights are the first target

the risks any patient would face if she didn’t take the rest of her pills: deadly infection; serious, prolonged bleeding; and the possibility of birth defects if the pregnancy progressed.

Meyerstein was a civil servant who had worked for ORR’s unaccompanied-minor program since the Obama administration,

but depositions and internal documents show

he was acting on orders from a tight group of pro-life crusaders recently installed in the top ranks of ORR’s parent agency,

the Department of Health and Human Services:

Maggie Wynne, counselor to the secretary of HHS;

Matt Bowman, a lawyer in their Office of the General Counsel; and

Scott Lloyd, the man recently tapped to helm ORR.Staff members at her shelter had been told to withhold her second set of pills, but no one mentioned that

her pregnancy — and, with it, the contours of the rest of her life — was being debated by a handful of bureaucrats based in a beige, Brutalist office building 1,600 miles away.

During the Obama administration, no area of the federal government was more reviled by the religious right than HHS. Viewed by religious Republicans as the primary staging ground for the administration’s assaults on “faith” and “freedom,”

It was a coup, then, when Trump installed pious orthopedic surgeon Tom Price as secretary, who, with the help of the office of Vice President Mike Pence, began

stocking the department with an army of culture-war veterans plucked from the country’s most radical religious organizations

— the archconservative Family Research Council,

the anti-abortion Susan B. Anthony List,

Americans United for Life, and

the National Abstinence Education Association among them.

By the time Price was forced to step down over a spending scandal last September,

HHS had already been transformed into what the Family Research Council called “a virtual promise-keeping factory” for Christian conservatives.

The “team” has found ways to codify its agenda in corners as disparate as the annual budget for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,

where the words “fetus” and “transgender” were banned,

to the Administration for Community Living, which

eliminated questions about sexual orientation from a survey of seniors and people living with disabilities.

Royce herself was particularly proud of wedging into

HHS’ strategic plan a sentence that redefines life as starting at the moment of conception.

Many of the changes are small enough to go unnoticed in a ream of government paperwork but are nevertheless far-reaching:

Strike a few words from a single grant, for instance, and

suddenly government-funded shelters are no longer required to provide information about emergency contraception or abortion to victims of sexual assault and sex trafficking.

Or tinker with eligibility requirements for Title X — a program that provides family-planning services to 4 million Americans — and

not just access to abortion, but birth control and routine medical care for low-income women across the country is suddenly in jeopardy.

HHS touted more boldly, in January, the

creation of a new Conscience and Religious Freedom Division inside its Office of Civil Rights to defend doctors who refuse to serve gay and transgender individuals.

“It’s perverse —

it takes a department that was supposed to protect against discrimination and turns it on its head,”

HHS is taking steps

to officially declare gender as unchangeable, and determined by one’s genitals at birth.
We weren’t expecting religion seeping into the Office of Refugee Resettlement.”

It’s not unusual for girls to arrive at an ORR shelter already pregnant, many as a result of their journey. According to a 2010 Amnesty International estimate,

six in 10 female migrants are sexually assaulted at some point during their crossing.

legalized abortion was by some measures worse than the Holocaust:

“The Jews who died in the Holocaust had a chance to laugh, play, sing, dance, learn and love each other,” Lloyd wrote.

“The victims of abortion do not.”
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/health-and-human-services-abortion-policies-738904/

Trash's bullshit and crimes are only a tiny tip of the huge damage dong by oligarchy's Repug whores and Christian Taliban

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Montana Public Schools Block Pro-LGBTQ Websites (https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/01/18/montana-public-schools-block-pro-lgbtq-websites/)

Public high school students in Billings, Montana tell CounterPunch that as of Monday, January 14,

they have been denied access to numerous sites,

including those associated with pro-LGBTQ

issues, as part of a new web filtering program initiated by the school administration.

Anti-gay sites, however, appear to be accessible.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/01/18/montana-public-schools-block-pro-lgbtq-websites/

So no support for the Broke Back Mountain cowboys? :)

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Mike Pence‏Verified account @mike_pence (https://twitter.com/mike_pence)




@mike_pence












We’ll let the critics roll off our back.

But the criticism of Christian education in America must stop.

7:00 PM - 17 Jan 2019

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But criticism of Jewish and Muslim education is approved?

May this Christian asshole from shithole racist KKK Indiana NEVER succeed Trash, nor run for national office.

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WATCH: Texas pastor urges followers to stone a ‘rebellious’ student to death as example to other troublemakers


https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/shelley.jpg

Pastor Jonathan Shelley of Pure Words Baptist Church in Houston,

rails against teens who refuse to listen before turning to the Bible for advice on how to bring about order.

You’ve got to squash out the rebellion in your child.”

“Take the rebellious one out and stone him.

I bet they’d shape up pretty quick. I bet they’d figure out, ‘Maybe I should hearken :lol under the authorities in my life.’

we see, unfortunately, our society is continually destroying itself,

because [all of these] rebellious, arrogant, prideful teenage jerks

that just don’t want to hearken :lol to their parents, you know, and

God said they should be put to death.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/watch-texas-pastor-urges-followers-stone-rebellious-student-death-example-troublemakers/

And who's gonna argue with God?

Incitement to murder is a crime under Caesar, if not God.

Will TX LE go after this Biblical asshole so that he "hearkens" under criminal law?

[Blake]

Spare the rock spoil the child

[Spurtacular]

Spare the rock spoil the child

Spare the rock, spoil the adulteress. Amirite?

[Blake]

Spare the rock, spoil the adulteress. Amirite?

Are you?

[Spurtacular]

Are you?

:lol Joke went over your head.

[Blake]

:lol Joke went over your head.

You're implying that a husband should beat his cheating wife.

Derp Chapelle bringing the house down with that one

[Spurtacular]

You're implying that a husband should beat his cheating wife.

Derp Chapelle bringing the house down with that one

:lol Cuck doesn't even understand Sharia Law

[Blake]

You're retarded.

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Texas Woman Opposes Divorce Citing ‘Blood Covenant’; Will Anti-Sharia Law Get in the Way?

The conflict between Shawn’s request for state enforcement of her Christian understanding of marriage and anti-sharia legislation raises

larger questions about whose religious beliefs are, or should be, respected under the law.

In an unusual petition to the U.S. Supreme Court this month, Shawn Lecuona argues that her fundamental liberty interests,

including her right to marry and to “worship God according to the dictates of her own conscience,”

prevent the state of Texas from applying its no-fault divorce law to her marriage.

In other words, she’s claiming that

her right to religious liberty should prevent the government from granting her husband a divorce.

https://rewire.news/religion-dispatches/2019/01/31/texas-woman-opposes-divorce-citing-blood-covenant-will-anti-sharia-law-get-in-the-way/

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Leaked Air Force Legal Opinion Approves Religious Expression

According to a retired attorney for the DOD,

"When you proselytize as a commander...you necessarily send doubts to the subordinates that you oversee about your impartiality and

thus degrade good order and discipline, and

in turn degrade combat capability."

In apparent defiance of its own regulations and the First Amendment,

the judge advocate general (JAG) of the Air Force has issued an opinion

approving religious expression during an official change of command ceremony.

The opinion, which was leaked to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (https://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/) (and a copy of which was shared with this reporter),

allows even more expansive expression during a purportedly “private” promotion ceremony, conducted after a mere ten-minute break.

Going beyond lax enforcement (https://www.salon.com/2018/08/19/exclusive-is-a-senior-air-force-general-using-his-power-to-spread-far-right-christian-nationalism/) of recent (https://www.playboy.com/read/is-christian-nationalism-invading-our-country-s-military-1) cases (https://crooksandliars.com/2018/12/weaponized-christmas-threatens-military), MRFF President Mikey Weinstein called it

“a direct and defiant nuclear attack against the First Amendment’s separation of church and state.”

https://rewire.news/religion-dispatches/2019/02/21/leaked-air-force-legal-opinion-approves-religious-expression/

Not the first the Air Force (academy) has been found weaponizing Christianity in the ranks.

But AF academy has big problem with those good Christian flyboys assaulting the flygirls.

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Trump’s attorney general wants god’s moral order enforced by government (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/2/25/1837456/-Trump-s-attorney-general-wants-god-s-moral-order-enforced-by-government)


https://images.dailykos.com/images/647959/story_image/6FE921CA-2B4B-4503-B5B9-213B48FA3D5D.png?1551067415

the American people are ignoring an even greater threat to their waning secular democracy – rule by tyrannical theocrats.

The rise of theocrats in powerful positions of authority is particularly disconcerting because not only was America created as a secular nation with a secular Constitution,

but because the theocrats running the federal government represent a very small minority of the population.

And now Trump has given that vicious minority what they elected him to do in the first place;

another radical Christian extremist, William Barr, in a powerful federal government position.

Trump’s latest theocratic cabinet member – a conservative Catholic malcontent who is unlikely to ever defend the U.S. Constitution because it is a secular document.

ardently believes that America’s government is duty-bound to enforce god’s laws because there is no place for secularism.

In a 1995 essay, Barr expressed (https://scholarship.law.stjohns.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2355&context=tcl) the extremist Christian view that “American government should not be secular;”

secularism is an abomination in Barr’s theocratic mind despite the law of the land is unmistakably secular.

Furthermore, Barr contends

America’s government is supposed to be imposing “a transcendent moral order with objective standards of right and wrong that flows from God’s eternal law;”

eternal law best dictated by the Vatican and taught in public schools at taxpayer’s expense.

the real danger to the nation is Barr’s belief that

the government’s primary function should be defending and enforcing his god’s moral edicts

while ardently opposing any legislative branch effort to make secular laws according to the secular Constitution.

in addition to the racism and misogyny one expects from a radical conservative Christian,

“Barr is also a bigot when it comes to non-religious people and others who respect the separation of church and state.”

Barr epitomizes the typical extremist religious fanatic by

blaming everything from crime to divorce to sexually transmitted diseases on what he alleges is

“the federal government’s non-stop attacks on traditional religious values.”

Barr has made no secret that he considers the secular government “militant” and “bigoted” for not promoting “god’s eternal laws” of right and wrong.

long after Trump and Barr are out of power,

the theocratic authorities will continue unimpeded because

Trump has dutifully created a hard-line conservative judiciary specifically

to ensure that America as a secular nation is, for all intents and purposes,

coming to an end after resisting theocracy for over two centuries.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/2/25/1837456/-Trump-s-attorney-general-wants-god-s-moral-order-enforced-by-government

Yet another FUCKING CATHOLIC

I read that while evangelicals are predominantly Protestant, the brains, thinkers of the movement are Catholic.

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dominionists, Christian theocratic supremacists, silly Bible humpers


State Department holds secret briefing for faith-based media, won't reveal who participated (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/3/19/1843318/-State-Department-holds-secret-briefing-for-faith-based-media-won-t-reveal-who-participated)

The Trump administration’s war on the free press ratcheted up yet again on Monday, when Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held a press briefing call to discuss “international religious freedom”

the call was restricted to “faith-based media,” (https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/18/politics/state-department-faith-outlets-briefing/index.html) with non-faith-based reporters excluded, and now the State Department is refusing to release a transcript or even a list of which faith-based media organizations were included.

“It is typical practice that any on the record interview in which a Cabinet official participates is transcribed and published at the earliest appropriate opportunity,” according to a former State Department spokesman who is now a CNN analyst.

“These officials are public servants. What they say—in its entirety—is inherently of public interest.

It's inappropriate and irresponsible not to observe that obligation.”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/3/19/1843318/-State-Department-holds-secret-briefing-for-faith-based-media-won-t-reveal-who-participated??detail=emaildkre

My guess is that Jews, Muslims, and maybe Catholics not circle-jerking with greasebag Pompeo

executive summary:

We all goin' up to heaven when Jesus comes back the Holy Land,

but first all Jews must return to Israel, else they burn in Hell forever.

Also, USA gonna kill Muslims,

unless the Muslims have oil,

but Muslim Iran with oil will be bombed and invaded,

because that's what Israel, Saudi Arabia, and BigOil want.

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Billionaires relentlessly destroying public schools in favor of indoctrinating shit hole schools, and kill teachers (Dem) unions, too.

Betsy DeVos promotes plan to hand over billions in federal tax credits for private, religious, and home schooling

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos (https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=DeVos) has been touring the country to promote her plan to hand over billion of dollars

in federal tax credits to dramatically expand the number of students attending private schools, religious schools, or even being homeschool.

The program, part of a bill in Congress, would be funded through private donations in exchange for tax credits.

In other words, tax dollars would effectively be paying for the program, as those dollars will have to be made up by taxpayers.

Secretary DeVos’ “Education Freedom Scholarships” program would continue the

Trump administration’s blurring of the lines between church and state.

Just last week Sec. DeVos announced the

Dept. of Education will no longer ban religious organizations from being funded with taxpayer dollars (https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2019/03/devos-stops-enforcing-rule-upholding-church-and-state-separation-opens-door-to-taxpayers-funding-religious-orgs/) for secular projects.

The Dept. of Education claims up to $5 billion annually (https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/trump-administration-unveils-plan-historic-investment-americas-students-through-education-freedom-scholarships) could be allocated, but

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), who spoke at an event with DeVos to roll out his bill to support the program (video below), said it would be $10 billion.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/betsy-devos-promotes-plan-hand-billions-federal-tax-credits-private-religious-home-schooling/

The Repug/Christian theocrats continue the crapification of America.

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Pompeo suggests Trump was put on Earth to save the Jews: ‘As a Christian, I believe it’s possible’

“I am confident that the Lord is at work here,”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/pompeo-suggests-trump-put-earth-save-jews-christian-believe-possible/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

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Republican state rep ruins swearing-in of PA's first Muslim-American woman legislator (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/3/25/1845116/-Freshman-PA-GOP-state-rep-ruins-swearing-in-of-state-s-first-Muslim-American-woman-legislator)

https://images.dailykos.com/images/657800/story_image/movita2.JPG?1553548476


The GOP-controlled chamber chose freshman state Rep. Stephanie Borowicz (R) to deliver the opening legislative prayer, prior to the swearing in,

that’s

13 mentions of Jesus plus

a heck of a lot of Trump/Israel boosting (https://twitter.com/RCPress_Sean/status/1110248062713319427)

in a very short period of time, concluding with Speaker Mike Turzai (R) nudging her to wrap it up already.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/3/25/1845116/-Freshman-PA-GOP-state-rep-ruins-swearing-in-of-state-s-first-Muslim-American-woman-legislator?detail=emaildkre

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so-called Christian slimebag under attack by the devil

Joel Osteen’s protégé says the devil is trying to ‘mute’ him after his mistress releases suggestive voicemails

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/joel-osteens-protege-says-devil-trying-mute-mistress-releases-suggestive-voicemails/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29 (https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/joel-osteens-protege-says-devil-trying-mute-mistress-releases-suggestive-voicemails/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29)

[boutons_deux]

Republicans in Missouri vote to teach Bible in public school

Lawmakers passed a law 95-52 Monday, explicitly stating students can study Biblical text as part of their social studies.

As the AP notes, passing new legislation specifically aimed at the Bible may have been unnecessary, since

teaching religious texts is not currently barred.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/republicans-missouri-vote-teach-bible-public-school/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29 (https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/republicans-missouri-vote-teach-bible-public-school/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29)

[boutons_deux]

Neil Gorsuch says no-one can sue to stop government establishing religion (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/3/27/1845550/-Neil-Gorsuch-says-no-one-can-sue-to-stop-government-establishing-religion)

One inherent danger of allowing a religious minority to install a puppet controlled by religious fanatics in the White House is the now unfolding threat of government officially establishing religion – the Christian religion.

U.S. Constitution is a protection against government establishing religion is grossly misplaced and,

that belief is about to be disabused by the current religious conservatives responsible for adjudicating the law of the land. The crusade to demolish the wall of separation is being advanced by one of the Heritage Foundation SCOTUS nominees

it is noteworthy that Neil Gorsuch’s theocratic crusade is

wholly supported by Trump’s other SCOTUS appointee, religious serial (https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/09/five-times-brett-kavanaugh-appears-to-have-lied-to-congress-while-under-oath/)liar (https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/03/politics/yale-roommate-kavanaugh-cnntv/index.html) and sexual abuser (https://medium.com/@remakingmanhood/the-kavanaugh-hearings-echo-the-patterns-of-assault-1b26318eaec8) Brett Kavanaugh.

they believe a 1970’s-era ruling (https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/403/602) prohibiting government establishment of religion adhered to the U.S. Constitution and is patently wrong.

The prohibition on government establishing religion is appalling to evangelicals and

the theocrats on the High Court are not going to tolerate it any longer.
Christian Dominionists have lusted for the day the federal government will establish the Christian religion as the law of the land, and

it is something Justice Neil Gorsuch contends cannot be challenged.

the Court will uphold the so-called “Peace Cross (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_Cross)” as the initial step in a long sought-after demolition of the so-called wall of separation enshrined in the U.S. Constitution’s 1st Amendment.

Trump’s theocratic Justice Neil Gorsuch proffered a truly radical position regarding the unconstitutionality of the government establishing religion,

as if he was a hired lawyer and spokesman for the theocratic Dominionist movement.

Gorsuch did, in fact, claim that

any plaintiffs who challenge government establishment and endorsement of one specific religion

should be banned from suing the government to force it to uphold the Constitution’s Establishment Clause.

(https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/3/27/1845550/-Neil-Gorsuch-says-no-one-can-sue-to-stop-government-establishing-religion)https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/3/27/1845550/-Neil-Gorsuch-says-no-one-can-sue-to-stop-government-establishing-religion

America is fucked and fuckable, and you doubters have NO evidence to the contrary.

The religion to be established will be red/slave state Baptist/Protestant religion, taking primacy and preference any other religions that want equal treatment.

Having weaponized the "free speech" of the 1st, now they want to destroy the Establishment clause, raping the idea that the Repugs are "originalists / textualists" and non-activist. The SCOTUS5 are as big of liars as Trash.

[boutons_deux]

‘License to Discriminate’: Texas Senate Advances Anti-LGBTQ Bill

Doctors,

child care providers,

counselors and

other state-licensed workers who

refuse to provide services based on “a sincerely held religious belief” would be protected under Senate Bill 17.

https://www.texasobserver.org/sb-17-license-to-discrimate-passes-senate-lgbtq/ (https://www.texasobserver.org/sb-17-license-to-discrimate-passes-senate-lgbtq/)


TX Repug turds meet only every 2 years and this is what they prioritize for shithole TX.

[boutons_deux]

Christian Sharia polluting/corrupting Federal govt

The Trump Administration Wants to Give Anti-Choice Official More Power Over Reproductive Health Programs

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar plans to restructure the department to put Title X federal family planning and teen pregnancy prevention under the direct control of an anti-choice and abstinence-only activist.

Regional Title X staff would report directly to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) headquarters in Washington, D.C., instead of one of the ten regional HHS offices, consolidating the control of the department’s Office of Population Affairs (OPA), according to a March 22 letter (https://www.help.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/TO%20Sen.%20Murray%20-%20OASH%20Regions%20Reorg%20Notification.pdf) from Azar to inform Murray of the proposal.

The letter also states that the Office for Adolescent Health (OAH), which administers the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, would be transferred to the OPA.

Murray’s letter challenged the Trump administration’s decision to “effectively eliminate” the Office of Adolescent Health and place “initiatives that have nothing to do with population affairs” under OPA.

“The [Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health] reorganization seems to

elevate politics and ideology, while deprioritizing programs that serve the public health and communities in need,” she wrote.Azar’s plan would consolidate HHS Deputy Assistant Secretary Diane Foley’s (https://www.hhs.gov/opa/about-opa/leadership/index.html) control over Title X

Foley ran Life Network (https://rewire.news/article/2018/05/30/trumps-hhs-installs-fake-clinic-leader-oversee-family-planning-funds/), a Christian organization that operates two Colorado-based “crisis pregnancy centers,” or anti-choice clinics that often lie to patients to persuade them not to have abortions.

Foley has peddled myths about abortion care (https://news.vice.com/article/the-battle-over-abortion-could-make-a-big-difference-in-colorado-this-election) and comprehensive sexual education, once suggesting that demonstrating how to put a condom on a banana could be considered “sexually harassing,”

https://rewire.news/article/2019/04/04/the-trump-administration-wants-to-give-anti-choice-official-more-power-over-reproductive-health-programs/ (https://rewire.news/article/2019/04/04/the-trump-administration-wants-to-give-anti-choice-official-more-power-over-reproductive-health-programs/)

another FUCKING Catholic

[boutons_deux]

Karen Pence Defends Husband from Pete Buttigieg: ‘You Shouldn’t Be Attacked’ Over Religious Beliefshttps://www.mediaite.com/politics/karen-pence-defends-husband-from-pete-buttigieg-you-shouldnt-be-attacked-over-religious-beliefs/

all y'all Christian Taliban assholes think your Religious War for Dominionist Supremacy means only your side can attack? :lol

[boutons_deux]

Bills requiring public schools to teach the Bible are flooding state legislatures – some are becoming law

In 1963 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that teaching the Bible in public schools was unconstitutional.

56 years later right wing religious extremists are still trying to find ways to get the Bible taught in public schools.

there is a “coordinated attempt by the Religious Right to enshrine Christian nationalism in our schools, in our communities and in our government,” and teaching the Bible is a part of that attempt.

Donald J. Trump
(https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump)✔@realDonaldTrump
(https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump)
Numerous states introducing Bible Literacy classes, giving students the option of studying the Bible. Starting to make a turn back? Great!

8:21 AM - Jan 28, 2019 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1089876055224184833)

=============

Conservative lawmakers across the country are embracing this attempt, sponsoring bills that mandate the creation of required or elective courses in public schools to teach the Bible, or finding other means to inject religion – especially the Christian religion – into taxpayer-funded curriculums.

Since January of this year alone there have been bills mandating the creation of Bible study or instruction bills in at least 14 states, including

Arkansas,
Alabama,
Georgia,
Missouri,
Florida,
West Virginia,
Mississippi,
New York,
North Dakota,
West Virginia,
Texas,
Indiana,
Washington, and
Oklahoma.

Oklahoma’s bill is listed as “emergency” legislation. :lol

like Georgia’s, have passed and been signed in to law as recently as Monday (https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2019/05/bill-allowing-public-schools-to-teach-biblical-content-to-understand-public-policy-becomes-law/).

the same or similar intent: get the Bible – and religion – into as many classrooms as possible.

states, like Texas, make clear Bible instruction would be required.

Some legislation is careful to mask the Bible classes as instruction in history, others are more overt in their direction and intention.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/05/bills-requiring-public-schools-to-teach-the-bible-are-flooding-state-legislatures-some-are-becoming-law/Donald J. Trump
(https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump)
(https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump)

[TheGreatYacht]

Bills requiring public schools to teach the Bible are flooding state legislatures – some are becoming law

In 1963 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that teaching the Bible in public schools was unconstitutional.
56 years later right wing religious extremists are still trying to find ways to get the Bible taught in public schools.

there is a “coordinated attempt by the Religious Right to enshrine Christian nationalism in our schools, in our communities and in our government,” and teaching the Bible is a part of that attempt.

Donald J. Trump
(https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump)✔@realDonaldTrump
(https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump)
Numerous states introducing Bible Literacy classes, giving students the option of studying the Bible. Starting to make a turn back? Great!

8:21 AM - Jan 28, 2019 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1089876055224184833)

=============

Conservative lawmakers across the country are embracing this attempt, sponsoring bills that mandate the creation of required or elective courses in public schools to teach the Bible, or finding other means to inject religion – especially the Christian religion – into taxpayer-funded curriculums.

Since January of this year alone there have been bills mandating the creation of Bible study or instruction bills in at least 14 states, including

Arkansas,
Alabama,
Georgia,
Missouri,
Florida,
West Virginia,
Mississippi,
New York,
North Dakota,
West Virginia,
Texas,
Indiana,
Washington, and
Oklahoma.

Oklahoma’s bill is listed as “emergency” legislation. :lol

like Georgia’s, have passed and been signed in to law as recently as Monday (https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2019/05/bill-allowing-public-schools-to-teach-biblical-content-to-understand-public-policy-becomes-law/).

the same or similar intent: get the Bible – and religion – into as many classrooms as possible.

states, like Texas, make clear Bible instruction would be required.

Some legislation is careful to mask the Bible classes as instruction in history, others are more overt in their direction and intention.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/05/bills-requiring-public-schools-to-teach-the-bible-are-flooding-state-legislatures-some-are-becoming-law/Donald J. Trump
(https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump)
(https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump)


The same idiots who celebrate bible classes are and will be the first ones to cry when Muslims try to build mosques and teach the Quran in public schools. Dumbasses

[boutons_deux]

Creationism being taught in Kentucky public schools (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5/9/1856450/-Creationism-being-taught-in-Kentucky-public-schools)

https://images.dailykos.com/images/673961/story_image/jesusdino.jpg?1557410589



The model for many of these states is Kentucky, where state standards for elective Bible education became the law in 2017.

The American Civil Liberties Union swiftly responded, issuing a letter that said it would closely monitor all school districts in the state.

The organization flagged four school districts in Kentucky, warning that

the materials used to teach the Bible in those schools suggested they were violating the Constitution and might lead to a future ACLU lawsuit.


The Bible Studies are being pushed nationally by the Congressional Prayer Caucus

through a Republican Blitzkrieg called “Project Blitz (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/a-conservative-christian-group-is-pushing-bible-classes-in-public-schools-nationwide--and-its-working/2019/05/08/f3bb490e-39e8-11e9-a06c-3ec8ed509d15_story.html?utm_term=.e1f21986fee0).”

To protect the free exercise of traditional Judeo-Christian religious values and beliefs in the public square, and

to reclaim and properly define the narrative which supports such beliefs.


But forget about the “Judeo” part of the equation.

Project Blitz promotes a Christo-Fascist worldview.

The curriculum does not include a survey of other faith traditions

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5/9/1856450/-Creationism-being-taught-in-Kentucky-public-schools?utm_campaign=trending

[boutons_deux]

misogynist/Christian supremacist/dominionist Pence is most probably championing hate-group FRC in the Exec

Family Research Council: The Extreme Anti-Choice Group Molding Trump’s Reproductive Rights Policy

The Family Research Council has ingratiated itself with the administration, which could mean devastating consequences for the country's most vulnerable people.

it routinely demonizes (https://www.splcenter.org/news/2012/09/13/frc-deserves-hate-group-label) the LGBTQ community.

The organization opposes marriage equality

as well as laws addressing hate crimes, and

many of its supporters on social media have embraced (https://rewire.news/article/2017/10/17/family-research-council-supporters-embrace-white-supremacist-and-neo-nazism/) white nationalism and neo-Nazism.

But FRC is also committed to undermining reproductive rights,

promoting a deeply anti-choice agenda long before Trump got to the White House.

“Now that they’ve sort of infiltrated this administration, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in particular,

they appear to be using their power there … to really push that particular ideological viewpoint,”

“Specifically within HHS, what they’re pushing in their agenda is not really about providing health care,” she continued.

“It’s about limiting women’s access to health care.”

The Trump administration has so far enacted a number of policies targeting reproductive health and rights.

It has appointed two anti-choice justices (https://rewire.news/article/2018/10/06/brett-kavanaugh-confirmed-by-senate-creating-conservative-supreme-court-majority/) to the U.S. Supreme Court and more than 100 judges (https://rewire.news/article/2019/04/16/the-republican-takeover-of-the-federal-courts-should-terrify-you/) to the federal courts;

reinstated (https://rewire.news/article/2017/01/23/trump-reinstates-anti-choice-global-gag-rule-restriction/) and expanded (https://rewire.news/article/2019/03/26/trump-administration-announces-new-expansion-of-global-gag-rule/) the global “gag rule” and issued a rule (https://rewire.news/article/2019/02/22/trump-administration-releases-final-text-of-domestic-gag-rule-restriction-on-title-x/) that would establish a similar policy domestically;

attempted to eliminate the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and its birth control benefit (https://rewire.news/ablc/2019/01/09/i-cant-believe-its-2019-and-were-still-arguing-about-the-birth-control-benefit/);

prevented pregnant detained (https://rewire.news/article/2017/12/18/trump-administration-continues-blocking-immigrant-teens-accessing-abortion-care/) girls and women from getting abortions; and

erased reproductive rights (https://rewire.news/article/2018/04/23/trumps-state-department-erases-reproductive-rights-human-rights-report/) from the U.S. State Department’s annual human rights report, to name some of the most egregious actions.

(https://rewire.news/article/2019/05/10/family-research-council-the-extreme-anti-choice-group-molding-trumps-reproductive-rights-policy/)https://rewire.news/article/2019/05/10/family-research-council-the-extreme-anti-choice-group-molding-trumps-reproductive-rights-policy/

[boutons_deux]

Trump Administration to LGBT Couples: Your ‘Out of Wedlock’ Kids Aren’t Citizens


Children of U.S. citizens are falling victim to a policy that de-recognizes their parents’ marriage—and strips them of their birthright citizenship.


Last summer, the State Department issued new rules unilaterally changing the department’s interpretation of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), a 1952 law that, along with the 14th Amendment, codifies eligibility for U.S. birthright citizenship.


“The U.S. Department of State interprets the INA to mean that a child born abroad must be biologically related to a U.S. citizen parent,” the State Department’s website says.

“Even if local law recognizes a surrogacy agreement and finds that U.S. parents are the legal parents of a child conceived and born abroad…

if the child does not have a biological connection to a U.S. citizen parent, the child will not be a U.S. citizen at birth.”

The Kivitis are each biologically related to their children.

Under the policy, however, children born via gestational surrogacy and other forms of assisted reproductive technology (ART) are considered to be born “out of wedlock,”

in the State Department’s words—even if their parents, like Roee and Adiel, are legally married.


https://www.thedailybeast.com/state-department-to-lgbt-married-couples-your-out-of-wedlock-kids-arent-citizens

Christian Biblical LGBT hate is being crammed into every corner of government.

[TheGreatYacht]

Fox News: Ilhan Omar Sharing National Security Info With Our Enemies

https://youtu.be/MSN7YycCHZI

[boutons_deux]

not gonna listen to this asshole

what NatSec Info?

[boutons_deux]

Twitter eviscerates Christian blogger for his idiotic argument why 12-year-old rape victims shouldn’t be allowed abortions


https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/cbn_walsh_160317a1-800x430.jpg

to Matt Walsh,

a far-right Christian blogger who has written for Glenn Beck’s The Blaze and Ben Shapiro’s The Daily Wire,

it’s a good thing that a 12-year-old incest victim would be denied an abortion —

because otherwise, her rapist father could just drag her to Planned Parenthood and destroy the evidence

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/05/twitter-eviscerates-christian-blogger-for-his-idiotic-argument-why-12-year-old-rape-victims-shouldnt-be-allowed-abortions/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29 (https://www.rawstory.com/2019/05/twitter-eviscerates-christian-blogger-for-his-idiotic-argument-why-12-year-old-rape-victims-shouldnt-be-allowed-abortions/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29)

[boutons_deux]

Carson implementing Christian Sharia

http://theconspiracyblog.com/images/article_images/current_politics/ben_carson/shocking-truth-behing-painting-of-ben-carson-jesus-christ-01.jpg

HUD Moves to Allow Anti-Trans Discrimination in Federally Funded Homeless Shelters


https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2019/05/22/hud-moves-allow-anti-trans-discrimination-federally-funded-homeless-shelters?cd-origin=rss (https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2019/05/22/hud-moves-allow-anti-trans-discrimination-federally-funded-homeless-shelters?cd-origin=rss)

[boutons_deux]

As so-called Catholic hospital corporations metastasize and impose Catholic Sharia, of course, CA, as always, leads ...

UCSF drops affiliation with Catholic hospitals, a victory for reproductive rights
https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-ucsf-drops-dignity-proposal-20190528-story.html?utm_source=Today%27s+Headlines&utm_campaign=62f54b6360-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_12_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b04355194f-62f54b6360-80027601 (https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-ucsf-drops-dignity-proposal-20190528-story.html?utm_source=Today%27s+Headlines&utm_campaign=62f54b6360-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_12_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b04355194f-62f54b6360-80027601)

The Catholic Sharia: "If you want healthcare from us, you MUST conform with Catholic Sharia"

[boutons_deux]

The Federal Christian Supremacist Taliban are sending the FAA Christian Sharia enforcement police to San Antonio airport about the Christian-Fil-A affair.

[boutons_deux]

Progressives fight back on the Christian right’s grotesque ‘religious freedom’ power play

a Health and Human Services rule announced on May 2 that would

vastly expand the “right” of individuals and entities to refuse to provide a service based on religious grounds.
That rule threatens to cut off federal funding to force compliance with its profoundly unworkable requirements. “As a result, health care facilities may do away with reproductive and LGBTQ services altogether, leaving millions without access to critical health care,”

Dubbed the “denial of care” rule in the lawsuit,

it’s not only a perversion of true religious freedom, the suit argues, but a violation of several different constitutional principles, as well as the Administrative Procedures Act, whose requirements were flagrantly ignored.

“denial of care” rule turns all this upside down,

placing an imaginary right to discriminate at the center, and requiring everything else to accommodate them.

“Discrimination is always wrong, but in this case,While the main impact of the rule reflects the religious right’s theocratic direction that has come to the fore since the 2009 Manhattan Declaration (http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/11/20/16856), the manner of implementation reflects the

Trump administration’s authoritarian instincts.

This includes

the lack of a fair and lawful process in drafting the rule (as first seen in Trump’s “Muslim ban”),

the violation of separation of powers in usurping Congress’ power of the purse (as in Trump’s attempts to build his border wall),

the weaponization of chaos and confusion, and

the shift from an incremental erosion of rights to a massive frontal assault.

“This rule invites almost

any health care worker to deny medical treatment to patients based on their personal religious or moral beliefs,” Scott said.

“It extends not only to doctors and nurses — even EMTs and administrative staff are encouraged to deny care.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/06/progressives-fight-back-on-the-christian-rights-grotesque-religious-freedom-power-play/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29 (https://www.rawstory.com/2019/06/progressives-fight-back-on-the-christian-rights-grotesque-religious-freedom-power-play/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29)

America The Ugly,

thanks, all you mofo fake Christians

[boutons_deux]

Trump Administration Sharply Curtails Fetal Tissue Medical Research

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/us/politics/trump-fetal-tissue-research.html?emc=rss&partner=rss (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/us/politics/trump-fetal-tissue-research.html?emc=rss&partner=rss)

[boutons_deux]

Trump personally killed AIDS research to please anti-abortion activists

the Trump administration is sharply limiting federal funding for researchers using fetal tissue. A White House spokesman confirmed that “this was the president’s decision.”

Trump’s decision will have immediate consequences for public health and research. According to the Post, as a result of the new rule, the administration has “canceled a multimillion-dollar contract for a university laboratory that relies on the material to test new HIV therapies.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/06/trump-personally-killed-aids-research-to-please-anti-abortion-activists/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

LGBTQ are famous among Christian Taliban as people who have AIDS, so this is how Christian Taliban hurt, kill LGBTQ, just as Christ wants.

Trash is wonderful at hurting, killing stuff, but can't create, build shit.

[boutons_deux]

U.S. global abortion policy causing deaths,

A U.S. policy banning government-funded aid groups from discussing abortion around the world has led to deaths from botched procedures and cut care to HIV-infected orphans and other children,

Non-governmental organizations working outside the United States must choose between accepting the ban imposed by President Donald Trump two years ago or rejecting it and losing U.S. funding under what critics have termed a “global gag rule”.

“This deadly policy violates the rights of patients and ties the hands of providers,”

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/06/05/u-s-global-abortion-policy-causing-deaths-researchers-say.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29 (https://www.politicususa.com/2019/06/05/u-s-global-abortion-policy-causing-deaths-researchers-say.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29)

Christ wants people to suffer and die, always has, always will, because He loves them.

[boutons_deux]

Christian militia brutally mocked after its video intended to scare ‘enemies of Christ’ massively backfires


https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Legion-of-St-Ambrose-2.jpg

:lol :lol :lol :lol

A self-styled Christian “militia” that calls itself the Legion of St. Ambrose was buried in ridicule over the weekend after

it posted a video of its members dressed all in black in an effort

to intimidate so-called “enemies of Christ.”

In a tweet posted on June 9th, the Legion of St. Ambrose showed a video of its members carrying flags while dressed in ninja-like outfits.

“The cowardly, those who countersignal, do-nothings, traitors, the enemies of Christ, and the enemies of those who serve Him shall be dabbed on,” the group wrote

several social media users mocked the groups costumes and compared them to live-action role players — or

“LARPers” — who dress up and play games of Dungeons and Dragons out in the woods.

The group’s manifesto (https://www.scribd.com/document/412638047/Legion-of-St-Ambrose-Mission-Statement-Platform) calls for the

abolition of “homosexuality,

pedophilia,

transgenderism, and

any other unnatural sexual orientatons/acts” and

also supports “a return to a patriarchal society,

where the home and nation is upheld by traditional sex roles.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/06/christian-militia-brutally-mocked-after-its-video-intended-to-scare-enemies-of-christ-massively-backfires/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29 (https://www.rawstory.com/2019/06/christian-militia-brutally-mocked-after-its-video-intended-to-scare-enemies-of-christ-massively-backfires/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29)

Misogyny and white male CHRISTIAN supremacy are inseparable.

[Blake]

^religion of peace

[Pavlov]

lol white people

That has to be a joke, right?

[boutons_deux]

if blacks paraded around in black ninja clothes with their faces covered carrying guns that all be shot dead in 20 minutes

[boutons_deux]

GOP Senators force Trump nominee to withdraw because he didn’t give Catholics extra rights to discriminate against gays

"Republican Senators who accused him of anti-religious bigotry and suggested he did not hate gay people enough."

"the religious right, enabled and empowered by President Trump, is

turning America into a nation that places it unique, extreme religious beliefs over the law, and

is carving out special rights for far right Christian extremists."

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/06/gop-senators-force-trump-nominee-to-withdraw-because-he-didnt-give-catholics-extra-rights-to-discriminate-against-gays/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=331

[boutons_deux]

Trump administration rule would undo health care protections for LGBTQ patients

The sweeping proposal has implications for all Americans, though, because the Department of Health and Human Services seeks to change how far civil rights protections extend and how those protections are enforced.

overturn an Obama-era rule that prohibited discrimination based

on gender identity and

termination of a pregnancy.

latest Trump administration proposal to strip protections for transgender Americans, coming the same week another directive (https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaViewRule?pubId=201904&RIN=2506-AC53) was proposed by the

Department of Housing and Urban Development that would allow homeless shelters to turn away people based on their gender identity.

would eliminate those protections, enabling providers to deny these groups care or insurance coverage without having to pay a fine or suffer other federal consequences.

That may mean refusing a transgender patient mental health care or gender-confirming surgery.

But it

may also mean denying patients care that has nothing to do with gender identity

such as a regular office visit for a bad cold or ongoing treatment for chronic conditions like diabetes.

" it empowers bad actors to be bad actors,"

would also eliminate protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity from several other health care regulations,

like non-discrimination guidelines for the health care insurance marketplaces.
It appears to weaken other protections, such as those based on race or age, by limiting who must abide by the rules.

It all goes back to a section in the Affordable Care Act barring discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability or sex.

"Organizations will have lower labor costs and lower litigation costs because they will no longer have to process grievances or defend against lawsuits brought by transgender people."

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20190612/Trump-administration-rule-would-undo-health-care-protections-for-LGBTQ-patients.aspx (https://www.news-medical.net/news/20190612/Trump-administration-rule-would-undo-health-care-protections-for-LGBTQ-patients.aspx)

If you have had an abortion, you can be denied health, ANY health care, including health that has nothing to with abortion

Severino and his wife, more MOTHERFUCKING Catholics imposing Christian Sharia

[boutons_deux]

The Nuns Are Back Before the Supreme Court, and They’re Trying to Kill the Birth Control Benefit for Good

The Little Sisters of the Poor teamed up with the Trump administration to attack contraception coverage. Will the Roberts Court bless their union?

https://rewire.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/LSOP_1-740x525.jpg

(https://rewire.news/article/2019/06/12/the-nuns-are-back-before-the-supreme-court-and-theyre-trying-to-kill-the-birth-control-benefit-for-good/)https://rewire.news/article/2019/06/12/the-nuns-are-back-before-the-supreme-court-and-theyre-trying-to-kill-the-birth-control-benefit-for-good/

The fucking Catholic Taliban nuns, some them carpet munchers, some of them fucked by priests and brothers, pushing their Sharia obviously don't have any dick in the game of unwanted pregnancies

======================



Name
Religion
Appt. by
On the Court since


John Roberts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Roberts) (Chief Justice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Justice_of_the_United_States))
Roman Catholicism
G.W. Bush (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush)
2005


Clarence Thomas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Thomas)
Roman Catholicism
G.H.W. Bush (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush)
1991


Ruth Bader Ginsburg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg)
Judaism
Clinton (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton)
1993


Stephen Breyer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Breyer)
Judaism
Clinton (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton)
1994


Samuel Alito (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Alito)
Roman Catholicism
G.W. Bush (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush)
2006


Sonia Sotomayor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Sotomayor)
Roman Catholicism
Obama (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama)
2009


Elena Kagan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Kagan)
Judaism
Obama (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama)
2010


Neil Gorsuch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Gorsuch)
Episcopalian, raised Roman Catholic[79] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_St ates#cite_note-gorsuchrel-81)[80] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_St ates#cite_note-82)
Trump (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump)
2017


Brett Kavanaugh (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh)
Roman Catholicism
Trump (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump)
2018




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_St ates

[boutons_deux]

Happy Pride! Trump Got His Christian Taliban Nominee Who Hates Gay People, Birth Control, Non-Christians, Joy

Rightwing extremist Matthew Kacsmaryk is set to be confirmed to a lifetime appointment as a federal judge.

Kacsmaryk is a Trump nominee to the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

The Northern District covers a large part of the state, including the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and is home to nearly eight million people.

Kacsmaryk's current job is deputy general counsel to

First Liberty Institute, an organization that promotes the belief that Christians in America are just constantly being persecuted.

His nomination is opposed by a myriad of civil rights and public health groups and basically every LGBTQ rights organization (https://www.lambdalegal.org/sites/default/files/legal-docs/downloads/75_organizations_oppose_the_nomination_of_matthew_ kacsmaryk_to_the_n.d._of_tx.pdf).

As noted by Texas Observer writer (https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-nominates-lawyers-from-anti-lgbt-religious-freedom-group-to-be-texas-federal-judges/) Michael Barajas,

Matthew Kacsmaryk [has] worked to erode the firewall between church and state as lawyer for the

First Liberty Institute, a Christian legal advocacy group that

protects pastors who mobilize their flock to overturn local non-discrimination ordinances,

county clerks who refuse to issue same-sex marriage licenses and

anti-abortion centers that trick women into thinking they're walking into actual medical clinics.


Mateer's nomination failed after a 2015 speech surfaced (https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2017/12/12/grassley-urges-trump-drop-mateer-judicial-pick-spoke-satans-plan-transgender-kids) in which he called transgender kids "Satan's spawn" and part of "Satan's plan."




Kacsmaryk's and Mateer's nominations (https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-nominates-lawyers-from-anti-lgbt-religious-freedom-group-to-be-texas-federal-judges/) "a clear signal that President Trump intends to make our federal courts the place where civil rights go to die."

Kacsmaryk's greatest hits:

.... wow! Muslim extremists got nothing on this hate-driven Christian Taliban

https://www.wonkette.com/happy-pride-heres-a-new-federal-judge-who-really-hates-lgbtq-people

[boutons_deux]

TX shitbags make TX a stinkier shithole, esp for poor people

Texas GOP Outlaws Local Governments From Having ‘Any Transaction’ With Abortion Providers

The law is intended to target the Planned Parenthood health center in Austin, Texas, which doesn't provide abortion care.

https://rewire.news/article/2019/06/24/texas-gop-outlaws-local-governments-from-having-any-transaction-with-abortion-providers/ (https://rewire.news/article/2019/06/24/texas-gop-outlaws-local-governments-from-having-any-transaction-with-abortion-providers/)

[boutons_deux]

Religion makes you stupid, and/or pandering to religionists is stupid, and red/slave states are rotten with stupid

Republican Compared Anti-LGBTQ Proposal To Saving Jews From Holocaust

State Sen. Dan Bishop, who faces Democrat Dan McCready in a special election, used an Oskar Schindler analogy to characterize his advocacy against gay rights.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dan-bishop-bathroom-bill-repeal-oscar-schindlnorth-carolina-dan-mccready_n_5d23cd58e4b0583e48263d52?ncid=newsltush pmgnews__TheMorningEmail__070919 (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dan-bishop-bathroom-bill-repeal-oscar-schindlnorth-carolina-dan-mccready_n_5d23cd58e4b0583e48263d52?ncid=newsltush pmgnews__TheMorningEmail__070919)

[boutons_deux]

More Christian Sharia

Did Anti-Choice Groups Help Craft Trump’s Fetal Tissue Research Policy? Democrats Want an Answer.

wants the Trump administration to explain how it crafted new restrictions on fetal tissue research and what influence anti-choice groups had on the policy.

Democrats, questions the administration’s recently announced prohibition on government scientists (https://rewire.news/article/2019/06/06/trump-administration-bans-government-scientists-from-using-fetal-tissue/) from doing fetal tissue research.

“Our message is simple:

fetal tissue and cells that would otherwise be discarded play a vital role in modern, cutting-edge medical research,”

Scientists, researchers, and advocacy groups have condemned the administration’s policy (http://www.isscr.org/docs/default-source/policy-documents/sign-on-support-letter-pocan-amendment.pdf?sfvrsn=2) banning scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from conducting research using donated fetal tissue, noting

the critical role the research plays in scientific development.

“listening sessions (https://rewire.news/article/2018/11/16/hhs-holding-fetal-tissue-listening-sessions-with-scientists-and-anti-choice-groups/)” HHS held in November 2018 about fetal tissue research that

included anti-choice groups, demanding to know which groups attended and what occurred during the sessions.

it is “very clear that anti-abortion groups have a huge influence in the administration writ large, but especially at HHS.”

Equity Forward has identified (https://equityfwd.org/hhs-watch) roughly 50 “anti-abortion appointees who are affecting policy at various levels throughout” the agency,

https://rewire.news/article/2019/07/05/did-anti-choice-groups-help-craft-trumps-fetal-tissue-research-policy-democrats-want-an-answer/ (https://rewire.news/article/2019/07/05/did-anti-choice-groups-help-craft-trumps-fetal-tissue-research-policy-democrats-want-an-answer/)

[boutons_deux]

Mississippi! :lol

Internet obliterates Mississippi Republican for refusing to talk to female reporter without male chaperone

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/B9C2EDB8-987E-4740-A8FE-78DC971E9818.jpeg

He said that he was invoking the “Billy Graham Rule,”

refusing to be alone with women to protect the sanctity of his marriage — :lol

a practice also famously followed by Vice President Mike Pence (https://www.heraldmailmedia.com/news/usa_today/why-many-women-hate-the-pence-rule/video_cbac4fda-f33d-537c-b6fc-6121908dd809.html). :lol

Faced with criticism, Foster doubled down on his decision on Wednesday,

characterizing it as an expression of his Christian faith

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/internet-obliterates-mississippi-republican-for-refusing-to-talk-to-female-reporter-without-male-chaperone/ (https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/internet-obliterates-mississippi-republican-for-refusing-to-talk-to-female-reporter-without-male-chaperone/)

misogynist Christian Taliban using their so-called "faith" to insult, degrade women.

Mississippi! :lol

What sex scandal will come out later about this asshole? adultery, pederasty, pedophilia, pussy grabbing?

[boutons_deux]

Mike Pompeo’s Faith-Based Attempt to Narrowly Redefine Human Rights

Pompeo proposed a revision of the concept of human rights,

to distinguish between

original unalienable rights and

“ad hoc rights” that have been added since the end of the Cold War.

Now the U.S. appears poised to put its three-hundred-pound thumb on the scale in favor of narrowly redefining the concept of human rights.

“What does it mean to say or claim that something is, in fact, a human right?” he asked.

“How do we know or how do we determine whether that claim that this or that is a human right, is it true, and therefore, ought it to be honored?

How can there be human rights, rights we possess not as privileges we are granted or even earn but simply by virtue of our humanity, belong to us?

Is it, in fact, true, as our Declaration of Independence asserts, that as human beings, we—all of us, every member of our human family—are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights?”

The answers that the commission may propose appear preordained by its makeup. (eg, headed by a Catholic)


fears the State Department is about

to create a hierarchy of human rights and

will place religious freedom at the top of the pyramid.

the agency is promoting the concept of religious freedom.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights contains thirty articles

(of which only one, Article 18, guarantees freedom of religion), including

“the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law” (Article 6);

the right to legal protection without discrimination (Article 7);

the right to privacy (Article 12);

the right to participation in the community, “in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible” (Article 29).

In effect, the new commission will contemplate who is and isn’t human, and

who, therefore, possesses inalienable rights.

Most of the commissioners appear to believe that embryos are human.

Many of them also appear to subscribe to the Trump Administration’s general position (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/21/us/politics/transgender-trump-administration-sex-definition.html) that trans people do not exist.

A troubling word in Pompeo’s speech was

“citizen.” Did the Secretary of State mean that only the rights of citizens are inalienable?

If the United States asks the international community to redefine human rights as religious rights,

it will have the support of a vast coalition of very different countries—

a coalition of which Russia has, for a decade, been the informal leader.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/mike-pompeos-faith-based-attempt-to-narrowly-redefine-human-rights?utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_071119&utm_medium=email&bxid=5bd6795524c17c1048022fcc&cndid=43758549&esrc=&utm_term=TNY_Daily

Christian theocracy is the objective, and for Christians to fuck over, discriminate against, persecute non-Christians

[boutons_deux]

Republicans Get Another Win in Their Fight to Gut Title X

A ruling from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals paves the way for the administration to begin enforcing catastrophic changes to the federal family planning program.


The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday ruled the Trump administration’s domestic “gag rule,”

which bans federal family planning dollars from going to health-care providers who perform abortions or refer patients for abortion services,

can take effect everywhere but the state of Maryland.

The ruling jeopardizes comprehensive reproductive health-care access for nearly 4 million people.

“This is devastating news for the millions of people who rely on Title X for
cancer screenings,
HIV tests,
affordable birth control, and
other critical primary and preventive care,”

“While we are incredibly concerned the panel did not recognize the harm of the Trump-Pence administration’s gag rule,

we will not stop fighting for the millions across the country in need for care.

Planned Parenthood will keep fighting to block this dangerous rule that

allows the government to censor our doctors and nurses from doing their jobs.”

https://rewire.news/article/2019/07/11/republicans-get-another-win-in-their-fight-to-gut-title-x/ (https://rewire.news/article/2019/07/11/republicans-get-another-win-in-their-fight-to-gut-title-x/)

racist Christian Taliban fucking over poor women, esp poor non-white women, because Christ hated non-white poor women

[boutons_deux]

An Anti-Choice Group Misspent $50,000 on Religious Material. North Carolina Wants to Give It $400,000 More.

Amid a budget showdown, legislators have allocated a record amount of at least $2.64 million in state funds to anti-choice crisis pregnancy centers in North Carolina.

Last year, Rewire.News revealed that anti-choice pregnancy centers in North Carolina illegally bought religious propaganda with federal funds.

State regulators vowed :lol in response to strengthen oversight and moved to recoup the misused money. :lol


the anti-choice Carolina Pregnancy Care Fellowship (CPCF) had misspent public money (https://rewire.news/article/2018/04/26/anti-choice-centers-north-carolina-used-federal-funds-buy-programs-crafted-share-christ/)—to the tune of $50,000—on sectarian content in violation of federal law,

the agency continued to allow the use of federal funds for some religious materials

https://rewire.news/article/2019/07/11/an-anti-choice-group-misspent-50000-on-religious-material-north-carolina-wants-to-give-it-400000-more/ (https://rewire.news/article/2019/07/11/an-anti-choice-group-misspent-50000-on-religious-material-north-carolina-wants-to-give-it-400000-more/)

Fuck the Constitution, theocratic evangelical haters answer only to the man-miswritten Bible

[boutons_deux]

Trump Admin Says Abortion ‘Gag Rule’ Effective Immediately

The Health and Human Services Department notified clinics it will begin enforcing a ban on abortion referrals and on federal funding for reproductive care.

“an ideological agenda” that could disrupt basic health care for many low-income women.

Another requirement that both kinds of facilities cannot be under the same roof would take effect next year.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-admin-abortion-gag-rule-effective-immediately_n_5d2d2f76e4b0a873f6407d2a?ncid=newslt ushpmgnews__TheMorningEmail__071619&guccounter=1 (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-admin-abortion-gag-rule-effective-immediately_n_5d2d2f76e4b0a873f6407d2a?ncid=newslt ushpmgnews__TheMorningEmail__071619&guccounter=1)

Expect more poor dead non-white mothers and babies due to absence of peri-natal care, white women will continue getting abortions.

Fucking over non-whites AND women? Trash and his cult base loves it.

[boutons_deux]

how the sanctimonious Christian Taliban screw over, grind down the poor, who are are poor because they are Bad People

Trump’s ‘Devastating and Unlawful’ Title X Restrictions Go Into Effect

As the administration starts enforcing its Title X rule, clinics that provide reproductive health care to low-income people will start refusing the federal family planning dollars.

https://rewire.news/article/2019/07/16/trumps-devastating-and-unlawful-title-x-restrictions-go-into-effect/

==========

Get Another Win in Their Fight to Gut Title X

A ruling from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals paves the way for the administration to begin enforcing catastrophic changes to the federal family planning program.

[pgardn]

======================



Name
Religion
Appt. by
On the Court since


John Roberts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Roberts) (Chief Justice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Justice_of_the_United_States))
Roman Catholicism
G.W. Bush (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush)
2005


Clarence Thomas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Thomas)
Roman Catholicism
G.H.W. Bush (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush)
1991


Ruth Bader Ginsburg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg)
Judaism
Clinton (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton)
1993


Stephen Breyer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Breyer)
Judaism
Clinton (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton)
1994


Samuel Alito (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Alito)
Roman Catholicism
G.W. Bush (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush)
2006


Sonia Sotomayor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Sotomayor)
Roman Catholicism
Obama (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama)
2009


Elena Kagan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Kagan)
Judaism
Obama (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama)
2010


Neil Gorsuch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Gorsuch)
Episcopalian, raised Roman Catholic[79] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_St ates#cite_note-gorsuchrel-81)[80] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_St ates#cite_note-82)
Trump (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump)
2017


Brett Kavanaugh (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh)
Roman Catholicism
Trump (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump)
2018




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_St ates

Why the table?

[boutons_deux]

Why the table?

too show how many of the nastiest, most extreme, sociopathic Christian Taliban are papists. Beyond these oligarchy SCOTUS whores, the list is very long

[pgardn]

too show how many of the nastiest, most extreme, sociopathic Christian Taliban are papists. Beyond these oligarchy SCOTUS whores, the list is very long

So not that the Jews are WAY over represented?

So you would rather have WASPS than Catholics...

[boutons_deux]

So not that the Jews are WAY over represented?

So you would rather have WASPS than Catholics...

The CATHOLICS are way over represented rightwing sociopathic extremism. going back to bomb-throwing adulterer Gingrich and his two shutdowns of govt to deny Clinton his powers as President.

Jewish justices have been a credit to American judicial history and America

Nope, not WASPS, but specifically Catholics. While Prods make up the bulk of evangelicals, esp in the Confederacy and red states, it's Catholics who are the thinkers, intellectuals of the evangelical (bowel) movement

[boutons_deux]

Evangelicals bring the votes, Catholics bring the brains

https://aeon.co/ideas/evangelicals-bring-the-votes-catholics-bring-the-brains

[boutons_deux]

Another State Could Soon Insert Anti-Abortion Propaganda Into Public Schools

Republican-backed legislation in Ohio would mandate that teachers use anti-choice talking points in sex ed classes.

Republican lawmakers are seeking to control education and public messaging about abortion, pregnancy, and reproductive health.

https://rewire.news/article/2019/07/19/another-state-could-soon-insert-anti-abortion-propaganda-into-public-schools/ (https://rewire.news/article/2019/07/19/another-state-could-soon-insert-anti-abortion-propaganda-into-public-schools/)

[pgardn]

The CATHOLICS are way over represented rightwing sociopathic extremism. going back to bomb-throwing adulterer Gingrich and his two shutdowns of govt to deny Clinton his powers as President.

Jewish justices have been a credit to American judicial history and America

Nope, not WASPS, but specifically Catholics. While Prods make up the bulk of evangelicals, esp in the Confederacy and red states, it's Catholics who are the thinkers, intellectuals of the evangelical (bowel) movement

Wow you got the bolded correct imo opinion and then messed it up with the underlined imo.
So know you know the possible reason Catholics and Jews are highly represented: Strong classical education which stresses writing, classical reading, and debate. Jews because their culture is of books and thinking.

And just like the Protestants, you have Catholics that are breaking much more in favor of the blue team with the exception of abortion in most cases. Nah, I would say more blue team for Catholics given the current Pope.

[boutons_deux]

"Strong classical education which stresses writing, classical reading, and debate."

that's typical of Catholic education?

[pgardn]

"Strong classical education which stresses writing, classical reading, and debate."

that's typical of Catholic education?

No.

But is clearly present, especially in the NE.
Look at the Catholic universities and where the get the students from, the Jesuit Prep schools.
Because of how easy it is to start up private schools, and then stamp religious affiliation with them and you get some horrible ones as well.

In San Antonio, look at the top private schools that are affiliated with a religion. Wake up!

[boutons_deux]

Introducing the Patient Rights Act

https://www.cramer.senate.gov/introducing-patient-rights-act (https://www.cramer.senate.gov/introducing-patient-rights-act)

any org that assists end of life will lose Federal funding

[boutons_deux]

Christians want LGBT people to suffer and die, just as Christ would want.

Trump Administration finalizes rule that will make it harder for LGBT people to access health care

the Trump Administration finalized a health care regulation proposed in early 2018 that

will “protect” the “statutory conscience rights” of health care providers.

The rule grants federal nondiscrimination protection to health care providers

who deny services to people who violate the providers’ sincerely held religious beliefs.

https://fenwayhealth.org/trump-administration-finalizes-rule-that-will-make-it-harder-for-lgbt-people-to-access-health-care/ (https://fenwayhealth.org/trump-administration-finalizes-rule-that-will-make-it-harder-for-lgbt-people-to-access-health-care/)

[boutons_deux]

Catholic Foster Care Agency Fights Allegedly Discriminatory Religious Test

A Roman Catholic charity and two foster parents are asking the Supreme Court to take up their case after a federal appeals court ruled Philadelphia could refuse to work with the charity because it has a religious-based objection to same-sex marriage.

the city blocked Catholic Social Services and Bethany Christian Services from taking on new foster care cases, alleging the agencies had run afoul of the city’s Fair Practices Ordinance which forbids “discrimination” on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/catholic-foster-care-agency-fights-allegedly-discriminatory-religious-test_3033917.html

Bible-humper Christians want the kids so they can indoctrinate them into Christianity, well before the kids' age of reason.

[boutons_deux]

The FUCKING Bible-humping / Bible-perverting Confederacy

Guess Who? :lol

Alabama Chief Justice: The First Amendment Protects Only Christians

https://cdn.talkingpointsmemo.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/tbdfjr72rlevhvz3a8s0-804x450-34fddfc.jpg

the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court asserted that the First Amendment only applies to Christianity since

neither Buddha nor Mohammed created man. :lol

“Everybody, to include the United States Supreme Court, has been deceived as to one little word in the First Amendment called religion. They can’t define it,”

“Buddha didn’t create us,

Mohammed didn’t create us,

it was the God of the Holy Scriptures.

They didn’t bring the Koran over on the pilgrim ship,” :lol

"Let’s get real, :lol

let’s go back and learn our history. :lol”

He then argued that the reference to “life” in the Declaration of Independence established a pro-life stance for the country.

Moore was then re-elected (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/ten-commandments-judge-roy-moore-wins-back-alabama-supreme-court-seat) the Supreme Court in 2012, where he has remained as chief justice.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/alabama-chief-justice-christianity?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20tpm-news%20%28TPMNews%29 (https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/alabama-chief-justice-christianity?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20tpm-news%20%28TPMNews%29)

[koriwhat]

just wondering when your appointment for your FGM is again bouts? thoughts and prayers!!!

[boutons_deux]

Fucking red states

Kentucky school district complies with mandatory "In (only Christian) God We Trust" displays with framed dollar bills (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/8/16/1879297/-Kentucky-school-district-complies-with-mandatory-In-God-We-Trust-displays-with-framed-dollar-bills)

Kentucky Republicans crafted a new

law requiring all public schools to prominently display the text "In God We Trust,"

part of the ongoing effort by Republicans to

require everyone believe what they believe or face legal retribution.

in Lexington, Fayette County Public Schools have engaged in a bit of malicious compliance.

Rather than using ever-limited school funds to order custom In God We Trust signs or tasking students to come up with the legally required artwork,

the district looked at the requirements and came up with the cheapest and most efficient solution:

they printed out the enlarged reverse side of $1 dollar bills, which feature the motto prominently

(along with the weird pyramid eye that makes us look like nutcases).

"Fayette County Public Schools has complied with the requirements of the new law to display the national motto in our schools.

All schools in our district have been provided a framed version of an enlarged copy of a $1 dollar bill to display in a prominent location,"

Fayette County Superintendent Manny Caulk told WKYT (https://www.wkyt.com/content/news/In-God-We-Trust-found-in-form-of-dollar-bill-at-Fayette-County-school-542607641.html).

The point of the legislation was to efficiently indoctrinate American children;

you can't come up with a more efficient method of indoctrinating them than encouraging them to worship the dollar bill directly.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1879297

:lol that's some fantastic RESISTANCE! :lol

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Fucking red states

Kentucky school district complies with mandatory "In (only Christian) God We Trust" displays with framed dollar bills (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/8/16/1879297/-Kentucky-school-district-complies-with-mandatory-In-God-We-Trust-displays-with-framed-dollar-bills)

Kentucky Republicans crafted a new

law requiring all public schools to prominently display the text "In God We Trust,"

part of the ongoing effort by Republicans to

require everyone believe what they believe or face legal retribution.

in Lexington, Fayette County Public Schools have engaged in a bit of malicious compliance.

Rather than using ever-limited school funds to order custom In God We Trust signs or tasking students to come up with the legally required artwork,

the district looked at the requirements and came up with the cheapest and most efficient solution:

they printed out the enlarged reverse side of $1 dollar bills, which feature the motto prominently

(along with the weird pyramid eye that makes us look like nutcases).

"Fayette County Public Schools has complied with the requirements of the new law to display the national motto in our schools.

All schools in our district have been provided a framed version of an enlarged copy of a $1 dollar bill to display in a prominent location,"

Fayette County Superintendent Manny Caulk told WKYT (https://www.wkyt.com/content/news/In-God-We-Trust-found-in-form-of-dollar-bill-at-Fayette-County-school-542607641.html).

The point of the legislation was to efficiently indoctrinate American children;

you can't come up with a more efficient method of indoctrinating them than encouraging them to worship the dollar bill directly.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1879297

:lol that's some fantastic RESISTANCE! :lol




You thought once he stomped a mud hole in Clinton's ass you'd have free range to run a train on our asses. No, by God. DJT showed us how to fight ya's. How to crawl up in your asses & play dead in your shit. How to troll ya's at peaceful moments to wreck your shit. How to kick ya's down flights, long flights of stairs for the smallest of trespasses. How to meet ya's at the angle, part with ya's on the square.

You thought that old man a soft seat, an easy clean.

Uh, uh.

[boutons_deux]

‘Paranoid’ GOP lawmaker who is obsessed with ‘Biblical War’ sought GPS devices to track adversaries


https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/State-Rep.-Matt-Shea-YouTube.png

sought GPS devices and other spycraft to use against his political adversaries.

Shea, who has connections to the Christian identity movement, :lol

believes that “Muslims, journalists and critics of all political stripes are ‘supporting tyranny’ ;lol

if they don’t support his view that the United States is ‘a Christian nation.'” :lol

In 2018, Shea was criticized for writing a manifesto called “Biblical Basis for War.” :lol

Already, Shea and some of his closest supporters have made physical preparations for a holy war,

one that would help them establish their long-envisioned 51st state, their Redoubt, their Christian homeland.

Leaked emails published this week reveal that Shea has had close ties with a group that

conducted “patriotic and biblical training on war for young men.” (https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2019/aug/14/rep-matt-shea-endorsed-training-child-soldiers-for/)

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/paranoid-gop-lawmaker-who-is-obsessed-with-biblical-war-sought-gps-devices-to-track-adversaries-report/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29 (https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/paranoid-gop-lawmaker-who-is-obsessed-with-biblical-war-sought-gps-devices-to-track-adversaries-report/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29)

Religion makes you stupid, dangerous, keeps you ignorant.

[boutons_deux]

Trash/Barr campaigning for votes from the Biblically hate-filled so-called Christians

Fired for Being Transgender or for Violating Company Dress Code? The Supreme Court Will Decide.

(https://rewire.news/author/jessica-mason-pieklo/)
In a brief filed Friday with the Supreme Court,

the Trump administration says an employer can fire you for being transgender

if they are really enforcing a dress code. :lol

https://rewire.news/article/2019/08/20/fired-for-being-transgender-or-for-violating-company-dress-code-the-supreme-court-will-decide/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rhrealitycheck+%28RH+Reality+ Check%29 (https://rewire.news/article/2019/08/20/fired-for-being-transgender-or-for-violating-company-dress-code-the-supreme-court-will-decide/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rhrealitycheck+%28RH+Reality+ Check%29)

My guess is the fucking Catholic SCOTUS5 will vote Catholic Sharia and against LGBT protections.

[boutons_deux]

Trash hurting LGBT just as the evangelicals elected him to do.

Justice Department goes out of its way to argue discrimination based on sexual orientation is legal (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/8/23/1880998/-Justice-Department-goes-out-of-its-way-to-argue-discrimination-based-on-sexual-orientation-is-legal)

The Justice Department filed an amicus brief (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/dominicholden/trump-scotus-gay-workers) Friday aimed at

reversing the trend of lower courts interpreting existing federal law to prohibit workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation.

The brief argued (https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/17/17-1618/113417/20190823143040818_17-1618bsacUnitedStates.pdf) that

the ban on "sex" discrimination in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not protect gay, lesbian, and bisexual workers from bias because it was not the original intent of lawmakers when they passed the legislation.

The administration filed the briefs in two cases to which it was not a party.

In other words, the Justice Department went out of its way to argue for the right of businesses to discriminate against LGBT workers.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1880998 (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1880998)

Christian HATE being implemented in Trash/Barr govt policies and law

[TheGreatYacht]

Muslims in America give their take on Sharia law

https://youtu.be/e6QC_qEyl0Q




:lmao

[boutons_deux]

y'all Christians some crazy mofos

Washington lawmaker who calls for ‘holy war’ to establish right-wing theocracy

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-30-at-11.45.22-AM.png

A group of religious leaders has called for the expulsion of a

right-wing Washington state lawmaker over his calls for political violence and ties to anti-government extremist groups.
State Rep. Matt Shea (R-Spokane) has

distributed a manifesto (https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/washington-republicans-bloodthirsty-biblical-war-manifesto-sends-donors-running/) called the “Biblical basis for war” and spied on his political enemies (https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/paranoid-gop-lawmaker-who-is-obsessed-with-biblical-war-sought-gps-devices-to-track-adversaries-report/),

“We are mindful of the life-threatening reality of both Christian Dominionism and white supremacy that exists in our communities and our nation,” the coalition said in a letter published by theInlander newspaper (https://www.inlander.com/spokane/readers-respond/Content?oid=18191415).

“We recognize that domestic terrorism has become a threat to our freedoms of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” :lol original words, which only applied to wealthy, land-owning, slave-owning white men

Shea’s statements — which include the

endorsement (https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2019/aug/14/rep-matt-shea-endorsed-training-child-soldiers-for/) of a group training child soldiers for a “holy war”

— stoke fear and promote violence, and they said his manifesto twists biblical teachings to promote racism and bigotry.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/religious-leaders-call-for-expulsion-of-washington-lawmaker-who-calls-for-holy-war-to-establish-right-wing-theocracy/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29 (https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/religious-leaders-call-for-expulsion-of-washington-lawmaker-who-calls-for-holy-war-to-establish-right-wing-theocracy/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29)

His voters are also crazy mofos.

[boutons_deux]

Christian Taliban/theocrats/dominionists/supremacists polluting the US govt to force their hateful persecution into govt contractors.

A New Trump Rule for Federal Contractors ‘Encourages People to Discriminate’

The Labor Department rule would let employers with government contracts claim religious exemption to discriminate.

could soon open the floodgates for legal LGBTQ discrimination by federal government contractors.

A rule (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/08/15/2019-17472/implementing-legal-requirements-regarding-the-equal-opportunity-clauses-religious-exemption) introduced August 15 could put millions of

transgender and queer people,
women,
people of color, and
religious minorities

employed by contractors at risk of discrimination,

The proposed rule would broaden the narrow exemptions for religious organizations receiving federal government contracts to include any organization or business that can cite a religious mission.

an ongoing effort by the Trump administration to undermine legal protections for LGBTQ people in all spheres of life while

undoing the Obama administration’s civil rights legacy. :lol

The Trump administration’s push to allow discrimination by government contractors comes amid an increase in discrimination complaints at contracted companies.

the administration is now arguing before the Supreme Court that it’s legal to fire LGBTQ people from their jobs,

precisely because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. There is also a process where we see similar rules around religious freedom, quote unquote, in other agencies.”

While the rule would not apply to every federal contractor, it would apply to any for-profit business able to claim a religious purpose.

Even with those limitations, there are signs the impact could be enormous.

The rule’s impact would be broad,

affecting not only workers staffed to federal government projects but every other worker employed by those companies.

“Even people who have nothing to do with carrying out the responsibilities of the federal contract itself

are nonetheless protected under this executive order because their employer is a federal contractor,”

https://rewire.news/article/2019/08/30/a-new-trump-rule-for-federal-contractors-encourages-people-to-discriminate/ (https://rewire.news/article/2019/08/30/a-new-trump-rule-for-federal-contractors-encourages-people-to-discriminate/)

Hate-driven Christians are fucking up America, just as Jesus would do.

[spurraider21]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cWpn3JO-lc

aftermath:

https://scontent.fric1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/69852538_10215152736193478_3343437456442654720_n.j pg?_nc_cat=106&_nc_oc=AQkYySVfp9wg5J6aea3Mb3Kp4R8DvGCyKvXvoG9UBfs GkiF19JbyQ9swjaVscE1ZGZQ&_nc_ht=scontent.fric1-2.fna&oh=cbad5490b1c3475e88a62c6ad3e2a59d&oe=5DFD3F73

[spurraider21]

people will take their internal prejudices and bullshit themselves into believing that its moral and right because of their religion, even though the religion is silent on the issue. even if we take the apology at face value, she had to invent a religious connection to her racism to justify it.

[boutons_deux]

Secessionists in Blue Washington state, but it's non-coastal, rural eastern WA

'Liberty State' secessionists peddle their far-right vision to eastern Washington voters (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/9/9/1884436/--Liberty-State-secessionists-peddle-their-far-right-vision-to-eastern-Washington-voters)

The people promoting the creation of a “Christianity-based” 51st state carved out of what is currently eastern Washington have begun

moving beyond just talking about it and planning for it.

Now they are promoting it to the voters they need to convince to secede from Washington state—talking to local reporters, setting up booths at county fairs, and

adamantly denying their extremism. :lol

“When both are a plague to each other :lol because of natural cultural differences, and both would be much happier without the other, there’s only one solution that works very well for both sides,”

“And that is the amiable formation of the new state of Liberty :lol that both sides agree would be the best win-win situation.”

The proposed new state is the

brainchild of Republican state Rep. Matt Shea of Spokane Valley,

his cohorts in the far-right Marble, Washington, “Patriot” community,

and the associated “American Redoubt” movement (https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2016/08/27/a-fortress-against-fear/?utm_term=.084edd846049)based in northern Idaho.

Essentially apocalyptic in nature,

Shea and his fellow Liberty State advocates see it as a necessary preparation for when the rest of the world falls apart.

Shea’s ruminations about what the new state would look like, and how it would behave, in a document titled

“Biblical Basis for War” that was essentially an outline for war against its fellow states.

Under “Rules of War,” it stipulates that “war is not waged against nations but against man,” and

that one should “make an offer of peace before declaring war.” However:

“If they do not yield—kill all males.” :lol

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/9/9/1884436/--Liberty-State-secessionists-peddle-their-far-right-vision-to-eastern-Washington-voters?detail=emaildkre (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/9/9/1884436/--Liberty-State-secessionists-peddle-their-far-right-vision-to-eastern-Washington-voters?detail=emaildkre)

[boutons_deux]

Get in the way of a Bible-believing soldier on a mission for Jesus and things can get ugly really fast

"I’m the mother of 4 God fearing children of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Do your kids and the Lord’s whole green earth a favor today and

choke to death on a chicken bone.

You’re a servant of Satan and deserve the flames which surely await you.

2 Peter 2:4. 1 Thessalonians 2:15



Ye better be able to grow eyes in the back of your head jewboy.

Lovers of Christ will not be taking anymore of your menacing in the military.

Christ’s message of salvation will conquer your kike attacks as Christ was victorious over the Pharisees.

PLEASE, do every real US citizen (ie true patriots) a huge favor &

point a loaded 1911 at your temple and pull the trigger.

If you’re too chicken-shit to complete the task, I volunteer to assist."

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/09/get-in-the-way-of-a-bible-believing-soldier-on-a-mission-for-jesus-and-things-can-get-ugly-really-fast/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1431

[boutons_deux]

Texas Law Requires Patients to Bury or Cremate Fetal Tissue. Now, the Fifth Circuit Is Weighing In.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments Thursday in yet another abortion rights case.

This time, it involves a challenge to a Texas law requiring the burial or cremation of fetal and embryonic tissue from most failed pregnancies.

Anti-abortion advocates hope they can get the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to help advance fetal "personhood."

Texas’ law actually reaches further, by including embryonic remains. But that May decision may be just the opening the Fifth Circuit needs.

Fetal and embryonic burial requirements like the ones at issue in Texas became very popular among anti-choice activists and lawmakers following the release in 2017 of

a series of heavily edited videos by the advocacy organization Center for Medical Progress (CMP).

The videos falsely purported to show Planned Parenthood staff members illegally selling fetal tissue.

CMP’s founder David Daleiden is currently on trial (https://www.courthousenews.com/criminal-privacy-hearing-on-undercover-video-by-abortion-foes-begins/) for 15 counts of felony invasion of privacy related to his role in producing, filming, and distributing the videos.

, in addition to

Texas and Indiana, states like
Arkansas,
Louisiana, and
North Carolina

all passed measures requiring fetal and embryonic remains to be buried or cremated—

treated, in other words, the same way as the remains of born children.

The intent of these laws is crystal clear:

to help advance fetal “personhood” across the the country, even incrementally, as a way to recriminalize abortion.

https://rewire.news/article/2019/09/05/texas-law-requires-patients-to-bury-or-cremate-fetal-tissue-now-the-fifth-circuit-is-weighing-in/

[boutons_deux]

More public schools are embracing the Bible. Is it literature, or religion?

A campaign by conservatives aimed at cultivating cultural identity is stirring anew debate about what role the world’s bestselling book should play in education.

In 2019, 13 bills promoting Bible elective classes have been proposed in 11 states, with three states –

Alabama, :lol Arkansas, :lol and Georgia :lol – signing bills into law.

The classes are supposed to be purely academic, :lol

but they’re part of a larger conservative initiative that critics say is promoting a Christian worldview

“We believe that understanding the Bible is a really important part of cultural literacy, :lol

especially in the West and

especially in the United States,” ;lol

says Steven Fitschen, president of the National Legal Foundation, the organization that drafted the model Bible class bills.

“You don’t teach it in an evangelistic way, :lol

but to understand art and music and history, you really need that kind of background.” :lol

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2019/0918/More-public-schools-are-embracing-the-Bible.-Is-it-literature-or-religion?j=219599&sfmc_sub=38882700&l=1223_HTML&u=7833710&mid=10979696&jb=6&cmpid=ema:EqualEd:20190920&src=newsletter

Fuck Catholics, fuck Christians when they want to impose their faith, ethics, morals on everybody else.

Fitschen, you're totally full of and speaking BULLSHIT

[boutons_deux]

Betsy DeVos’ DOE threatens to cut university funding for positive portrayal of Islam

The U.S Department of Education threatened to pull federal funding from

a Middle East studies course jointly run by Duke University and the University of North Carolina

because it portrays Islam too positively. :lol

The DOE ordered the universities to

change their program or lose its federal grant money.

In a letter to UNC (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/09/17/2019-20067/notice-of-a-letter-regarding-the-duke-unc-consortium-for-middle-east-studies), the department criticized the program, arguing that topics like

Iranian art and film have “little or no relevance” to the Middle East studies program.

The letter also argues that the program “appears to lack balance” because

its programs are not focused on the discrimination faced by “religious minorities in the Middle East,” including Christians and Jews.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/09/betsy-devos-doe-threatens-to-cut-university-funding-for-positive-portrayal-of-islam/ (https://www.rawstory.com/2019/09/betsy-devos-doe-threatens-to-cut-university-funding-for-positive-portrayal-of-islam/)



you rightwingnutjob assholes whine about "political correctness" and "safe spaces"?

here's the fucking hate-sodden Christian supremacist theocratic govt extorting universities to teach what the govt wants them to teach.

[boutons_deux]

Trump condemned for moving to ‘roll back the clock’ as letter exposes his attempt to form anti-abortion UN coalition

the Trump administration is pressuring U.N. member nations to join an international anti-abortion coalition.

The letter, first reported (https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/sep/23/leaked-letter-suggests-us-is-rallying-un-member-states-to-oppose-abortion) by the Guardian and set to be presented Monday during a U.N. General Assembly meeting on universal health coverage,

urges nations to oppose the creation of “a new international right to abortion.”
“This letter just shows how they are trying to erode international consensus and roll back the clock for women and girls.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/09/trump-condemned-for-moving-to-roll-back-the-clock-as-letter-exposes-his-attempt-to-form-anti-abortion-un-coalition/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1522 (https://www.rawstory.com/2019/09/trump-condemned-for-moving-to-roll-back-the-clock-as-letter-exposes-his-attempt-to-form-anti-abortion-un-coalition/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1522)

[boutons_deux]

Texas’ abstinence-only sex ed isn’t working, according to groups urging kids be taught more about contraception

Two progressive groups made recommendations to the State Board of Education,

kicking off what’s likely to be a lengthy battle over sex education in Texas.

Health education course standards haven’t been revised in 21 years.

Texas' approach to sex education isn't working and the State Board of Education needs to revamp health courses to give children more explicit instruction about contraception and sexually transmitted illnesses, two groups said Thursday.
The state's abstinence-only textbooks and curriculum standards aren't effective, the groups said in their report (http://tfn.org/sex-ed/).
In 2017, Texas had the seventh-highest teen birth rate,

they noted. In 2016, the state had the nation's highest rate of repeat births to teens.
"Clearly, it's time for change," said Kathy Miller, president of the Texas Freedom Network Education Fund, a liberal group that co-authored the study. '

"It's time to teach the truth." :lol in fucking shithole Texas? :lol

"This organization seeks to profit off of the sexualization of children

who will become future abortion clients," :lol

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2019/09/19/texas-abstinence-only-sex-ed-isnt-working-according-to-groups-urging-kids-be-taught-more-about-contraception/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Sex+ed+curriculum+in+Texas%2C+baseball +gloves+and+the+new+home+of+Dallas++Robert+E++Lee+ statue&utm_campaign=PoliticalPoints092419 (https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2019/09/19/texas-abstinence-only-sex-ed-isnt-working-according-to-groups-urging-kids-be-taught-more-about-contraception/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Sex+ed+curriculum+in+Texas%2C+baseball +gloves+and+the+new+home+of+Dallas++Robert+E++Lee+ statue&utm_campaign=PoliticalPoints092419)

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Texas’s maternal mortality rate was unbelievably high. Now we know why.

For the past few years, Texas’s maternal mortality rate was so high it seemed unbelievable.

the maternal morbidity figures from 2012 — which had Texas mothers dying at rates that shocked experts and the public — were based on sloppy and erroneous data collection.

more than half of the deaths that were recorded as pregnancy-related that year were recorded that way in error.

the U.S. maternal mortality rate to be 26.4 per every 100,000 live births in 2015. Compare that with Britain’s 9.2, Australia’s 5.5 and Finland’s 3.8 per 100,000 live births.

“The maternal mortality rate is still higher by anybody’s count than it was in the 1990s,” he said.

“No matter how you look at it, even with the conservative estimate, the rate is higher than it should be compared to other high-resource countries.

black women were still severely disproportionately affected:

Compared with the overall rate of 14.6 deaths per 100,000 live births,

the rate for black women was still double that, at 27.8 per 100,000 live births,

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/04/11/texas-maternal-mortality-rate-was-unbelievably-high-now-we-know-why/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/04/11/texas-maternal-mortality-rate-was-unbelievably-high-now-we-know-why/)https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/04/11/texas-maternal-mortality-rate-was-unbelievably-high-now-we-know-why/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/04/11/texas-maternal-mortality-rate-was-unbelievably-high-now-we-know-why/)

Another aspect the shitbag Repug governance in shithole Texas. A bunch of dead black mothers? What's the problem?

Shitbag Repugs closing nearly all the TX clinics that served poor (black, brown) women obviously was helpful.

[boutons_deux]

same question for military people:

are Christians ignorant, stupid when they became a Christian or did Religion make them stupid, ignorant?

Karen Pence says she loves the way Trump treats young women

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Karen-Pence-on-Twitter.jpg

“Tonight, in Minnesota, state the campaign really wants to win, @SecondLady is on stage praising POTUS. She says she likes how he treats young women and sees the respect he has for his daughters,”

“As a mom, I was all in,” Mrs. Pence said, after she watched Trump with her daughter, Charlotte.

Trump boasted that he would walk into the backstage changing rooms at the Miss USA pageant to look at the half-naked girls there.

It came in a 2005 interview with Howard Stern, where Trump bragged about what he would do to look at the teens, some as young as 15.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/karen-pence-says-she-loves-the-way-trump-treats-young-women/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1690&recip_id=298460&list_id=1 (https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/karen-pence-says-she-loves-the-way-trump-treats-young-women/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1690&recip_id=298460&list_id=1)

Has Trash DILFed his girls?

[boutons_deux]

goddman, yet another fucking Catholic Repugs asshole

Bill Barr slammed for his ‘incredibly disturbing’ — and false — attack on secularism

During a speech at Notre Dame’s law school (https://deadstate.org/ag-bill-barr-non-religious-people-are-responsible-for-senseless-violence-and-drug-overdoses/) this Friday, US Attorney General William Barr

disparaged the rising tide of secularism in America, saying that a lack of religion is tied to societal ills like violence and drug abuse. :lol
“Basically every measure of this social pathology continues to gain ground,” Barr said, adding that problems in society are the result of “moral upheaval.” :lol Tom Hagen worries about "morality" :lol

“Along with the wreckage of the family,

we are seeing record levels of depression and mental illness,

dispirited young people,

soaring suicide rates,

increasing numbers of angry and alienated young males,

an increase in senseless violence and a deadly drug epidemic,”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/bill-barr-slammed-for-his-incredibly-disturbing-and-false-attack-on-secularism/

sounds like Trash's inaugural speech "carnage" :lol

of course, it's all meant to be a strategi deflection from the real cause of the carnage of the non-oligarchy:

the "deep state" of the oligarchy

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=c5ffe9fe07&attid=0.1&permmsgid=msg-a:r4522493465468560043&th=16dd00ea4941d6e9&view=fimg&sz=s0-l75-ft&attbid=ANGjdJ9yhQxUTN9HzFZqXcC7Jq5XxdwttCDtpFebERo _8jNlWY3Adt818yWX4TQC7sHfwegFF1qcM5zI42foGNxRnQcmT IQiq3GcvQX4bhTXMf1469JZaBXYl5KMVuQ&disp=emb&realattid=ii_k1s0c0c20

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God Is Now Trump’s Co-Conspirator

Bigotry, both racial and religious, is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

(fucking Catholic) William Barr, the attorney general, gave last week at the University of Notre Dame Law School

If Barr’s speech is any indication, their strategy is to make God their boss’s co-conspirator.

Barr gave a fiery speech denouncing the threat to America posed by “militant secularists,” :lol

whom he accused of conspiring to destroy the “traditional moral order,” blaming them for rising mental illness, drug dependency and violence.

Consider for a moment how inappropriate it is for Barr, of all people, to have given such a speech.

The Constitution guarantees freedom of religion;

the nation’s chief law enforcement officer has no business denouncing those who exercise that freedom by choosing not to endorse any religion.

around a fifth (https://news.gallup.com/poll/1690/Religion.aspx) of Americans say that they don’t consider themselves affiliated with any religion,

roughly the same number who consider themselves Catholic

he didn’t just declare that secularism is bad;

he declared that the damage it does is intentional (https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1182851865203105792): :lol

“This is not decay. It is organized destruction.” :lol

If that kind of talk doesn’t scare you, it should;

it’s the language of witch hunts and pogroms.

that secularism is responsible for violence happens to be empirically verifiable nonsense.

with a large rise in the number of religiously unaffiliated and growing social liberalism on issues like same-sex marriage;

it has also seen a dramatic decline in violent crime (https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/01/03/5-facts-about-crime-in-the-u-s/).

European nations are far less religious (https://www.pewforum.org/2018/06/13/how-religious-commitment-varies-by-country-among-people-of-all-ages/) than we are;

they also have much lower homicide rates (https://ourworldindata.org/homicides), and

rarely experience the mass shootings that have become almost routine here.

Barr ... is sounding remarkably like America’s most unhinged religious zealots,

the kind of people who insist that we keep experiencing mass murder because schools teach the theory (https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/07/21/mass-shootings-again-blamed-on-evolution/) of evolution (https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2019/08/megachurch-pastor-claims-teaching-children-evolution-causes-mass-shootings/).

Guns don’t kill people — Darwin kills people!

this outburst of God-talk is surely a response to the way the walls are closing in on Trump,

the high likelihood that he will be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors.

Trump’s response to his predicament has been to ramp up the ugliness in an effort to rally his base.

who makes up Trump’s base?

It’s reallyevangelical (https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/11/politics/the-foundation-of-trumps-coalition-is-cracking/index.html) working-class whites who are staying with Trump

despite growing evidence of his malfeasance and unsuitability for high office.

his truly enthusiastic support comes from religious leaders like Jerry Falwell Jr., who have their own ethical issues (https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/09/jerry-falwell-liberty-university-loans-227914),

but have called on their followers to “render to God and Trump. (https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/09/ralph-reed-trump-book-040920)”

Trump is instead taking shelter behind bigotry — racial, of course, but now religious as well.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/opinion/trump-william-barr-speech.html

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William Barr’s Wild Misreading of the First Amendment

William P. Barr (https://www.newyorker.com/tag/william-barr) just gave the worst speech (https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-william-p-barr-delivers-remarks-law-school-and-de-nicola-center-ethics) by an Attorney General of the United States in modern history.

Speaking at the University of Notre Dame last Friday,

Barr took “religious liberty” as his subject, and

he portrayed his fellow-believers as a beleaguered and oppressed minority.

He was addressing, he said,

“the force, fervor, and comprehensiveness of the assault on religion we are experiencing today.

This is not decay; this is organized destruction.”

Historically illiterate,

morally obtuse, and

willfully misleading, the speech

portrays religious people in the United States as beset by a hostile band of “secularists.”

the real harm of Barr’s speech is not what it means for historical debates but what it portends for contemporary government policy.

The real giveaway of Barr’s agenda came near the end of his speech when he said, with curious vagueness,

“Militant secularists today do not have a live-and-let-live spirit—

they are not content to leave religious people alone to practice their faith.

Instead, they seem to take a delight in compelling people to violate their conscience.”

What’s he really talking about here?

Barr and the Trump Administration want religious people who operate businesses to be allowed to discriminate against L.G.B.T.Q. people.

Barr’s idea of leaving “religious people alone to practice their faith.”

The real beleaguered minorities here are gay people

who are simply trying to be treated like everyone else, but

Barr twists this story into one about oppression of believers.

The heart of Barr’s speech is devoted to a supposed war on religion in education.

“Ground zero for these attacks on religion are the schools.

To me, this is the most serious challenge to religious liberty,”

in recent years, a key tenet of the evangelical movement (and its supporters, like Barr) is an effort to get access to taxpayer dollars.

This effort is also a major priority of

Betsy DeVos, the Secretary of Education, who is pushing for the increased availability of taxpayer vouchers to pay for religious schools.

the necessary corollary to providing government subsidies to religious schools is

starving the public schools, which are open to all children, of funds.

Perhaps the most galling part of Barr’s speech, under current circumstances, is its hymn to the pious life.

He denounces “moral chaos” and “irresponsible personal conduct” as well as “licentiousness—

the unbridled pursuit of personal appetites at the expense of the common good.”

By contrast, “religion helps teach, train, and habituate people to want what is good.” Throughout this lecture,

one can only wonder if William Barr has ever actually met Donald Trump. :lol

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/william-barrs-wild-misreading-of-the-first-amendment?source=EDT_NYR_EDIT_NEWSLETTER_0_imagene wsletter_Daily_ZZ&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_101719&utm_medium=email&bxid=5bd6795524c17c1048022fcc&cndid=43758549&esrc=&mbid=&utm_term=TNY_Daily

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Report Exposes Right-Wing Effort to Ban Criticism of Israel in US Schools

"Fanatical Zionists are pushing U.S. state legislatures to pass sweeping new restrictions on free speech."

pro-Israel and right-wing lobbyists are encouraging Republican state lawmakers to pass legislation that

could outlaw discussions about the Israeli government's human rights abuses and occupation of Palestinian territory

at all levels of the U.S. public education system

under the guise of fighting anti-Semitism. :lol

Among the activities that would be prohibited by the new laws are human rights investigations focusing specifically on Israel.

Also banned would be any speech "demonizing Israel by ... blaming Israel for all inter-religious or political tensions" or "delegitimizing Israel by ... questioning Israel's right to exist."

"Today in 'all evil leads to ALEC.'"

Republican state lawmakers from Arkansas, Florida, Kansas, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and South Carolina met with representatives from pro-Israel lobbyist groups at ALEC's August conference in Austin, Texas.

"Some of its provisions confuse anti-Semitism with criticism of Israel.

That has profound constitutional problems, as

the bill is plainly meant to be enforced throughout Florida's public schools, colleges, and universities."

"It's extremely cynical to masquerade as fighting anti-Semitism when you are, in fact, shutting down criticism of Israel."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/10/17/report-exposes-right-wing-effort-ban-criticism-israel-us-schools

cynical and totally dishonest, but that's all the rightwingnutjob run with, slander, lies, fantasies, conspiracy shit

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Report Exposes Right-Wing Effort to Ban Criticism of Israel in US Schools

"Fanatical Zionists are pushing U.S. state legislatures to pass sweeping new restrictions on free speech."

Human rights and free speech advocates responded with alarm Thursday to a Guardian report (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/16/conservative-activists-want-to-outlaw-antisemitism-in-public-education-why-is-that-a-bad-thing) revealing that

pro-Israel and right-wing lobbyists are encouraging Republican state lawmakers to pass legislation

that could

outlaw discussions about the Israeli government's human rights abuses and

occupation of Palestinian territory

at all levels of the U.S. public education system under the guise of fighting anti-Semitism.

Concerns about the legislation relate to its wide definition of anti-Semitism that goes beyond protecting Jewish people from hate speech. According to The Guardian:

Among the activities that would be prohibited by the new laws are human rights investigations focusing specifically on Israel.

Also banned would be any speech

"demonizing Israel by ... blaming Israel for all inter-religious or political tensions" or "delegitimizing Israel by ... questioning Israel's right to exist."

The push began at a conference in August held by the American Legislative Exchange Council, ALEC, a conservative network which has a long history of propagating right-wing policies at state level through model bills.


https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/10/17/report-exposes-right-wing-effort-ban-criticism-israel-us-schools (https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/10/17/report-exposes-right-wing-effort-ban-criticism-israel-us-schools)


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/16/conservative-activists-want-to-outlaw-antisemitism-in-public-education-why-is-that-a-bad-thing

As usual, Repugs have NOTHING but propaganda, disinformation, and outright LIES, all paid for, of course.

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Barr and Pompeo Speeches Show Why Evangelical Warriors Won’t Abandon the President

Barr’s war on secularism and

Pompeo’s end-times infused diplomacy

are windows into why Trump’s evangelical supporters will not turn on him because of his foreign policy in Turkey, much less his phone call with Ukraine.

he was directing $50 million (https://thehill.com/policy/international/465550-trump-releases-50-million-to-protect-ethnic-and-religious-minorities-in) in funding to aid minority groups in Syria, a clear message to his evangelical base that he had not forgotten his promise to protect persecuted Christians across the globe.

Trump’s speech was steeped in combative language.

He described how Democratic leaders “hate this country,”

how they want to destroy American values, and

that they are waging war on values voters. :lol

It played well with his audience.

“Trump gave one of his characteristic, 100-minute addresses with the customary mix of

falsehoods,

boasting, and

invective.

And he was received with the same enthusiasm as 2017—with multiple standing ovations.”

a nod to religious liberty and a sentence or two about bringing the troops home :lol

was enough to satisfy Trump’s evangelical flock.

Trump has been so “successful” :lol as president :lol precisely because

he is a barbarian, one who rolls over norms, policies, institutions, and borders in order to accomplish his goals.

For evangelicals, Trump’s barbarism is a feature, not a bug,

Evangelicals follow a (fucking simplistic for simpletons) fundamentalist worldview that reduces the world to good/evil, us/them, here/there.

Trump is viewed as the barbarian-king :lol who is willing to fight this war without concern for civility or etiquette.

people I spoke to at the Summit continue to see Trump as divinely appointed, and

this allows them to forgive or explain away any existing and foreseeable flaws.

They continue to demonize all liberal opinion and

cast the negative stories about Trump as false, treasonous, and badly motivated.”

Franklin Graham (https://religionnews.com/2019/10/02/franklin-graham-on-impeachment-our-country-could-begin-to-unravel/), Robert Jeffress (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/who-is-robert-jeffress-civil-war-trump-impeachment.html), and Rick Wiles (https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/Trunew/e/64269350?########=true) all stated that impeachment could lead to civil war.

“This is not decay,” Barr said in his remarks at Notre Dame Law School (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM87WMsrCWM).

“This is organized destruction.

Secularists and their allies have marshaled all the forces of mass communication, popular culture, the entertainment industry, and academia in

an unremitting assault on religion and traditional values.”

His remarks are drawn straight from dominionist theology (https://adioma.com/@ChristianRightXposed/infographic/christian-dominionism),

The goal of a dominionist is not diversity, or dialogue, or healthy debate. It is a will-to-power ideology based on vanquishing God’s enemies.

“The imperative of protecting religious freedom was not just a nod in the direction of piety,” Barr said.

“It reflects the framers’ belief that religion was indispensable to sustaining our free system of government.” :lol

“Our rights come from our Creator.” :lol total bullshit

Pompeo is an outspoken evangelical who has said in the past that world conflicts, especially in the Middle East, will continue until the Rapture (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/us/politics/pompeo-christian-policy.html).

The Rapture is, according to many evangelicals,

an apocalyptic event when Christians will suddenly disappear from earth

as God ushers in the end of all things.

These ideologies allow for the Kurds to be collateral damage in the larger cosmic war being fought by President Trump and his administration.

Trump is the barbarian-king leading white evangelicals in their war against all those they deem God’s enemies.

For evangelicals,

his authoritarian rhetoric is an asset;

his cruelty is a mark of determination;

his unwillingness to compromise is a welcome change from “softer” evangelical politicians.

https://rewire.news/religion-dispatches/2019/10/21/barr-and-pompeo-speeches-show-why-evangelical-warriors-wont-abandon-the-president/

Evangelicals are a fundamental cause of America being fucked and unfuckable.

Of course, the Kurds aren't Christian so letting Turks slaughter them in ethnic cleansing is pleasing to God.

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https://wp-media.patheos.com/blogs/sites/410/2019/08/AndyTuck1.png

[Blake]

https://wp-media.patheos.com/blogs/sites/410/2019/08/AndyTuck1.png

How many more centuries will we have evolution deniers

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pandering the so-called Christian Bible humping haters and Man Man redneck haters, or just reversing Obama? probably both

The Trump Administration’s Latest Proposed Rule Rolls Back Nondiscrimination Protections for LGBTQ People

The proposed rule

removes nondiscrimination protections put in place by the Obama

administration meant to ensure that LGBTQ people be treated equally

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will allow recipients of its grants to discriminate against LGBTQ people.

https://rewire.news/article/2019/11/04/the-trump-administrations-latest-proposed-rule-rolls-back-nondiscrimination-protections-for-lgbtq-people/

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Pandering to the hating/paranoid/grifting evangelicals

Donald Trump Gives Prosperity Gospel Church Lady Paula White Cushy White House Job

Donald Trump has chosen his longtime "spiritual adviser" Paula White for a very important job in the White House,

doing something Jesus-related that will help make America Great.

We have to admit, the job sounds a bit loosely defined, as the New York Times describes it. (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/us/politics/paula-white-trump.html?module=inline) She'll be working in the Office of Public Liaison, and

Her role will be to advise the administration's Faith and Opportunity Initiative,

which Mr. Trump established last year by executive order and which aims to

give religious groups more of a voice in government programs

devoted to issues like defending religious liberty :lol

and

fighting poverty. :lol :lol :lol :lol

https://www.wonkette.com/donald-trump-gives-prosperity-gospel-church-lady-paula-white-cushy-white-house-job

Trash's "long-time spiritual advisor"? :lol Trash follows "spiritual" advice? :lol

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Yet another FAILURE in court for Trash and his mafiya

New York judge blocks Trump's 'conscience rule' to deny medical care for religious or moral reasons

U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer struck down (https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/06/new-york-judge-tosses-trump-administrations-conscience-rule-066807) the

Trump administration's “conscience rule” that

would have protected healthcare providers, as well as health plans,

if they refused to participate in or perform abortions on religious or moral grounds.

In addition to abortion, the rule encompasses other safe, legal medical care that providers might disagree (https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/trumps-conscience-rule-for-health-providers-voided-by-federal-judge/2019/11/06/39aa9b74-00b1-11ea-9518-1e76abc088b6_story.html) with on moral or religious standings, such as birth control, gender-affirming surgeries, and even vaccinations.
Basically:

The rule

favors (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/upshot/conscience-rule-trump-religious-exemption-health-care.html) the comfort of physicians and other medical staff, like nurses,

over the rights and health needs of the patient.

It’s also part of the Trump administration’s overall march toward religious freedom at the expense of people’s reproductive health.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1897654 (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1897654)

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Christian Taliban dictating their Sharia to a secular President

how Donald won over evangelical leaders

with a September meeting in 2016, six weeks before the election,

where an audio recording of the meeting revealed how evangelical leaders handed Trump a mandate that he promised to fulfill.


(https://www.rawstory.com/2-a-week-holiday-season-discount-join-raw-story-investigatessupport-progressive-journalism-and-get-three-ad-free-sites/)
“He would end the contraception mandate of Obamacare; …

he would select only anti-choice judges; …

he would do away with the Johnson Amendment, which prohibits tax-exempt entities from endorsing politicians; …

he would support prayer in school; …

he would oppose any bill that pulled funding from Christian schools that were charged with discrimination; …

he would keep transgender people from using the ‘wrong’ bathrooms and locker rooms; … and

he would protect Israel, following the biblical pronouncement that nations that do so would be blessed

(‘[Obama’s] been the worst thing that’s happened to Israel …”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/12/audio-of-private-trump-tower-meeting-reveals-how-donald-won-over-evangelical-leaders/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=3138 (https://www.rawstory.com/2019/12/audio-of-private-trump-tower-meeting-reveals-how-donald-won-over-evangelical-leaders/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=3138)

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Appointees claim Gov. Greg Abbott ousted them from board

for voting to sanction judge who refused to perform gay marriages

https://www.texastribune.org/2019/12/05/did-greg-abbott-ax-appointees-sanctioning-judge-who-refused-gay-marria/ (https://www.texastribune.org/2019/12/05/did-greg-abbott-ax-appointees-sanctioning-judge-who-refused-gay-marria/)

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New Jerry Falwell Jr. group targets Christian ‘liberal’ John Kasich


“The Falkirk Center will operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Liberty University (https://www.theepochtimes.com/university-goes-on-offense-in-cultural-battle-new-center-debunks-christian-socialism_3166268.html).

Falkirk’s mission will be to ‘equip courageous champions to proclaim the Truth of Jesus Christ, to advance His Kingdom, and renew American ideals.'”

establishment Republicans are just as bad as liberal Democrats when it comes to taking our country in the wrong direction, so

I’ve got no sympathy for the establishment Republicans at all,”

Kasich

use the Gospel for socialistic programs, it’s just to show that he has a basic misunderstanding of the Gospel.” :lol

Kasich’s quoting (https://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2015/03/26/kasich-four-seasons-meeting.html) of Jesus’ admonition for Christians to care for “the least of these” to justify such policies as Medicaid expansion has angered some in the Religious Right.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/12/new-jerry-falwell-jr-group-targets-christian-liberal-john-kasich/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=3179 (https://www.rawstory.com/2019/12/new-jerry-falwell-jr-group-targets-christian-liberal-john-kasich/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=3179)

Capitalism and filthy lucre, Christ's ideals

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Neil Gorsuch says no-one can sue to stop government establishing religion (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/3/27/1845550/-Neil-Gorsuch-says-no-one-can-sue-to-stop-government-establishing-religion)

Trump’s theocratic Justice Neil Gorsuch proffered a truly radical position regarding the unconstitutionality of the government establishing religion, as if

he was a hired lawyer and spokesman for the theocratic Dominionist movement.

Although not going so far as asserting the First Amendment’s “Establishment Clause is unconstitutional (https://www.politicususa.com/2017/01/19/jeff-sessions-believes-amendment-separation-clause-unconstitutional.html)” like former Attorney General J. Beauregard Sessions, he may as well have.

Gorsuch did, in fact, claim that

any plaintiffs who challenge government establishment and endorsement of one specific religion

should be banned from suing the government to force it to uphold the Constitution’s Establishment Clause.

According to Gorsuch,

there is no situation that allows any American to have “legal standing to challenge” a Christian religious display on government property;

something that is in fact establishing religion.

He claims that because

“their only injury is that they take offense” at the religious display on taxpayer’s land,

in his theocratic mind being offended is not enough to demand the government abide by the law of the land -

any more than expecting Christian conservative justices to support, uphold, and decide cases based on the Constitution.

It is noteworthy that in Gorsuch’s Catholic mind

there in no law, no part of the Constitution, or no civil rights protections

that an evangelical extremist’s religious freedom cannot abridge.

In fact, any time he has been involved with cases regarding basic civil rights, especially women’s and gays’ human rights,

Gorsuch plays the religious liberty card –

it is what his Catholic religious leaders (https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133) taught evangelicals a few decades ago

as an electoral tool to engender unwavering religious support for Republican candidates in the South.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/3/27/1845550/-Neil-Gorsuch-says-no-one-can-sue-to-stop-government-establishing-religion (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/3/27/1845550/-Neil-Gorsuch-says-no-one-can-sue-to-stop-government-establishing-religion)

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Interior Department Cut ‘Sexual Orientation’ From Anti-Discrimination Guideline

Its explanation shows that the administration is talking out of both sides of its mouth when it comes to LGBTQ rights.

President Donald Trump (https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/donald-trump)’s Interior Department removed “sexual orientation” from a statement in the agency’s ethics guide regarding workplace discrimination.

“You shall adhere to all laws and regulations that provide equal opportunities for all Americans regardless of

race, color, religion, sex, age, or handicap,”

reads one of 14 principles of ethical behavior in the agency’s 2017 guidelines (https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/uploads/ethics_pocket_guide_for_doi_employees_2017.pdf).

The 2009 version (https://bie.edu/cs/groups/xbie/documents/text/idc010649.pdf) President Barack Obama (https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/barack-obama)’s Interior Department issued included the categories

“race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, or disability.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sexual-orientation-interior-department-ethics-guidelines_n_5dff99e3e4b0b2520d0ca480 (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sexual-orientation-interior-department-ethics-guidelines_n_5dff99e3e4b0b2520d0ca480)

Christian HATE knows no limits.

also notice the old, disdainful, discriminatory "handicap" replaces the humane, empathetic "disability".

Nasty mofos these hate-saturated Christians.

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GOP Lawmaker Plotted Insurrections to Establish Christian State

https://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/intelligencer/2019/12/24/24-matt-shea.w700.h700.jpg

Last year, the chair of the Republican caucus in Washington’s state legislature acknowledged that

he had written a manifesto (https://www.spokesman.com/documents/2018/oct/25/biblical-basis-war/) on the “Biblical Basis for War.”

In that document, the lawmaker argued that – as far as Jesus Christ was concerned –

American Christians have the right to “kill all males” who support abortion, same-sex marriage or communism

Shea insisted that his writings were merely (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/23/us/matt-shea-washington-extremism.html) “a summary of church sermons on Old Testament war that could help place current events in historical context.”

And so, the Washington GOP did not call for Shea to resign or expel him from its House caucus. :lol of course not. :lol

Shea discussed targetting anti-fascist activists for surveillance, harassment, and violence.

One of Shea’s interlocutors, online radio personality Jack Robertson, offered this prescription for

the treatment of a female antifa protester:

“Fist full of hair,

and face slam,

to a Jersey barrier.

Treat em like communist revolutionaries.

Then shave her bald with a K-Bar USMC field knife.”

The Republican lawmaker replied, “Ok. What BG checks need to be done. Give me the list.”

did not feel that Shea’s actions required his expulsion from government. :lol
[B]
Shea

“as a leader in the Patriot Movement,

planned, engaged in and promoted a total of three armed conflicts

of political violence against the United States Government

in three states outside the state of Washington over a three-year period.”

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/...mon-bundy.html (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/matt-shea-christian-terrorism-washington-report-ammon-bundy.html)

WA's 4th district contains the redneck, misogynist, Christian assholes who elected Shea

https://results.vote.wa.gov/results/20181106/images/districtmap.png

but Repug shitbag Shea is approved to remain in the Repug Congress

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CDC gets list of forbidden words

"vulnerable,"

"entitlement,"

"diversity,"

"transgender,"

"fetus,"

"evidence-based" and

"science-based."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/cdc-gets-list-of-forbidden-words-fetus-transgender-diversity/2017/12/15/f503837a-e1cf-11e7-89e8-edec16379010_story.html (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/cdc-gets-list-of-forbidden-words-fetus-transgender-diversity/2017/12/15/f503837a-e1cf-11e7-89e8-edec16379010_story.html)

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White House says Trump will issue new rules to expand

‘constitutional prayer’ :lol

in public schools

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/screen-shot-2016-01-30-at-11-17-55-am.png

The details of Trump’s guidance were not immediately available but the president is on record suggesting that he wants to expand prayer in public schools (https://www.au.org/blogs/trump-school-prayer) under the guise of First Amendment rights.

On Saturday, Trump attorney Jay Sekulow (:lol a Jew for Jesus) condemned schools for practicing “Buddhist Meditation,”

which he said was different than “Christian meditation.”:lol WTF is that? :lol

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/white-house-says-trump-will-issue-new-rules-to-expand-constitutional-prayer-in-public-schools/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

[Blake]

CDC gets list of forbidden words

"vulnerable,"

"entitlement,"

"diversity,"

"transgender,"

"fetus,"

"evidence-based" and

"science-based."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/cdc-gets-list-of-forbidden-words-fetus-transgender-diversity/2017/12/15/f503837a-e1cf-11e7-89e8-edec16379010_story.html (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/cdc-gets-list-of-forbidden-words-fetus-transgender-diversity/2017/12/15/f503837a-e1cf-11e7-89e8-edec16379010_story.html)

Wow

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Wow

Orwellian Newspeak. George was amazingly prescient.

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Trump favorite for Supreme Court argues that juries should consult God on verdicts

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-16-at-2.12.04-PM.png

A deeply conservative judge who’s on President Donald Trump’s short list of potential Supreme Court nominees holds highly unusual views on religion’s role in the courts.

Judge William Pryor of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote a lengthy dissent last week in a Florida case that

so alarmed another conservative judge on the panel

that she then wrote a less radical concurrence to his message that God can instruct juries

Pryor, however, argued that Juror 13 was the victim of discrimination by the judge, and he insisted that the juror’s removal would embolden attorneys to “target and eliminate certain demographics from jury service.”

“African American and evangelical Christians are more likely than others to believe that God speaks to them,” :lol

Pryor wrote in his 55-page dissent, “and the majority’s decision now requires that

these eligible jurors be stricken for cause if a discriminating lawyer elicits during (jury selection) that God communicates with them.”
Pryor argued that the juror’s claim of divine commandment might have been true, and

he argued that perhaps more juries might consult “the Holy Ghost” when deciding cases.

His colleague Judge Anne Conway,

a George W. Bush appointee, :lol

tried to clean up Pryor’s unusual dissent by explaining what it did not mean.

“This is not a case which turns on a juror’s religious beliefs or religious freedom to engage in prayer or seek guidance during deliberations when applying the law to the evidence in the case,” Conway wrote.

“Rather, it is a straightforward case about whether the district court —

having concluded based on direct questioning that a juror was not following the court’s instructions —

abused its discretion in dismissing that juror.” :lol


https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/trump-favorite-for-supreme-court-argues-that-juries-should-consult-god-on-verdicts/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=3504 (https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/trump-favorite-for-supreme-court-argues-that-juries-should-consult-god-on-verdicts/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=3504)

[RandomGuy]

A TEENAGER has been expelled from a Christian school for having a rainbow-colored birthday cake which looked similar to the design of the gay pride flag.

https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2020/01/NINTCHDBPICT000554372986.jpg?w=620

The high school freshman’s family claims when they took the photo of the teen smiling beside her birthday cake, they had no idea it would prove to be controversial.

Whitefield Academy told the teen's parents that she was booted out for repeated “lifestyle violations.”

Her mother Kimberly Alford, who took the picture, insists that the cake or the sweater were not associated with gay pride.

She told WAVE3: “She was happy, she looked beautiful. You know, of course as a mom, I took her picture of her blowing out her candles and I posted that on my Facebook page.”

EXPELLED FOR A CAKE
A few days after Kimberly posted the image on social media, the family were contacted on January 6 by Dr. Bruce Jacobson, the head of Whitefield Academy.

The mum said: “It was an email expelling Kayla from Whitefield immediately due to a post on social media.”

Kayla was expelled “'immediately” because the picture “demonstrates a posture of morality and cultural acceptance contrary to that of Whitefield Academy's beliefs.”

Mum Kimberly claims her daughter was not representing the colors of the LGBTQ pride movement and there was no hidden agenda in the picture.

She said: “[Kayla] loves to laugh and dance and that's just her.

'LIFESTYLE VIOLATIONS'
“There was nothing intended by that and even when I went back and got the receipt from the bakery, it didn't say anything about representation, it just said assorted colors.”

In its code of conduct, the school addresses sexual orientation and says that if off-campus behavior is not in line with the academy’s beliefs then students can be disciplined.

In response to Kayla’s expulsion, the school bosses claimed the picture was the latest in two years’ worth of “lifestyle violations.”

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10742905/grl-15-is-expelled-from-christian-school-for-wearing-gay-pride-sweater-and-posing-with-rainbow-birthday-cake/

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some people found their consciences

25 interfaith organizations release letter calling for Stephen Miller's resignation from White House (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/15/1911716/-25-interfaith-organizations-release-letter-calling-for-Stephen-Miller-s-resignation-from-White-House)

A coalition of interfaith groups this week released a joint letter (https://www.ncjw.org/news/interfaith-open-letter-stephen-miller-must-resign/)

calling for the resignation of White House aide Stephen Miller,

call him a “white supremacist” and

writing that

“We believe that all people deserve to be treated with dignity, regardless of their immigration status.

Our varied faith traditions mandate us to welcome the stranger, love each other, and protect the most vulnerable among us.”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/15/1911716/-25-interfaith-organizations-release-letter-calling-for-Stephen-Miller-s-resignation-from-White-House

Will Trash "you're fired" sadistic neoNazi Miller?

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Trump releases 'religious freedom' plans to remind evangelicals why they support a profane adulterer

https://images.dailykos.com/images/682401/story_image/GettyImages-1147621572.jpg?1559591667


Yes, it’s “religious freedom” time again (https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/16/trump-to-underline-his-support-for-school-prayer-religious-freedom-099711) at the White House,

where “religious freedom” applies overwhelmingly to those poor oppressed Christians.

The Trump administration is issuing

a guidance requiring—

as a condition of federal funding—

public schools to affirm, every year, that their policies don’t prevent prayer.

State departments of education would then be

required to report to the federal government on both

what local schools said about their policies and

on any complaints that a school had prevented someone from constitutionally protected prayer.

The Education Department will then presumably throw out any complaints by Muslims kept from praying while launching major, highly publicized investigations of any complaints by Christians.

proposed rule would put “religious student groups on equal footing with secular student groups at public institutions of higher education.”

Other proposals would apply to nine other federal agencies, including the departments of Agriculture, Justice, Labor, Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs, Health and Human Services, Education, and Housing and Urban Development.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1911977 (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1911977)

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Missouri bill: New parent board could toss any public library book it deems sexually inappropriate — and librarians could be jailed

the Parental Oversight of Public Libraries Act, or House Bill 2044,

which was introduced (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__email.pen.org_c_eJwtz8FqxCAQBuCnSY7iOE7Ug4elsH TPhd5Ho0mou4aY3b5-2DbSnMHD74f5iZ-5FWSYrBs3r6SSEoBUX2kFCOXegNC4CxBcJZpByz09RD2WcfU5Z 0c2Wu14dpZTCCkFgmTJcI4IY-5FHree5twMugrn3W-2DmxJ3KtY6qszbKWcB8ev7bH8sykJv8Fy-5FGmfc5eeUL8LCTfRPR7-2Dk0s6tiQ-2DevnZWr-5Fpm9u613aKWO-5Fj6adgMuZoXcikKTpDSSdwCi0SyQw9whyMjmTmCIzY38eo1cQ as4VJg-5F0BlAdRzA&d=DwMFaQ&c=RAhzPLrCAq19eJdrcQiUVEwFYoMRqGDAXQ_puw5tYjg&r=GmoBArA9uoOHdqFAi5tjRg0Qvl5sjR7mDsJuhLp1zaA&m=d97yJisHbozso1oR54a_MOr3lnxXqRgW70tO9RNfmbA&s=jXD3oHShiStqfLbfHF7j_QCUYQu1jMYkHhNO3WdX8RQ&e=)Jan. 8 into the Missouri House of Representatives by

Rep. Ben Baker (R). He is a minister, missionary and former dean of students at Ozark Bible Institute and College,

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/01/15/missouri-bill-new-parent-board-could-toss-any-public-library-book-it-deems-sexually-inappropriate-librarians-could-be-jailed/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/01/15/missouri-bill-new-parent-board-could-toss-any-public-library-book-it-deems-sexually-inappropriate-librarians-could-be-jailed/)

Next up. Burn the librarians on a pile of burning books.

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New DOJ scandal emerges as anti-gay ‘Hookers for Jesus’ group gets awarded a major grant


internal complaints are emerging from the US Justice Department’s anti-human trafficking grant program.

The complaints stem from

two nonprofits that were denied funds which instead went to two less established groups

“whose applications were not recommended by career DOJ officials.”

“The awarding of more than $1 million total to the two groups,

Hookers for Jesus in Nevada and

the Lincoln Tubman Foundation in South Carolina,

Hookers for Jesus .. runs a safe house which bars occupants from reading

“secular magazines” :lol

that portray worldly views/advice on living, sex, clothing, makeup tips.” :lol

we are Christian. And there is an understanding before they come in here that we are Christian,” :lol

the group’s staff training manual describes homosexuality as immoral :lol

and describes drug use as “witchcraft.” :lol

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/new-doj-scandal-emerges-as-anti-gay-hookers-for-jesus-group-gets-awarded-a-major-grant/ (https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/new-doj-scandal-emerges-as-anti-gay-hookers-for-jesus-group-gets-awarded-a-major-grant/)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-justice-grants-exclusive-idUSKBN20425G (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-justice-grants-exclusive-idUSKBN20425G)

Trash's persona lawyer corrupt, obese Barr is a Catholic

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Indiana Repugs emulating Trash and ignoring the law

An Indiana Republican Says the State Can Ignore the Constitution to End Legal Abortion. He’s Wrong.

A Republican lawmaker in Indiana has introduced a bill defining abortion as murder and declaring that life begins at conception,

with a unique twist on how to enforce the legislation’s restrictions.

redefines “human being” to include the so-called unborn, thus rendering crimes against an alive, breathing human the same as equivalent to crimes against an egg, blastocyst, zygote, or fetus.

. In 2019, several states passed laws banning abortion,

But what sets Indiana’s latest legislative effort apart is language that purports to nullify the U.S. Constitution.

declares that

the federal courts have no jurisdiction to “interfere with Indiana’s interest in protecting human physical life from the moment that human physical life begins,” and

that federal laws that “fail to protect a person’s inalienable right to life” are null and void in Indiana.

https://rewire.news/ablc/2020/02/13/an-indiana-republican-says-the-state-can-ignore-the-constitution-to-end-legal-abortion-hes-wrong/ (https://rewire.news/ablc/2020/02/13/an-indiana-republican-says-the-state-can-ignore-the-constitution-to-end-legal-abortion-hes-wrong/)

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Bill Barr’s DOJ intervenes to support lawsuit filed by Christian photographer refusing to photograph same-sex weddings

intervened in a pre-emptive lawsuit filed by a Kentucky wedding photographer who claims her interpretation of her Christian religion bars her from taking photos of weddings of same-sex couples.

No same-sex couple has ever tried to hire Chelsey Nelson to photograph their nuptials,

but her attorneys, the far right wing Alliance Defending Freedom, filed the lawsuit against Louisville city officials anyway,

the Justice Dept. in a 23-page “statement of interest (https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1252601/download)” says the “Court should find that Plaintiffs have demonstrated a likelihood of success on the merits.”

the DOJ has told the court hearing her case directly that it agrees with the ADF.

Many legal experts agree that refusing to provide a service to an entire class of people is discrimination,

hence the countless laws across the country that protect LGBTQ people and other minorities from being refused services their non-LGBTQ peers regularly pay for and receive without question.

Nelson “is likely to succeed on her claim that requiring her to photograph weddings against her conscience constitutes government-compelled speech that violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/bill-barrs-doj-intervenes-to-support-lawsuit-filed-by-christian-photographer-refusing-to-photograph-same-sex-weddings/ (https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/bill-barrs-doj-intervenes-to-support-lawsuit-filed-by-christian-photographer-refusing-to-photograph-same-sex-weddings/)

Barr is a Papist, and Catholics officially despise LGBT

1st Amendment yet again weaponized for hate

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A Veritable Slippery Slope

GOP lawmaker damages state house steps after dousing them with olive oil to protest Satanists

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Matt-Shea.jpg

On Friday, The Daily Beast reported (https://www.thedailybeast.com/matt-shea-gop-state-rep-fined-dollar4700-for-pouring-olive-oil-on-capitol-steps-at-anti-satanist-protest) that Washington state Rep. Matt Shea has been fined $4,700 for damaging the state house steps in protest of a nearby rally of the Satanic Temple of Washington.

As part of his protest, according to the report, Shea drenched the steps in olive oil, which

“seeped into the legislature building’s porous steps, forcing workers to spend days giving them a deep clean.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/gop-lawmaker-damages-state-house-steps-after-dousing-them-with-olive-oil-to-protest-satanists/ (https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/gop-lawmaker-damages-state-house-steps-after-dousing-them-with-olive-oil-to-protest-satanists/)

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Betsy DeVos openly admits she’s ‘absolutely’ using the pandemic to impose her ‘faith-based schools’ agenda

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos admitted that

she was trying to use the ongoing coronavirus crisis to push through her private school choice agenda (https://www.salon.com/2020/05/15/betsy-devos-directs-500000-from-coronavirus-relief-to-private-college-confused-by-some-with-cult/) during a Tuesday radio interview.

DeVos made the comments during an interview with Cardinal Timothy Dolan (https://www.dropbox.com/s/emcs8km4jyzq9il/Dolan%20-%20DeVos%20clip.mp3?dl=0), the archbishop of New York,

“Yes, absolutely,” DeVos replied.

“For more than three decades, that has been something that I’ve been passionate about.

This whole pandemic has brought into clear focus that everyone has been impacted, :lol what? ;lol

and we shouldn’t be thinking about students that are in public schools versus private schools.” :lol what? :lol

DeVos “is helping Catholic schools just as she is helping all schools; :lol

this does not mean she is favoring any one type of school over another.” :lol

DeVos’ comments came as she defended

her decision to redirect coronavirus relief funds (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/us/politics/betsy-devos-coronavirus-religious-schools.html) away from public schools with high numbers of impoverished students

to private schools which tend to serve wealthy students.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/betsy-devos-openly-admits-shes-absolutely-using-the-pandemic-to-impose-her-faith-based-schools-agenda/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=4615 (https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/betsy-devos-openly-admits-shes-absolutely-using-the-pandemic-to-impose-her-faith-based-schools-agenda/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=4615)

[ChumpDumper]

A Veritable Slippery Slope

GOP lawmaker damages state house steps after dousing them with olive oil to protest Satanists

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Matt-Shea.jpg

On Friday, The Daily Beast reported (https://www.thedailybeast.com/matt-shea-gop-state-rep-fined-dollar4700-for-pouring-olive-oil-on-capitol-steps-at-anti-satanist-protest) that Washington state Rep. Matt Shea has been fined $4,700 for damaging the state house steps in protest of a nearby rally of the Satanic Temple of Washington.

As part of his protest, according to the report, Shea drenched the steps in olive oil, which

“seeped into the legislature building’s porous steps, forcing workers to spend days giving them a deep clean.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/gop-lawmaker-damages-state-house-steps-after-dousing-them-with-olive-oil-to-protest-satanists/ (https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/gop-lawmaker-damages-state-house-steps-after-dousing-them-with-olive-oil-to-protest-satanists/)


Olive oil? Oh I gotta hear his anti-Satan recipe.

[koriwhat]

Lmao at the fucking losers above spitballing their cnn talking points to each other.

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https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/103658096_3043686689010954_333881259882379578_n.pn g?_nc_cat=100&_nc_sid=8024bb&_nc_ohc=brZwtt6TLSUAX9O1SQd&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-2.xx&oh=366ea0442f8f21740007221ee235c1da&oe=5F0C434D

[boutons_deux]

Trump administration reverses health protections for transgender people

Friday’s announcement came on the fourth anniversary of the Pulse shooting that killed 49 people at a gay nightclub

The Trump administrationhas finalized a regulation

rolling back Obama-era protections for transgender Americans against sex discrimination in health care.

According to the new version (https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/06/12/hhs-finalizes-rule-section-1557-protecting-civil-rights-healthcare.html) of the policy,

the Department of Health and Human Services will be “returning to the government’s interpretation of sex discrimination according to the plain meaning of the word ‘sex’ as male or female and as determined by biology”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/12/trump-transgender-lgbt-healthcare-protections

More Christian HATE

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Supreme Court Gives Religious Schools More Access to State Aid

Religious schools should have the same access to scholarships and funds as other private schools,

the justices ruled, in a victory for conservatives.

help divert resources from public to private education.

Dissenting justices said the decision damaged the separation of church and state.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/us/supreme-court-religious-schools-aid.html (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/us/supreme-court-religious-schools-aid.html)

So your tax dollars will go to Scientology, Muslim education.

Conservative/Christian continues to fuck America into unfuckability.

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Christian Pompeo and conservatives planning rule to enable their hate, cruelty, damage, discrimination for Jesus

How Pompeo’s focus on religion could recast US rights policy

Pompeo, an evangelical Christian, is reporting on his commission’s work to define what an “unalienable right” is. :lol

s pushed to shift the United States away from what he sees as an overemphasis on women’s reproductive rights and LGBTQ issues and

toward religious freedom :lol

The commission’s report “is an important restatement of how the United States thinks about human rights and our unalienable rights and our role ... in the world in preserving those rights for

all people who are made in the image of God,” :lol

the recasting constitutes a narrowing of the U.S. vision of human rights to a focus on Mr. Pompeo’s priorities as a conservative Christian.

The 10-member body, made up largely of conservative religious scholars, :lol

should also “point the way toward that more perfect

fidelity to our nation’s founding principles," :lol

the commission could backtrack on the “universality of human rights” that they say has been built and strengthened – often with U.S. leadership – over the last 70 years.

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2020/0715/How-Pompeo-s-focus-on-religion-could-recast-US-rights-policy?icid=rss (https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2020/0715/How-Pompeo-s-focus-on-religion-could-recast-US-rights-policy?icid=rss)

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yet another fucking Catholic

Justice Samuel Alito called out for highly “partisan” speech on COVID-19 rules and same-sex marriage

The Supreme Court justice’s “angry” Federalist Society speech makes a good case for court reform,

stark warnings from legal scholars about the politicization of the nation's highest court

he aired a laundry list of conservative grievances during a Thursday speech before the Federalist Society.

The justice made unusually incendiary remarks about

contraception,

coronavirus restrictions and

the threat he believes religious freedom faces from advocates of same-sex marriage.

Alito claimed that the court's Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which effectively legalized same-sex marriage nationwide,

bred intolerance for those who believe marriage is a union between one man and one woman. :lol stupid fuck and his Catholic fascism

also criticized state responses to the coronavirus pandemic as "unimaginable restrictions on individual liberty,"

slammed a brief filed by Democratic senators in a gun rights case and

chastised the Obama administration's "protracted campaign" and "unrelenting attack"

against the (Catholic) Little Sisters of the Poor (https://www.salon.com/2014/01/12/little_sisters_of_the_poor_vs_the_contraception_ma ndate/),

who sued to block the administration from enforcing its birth control health coverage requirement. "religious liberty is fast becoming a disfavored right." :lol bullshit it's Freedom FROM Religion

Some legal scholars suggested that Alito's staunchly political remarks were as good an argument for restructuring the court as any.

"Alito's speech is actually making the best argument for Court reform,"

"There's just no good justification for a system that gives an angry partisan like this a veto on legislation."

https://www.salon.com/2020/11/13/justice-samuel-alito-called-out-for-highly-partisan-speech-on-covid-19-rules-and-same-sex-marriage/

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'Yet another major, ideologically driven last-minute rule change' from Team Trump

The Labor Department has just finalized a rule giving

federal contractors more leeway to hire and fire based on religious reasons (https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/12/07/us/joe-biden-trump#the-labor-department-finalized-a-rule-expanding-religious-exemptions-in-hiring).

there are a lot of categories that are ripe for discrimination—LGBTQ workers are very high on the list, but so are unmarried pregnant women, the Times notes.

And organizations can expand the roles in which they can hire exclusively from within their faith.

“The final rule would significantly expand eligibility for federal contractors to

claim a religious exemption from non-discrimination rules,”

“It’s an invitation for any contractor that’s loosely affiliated with a religious purpose to discriminate against LGBTQ employees.

it has been a core American principle that seeking and receiving federal tax dollars to do work for the American people means promising not to discriminate against one’s own workers with those funds.

new rule uses religion to create

an essentially limitless exemption allowing taxpayer-funded contractors to impose their religious beliefs on their employees

without regard to the resulting harms,
such as unfair job terms,
invasive proselytizing and
other harassment

that make job settings unbearable for workers targeted on religious grounds.”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12/8/2000639/-LGBT-rights-take-a-hit-with-new-grotesquely-overbroad-religious-exemption-from-Labor-Department (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12/8/2000639/-LGBT-rights-take-a-hit-with-new-grotesquely-overbroad-religious-exemption-from-Labor-Department?detail=emailLL)

Scalia fils, another fucking fascist, hate-driven Catholic

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Kayleigh McEnany:

‘God had planned for me’ :lol

to be Trump’s White House press secretary

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/12/kayleigh-mcenany-god-had-planned-for-me-to-be-trumps-white-house-press-secretary/