I just now had a thought that may the power to fix EVERYTHING!
The many folks in MAGA, who are overwhelming white, crave nothing more than or beyond their own VICTIMIZATION!
But every single Black person I've ever known (or known of) in America is just sick to death of being actual victims for every second of their lives, and for the past 400+ years.
White MAGA wishes to be victims while Black folks wish NEVER to be victims again.
Couldn't the two groups just switch? MAGA can hate themselves (as they should), and the descendents of American slaves can finally live their dreams.
(WHat can I say? MAGA is doing stranger things than this.....)
Multiple times? Try tens of times. Maybe hundreds.
You take in and excrete something like 0.5%-1% of your body weight every day (on average). So every 100-200 days, you have changed every atom in your body. "Maybe hundreds" because that's an estimate for adults. For babies and kids with fast metabolisms, the exchange is faster. A hundred pound teen doesn't *just* eat a pound a day.
Oooh! Not only "mysterious and holy" but the deepest, darkest, largest cult AND the top contender for the largest labor trafficking entity in the US! If each grown man gets several young girl wives, what good are the male peers of those young girls good for, you ask? PAYING for the privilege to work 11 hour days for two years as a missionary? Yes! Working construction for pennies on the dollar (and then giving the church a dime from each dollar earned)? Yes! Undercutting the wages in communities where they settle with their endless source of free labor, putting non-Morman businesses under, after the church trust probides $ to open businesses while purchasing vast real estate portfolios? Yes! Then if you are excommunicated, they own your house and your business. The depth of their sinister, secretive (that's manipulation, by the way) nonsense is bottomless? Yes! You did great on the quiz!
Follows the standard conservative religious trend of making a general rule in order to try and fend off accusations of bigotry...then applying their rule only to gay and trans people.
I'd likely be out because I have tattoos and piercings and had corrective surgery for a congenital deformity as a child. Oh no how will I ever cope with that lot not wanting anything to do with me. Woe is me.
Now that NASA has sent humans back to the Moon, maybe we should think about sending all Mormons to Kolob. It's their dream, isn't it? Sure, Kolob's a star and not a planet but what the heck? Their magic underwear will protect them, right?
I am sure Musk could sell one of his rockets to them. If it blow up on the landing pad, or it actually launches to send them on their way. It is a win for humanity (in fact humanity I.Q might go UP a few notches).
I've mentiond it before, but black men were not allowed to be in the LDS priesthood. Nor would black men and women be allowed to participate in temple ordinances.
This policy, initiated by Brigham Young, lasted from 1852 until 1978, when it was lifted by then-LDS Presdent Spencer W. Kimball after a so-called "revelation" (was it a revelation about all that black money they were missing out on? Was it all the boycotts and protests?).
What's interesting to me is that no Mormon under 50 knows that black people had the "Mark of Cain" (as they called it). Those over 50 will deny it ever happened.
The "revelation" was that tax exemption was just a tiny bit more important than hating people of color. Sometimes the greed outweighs the bigotry, sometimes the bigotry outweighs the greed.
In the PRIESTHOOD? Not even near the temples! The Book of Morman says black skin is a curse from God! And, YES. They want their money now. 10% on the dollar, mandatory, + endless collection plate action! And $400 a month to the church, while you are allowed to pay all of your own expenses on your two year mission to strong-arm and psychologically manipulate others into this mess. They have many financial plans for you (to give them cash)!
It was the fact that they were going to lose their tax-exempt status over their billions of real estate holdings.
They did not, in fact, change being racist at all. But hey, we got "The Book of Mormon" out of it. (I grew up near Matt and Trey; they had the receipts.)
So a church I never wanted to join anyway doesn't want me in it? Don't threaten me with a good time! Deny me my own set of magic underpants! Exclude me from your services! It's what I deserve- shut me out of your world altogether! Please, tell me how you're never going to darken my door with your missionaries again!
They say you should judge yourself by your enemies, and by their own declarations as such, my list is getting pretty long, so... go me, I guess?
I can donate a ton of cow manure from a friend’s parents farm. Religions are fictional bullshit, now they can have real shit to go with their fictional shit!
I remember reading an article nearly 50 years ago about how the Mormons treated gay people. A mother and therapist said something like, “the church seems to go out of its way to make sure that it hurts people who are gay, and to make sure that they know that they are broken beyond help of repair.’ not the exact words, but close enough. She was a therapist, and she couldn’t understand it.
That was when I began to understand the depth of hatred that exists in conservative religion for gay people then, and transgender people now. They can claim it’s all about their Christlike love all they wish, if you don’t mind that much sarcasm, but all that statement is about is they’re willing to tolerate you as long as you don’t get too uppity.
Among the many things that Donald Trump has to answer for, and there is a great deal of that, his demonization of transgender people for his own benefit has to rank as among the worst. It started before Trump, of course, but he saw a bit of nastiness he could double down on, and ran with it.
There is a website called floodlit.org, which reports on nothing but sexual abuse cases in the Moron Chruch that have gone into the criminal justice system. Here are the statistics:
Sexual abuse in the Mormon church
4,177 reports of sex abuse
394 times church officials allegedly hid abuse
132 accused former bishops
$52.2 million paid after alleged failures
261 ongoing criminal / civil cases
I imagine I could go through each and every one of these cases, and not find one single transgender person.
NOT ONE SINGLE FUCKING ONE— LITERALLY.
But good christians that they are? The irony of that sarcasm…
Mormonism incorporates gender hierarchy into their theology even more than Evangelical churches. Your "perfect" afterlife greatly depends upon what was between your legs at birth, so it's not surprising they would reject and punish people who don't fit into their hierarchy. Best solution is to leave.
Well, it makes sense that you can’t transition. Men get their own planet for their wife and kids to live eternity with them. Women need to be able to leave their families to live on their husband’s planet. How do you keep track of the people are all changing genders all Willy nilly? Their nonsense only works when everything is black and white.
Greed and bigotry, bigotry and greed. These are the hallmarks of white evangelicalism, Mormonism, and rhe RCC. Not compassion. Not acceptance. Not basic human dignity.
Do you mean that a book of gold plates would be ridiculously heavy? You didn't get tripped up by the peeping stone? Joseph Smith "translated" some pages and his partner's WIFE hid them. She said it shouldn't be an issue to re-write them, if Smith was telling the truth. That didn't go well.
Welcome to the RLDS, the REDUCTIONIST Latter-Day Saints, the church that cannot recognize the fact that some people are dealing with a very damned serious CONFLICT within themselves, between who they are and what their body says it is. If I recall correctly, Salt Lake City already has a considerable homeless problem, partly consisting of gay and lesbian teens who have been thrown out by their parents BECAUSE OF WHO THEY ARE. Congratulations, Mormons, you just formalized that procedure for trans kids.
I sense disappointment in your future. They don't believe a wife is allowed to say no to sex. Not very high up on the list of people who listen to their bodies...unless it'a an erect penis, of course.
Well, I did say, "I hope!" Generally speaking, religions resist change in any form, and when they do change, the speed of change is positively glacial. In addition, change rarely comes from within, but may more successfully be imposed from outside.
All that said, whether we actually get change in the Mormon church or not frankly is a toss-up. You can accuse me of being somewhat pollyannish, and I'll just sort of nod dully.
I just like to think such change is possible. Whether it's actually likely or not is clearly another matter.
While I have no use for any form of organized religion, I classify the Mormon Church under the heading, “Some people will believe anything.” The Mormon guys in Vietnam always had the nastiest porn.
That's because they sexualize children from birth and have made more harsh, strict rules about sexuality than I can wrap my brain around. So, as the strongest and smartest are all men they should be the Spiritual Leadership. But if they see the skin on a 12 year old girl's ankle, the girl caused them to "stumble" and it's her fault that the big, tough men raped her? Such LEADERSHIP!!!
The LDS has never stood on moral high ground. Ever. It’s a long con perpetrated by a convicted conman, built on the wombs of oppressed women and girls, and has always been bigoted and violent. They have more money than most countries that they hoard, and only spend on temples that they restrict access to only a minority of their own followers. They run for profit businesses, demand tithes no matter the circumstances, and still plead poverty. They’re buying up whole states worth of property to bilk even more money from folks who are not a part of their nonsense.
The problem is that there are far too many folks who actually believe their fairytales and think they will be tortured forever, separated from their families, if they don’t conform and pay their tithings. They can’t walk away because the cult has control over every aspect of their lives and they will lose eternity if they do. Perverted, greedy men get too much respect in our world. Even from the grave.
Or, as we in California called it "Prop Hate". Sadly it succeeded because the traditional Black churches, turned out to vote for Obama, and they have a terrible prejudice against the LGBTQ. It's why Whitney Houston was never allowed to be with her beloved Robyn.
My favorite pic is the one of the marriage equality act being passed in Oz. (From the guardian)There is a gentleman in parliament being hugged by a lady, who is so exuberant her heels are off the floor.
The incredible lengths that men (mainly) will go to to dictate what "God" says. When really what you're hearing is their preferences, their words, their values, the things that keep them cemented in positions of power over women, children, nature and yes, trans folks. The fantasy they have that their words are actually god's words only holds up so long as they get everyone else to believe it too. "Cosign our bullshit and we'll get God to give you a cookie."
IMHO if there is indeed a God who created all this and he didn't like trans people, he wouldn't have made any. Doh! So all this effort they go through to have things be their way, all the suppression, denial of rights, heavy handed control, are all in direct opposition to what is actually being created. And please, don't give me that "God gave us free will and wants us to choose him" BS. That's just them making an excuse for why the world doesn't form itself around their shriveled up beliefs.
'What's my social status' and 'who is sleeping with whom' are pretty much the two big obsessions of every animal in the Hominid family, and I wouldn't be surprised if it extended to all primates. Fixating on those topics is an instinct going back millions of years.
Darwin called it right: intraspecies competition drives a lot more adaptation and evolution than interspecies predation etc. Priests are just acting like head apes, constantly attempting to monitor and control status and mating within their group, for their benefit. Humans: bigger brains, same fundamental behavior.
Church founded by a pedo and conman says what?
"Make America Great Again." Oh, wait, I got my pedos and conmen mixed up. Silly me.
Actually ... no, you don't! 😉
The true train "wreck" that we are in is mixing pedos and the DOJ.
I just now had a thought that may the power to fix EVERYTHING!
The many folks in MAGA, who are overwhelming white, crave nothing more than or beyond their own VICTIMIZATION!
But every single Black person I've ever known (or known of) in America is just sick to death of being actual victims for every second of their lives, and for the past 400+ years.
White MAGA wishes to be victims while Black folks wish NEVER to be victims again.
Couldn't the two groups just switch? MAGA can hate themselves (as they should), and the descendents of American slaves can finally live their dreams.
(WHat can I say? MAGA is doing stranger things than this.....)
That's an INSPIRED idea. Mormons already believe that God punished Blacks with dark skin. We're already halfway there!
Halfway to backwards!?!?
Trumpian math ALWAYS gives the correct answer.....
"Two weeks!"
Thanks!
Except MAGA only pretends to be martyrs, they fold at the least inconvenience, like not being able to get their hair cut in a pandemic.
Con man in jail when he thought it up. His personal story ended well though.
Religion is the world's original grift.
Oh I love this! Sums it up perfectly.
If it's all about status at birth, that precludes any corrective surgeries, prosthetics, glasses & hearing aids, etc.
What about every cell in the body being periodically replaced?
My entire "body at birth" has been replaced multiple times by now.
Religion and logic rarely mix.
Rarely, bordering on NEVER.
Bordering?
Aaaah, I was being generous! 😁
yep.
Religions and REALITY never mix well!
Multiple times? Try tens of times. Maybe hundreds.
You take in and excrete something like 0.5%-1% of your body weight every day (on average). So every 100-200 days, you have changed every atom in your body. "Maybe hundreds" because that's an estimate for adults. For babies and kids with fast metabolisms, the exchange is faster. A hundred pound teen doesn't *just* eat a pound a day.
Talk about a "great replacement" theory!
Thanks, ericc...
Don't forget hysterectomies.
I bet they consider that a blasphemy.
😜😂
Does the Magic Underwear counteract any of that? It's all so mysterious and holy in some way, I guess, and it's beyond my understanding.
If your underwear is holy you should buy some new.
Oooh! Not only "mysterious and holy" but the deepest, darkest, largest cult AND the top contender for the largest labor trafficking entity in the US! If each grown man gets several young girl wives, what good are the male peers of those young girls good for, you ask? PAYING for the privilege to work 11 hour days for two years as a missionary? Yes! Working construction for pennies on the dollar (and then giving the church a dime from each dollar earned)? Yes! Undercutting the wages in communities where they settle with their endless source of free labor, putting non-Morman businesses under, after the church trust probides $ to open businesses while purchasing vast real estate portfolios? Yes! Then if you are excommunicated, they own your house and your business. The depth of their sinister, secretive (that's manipulation, by the way) nonsense is bottomless? Yes! You did great on the quiz!
Follows the standard conservative religious trend of making a general rule in order to try and fend off accusations of bigotry...then applying their rule only to gay and trans people.
Welp, guess everyone has to attend services naked, then! No more magic underwear!
As a nudist, we have a joke, that nudists are the people you don't want to see naked.
I'd likely be out because I have tattoos and piercings and had corrective surgery for a congenital deformity as a child. Oh no how will I ever cope with that lot not wanting anything to do with me. Woe is me.
Now that NASA has sent humans back to the Moon, maybe we should think about sending all Mormons to Kolob. It's their dream, isn't it? Sure, Kolob's a star and not a planet but what the heck? Their magic underwear will protect them, right?
I am sure Musk could sell one of his rockets to them. If it blow up on the landing pad, or it actually launches to send them on their way. It is a win for humanity (in fact humanity I.Q might go UP a few notches).
Either outcome works for me. 🙂
It is a statistical likelihood that Kolob has planets. Plenty of real estate for their greedy little developers.
Fictional stars can have as many planets as you want.
40 Eridani has 2 different fictional intelligent races living in its system, Star Trek's Vulcans and Project Hail Mary's Erids.
Funny how they never talk about each other. : )
They're both in Fight Club.
And the First Rule of Fight Club is ...
Amaze amaze!
I didn’t have the heart to tell Joe that Kolob isn’t real. :)
One for every rube, er worshipper, or is that Scientology?
Mormons get a planet. Scientologists get to be an extra in a Tom Cruise movie.
Gonna need a lot of astrophage for that.
👍👎
😂
I've mentiond it before, but black men were not allowed to be in the LDS priesthood. Nor would black men and women be allowed to participate in temple ordinances.
This policy, initiated by Brigham Young, lasted from 1852 until 1978, when it was lifted by then-LDS Presdent Spencer W. Kimball after a so-called "revelation" (was it a revelation about all that black money they were missing out on? Was it all the boycotts and protests?).
What's interesting to me is that no Mormon under 50 knows that black people had the "Mark of Cain" (as they called it). Those over 50 will deny it ever happened.
“The negro is damned, and is to serve his master till God chooses to remove the curse of Ham.”
— Brigham Young
Let them deny THAT.
So the "revelation" by Spencer W. Kimball in 1978 contradicts Brigham Young?
I wonder what else Brigham got wrong?
What did he get wrong? You could write a book on that one!
Could I read it without using seer stones?
I needed a quote for today's Quote of the Day. Thanks, bro!
Glad to do it. 😎
They deny he was a con man and a pedophile.
If I recall, it was ALSO a pending loss of tax-exempt status from the federal government, BECAUSE of their bigotry.
Aaaah, just coincidence, right? 😝
The "revelation" was that tax exemption was just a tiny bit more important than hating people of color. Sometimes the greed outweighs the bigotry, sometimes the bigotry outweighs the greed.
Most of the time the greed and bigotry enable each other.
I was a teen in 1978. Even my Mormon neighbors rolled their eyes at the "revelation" and said it was totally the taxes.
In the PRIESTHOOD? Not even near the temples! The Book of Morman says black skin is a curse from God! And, YES. They want their money now. 10% on the dollar, mandatory, + endless collection plate action! And $400 a month to the church, while you are allowed to pay all of your own expenses on your two year mission to strong-arm and psychologically manipulate others into this mess. They have many financial plans for you (to give them cash)!
Yes, to both!
They realized black people were the only way to grow their income and numbers. It wasn't because they became less racist.
It was the fact that they were going to lose their tax-exempt status over their billions of real estate holdings.
They did not, in fact, change being racist at all. But hey, we got "The Book of Mormon" out of it. (I grew up near Matt and Trey; they had the receipts.)
I didn’t figure it was lack of racism.
To the holier-than-thou hypocrites of the LDS...
3 words: Mountain Meadows Massacre. Now STFU.
I like to point that out as well, too.
So a church I never wanted to join anyway doesn't want me in it? Don't threaten me with a good time! Deny me my own set of magic underpants! Exclude me from your services! It's what I deserve- shut me out of your world altogether! Please, tell me how you're never going to darken my door with your missionaries again!
They say you should judge yourself by your enemies, and by their own declarations as such, my list is getting pretty long, so... go me, I guess?
They'll be perfectly happy to take your donations, though.
I'll donate them a bit of flatulence- I was done with it anyway.
I can donate a ton of cow manure from a friend’s parents farm. Religions are fictional bullshit, now they can have real shit to go with their fictional shit!
Aw, don't waste it on them -- use it as fertilizer!
I remember reading an article nearly 50 years ago about how the Mormons treated gay people. A mother and therapist said something like, “the church seems to go out of its way to make sure that it hurts people who are gay, and to make sure that they know that they are broken beyond help of repair.’ not the exact words, but close enough. She was a therapist, and she couldn’t understand it.
That was when I began to understand the depth of hatred that exists in conservative religion for gay people then, and transgender people now. They can claim it’s all about their Christlike love all they wish, if you don’t mind that much sarcasm, but all that statement is about is they’re willing to tolerate you as long as you don’t get too uppity.
Among the many things that Donald Trump has to answer for, and there is a great deal of that, his demonization of transgender people for his own benefit has to rank as among the worst. It started before Trump, of course, but he saw a bit of nastiness he could double down on, and ran with it.
There is a website called floodlit.org, which reports on nothing but sexual abuse cases in the Moron Chruch that have gone into the criminal justice system. Here are the statistics:
Sexual abuse in the Mormon church
4,177 reports of sex abuse
394 times church officials allegedly hid abuse
132 accused former bishops
$52.2 million paid after alleged failures
261 ongoing criminal / civil cases
I imagine I could go through each and every one of these cases, and not find one single transgender person.
NOT ONE SINGLE FUCKING ONE— LITERALLY.
But good christians that they are? The irony of that sarcasm…
Mormonism incorporates gender hierarchy into their theology even more than Evangelical churches. Your "perfect" afterlife greatly depends upon what was between your legs at birth, so it's not surprising they would reject and punish people who don't fit into their hierarchy. Best solution is to leave.
So the plan is: stay in the closet until you get command of your planet. Then come out as trans and rule with an iron fist and fabulous makeup?
Kneel before Zod, queen of the desert!
ericc? Do your meds need adjustment?!? 😉
It's a double movie reference...from the 80s-90s. I am old.
I'll tell Terrence Stamp you said hi! 😁
Had you instead referenced "Zardoz", I'd have been equally in agreement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gavlcbunY00
Superman III and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert? (I’m guessing the first, cos I get them mixed up, and was only small when they were on tv)
Like the potus is doing? Oh. No. You said "fabulous makeup." Never mind.
👏👏😁
Well, it makes sense that you can’t transition. Men get their own planet for their wife and kids to live eternity with them. Women need to be able to leave their families to live on their husband’s planet. How do you keep track of the people are all changing genders all Willy nilly? Their nonsense only works when everything is black and white.
If women can transition to men then there won't be enough planets to go around!
(𝑇ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑑.)
Greed and bigotry, bigotry and greed. These are the hallmarks of white evangelicalism, Mormonism, and rhe RCC. Not compassion. Not acceptance. Not basic human dignity.
Of COURSE, "donations from trans people will still be accepted!" Let's not forget what the Mormon church is about in the first place:
♫♪ Money-money-money-money ... MONEY! ♪♫
Really, the whole golden plates thing was a dead giveaway.
Do you mean that a book of gold plates would be ridiculously heavy? You didn't get tripped up by the peeping stone? Joseph Smith "translated" some pages and his partner's WIFE hid them. She said it shouldn't be an issue to re-write them, if Smith was telling the truth. That didn't go well.
Oh, I like that!
Is there a religion that isn't ultimately about greed and bigotry?
Welcome to the RLDS, the REDUCTIONIST Latter-Day Saints, the church that cannot recognize the fact that some people are dealing with a very damned serious CONFLICT within themselves, between who they are and what their body says it is. If I recall correctly, Salt Lake City already has a considerable homeless problem, partly consisting of gay and lesbian teens who have been thrown out by their parents BECAUSE OF WHO THEY ARE. Congratulations, Mormons, you just formalized that procedure for trans kids.
I hope the blowback on this is swift and STRONG.
How many of these awful Mor(m)on parents who discarded their now homeless children also want to make homelessness a crime?
When this brand of mad and intolerant ideology is in play, NOTHING surprises me.
All.
There is a trans woman in one of the male dorms at the Salvation Army in St. Pete.
Hope she's well and safe!
As far as I have seen, no one bothers her.
I bet she wouldn’t bother anyone in the women’s dorm, but she would feel a million times better!
The homeless men have more compassion, I guess.
I sense disappointment in your future. They don't believe a wife is allowed to say no to sex. Not very high up on the list of people who listen to their bodies...unless it'a an erect penis, of course.
Well, I did say, "I hope!" Generally speaking, religions resist change in any form, and when they do change, the speed of change is positively glacial. In addition, change rarely comes from within, but may more successfully be imposed from outside.
All that said, whether we actually get change in the Mormon church or not frankly is a toss-up. You can accuse me of being somewhat pollyannish, and I'll just sort of nod dully.
I just like to think such change is possible. Whether it's actually likely or not is clearly another matter.
While I have no use for any form of organized religion, I classify the Mormon Church under the heading, “Some people will believe anything.” The Mormon guys in Vietnam always had the nastiest porn.
That's because they sexualize children from birth and have made more harsh, strict rules about sexuality than I can wrap my brain around. So, as the strongest and smartest are all men they should be the Spiritual Leadership. But if they see the skin on a 12 year old girl's ankle, the girl caused them to "stumble" and it's her fault that the big, tough men raped her? Such LEADERSHIP!!!
Grew up in a Mormon area. Not surprised about the porn.
This is not “pastoral guidance.” It’s a compliance trap dressed up as care — participate fully only if you erase yourself.
Tying temple access and “worthiness” to detransition is coercion, not love. It’s exclusion with paperwork and a softer vocabulary.
And the “sensitivity” language is the tell: the harm is the policy, and the tenderness is just cover.
The LDS has never stood on moral high ground. Ever. It’s a long con perpetrated by a convicted conman, built on the wombs of oppressed women and girls, and has always been bigoted and violent. They have more money than most countries that they hoard, and only spend on temples that they restrict access to only a minority of their own followers. They run for profit businesses, demand tithes no matter the circumstances, and still plead poverty. They’re buying up whole states worth of property to bilk even more money from folks who are not a part of their nonsense.
The problem is that there are far too many folks who actually believe their fairytales and think they will be tortured forever, separated from their families, if they don’t conform and pay their tithings. They can’t walk away because the cult has control over every aspect of their lives and they will lose eternity if they do. Perverted, greedy men get too much respect in our world. Even from the grave.
Let's also not forget who was the primary funding source for California Proposition 8.
Or, as we in California called it "Prop Hate". Sadly it succeeded because the traditional Black churches, turned out to vote for Obama, and they have a terrible prejudice against the LGBTQ. It's why Whitney Houston was never allowed to be with her beloved Robyn.
Poor Whitney might still be alive.
I kept my No on H8 sign in the front window till gay marriage was finally legal. I cut it up and threw it in the trash the next day.
My favorite pic is the one of the marriage equality act being passed in Oz. (From the guardian)There is a gentleman in parliament being hugged by a lady, who is so exuberant her heels are off the floor.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/dec/07/marriage-equality-law-passes-australias-parliament-in-landslide-vote
I read that as "OZ" and thought, yes, Glinda and Elphaba would have been happier married to each other.
They're just the 19th-century Scientology, really. Understood through that lens, the grift is crystal clear.
The incredible lengths that men (mainly) will go to to dictate what "God" says. When really what you're hearing is their preferences, their words, their values, the things that keep them cemented in positions of power over women, children, nature and yes, trans folks. The fantasy they have that their words are actually god's words only holds up so long as they get everyone else to believe it too. "Cosign our bullshit and we'll get God to give you a cookie."
IMHO if there is indeed a God who created all this and he didn't like trans people, he wouldn't have made any. Doh! So all this effort they go through to have things be their way, all the suppression, denial of rights, heavy handed control, are all in direct opposition to what is actually being created. And please, don't give me that "God gave us free will and wants us to choose him" BS. That's just them making an excuse for why the world doesn't form itself around their shriveled up beliefs.
Dictators gonna dictate...dicishly.
As always, the religious are most concerned about only two things: what's between somebody else's legs, and money.
'What's my social status' and 'who is sleeping with whom' are pretty much the two big obsessions of every animal in the Hominid family, and I wouldn't be surprised if it extended to all primates. Fixating on those topics is an instinct going back millions of years.
Darwin called it right: intraspecies competition drives a lot more adaptation and evolution than interspecies predation etc. Priests are just acting like head apes, constantly attempting to monitor and control status and mating within their group, for their benefit. Humans: bigger brains, same fundamental behavior.
But...but...but...all the holy books say humans are special! /s
Goddamm fucking CROTCH CHRISTIANS, MIND YOUR OWN DAMM FUCKING BUSINESS!
A male friend of mine once burst out with "Republicans think about anal sex more than my husband and I do!"
Kristi Noem told her husband that she will divorce him if he doesn't stop cross-dressing.
So he packed up her clothes and left.
Meanwhile, Bondi's portrait at the DoJ is in the trash bin.
She was in that bin, clutching her portrait and crying.
Talk about good riddance to bad rubbish.
Cross-Dressing in South Dakota kinda sounds like the title of a Tom Robbins novel.
Cross Dressing sounds like a one horse town in South Dakota 😉 or at least, a tongue-in-cheek cowboy novel!
Or an Easter salad dressing
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That's the funniest story I've heard all week. And we should now pray for her because she will have to go out and buy a whole new wardrobe.
This made me give an unladylike snort. Thanks.