This comes as no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention. Republicans pander to the preachers and see human decency as a character flaw. Thank Ronald Reagan for inviting in the preachers. Almost all this violates the U.S. Constitution, but Greg Abbot, Dan Patrick, and Texas Republicans generally have nothing but contempt for it. They are authoritarians who value no one's religious freedom but their own. If the preachers ever attained the power they crave, they would be killing one another within a week over doctrinal errors.
The one good intention is for the Christian fanatics to tell the rest of non-Christinas what they want, argue for it, challenge the status quo and for the non-Christians to defend what we want through reason and challenge too. If such a match can be played fairly both sides can grow from the interaction. If they do not engage in argument then this platform is nothing, but performance. The road to Hell is paved by good performances too. The Devil has all the good tunes.
Getting the Christian fanatics to engage in fair debate would be a good thing. But they’ve made it clear they are utterly unwilling to do so.
*Stifling* opposing views is their whole goal.
So while, golly gosh, it’d be nice if we could all sit down and discuss things over tea would be just swell it’s not something anyone can count as a “good intention” on Christian’s part.
Sorry. It has to be nearly impossible to put two such different songs together seamlessly, to the point of adding a third song (I didn't see any need to add "Let There Be Rock" to the mix. It's kind of cheating).
Schisms have been the bane of most Christian denominations throughout our history. Witness the huge proliferation of churches that have split off from mainstream denominations over the years.
I have long contended that the staggering number of Christian sects should be a far bigger problem for believers than it is. They worship a God who supposedly willed the universe into existence, but when it came to the most important message imaginable, couldn't make himself understood.
and thats the scarier part. These CN have no issue pushing their theocratic agenda on everyone else. Wonder how they'd feel if it was Muslims doing this?
This is just so wrong. Making students read the Bible in public school? Why do I feel like it's going to be another 4 years of Trump? And at the end of those four years? I guarantee you he won't leave without a war. Everybody vote how you want. But realize if you vote Republican there will be changes, unhealthy changes starting with the youngest all the way to the oldest. I don't know if I could stomach Trump another 4 years. And I know I don't want a war here in the U.S.
Which would violate Article VI, and the first and fourteenth amendments. They know that affirmations of god, prayer, and bibles are already allowed. They want it to be mandatory.
No kidding! The insecurity of the evangelical Christian in their supposedly indomitable faith, as evinced by this platform, is only exceeded by their chutzpah in proposing said platform. That and, of course, their desire to turn Texas from the Lone Star State into the Handmaid's State, complete with Texas Christian Theocracy as the first, last, and only plank in that document. I would hope that there remain SOME Republicans out there for whom such positions would be utter anathema, but I would wonder at their willingness to come forward and risk the castigation that would doubtless follow.
The scariest part of this whole business is that the platform will almost certainly be approved ... and the only good part is that Democrats will be able to point to it as screaming evidence that the Texas GOP has well and truly jumped the shark.
The U.S. enjoys as much religious freedom as can be found on earth, and I will never understand why that isn't enough. The people who are driven to impose their religion on others disgust me to no end. Of all the forms of government humans have dreamed up, none is worse than theocracy.
Up-vote if I could. They people who would break down the barriers between church and state always seem to assume it will be their tribe calling the shots for everyone else. What they should be thinking about is the tribe they hate most having control over their lives.
They all believe that their sect will be the one that comes out on top- and that the leaders of their sect, which will 𝘵𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 be the one ruling the roost, 𝘸𝘰𝘯'𝘵 just wake up one day and decide it's time to actually enforce all those petty little religious laws they've been far too lenient with up 'til that moment.
They never seem to grasp the fact the great majority of Americans pay little more than lip-service to religion, and have no desire to force religion on anyone.
Or how lucky they are that they 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 have to follow their own religion's rules to the letter, because of how little control their religious leaders really have over their lives- they think a Christian theocracy would somehow be freer, or more tolerant of dress code slip-ups and casual blasphemies, than a Muslim theocracy... while ignoring their religion's history of being just as bad or worse where and when it had its chance to rule.
I think they would soon come to realize why the founders gave religion no role to play in the government of their new country. That said, they would still be the last people to get it.
Yes, of course they think theirs is the "right" religion and will triumph. But what if it isn't. What if another, perhaps antithetical, religion comes out on top? It reminds me of the reincarnation craze that swept over us in the '70s. I had a discussion with someone who really believed in it and was amused that she just assumed she would come back as a middle class American. So I asked her, "what if you came back a a blind Bengali beggar? What then?" She was horrified at the thought. These Christians should hearken unto the history of why the Founders were pressed to include the establishment clause.
"But Texas Republicans already have a super-majority in the Texas legislature and there are damn good reasons they haven’t adopted the most extreme elements of this platform: Even they know the items are either blatantly unconstitutional or wildly unpopular."
That a very optimistic vision. Texas anti abortion law pre date dobbs. Talk about an unpopular law being implemented.
Add the ban of sex education in school and girls/women health will plummet even more than it already does.
These supermajorities make Republicans drunk with power, so they do stupid things,
One of the people in the KS legislature who authored the first abortion ban bill (after voters had already voted 68-32 to keep abortion legal) said back in April she will continue to introduce anti-abortion laws until it passes.
What all of these politicians and so-called Christians seem to forget is all children have access to the internet, one way or another, and see and know about all sorts of things the parents , preachers, politicians and teachers can't even imagine. So they think they are getting control over the minds of young people, but they are not and this type of thing will only drive the children into deeper dives on the web.
They have access up until christains ape the CCPs great firewall. And that's just right now. ai wouldn't put it past christains to abolish the internet in favor of some bastard version of intranet that won't be worth spit.
(WTF?!) Three edits and I still changes into ai. Seriously WTF?!
You may be right but many times parents have thought they had total control over their children lives when they didn't . One summer my daughter went to a macrobiotic summer camp in Ma. where the kids were under "strict" supervision - so they believed. Every night the kids collected money and one of them snuck out, ran down to nearest gas station and bought up all the junk food they wanted. And so it went! I am glad my daughter trusted me enough to tell me. I nearly died laughing.
"Our God-given unalienable right to religious liberty" seems awfully circular, especially when their definition of "religious liberty" is for the variety of evangelical Christianity you prefer, which is kind of similar to asking whether you prefer to eat dog poop, horse dung, or cow pies.
Remember that what Texas schools adopt, the entire country must teach. The textbook publishers are influenced by Texas’ population (Texas purchases more textbooks than the rest of the country, so they publish what Texas wants and to save money they sell those to school districts across the country rather than making edits for each) and publish textbooks with their platform across the country. This isn’t only about Texas, this is about the entire country getting a real education.
It isn’t just the textbooks either. Texas is the birthplace for a good number of current policies and laws that are undermining our rights to bodily autonomy, access to healthcare, voting and so much more.
I don’t think we will be able to combat this without addressing the SCOTUS, these policies are blatantly unconstitutional but we all know that the majority in SCOTUS will find a way to excuse it and undermine precedent, as they did with Roe, and segregation, and many other church/state cases. Vote blue as you are able, it may not be enough to change the local and gerrymandered fights, but it can make a difference at the federal level enough to change the tide. Just to be clear, a slim majority is not enough, we need to take out the leverage the GOP has concerning the filibuster, we need over 65% majority and we need to be able to keep the DINOs under control.
No. He was so tough he survived. And told the tale to someone who told the tale to someone who thought the tale needed zombies who told the tale to someone who told the tale to someone who wrote it down and hid it in a cave and told someone who embellished and then told someone who rewrote it with a specific agenda to keep the masses in line and wrote it down and an emperor decreed that it was the truth.
Also, their story is that he was sent to Earth to die so that sinners didn't have to, so you'd think they'd be grateful to those who helped play out the charade, which was only necessary because their all powerful god couldn't just say, you know what, I'll forgive y'all for being imperfect; he had to clone himself and send the clone to die to appease himself.
Check out "The Sacred Executioner" by Hyam Maccoby for an interesting perspective on that.
The "𝘑𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘰-" part of "𝘑𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘰-𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯" had better sit up and pay attention, because it sure looks like Texas Republicans are fixing to take a chainsaw to that hyphen of theirs the moment they think they can get away with it.
Somewhere in the writings of P.G. Wodehouse is a description of someone as a "despicable human odium". I presume that would fit Ted Cruz to a T. This whole effort the GQP is laying out across the country is designed to make the red states so undesirable, that all us sinners, brown people, and Queers will just move away... I have said it repeatedly - I think they are positioning to partition the nation and we had better get ready for them to sue for divorce.
“Billions of people just living out their lives... oblivious.” - Agent Smith. “ Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone” - Joni Mitchell, ‘Big Yellow Taxi’
The splintering of the U.S. of A. will begin with the abolishment of the first amendment by a state such as Texas.
Using similar misguided bullshit I read out of the mouths of conservatives Christians—like god sent hurricane to New Orleans or AIDS to NYC—I say unto you, god is punishing the Bible Belt with tornadoes, heat waves and other destructions for following false prophets and not obeying the commandment to love thy neighbor.
By "𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱," I presume they must mean "𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴," because they sure as fuck don't mean teaching future politicians how to serve their constituents. These shitsacks are out to 𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘦- not to 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥, and certainly not to 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦 anybody.
This comes as no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention. Republicans pander to the preachers and see human decency as a character flaw. Thank Ronald Reagan for inviting in the preachers. Almost all this violates the U.S. Constitution, but Greg Abbot, Dan Patrick, and Texas Republicans generally have nothing but contempt for it. They are authoritarians who value no one's religious freedom but their own. If the preachers ever attained the power they crave, they would be killing one another within a week over doctrinal errors.
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Looks like asphalt, to me!
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/B5DH6F/hell-michigan-a-road-sign-points-towards-the-small-town-of-hell-B5DH6F.jpg
Pay attention to the road signs on the way to Hell cause there is one heck of a plunging curve.
So if you walk into town, you get to saunter vaguely downwards?
And while your walking, pop into the Hypnos Pub and have a pint of Lethe Ale and enjoy all kinds of vague unmindfuless the rest of the way to Hell.
Whose fault?
(Joke from my childhood) :)
No. Their intentions are entirely bad. Malevolent. Evil.
Please point out even just one “good intention” in the Texas GOP platform.
The one good intention is for the Christian fanatics to tell the rest of non-Christinas what they want, argue for it, challenge the status quo and for the non-Christians to defend what we want through reason and challenge too. If such a match can be played fairly both sides can grow from the interaction. If they do not engage in argument then this platform is nothing, but performance. The road to Hell is paved by good performances too. The Devil has all the good tunes.
Getting the Christian fanatics to engage in fair debate would be a good thing. But they’ve made it clear they are utterly unwilling to do so.
*Stifling* opposing views is their whole goal.
So while, golly gosh, it’d be nice if we could all sit down and discuss things over tea would be just swell it’s not something anyone can count as a “good intention” on Christian’s part.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d5/01/65/d50165a97668cebe6552d8bd7980faed.jpg
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"We split ways here..."
Or DO they?
https://youtu.be/VPq8ECzKva4
I finally listened to it. Well, for as much as it could stand it. 👎
Sorry. It has to be nearly impossible to put two such different songs together seamlessly, to the point of adding a third song (I didn't see any need to add "Let There Be Rock" to the mix. It's kind of cheating).
Schisms have been the bane of most Christian denominations throughout our history. Witness the huge proliferation of churches that have split off from mainstream denominations over the years.
I have long contended that the staggering number of Christian sects should be a far bigger problem for believers than it is. They worship a God who supposedly willed the universe into existence, but when it came to the most important message imaginable, couldn't make himself understood.
Barry Goldwater (of all people) warned us of this.
I have spoken with people who don't believe the Republicans are pushing theocracy. Here is direct evidence that they are.
I talk to people who have no problem with any of that.
and thats the scarier part. These CN have no issue pushing their theocratic agenda on everyone else. Wonder how they'd feel if it was Muslims doing this?
This is just so wrong. Making students read the Bible in public school? Why do I feel like it's going to be another 4 years of Trump? And at the end of those four years? I guarantee you he won't leave without a war. Everybody vote how you want. But realize if you vote Republican there will be changes, unhealthy changes starting with the youngest all the way to the oldest. I don't know if I could stomach Trump another 4 years. And I know I don't want a war here in the U.S.
And the notion that creationism should be taught alongside evolution is ludicrous.
IKR, ludicrous. They want to 𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄 teaching evolution with creationism.
Yrs, that's exactly what they want to do.
Even worse.
Thank you! Stupid. New England and California won't permit it.
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑐𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑠 “𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝐺𝑜𝑑, 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑦𝑒𝑟, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑇𝑒𝑛 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙𝑠, 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑔𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑏𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠.”
Which would violate Article VI, and the first and fourteenth amendments. They know that affirmations of god, prayer, and bibles are already allowed. They want it to be mandatory.
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝐺𝑜𝑑 𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑘.
No kidding! The insecurity of the evangelical Christian in their supposedly indomitable faith, as evinced by this platform, is only exceeded by their chutzpah in proposing said platform. That and, of course, their desire to turn Texas from the Lone Star State into the Handmaid's State, complete with Texas Christian Theocracy as the first, last, and only plank in that document. I would hope that there remain SOME Republicans out there for whom such positions would be utter anathema, but I would wonder at their willingness to come forward and risk the castigation that would doubtless follow.
The scariest part of this whole business is that the platform will almost certainly be approved ... and the only good part is that Democrats will be able to point to it as screaming evidence that the Texas GOP has well and truly jumped the shark.
The U.S. enjoys as much religious freedom as can be found on earth, and I will never understand why that isn't enough. The people who are driven to impose their religion on others disgust me to no end. Of all the forms of government humans have dreamed up, none is worse than theocracy.
What's even scarier is that none of them would realize how bad theocracy is until they actually LIVE in one.
Up-vote if I could. They people who would break down the barriers between church and state always seem to assume it will be their tribe calling the shots for everyone else. What they should be thinking about is the tribe they hate most having control over their lives.
They all believe that their sect will be the one that comes out on top- and that the leaders of their sect, which will 𝘵𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 be the one ruling the roost, 𝘸𝘰𝘯'𝘵 just wake up one day and decide it's time to actually enforce all those petty little religious laws they've been far too lenient with up 'til that moment.
They never seem to grasp the fact the great majority of Americans pay little more than lip-service to religion, and have no desire to force religion on anyone.
Or how lucky they are that they 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 have to follow their own religion's rules to the letter, because of how little control their religious leaders really have over their lives- they think a Christian theocracy would somehow be freer, or more tolerant of dress code slip-ups and casual blasphemies, than a Muslim theocracy... while ignoring their religion's history of being just as bad or worse where and when it had its chance to rule.
I think they would soon come to realize why the founders gave religion no role to play in the government of their new country. That said, they would still be the last people to get it.
Yes, of course they think theirs is the "right" religion and will triumph. But what if it isn't. What if another, perhaps antithetical, religion comes out on top? It reminds me of the reincarnation craze that swept over us in the '70s. I had a discussion with someone who really believed in it and was amused that she just assumed she would come back as a middle class American. So I asked her, "what if you came back a a blind Bengali beggar? What then?" She was horrified at the thought. These Christians should hearken unto the history of why the Founders were pressed to include the establishment clause.
Ever notice how all these people were nobility in their past lives?
What's even funnier is how many claim to be the same noble. Like they said about the insane asylum...ten Napoleons, no waiting.
Well, there was Arnold J Rimmer, who was convinced he used to be Alexander the Great...
's chief eunuch.
And even then they won't realize it until they manage to express an independent thought.
"But Texas Republicans already have a super-majority in the Texas legislature and there are damn good reasons they haven’t adopted the most extreme elements of this platform: Even they know the items are either blatantly unconstitutional or wildly unpopular."
That a very optimistic vision. Texas anti abortion law pre date dobbs. Talk about an unpopular law being implemented.
Add the ban of sex education in school and girls/women health will plummet even more than it already does.
These supermajorities make Republicans drunk with power, so they do stupid things,
One of the people in the KS legislature who authored the first abortion ban bill (after voters had already voted 68-32 to keep abortion legal) said back in April she will continue to introduce anti-abortion laws until it passes.
She should look for the meaning of referendum.
And "how government works", AKA, "We put you into office and we can take you OUT."
These anti American traitors definitely need to be taken out.
What all of these politicians and so-called Christians seem to forget is all children have access to the internet, one way or another, and see and know about all sorts of things the parents , preachers, politicians and teachers can't even imagine. So they think they are getting control over the minds of young people, but they are not and this type of thing will only drive the children into deeper dives on the web.
They have access up until christains ape the CCPs great firewall. And that's just right now. ai wouldn't put it past christains to abolish the internet in favor of some bastard version of intranet that won't be worth spit.
(WTF?!) Three edits and I still changes into ai. Seriously WTF?!
AI has already taken over! 🤖
“… all children have access to the internet, one way or another …”
Probably not for long.
You may be right but many times parents have thought they had total control over their children lives when they didn't . One summer my daughter went to a macrobiotic summer camp in Ma. where the kids were under "strict" supervision - so they believed. Every night the kids collected money and one of them snuck out, ran down to nearest gas station and bought up all the junk food they wanted. And so it went! I am glad my daughter trusted me enough to tell me. I nearly died laughing.
I guess we were all kids once. Amazingly inventive - when we wanted to be 👍
"Our God-given unalienable right to religious liberty" seems awfully circular, especially when their definition of "religious liberty" is for the variety of evangelical Christianity you prefer, which is kind of similar to asking whether you prefer to eat dog poop, horse dung, or cow pies.
"Cow pie" only means one thing to me.
https://shop.beano.com/desperate-dan-cow-pie-print
Why? Why are you a hater of innocent poop? What wrong did it ever do to you?
It's left me in some really crappy situations.
Remember that what Texas schools adopt, the entire country must teach. The textbook publishers are influenced by Texas’ population (Texas purchases more textbooks than the rest of the country, so they publish what Texas wants and to save money they sell those to school districts across the country rather than making edits for each) and publish textbooks with their platform across the country. This isn’t only about Texas, this is about the entire country getting a real education.
It isn’t just the textbooks either. Texas is the birthplace for a good number of current policies and laws that are undermining our rights to bodily autonomy, access to healthcare, voting and so much more.
I don’t think we will be able to combat this without addressing the SCOTUS, these policies are blatantly unconstitutional but we all know that the majority in SCOTUS will find a way to excuse it and undermine precedent, as they did with Roe, and segregation, and many other church/state cases. Vote blue as you are able, it may not be enough to change the local and gerrymandered fights, but it can make a difference at the federal level enough to change the tide. Just to be clear, a slim majority is not enough, we need to take out the leverage the GOP has concerning the filibuster, we need over 65% majority and we need to be able to keep the DINOs under control.
I’m not in favor of the death penalty but Mr. Phil I. Buster need to be Kevorkianed.
Well, the cowards aren't willing to euthanize him, so we will just have to outnumber Mr. Buster.
"Judeo-Christian" is a Christian fantasy. Rabbis and Jewish scholars will tell you straight out that it's not a thing for them.
The recorded history of Christianity plainly illustrates Christian attitudes towards Jews.
Even putting that aside, the term is an insult to people who are not of either faith.
"Judeo-Christian" is a PR term that recognizes the bad optics of openly persecuting Jews in the modern era.
'Cause the killed "the big guy". Got that one in my Baltimore Catechism.
(And it indicates that the guy didn't impress that much. Otherwise, they'd all convert)
VIKINGS (seeing a crucifix for the first time): "Their god is dead!"
He got better - Monty Python
No. He was so tough he survived. And told the tale to someone who told the tale to someone who thought the tale needed zombies who told the tale to someone who told the tale to someone who wrote it down and hid it in a cave and told someone who embellished and then told someone who rewrote it with a specific agenda to keep the masses in line and wrote it down and an emperor decreed that it was the truth.
That sounds about correct.
PLEASE splain how to kill an immortal god?
Let's see now. Two wooden beams and three rusty spikes seem to be enough.
'E got better.
Well you see, they only killed the part of him that's human, not the god part. Which might explain the inhumanity of certain Christian sects.
That's what my dad used to say.
Also, their story is that he was sent to Earth to die so that sinners didn't have to, so you'd think they'd be grateful to those who helped play out the charade, which was only necessary because their all powerful god couldn't just say, you know what, I'll forgive y'all for being imperfect; he had to clone himself and send the clone to die to appease himself.
Check out "The Sacred Executioner" by Hyam Maccoby for an interesting perspective on that.
The "𝘑𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘰-" part of "𝘑𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘰-𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯" had better sit up and pay attention, because it sure looks like Texas Republicans are fixing to take a chainsaw to that hyphen of theirs the moment they think they can get away with it.
Sounds about Reich.
The only reason they keep it is to deny being the Nazis they are. After all, Nazis hated Jews and the NSGOP pretends they don't.
"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," indeed.
Somewhere in the writings of P.G. Wodehouse is a description of someone as a "despicable human odium". I presume that would fit Ted Cruz to a T. This whole effort the GQP is laying out across the country is designed to make the red states so undesirable, that all us sinners, brown people, and Queers will just move away... I have said it repeatedly - I think they are positioning to partition the nation and we had better get ready for them to sue for divorce.
“Billions of people just living out their lives... oblivious.” - Agent Smith. “ Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone” - Joni Mitchell, ‘Big Yellow Taxi’
The splintering of the U.S. of A. will begin with the abolishment of the first amendment by a state such as Texas.
They (the creepy old white men) cannot wait to institute the Republic of Gilead.
True, true.
Forcing religion on someone against their will. Sounds like rape, to me.
They allow that too. (No r*pe exceptions in abortion law)
Using similar misguided bullshit I read out of the mouths of conservatives Christians—like god sent hurricane to New Orleans or AIDS to NYC—I say unto you, god is punishing the Bible Belt with tornadoes, heat waves and other destructions for following false prophets and not obeying the commandment to love thy neighbor.
By "𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱," I presume they must mean "𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴," because they sure as fuck don't mean teaching future politicians how to serve their constituents. These shitsacks are out to 𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘦- not to 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥, and certainly not to 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦 anybody.
How to be a slave and happy about it.
I believeI read a story long ago, about how some slave owners tried to convince the enslave peolle that they should be happy about being a slave.
We might have to start up a rescue and resettlement operation to get victims out of Texas and reestablished in a safe part of the US.
Alberta.