Damn, only two of three.
Would it be disrespectful to trans folks if I tried to change my gender expression just to piss this guy off more?
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As has been point out elsewhere, the Pilgrim Fathers left Europe in order to practice religious intolerance rather than gain freedom from it. 
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I dunno. I belong to the congregation that their minister for hire started the very minute his contract expired, the next town over. Some of them were pretty okay.,⌠but we did need to make church/state laws for reasons.
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I dunno, he sounds a lot like William Burnside/1950s Captain America
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Thatâs not Captain Dreamy! And by that I mean Chris Evans.
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One thing I truly didnât understand from that clip: how can he or anyone ban a âmock weddingâ? That sounds like a free speech issue.
And if heâs going to use the argument that in the recent past homosexuality was considered a mental disorder . . . well, thatâs a really slippery slope to be on-- is he going to defend discredited psychological cures like trans-orbital lobotomy, primal scream therapy, hydrotherapy or insulin-coma therapy? Less than 100 years ago the idea of âwhite manâs burdenâ was commonly accepted in American society, using his logic you could cite that to defend segregation.
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Just listening to that, fuck Roy Moore is just foul.
Foul. Garbage-person who is terrible at thinking.
Heâs lamenting the DSM-IV-TR being supplanted by the DSM-V.
Heâs a shining beacon of Alabamaâs educational system. A system that demonstrably doesnât teach about how science works. A system that fails so many including chief bumpkin of the courts.
I both hate and pity this piece of human refuse. Probably at some point someone tried to educate him, but Iâm sure they failed because heâs being willfully stupid in order to protect his bigotry. If that isnât evil, I donât know what is.
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My southern grandmother who, as far as I know, never wished ill on another person, would say, âBless their heartâ when she heard of someoneâs misfortune.
This completely sincere and unironic use of the phrase is, of course, also appropriate in Roy Mooreâs case. I donât know what his real problem is but clearly there is something seriously wrong with him. Itâs unfortunate those around him are enabling his delusions rather than helping him, but right now some of his family members canât afford for him to take a break from the bench.
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Nobody gives a shit about the religion he practices at home.
Youâre confusing prejudging a person with judging him for his specific acts and deeds. Similarly one does not need to be tolerant of intolerance and hate. âPeople like himâ are anti-human rights bigots, not âChristiansâ
Ah regressives, trying to find hypocrisy to justify evils. Because zingers are more important than right-action.
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âThis is not about religion,â Moore said at the press conference. âThis is about my marriage and my legal orders.â
So, it really is all about him!
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My mother, not southern, would use it in a similar way, and would say âBless your heartâ as another way of saying âThank youâ for a compliment or some act of kindness.
Itâs only recently that I learned how much of a sting the phrase carries in the southern US. Yâall are tricky.
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Itâs almost like they have never heard about the Paradox of tolerance before, and think they have found some wonderful way to trip us up.
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Is there a kinder sounding method of saying âfuck those loser idiotsâ that I have yet to hear?
Also, âbless their heartâ isnât just a southern passive-aggressive thing, Mormons also adopted it as a burn on those they consider lessers.
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Iâm assuming (prejudgingly!!!) that theyâre of the âlibertarianâ persuasion where they would rather be smug towards the collectivists in the left and the existence of the State slash fear âpolitical correctnessâ in the judicial branch more than they would ever be interested in protecting or establishing human rights beyond property. I doubt Iâm very off the mark.
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The War of Northern Passive-Aggression? No, youâve summed it up nicely.
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I donât care what he does at home, I only care what he does from the bench, because thatâs the part that affects our shared society. But, yeah, it pisses me off when he uses his personal religion as a cudgel with which to punish anyone who isnât his co-religionist.
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If itâs a genuine expression of your identity, then Iâd say go for it. Some other trans people wonât be happy but they tend to be the ones who use transgender and gender dysphoria interchangably.
I am somewhat controversial as I think that gender dysphoria is an intersex condition and transgender is a seperate but not exclusive identity, but thatâs another subject I donât think I have the strength to talk about right now.
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But then wouldnât you lose the âhomosexualâ part in the deal?
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So , you are thus justified in making assumptions about my politics (about which you are wrong) because I point out an instance of sloppy language?
He was elected by his peersâŚaka inbred morons in Alabama. After being tossed out of the position not that long ago.
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