Joe is being a very good Secretary of State and consoler in chief.
He’s falling down on domestic Presidenting when we desperately need it.
Open clinics on federal land Joe!
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More of this sort of thing would be good. Highlight the absurdity.
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The phrase and hashtag is all over Twitter.
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I like that, time to fire up the heat press.
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Because the foster kids come with different beliefs, and might reject their adoptive parents ideology. Better to have a baby who they can teach in the right way.
Yet again the far-right xtians project their worst qualities onto their opponents, while believing that they are virtuous when they are doing it themselves.
Sometimes I worry I overdo the accusations of projection, but it proves to be correct most of the time.
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Isn’t that… grooming?
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Pretty much. As I said in the original comment, nearly every thing they accuse “the left” of doing is something that they are actually doing, but they justify it as being for God or the greater good. Now throw in underage marriage, paedophile priests (they aren’t just a Catholic problem), and the idea that children should never question adults (especially men). Now you have a nightmare scenario that is happening right now.
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Grooming is the pejorative word for social behavior that is either a great thing or a horrible thing, depending on the secretive motives of the “groomer”. It’s political dynamite!
Grooming is a real thing that actually happens, which the right is accusing the left of, when they are often doing so themselves - as @anon73430903 noted, they just don’t use that word when they do it, because they actually do understand the connotations around it, which is why they use it to try and paint the left as the “real predators.” They call things like creating a supportive environment for LBGQT+ children and teens as “grooming” for example. They are okay with teen girls getting married off to adult men who can “train them” but they don’t call that grooming, when it is indeed grooming.
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That petition exceeded the requirement by a few hundred thousand signatures.
Michigan is one step closer to a constitutional amendment protecting reproductive decisions.
It’s more signatures than any other initiative ever attempted. It should be a landslide vote in November.
That tells you something but I bet it tells our republican lawmakers nothing.
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This piece blames Anita Bryant
By the late 1980s a tremendous backlash to the HIV/AIDS epidemic led to efforts to legalize discrimination against gay men in medical care, insurance, housing, jobs, and even access to public places. The backlash also included a broader set of laws—colloquially labeled No Promo Homo laws—which prohibited any discussion of LGBT issues in the classroom, and sometimes in schools’ extracurricular activities as well, thus banning groups such as gay–straight alliances. These laws also often mandated various other kinds of “traditional family” instruction in schools, such as abstinence-only sex education courses that drew an equal sign between gay sex and AIDS. By 1995 sixteen states had passed such laws, of which Don’t Say Gay is a clear descendent. By then, the word “groomer” was also well established as a slur connecting gay men to pedophilia.
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It probably tells them they have to lean even harder into voter suppression.
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Fuck this timeline.
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Hope she sues them, and the whole state legislature.
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The Indiana doctor who carried out an abortion for a 10-year-old Ohio rape victim has previously faced threats that extremists would kidnap her daughter - and was publicly named by an anti-abortion group linked to Amy Coney Barrett before she became a Supreme Court justice.
Dr Caitlin Bernard testified last year that she stopped performing first-trimester abortions at a clinic in South Bend, Indiana, after the FBI alerted Planned Parenthood of the threat to her family.
Dr Bernard was one of six doctors named on the website of an extreme anti-abortion group Right to Life Michiana in a section entitled “Local Abortion Threat”, according to The Guardian.
Ms Coney Barrett, who helped overturn Roe v Wade in June, signed a 2006 advert published by the group when she was a professor at Notre Dame, which is based in South Bend.
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One solution: put the instructions on PornHub. If Republicans ban PornHub their base will riot.
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Bulk mail one page newspapers to every address in the state from outside the state.
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Post webpages with the biblical passage in Numbers. Make them censor the Bible.
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