Come the transvolution, motherfucker.
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Fucking hell, I just want the green paper to be released so I can get the bad news over and done with. The waiting is making my PTSD worse.
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That is the dumbest thing Iâve seen all day, and thatâs saying a lot.
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TERFLogic is an inexhaustible fount of stupid- and malignant intent.
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The sheer stupid, though; that shit is IMMENSE.
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University of Maryland Hospital owned, yet, abides by Catholic religious doctrine. How the hell does this fly? I have never heard of something like this! (And donât even start on the âprivately-ownedâ fiction. UM is a publicly owned entity regardless of the corporate structure.)
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Because Maryland was the only Catholic colony?
Nah - theyâre just assholes.
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I think people denying themselves, or their family members (looking at you, Jehovahâs Witnesses) treatment is wrong, but if you really believe and can state your personal claim clearly and coherently, well, fair enough. I can think thatâs stupid but it harms only the patient. You do you.
Medical practitioners denying to treat someone because of their own arbitrary religious beliefs is plain evil.
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Iâm sure theyâall deny cis women seeking tubal ligation or cis guys seeking vasectomy on the same basis.
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I would be 100% on board with that.
No, wait, I totally fucking wouldnât!!
If your god says you can treat someone, anyone, worse than someone else then youâre an asshole.
Soâs your god.
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Elizabeth Sepper, Zombie Religious Institutions , 112 Nw. U. L. Rev. 929 (2018).
This Article uncovers and names a phenomenon of pressing importance for healthcare policy and religious liberty law: the rise of zombie religious institutionsâorganizations that have contractual commitments to religious identity but lack actual attachments to churches or associations of religious people. Contracts create religionâsometimes in perpetuityâfor institutions that are not, or never have been, religious and for providers who do not share the institutionâs religious precepts. This Article details religionâs spread across healthcare through affiliations, mergers, andâmost surprisinglyâsales of hospitals that continue religious practice after their connection to a church ends. These contracts require hospitalsâsecular and religious, public and private, for-profit and nonprofitâto comply with religious tenets. âReligiousâ institutions far removed from the paradigm of the church populate the marketplace. In this way, private law impedes public policy, expanding the universe of institutions eligible for religious exemption from otherwise applicable laws. Moreover, as the category of religious institution loses its specialness, theories of religious institutionalism founder. The presumption of autonomy of religious institutions from regulation cannot survive in the marketplace where religious identity can be bought and sold.
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Well, hell. Yet another way our health care system is fucked. I was not sure there were any undiscovered fuckeries, but apparently so. I hate this timeline soooo muchâŚ
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Havenât there been societies where power is essentially divided between landowners and industrialists, and social welfare is left to the church (which also happens to be the largest landowner in the country)?
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âFree speech for me, but not for thee.â
FTA:
Last month the Guardian revealed that four authors at Rowlingâs literary agency had resigned in protest after the company refused to issue a public statement of support for transgender rights, saying that âfreedom of speech can only be upheld if the structural inequalities that hinder equal opportunities for underrepresented groups are challenged and changedâ.
Hypocrites. (Rowling and her publishers, not the critics who caved to legal threats. In the US a billionaire filling frivolous lawsuits can be ruinously expensive to fight, but in the UK the billionaire may in fact win a ruinous judgement against reasonable criticism.)
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Why didnât she just engage in more free speech?
Because power concedes nothing?
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