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What am I supposed to do here? Rage? Throw things? Pledge to vote? I work everyday for the progressive message, but something is getting lost in the translation. At some point the nation is either going to stand by its values, or people will lose...
by Rule of Claw
on Thu Nov 16, 2023 at 03:09 AM PST
with 531 Recommends
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New House Speaker Mike Johnson, who will almost certainly turn into Jim Jordan if you get him wet or feed him after midnight, has a real problem with gay people. In fact, he thinks homosexuality is so seismically sinful, it has the unique power to end...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
on Sat Nov 04, 2023 at 10:42 AM PDT
with 358 Recommends
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Former boss of the Jesuit Catholic order in Argentina, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, has been taking Roman Catholics worldwide on an extraordinary journey. Now Pope Francis, the head of the world’s largest Christian denomination has been striving to balance...
by Alan Austin
on Tue Oct 10, 2023 at 04:28 AM PDT
with 60 Recommends
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From Global News (Canada): Amid a wave of legislation in some U.S. states targeting the LGBTQ2 community, Canada has updated its travel advisory for the country specifically advising people to check state and local laws before visiting. The Canadian...
by DoctorH
on Wed Aug 30, 2023 at 08:52 AM PDT
with 37 Recommends
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The movie 1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture is currently making the rounds of film festivals where it has won a slew of awards. In 1946 the word ’homosexual’ first appeared in the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the American Bible, the...
by NHBred
on Fri Aug 25, 2023 at 10:54 AM PDT
with 15 Recommends
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We see right-wing theocrats attempting to take over our country, and wonder why it’s happening. It starts with the fact that many Americans are raised by parents telling tiny kids that mysterious, supernatural beings like Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny,...
by CarolEllison
on Thu Feb 16, 2023 at 08:56 AM PST
with 297 Recommends
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I’m an openly gay woman who was raised Catholic. I’m an atheist now, but Catholicism runs deep in my family. I grew up filling out religious worksheets for Sunday school and praying before bed every single night. As is likely true for plenty of queer...
by Marissa Higgins
on Wed Jan 25, 2023 at 09:57 AM PST
with 255 Recommends
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Link to Part 2 of This Diary — One Man Played for His Country. The Other, Hounded by the Gestapo, Played for His Life. (Part 2) This diary was mostly written over five years ago but I only now finished it a few days ago. Before you read any further,...
by JekyllnHyde
on Sat Sep 03, 2022 at 10:23 AM PDT
with 85 Recommends
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It seems to me that the main source of hierarchy starts in the smallest of spaces: in the nuclear family. It starts here because it is here that young individuals are started off as contrasted against their mother, and, as extension, all people in her...
by novapsyche
on Thu Jul 28, 2022 at 07:36 AM PDT
with 13 Recommends
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I would dare say that a majority of MOT readers know all about Alan Turing, and doubtless some know more than I do, but if there is such a thing as a Hero for me then one of mine has to be Alan.
by funningforrest
on Sat Jun 04, 2022 at 03:30 AM PDT
with 28 Recommends
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God is infallible, or so I have been told. God does not make mistakes, or so I have been told. God has a plan, or so I have been told. God is omniscient and omnipresent, or so I have been told. God created the heavens and the earth, or so I have been...
by LimitReached
on Sat May 14, 2022 at 08:56 AM PDT
with 7 Recommends
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“O, yes,/ I say it plain,/ America never was America to me,/ And yet I swear this oath— America will be!” Despite the fact that Langston Hughes, in that famous poem, voices the legitimate grievances of African Americans, American Indians, and...
by shivashankar
on Sat Apr 09, 2022 at 01:51 PM PDT
with 7 Recommends
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What, are we back in the 1980s? Is Reagan president again? There is a bar in Wyoming that bad enough is selling t-shirts that state: “In Wyoming, we have a cure for AIDS.” The supposed “cure” in Wyoming is, according to the shirt, “We shoot fuck’n...
by CameronProf
on Wed Jul 14, 2021 at 12:00 AM PDT
with 232 Recommends
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Sometimes it sickens me to be a member of the human race. Wake the fuck up, people. It is 2021. People should be free to live out their sexual orientation! (NOT preference. I have a preference for ice cream flavors, not my sexuality), All religions...
by CameronProf
on Fri Jan 29, 2021 at 04:23 AM PST
with 10 Recommends
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Pink News has corrected its reporting on this story: An earlier version of this article referenced two inaccurate reports regarding Yaakov Litzman blaming the coronavirus pandemic on homosexuality. This has since been corrected. Apparently, it was an...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
on Tue Apr 07, 2020 at 11:08 AM PDT
with 99 Recommends
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Jesus tried to make the world fairer for women. He told men not to divorce their wives, and forgave the Woman at the Well, who had been married 5 times. He took on the women's role in washing ...
by SolarKitty
on Sat Jan 18, 2020 at 06:00 AM PST
with 3 Recommends
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As part of a long term study, the Policy Institute at King’s College London and IPSOS Mori have conducted a repeat of a survey done in 1989. These asked if the respondent thought something immoral or morally unacceptable. These show that the population...
by Lib Dem FoP
on Mon Oct 28, 2019 at 04:18 PM PDT
with 12 Recommends
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overturning a colonial law. According to the Christian Science Monitor, a panel of 3 high court judges unanimously affirmed that:
“A democratic nation is one that embraces tolerance, diversity, and open-mindedness,” said Judge Michael Leburu,...
by enhydra lutris
on Tue Jun 11, 2019 at 08:16 PM PDT
with 39 Recommends
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There are nine hotels in the U.S. and Europe with ties to the sultan of Brunei that are facing a boycott, thankfully. George Clooney and Elton John are just some of the celebrities that have been vocal in attacking the hotels.
In case you have...
by BFSkinner
on Mon Apr 01, 2019 at 03:07 PM PDT
with 85 Recommends
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Meeting in St.Louis for the past three days, a General Conference of the United Methodist Church voted to maintain the Church’s position on homosexuality, gay clergy and gay marriage as stated in the Book of Discipline:
¶ 304.3: The practice of...
by Old Redneck
on Tue Feb 26, 2019 at 08:06 PM PST
with 64 Recommends
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