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Almost every night, my husband falls asleep sitting up on the couch with his phone still in his hand, and still listening to some podcast with an earphone in his left ear. He’s doing that right now, 11:40 4/6/24. My questions are: first, to wives and...
by jmessick
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on Sat Apr 06, 2024 at 09:10 PM PDT
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Missouri Democratic state Rep. Ashley Aune has put forward a bill that would close an “archaic loophole ” in a law that prevents a judge from finalizing a divorce if the woman is pregnant. Aune ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Feb 28, 2024 at 10:30 AM PST
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🕊️ Global Observatory.org - 2019 The Role of Women in Northern Ireland’s Peace Process: Q&A with Monica McWilliams by Samir Ashraf. For clarity, the Ireland-England conflict dates back at minimum to about 1540, and in some...
by mettle fatigue
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on Sat Mar 02, 2024 at 04:50 PM PST
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Commentary by Black Kos editor JoanMar In their pre-Super Bowl program, CBS, in collaboration with the NFL, featured a segment reflecting on the activism of NFL players following the murders of ...
by Black Kos
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on Fri Feb 16, 2024 at 02:00 PM PST
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My parents were of that generation known as the greatest. After Pearl Harbor, dad left his law practice, which he loved, for the army, which he did not. He was an attorney. He could have spent the war in a nice, comfortable office. He chose to spend it...
by MeJean
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on Mon Feb 12, 2024 at 01:59 PM PST
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Anglicans worldwide were shocked and excited in mid-November – either that or shocked and appalled – when the Church of England narrowly voted to approve church services to bless same-sex civil unions. The church will continue, however, to reserve the...
by Alan Austin
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on Mon Jan 22, 2024 at 04:08 AM PST
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Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), the one-time presidential candidate whose love life stirred interest on the campaign trail, became engaged to be married on Saturday, he announced on social media. Scott popped the question to now-fiancé Mindy Noce at South...
by MTmofo
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on Sun Jan 21, 2024 at 10:05 PM PST
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In an editorial published last week titled, “If Attitudes Don’t Shift, A Political Dating Mismatch Will Threaten Marriage,” The Washington Post’s editorial board points out that political polarization in this country has reached the point where it is...
by Dartagnan
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on Sun Nov 26, 2023 at 06:07 AM PST
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After a rollicking ride, Pope Francis finally kicks open the doors of the church to same-sex couples 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
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on Tue Oct 10, 2023 at 04:28 AM PDT
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Warning: This is not a political diary (well, not much). I don’t much care for David Brooks as a rule, but for some reason the title of his NYT op-ed this morning intrigued me: To Be Happy, Marriage Matters More Than Career (ignore the dangling...
by Dan K
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on Fri Aug 18, 2023 at 03:32 PM PDT
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In the seventh paragraph of David Brooks’ latest New York Times column , titled, “To Be Happy, Marriage Matters More Than Career,” he confesses, “As I confront young adults who think this ...
by Laura Clawson
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on Sun Aug 20, 2023 at 10:00 AM PDT
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A Missouri legislator has come up with the perfect way to save kids from school shootings: marry them off! The only question remaining is whether attending an American middle school is really safer than a shotgun wedding.
by Rusticana
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on Thu Apr 13, 2023 at 12:21 PM PDT
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�I'm imagining something similar to those car insurance ads, except that instead of a cute talking CGI gecko there's a CGI Republican Jesus™. Complete with an American flag draped around him like ...
by A Pagan in Arizona
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on Tue Mar 07, 2023 at 01:00 PM PST
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fox9.com/video The Black 'Rosie the Riveters': The 600,000 women of color who broke barriers during WWII A six-minute video introducing Invisible Warriors: African American Women in WWII {separate website),which premiered TODAY at the...
by mettle fatigue
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on Sat Feb 11, 2023 at 05:00 PM PST
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I hope everyone had a peaceful and happy New Year's. I was woken up at midnight by yahoos firing guns and what sounded like a potato cannon. Ah, Arizona. The more you change, the more you seem to ...
by A Pagan in Arizona
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on Tue Jan 03, 2023 at 01:00 PM PST
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So I wrote a letter to Ms. Hartzler: Dear Representative Hartzler: I write as a member of the Episcopal Church; a sister church of the Church of England within the Anglican Communion; a church that is both catholic and reformed. It is a church where...
by Old Verger
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on Wed Dec 14, 2022 at 04:53 PM PST
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Signing the Marriage Equality Act was the largest event held at the White House by Pres Biden. Federal protections, dammit. If only my spouse had lived long enough to see this so we would have been recognized as a married couple at the VA hospital....
by annieli
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on Tue Dec 13, 2022 at 01:11 PM PST
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Episode #78 of the Countdown podcast is up. Here’s the summary, with an extra dose or two of snark. A-Block (1:27) SPECIAL COMMENT: 12 Republicans join the Democrats to give the codification of Marriage Equality a filibuster-proof majority. The Respect...
by Proginoskes
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on Wed Nov 16, 2022 at 11:36 PM PST
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As the Senate works to codify the right of same sex couples to marry, it might be worth looking at what the Bible has to say about gays and gay marriage. What it really says (and doesn’t say) might surprise you. Let’s start with the story of the...
by erikpespe
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on Wed Nov 16, 2022 at 12:45 PM PST
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Majority Leader Chuck Schumer started the process for the Senate to vote on the Respect for Marriage Act (RFMA), the bipartisan compromise to protect same-sex and interracial marriages at the federal level, filing Monday for the first procedural vote...
by Joan McCarter
78 comments
on Tue Nov 15, 2022 at 04:18 PM PST
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