Kansas Crimson

jfish26 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 06, 2024 9:01 am To me it’s fairly simple: would those in favor of posting the Ten Commandments be willing to post equivalents from the Quran and similar texts?

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Shirley wrote: ↑Tue Aug 06, 2024 7:48 am

Loved her in Downton Abbey.

Shirley wrote: ↑Tue Aug 06, 2024 10:30 am

DeletedUser wrote: ↑Tue Aug 06, 2024 9:38 am

Shirley wrote: ↑Tue Aug 06, 2024 7:48 am

Loved her in Downton Abbey.

OMG, me too. She was perfect. The role was made for her.

KUTradition wrote: ↑Wed Aug 07, 2024 3:19 pm and i was so much enjoying some optimism with the Harris-Walz news

jfc

Utah outlaws books by Judy Blume and Sarah J Maas in first statewide ban

https://amp.theguardian.com/books/artic ... tewide-ban

KUTradition wrote: ↑Wed Aug 07, 2024 3:19 pm and i was so much enjoying some optimism with the Harris-Walz news

jfc

Utah outlaws books by Judy Blume and Sarah J Maas in first statewide ban

https://amp.theguardian.com/books/artic ... tewide-ban

KUTradition wrote: ↑Tue Sep 10, 2024 7:20 am randi’s hero, back in the news

https://people.com/former-miss-utah-and ... %20mission.

Donald Trump made an alarming promise to his conservative Christian supporters ahead of Tuesday’s presidential debate.

During a pre-debate prayer call hosted by the National Faith Advisory Board on Monday evening, Trump whined that Kamala Harris wanted to naturalize undocumented immigrants, and claimed that it would come at a steep cost to one group in particular.

“Every day she is flooding our country with billions and billions of illegal aliens. She wants to make them citizens, she wants to have them vote,” Trump said. “Which will destroy the voting powers of Christian conservatives forever.”

“There is no more, and there should be no more important voice than the voice of Christians,” Trump said.

Trump is attempting to set up a false exchange: that the power of one group would diminish the power of another. And in the fascist tradition, he is using immigrants as a scapegoat.

While Trump would like Christian conservatives to feel that their voices are the most important to him, the Republican nominee has repeatedly sidestepped some of the policies they’ve advocated, in an attempt to widen his appeal ahead of the election.

With Trump’s pushing, the Republican Party completely abandoned its commitment to a federal abortion ban, a longtime project of the Christian right. While Trump’s current abortion policy stance still allows for the passage of the highly restrictive laws, his blatantly opportunistic shilling should not go unnoticed. To Trump, there is no voice more important than his own.

This isn’t the first time that Trump has made an unsettling comment directed at his Christian conservative base. The former president previously promised his Christian supporters that after voting for him in November, they would never need to vote again.

“You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what? It’ll be fixed, it’ll be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians,” Trump said at Turning Point Action’s Believers’ Summit in July.

When asked to explain the statement, he claimed that he was trying to motivate Christians, who rarely participate in elections—which is completely untrue.

japhy wrote: ↑Tue Sep 10, 2024 11:57 am The Führer of Lies.

Donald Trump made an alarming promise to his conservative Christian supporters ahead of Tuesday’s presidential debate.

During a pre-debate prayer call hosted by the National Faith Advisory Board on Monday evening, Trump whined that Kamala Harris wanted to naturalize undocumented immigrants, and claimed that it would come at a steep cost to one group in particular.

“Every day she is flooding our country with billions and billions of illegal aliens. She wants to make them citizens, she wants to have them vote,” Trump said. “Which will destroy the voting powers of Christian conservatives forever.”

Shirley wrote: ↑Wed Aug 07, 2024 3:59 pm

KUTradition wrote: ↑Wed Aug 07, 2024 3:19 pm and i was so much enjoying some optimism with the Harris-Walz news

jfc

Utah outlaws books by Judy Blume and Sarah J Maas in first statewide ban

https://amp.theguardian.com/books/artic ... tewide-ban

Sadly, cults gonna cult.

Italy on Wednesday passed the West’s most restrictive law against international surrogacy, threatening would-be parents who use birth mothers abroad with jail time and severe fines in a move that critics say will chiefly target same-sex couples.

Domestic surrogacy was already banned in Italy, as it is in some other countries and U.S. states, but the amended Italian law goes further, classifying surrogacy as a rare universal crime that transcends borders, like terrorism or genocide.

The measure marks the strongest salvo yet in far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s bid to put a conservative stamp on Italian society, and it elevates surrogacy as a hot-button issue in the West’s raging culture wars.

The law, passed last year by the lower house and effectively ensured by the Senate vote on Wednesday, also criminalizes work by Italian citizens employed as doctors, nurses and technicians in foreign fertility clinics that facilitate surrogacies.

That and other aspects of the amended law may be hard to enforce. Even backers of the legislation concede that heterosexual couples may face few questions when returning to Italy with an infant, or when registering their child’s birth certificate with local municipalities. Who is to say that the woman in that couple didn’t deliver the baby while abroad? By contrast, an infant in the arms of same-sex parents — particularly two men — would amount to an obvious red flag.

“The people who can’t hide this are gay couples,” said Alessia Crocini, director of Rainbow Families, a group that opposed the law. “This is about [targeting] gay fathers.”

Same-sex couples are already barred under Italian law from domestic or international adoption. Thus, the new law effectively cuts off the last, best route for gay male couples residing in Italy to start families.