Florida students protest imminent closing of university LGBTQ center

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/florida-unf-students-protest-closing-lgbtq-center-rcna135758

Welcome to the white fundamentalist maga paradise, Florida.  The purge is well on the way.  Again the goal is to remove / wipe out all representation of LGBTQIA from public society.  Also part of the goal is to return black / brown people to a lower stature and keep them there.   To stop any integration or upward movement of the minority groups.   These people demand a return to the time when white males were automatically in charge, Christianity was the assumed only real religion and all things Christian were good, women were subservient to males and functioned to do for men in the home / public / bedroom, blacks knew their place and stayed there, and the LGBTQIA were not seen or heard of terrified of being found out.   That is the world these people are fighting to have.  Florida is well on the way.  They have basically outlawed the teaching of acceptance or inclusion of any group not dedicated to white people or Christianity.  They have removed any representation of LGBTQIA or racism from schools.  They have rewritten history, legislated being cis, being straight until adult, legislated having a small groups of bigoted racist parents over ruling all other parents on what school age kids can do, read, see, say, and do medically.  They call anything not right wing fundamentalist maga is indoctrination.   Welcome to Florida, a state run by Christian Taliban with help from the moral police.   Hugs.  Scottie

 

The Florida Board of Governors voted to prohibit using state funding for public university programs or activities that promote diversity, equity and inclusion.
 
 
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Students at the University of North Florida protested the imminent closing of the school’s four diversity centers, including the campus LGBTQ center, on Wednesday.

The protest took place the day the Florida Board of Governors, the governing body of the State University System of Florida, voted to prohibit funding for diversity, equity and inclusion programs and activities at the state’s public universities. The vote comes several months after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a measure into law banning all of the state’s public higher education institutions from using state or federal funding for diversity programs.

 

UNF, in Jacksonville, will close its Office of Diversity and Inclusion — and, with it, its interfaith, intercultural, women’s and LGBTQ centers — to comply with the new law, President Moaz Limayem said in a letter to the university community Wednesday night. 

Limayem said the four university centers will be “phased out” immediately but added that registered student organizations that aim to promote diversity will remain active on the university’s campus and that no staffers will lose their jobs. He did not weigh in on student protests or on his views about the state policy.

“We want UNF to be a place where all people feel safe and welcome, and where there is no place for hate,” Limayem said. “This semester, we will begin seeking ways to reinforce UNF’s values in everything we do, and we will review and expand resources as necessary to ensure success for all members of our campus community.”

Cassandra Edwards, a spokesperson for the university system, said in an email Thursday that Florida “will remain focused on high-quality education for our students and not allow indoctrination.”

UNF student Lissie Morales was among the protesters, many of whom were waving rainbow Pride flags and shouting: “What do we do? Stand up, fight back!”

“The center provided me friends; it provided me education to learn more about my gender and sexual orientation,” Morales told NBC affiliate WTLV of Jacksonville. “In regard to the turnout, it warms my heart to see people care about something as much as I do, especially when it comes to the LGBT center, because it was one of the reasons why I came to UNF in the first place.”

In 2022, UNF was among 40 institutions on Campus Pride’s list of best universities for LGBTQ students. 

Carlos Guillermo Smith, a former Florida House Democrat who is a policy adviser at the LGBTQ advocacy group Equality Florida, called the new state law “a rubber stamp for Ron DeSantis’s agenda of censorship and surveillance.”

“The Board of Governors had the opportunity to hit the brakes, but instead, shamefully followed their censorship agenda off a cliff in service to DeSantis’s failed political ambitions,” Smith said in a statement Wednesday. 

A representative for DeSantis did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 

The regulation comes as Florida continues to build on its reputation for enacting anti-LGBTQ laws and legislation aimed at limiting diversity initiatives. 

Dozens of UNF students attend a rally in support of the school's LGBTQ center.
Dozens of UNF students attend a rally in support of the school’s LGBTQ center. WTLV

Florida made national headlines when it enacted what critics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law in 2022, which limited the instruction of sexual orientation and gender identity in public schools in kindergarten through third grade. DeSantis signed a bill last year that expanded the law to apply to students in kindergarten through eighth grade. Last year, Florida lawmakers prompted outcry for blocking an Advanced Placement course on African American studies from being taught in high schools.

Since the start of the year, Florida lawmakers have introduced roughly a dozen anti-LGBTQ bills. They include a sweeping measure that would force Floridians to sign an affidavit when they apply for new driver’s licenses and state IDs to certify that the gender markers on their birth certificates will match their new IDs. Another bill would allow some published accusations of homophobia and transphobia to be considered “defamation per se.”

Student protests over Florida’s policies about LGBTQ issues have also become common. In November, students at a high school in Coconut Creek, about 15 miles north of Fort Lauderdale, staged a walkout after their principal and other school staffers were reprimanded for letting a transgender girl compete on the school’s girls volleyball team.

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I suffered through eighteen years of indoctrination to become straight. Didn’t work

I read books about Dick and Jane…
I’m not out chasing Jane.

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Gloria is out chasing Jane.
I’m out chasing Dick, pun intended.
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Yup. I didn’t kiss a boy until I was in my 20s

I found my Dad’s playboys including the one with the Jimmy Carter interview and Jimmy Connors future wife as the centerfold.
Still digging men

Exactly! My whole youth was steeped in the straight world, I knew not one gay person and had zero history of the gay movement, yet I still turned out gay.

Same for the rest of us. This is how we can tell that the evangelicals are completely, utterly delusional; and why they’re a minority now in the US. Dems need to vote them out. If they refuse the evangelicals will begin their new Spanish Inquisition.

Next step: jailing and killing us. I am NOT overreacting. It’s going to happen unless we stop this shit immediately.

They’ve been openly musing about a final solution to the LGBTQ+ “problem”.

 

The War on Women’s Rights
The War on LGBT Rights
The War on Voting Rights
The War on Oversight
The War on Accountability
The War on the Elderly
The War on The Arts

Join the Resistance. Vote in 2024.

The War on Science
The War on Civility

The War on Reality…

Religion is indoctrination.

And, if carefully taught, can have you hating yourself, too…

George Orwell, The Prevention of Literature:

From the totalitarian point of view history is something to be created rather than learned. A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling cast, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible.

 

I’m currently reading 1984 (incidentally, the year in which I was born). I’m up to the appendix, where Orwell describes Newspeak.

They forget about that whole pesky “separation of church and state”. If the Roberts court is a “traditionalist” court, more states should be challenging the unconstitutional legislation passed in many States (esp the Federal Gov as this is setting up a State vs Federal legal battle), otherwise the Supreme Court will have to justify their reason for overturning Roe and much more. Not that it matters but it’s important for the public to understand.

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I expect DeSantis to become especially cruel now that he is no longer a candidate

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Palestinian child prisoners ‘abused’

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In this video you will see the photos of a kid, yes a young teen who to me looks 13, just home from Israeli detention after being held and beaten for four hours, he was then charged and released for a later court date where he will be found guilty.  Once found guilty, the kid will be taken to a prison in side Israel where his family and any friends are not allowed to see him.   He will have no rights, and no one to help him.   

Picked up off the street, he was then beaten and abused.   Israeli spokes people are on every major news network claiming how brutal Hamas is, how they must be destroyed even if that means killing every Palestinian, man, women, and child.  Right now the confirmed totals are over 24,000 dead, 10,000 are children.  The estimated total is around 32,000 dead, another 64,000 injured and maimed.   This is the way Israel has long treated Palestinian children in detention, the Palestinians have long asked the international community for help in stopping it.  But no one could, because Israel treats Palestinians as bad or worse than black in apartheid South African and almost as bad as black slaves in the US.  Listen to how many Palestinian kids, minors from the West Bank where there is no Hamas in charge are taken in to custody and tried by military courts, they have no rights in these courts, nor does their families.   This is why there is no peace, why Hamas attacks Israelis.  Yet Netanyahu brags about denying the Palestinians a state and calls them animals.   Hugs.   Scottie 

Hundreds of Palestinian children are arrested by the Israeli military every year for throwing rocks at occupying forces. They are tried in Israeli Military Courts and human Rights organisations say the trials lack due process and are against international law. Al Jazeera’s Charles Stratford reports from Abu Dis in the occupied West Bank.

Below there is another short video.   Please notice the date on this one.  It was ten years ago.  This is how they treated Palestinians ten years ago, how much worse do they treat them now!   This time of the Israeli military detaining, taking a five year old because he was throwing stones, they go collect the boy’s father.  Notice the video of the father and boy in custody, the father is bound and blindfolded.  He can not help his five year old son, and neither have rights under the military occupation.  While this is illegal internation Israel claims the child, a five year old, was a threat.   While they claim he was not arrested, think of the lifelong trauma of being taken, his father humiliated and unable to even comfort him.   Think he grew up to support Israel, or be another Hamas soldier?   Hugs.  Scottie

Jul 12, 2013

Video footage has emerged of a 5-year-old Palestinian child being detained by the Israeli army.

Below in another video only one year ago, a 7 year old boy dies from fear while being chased by Israeli soldiers.  Children so scared of soldiers they fear them to death.  Why would a 7 yr old be so scared?  This was the West bank, not even Gaza, and again no Hamas.  Think to the many stories of abuse that are and have been coming out that Israel has long denied.   Seems they were true.   What other horrors is Israel lying about.   The people there claim the main goal of the army is to cause this fear and maintain complete control.   These are an occupied people in an open air prison.  No wonder they fight back, wouldn’t you?  Hugs.  Scottie  

Thousands of Palestinians have taken part in the funeral of seven-year-old Rayyan Sulaiman in the village of Tuqu near Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. His family says he died out of fear after Israeli soldiers chased children in the village. The Palestinian Health Ministry says efforts to resuscitate him failed. Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim reports from the occupied West Bank.

The mistreatment continues.  This video was only 7 months ago, at the start of last summer.   By that time Israeli soldiers had already killed 155 Palestinians in the West Bank.   Remember the US military sniper that loved to kill little brown children in Afghanistan, he murdered detained prisoners by knifing them, he was brought up on charged yet tRump as commander in chief made the military give him back his awards and pardoned him.  Well Israel has lots of soldiers like him that feel that way towards the Palestinians.  They are nothing, they are simply fun targets to hurt, kill, torture, and destroy.   Like a live action video game.  Below the Israeli solders shoot a car with a man and a toddler … because they can.  Hugs.  Scottie.  



188,662 views Jun 6, 2023

Two-year-old Mohammad Tamimi — who was injured along with his father after being shot by Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank — has died. Though the Israeli army says the toddler was mistakenly shot, the child’s father has denied the narrative

Just five days ago this inexcusable horror happened, Israeli soldiers stormed a building and in front of the family members stripped, tortured and beat the men, then executed them.  Like a gang of thugs on prey.  Then they left and knowing the women and children were still in there, Israeli solders shelled the building.  Horrible.  Hugs.  Scottie

412,724 views Jan 18, 2024 #Aljazeeraenglish #News

A Palestinian family in Gaza says they witnessed the summary execution of 15 men when Israeli soldiers raided their apartment last month.

Again please look at the date.  A year ago.  Two crying terrified children, not even teenagers.  Their crime, being Palestinian.   This is why there is no peace for Israel!  This is why there is anger.  The story says the soldiers arrested the kids, that means they did not go home, but instead into detention for processing.  Reports say this can take a day to four months, and the child has no rights, no legal council, even their family is often not notified.   It is complete terrorism.  It is designed to harass and break the Palestinian people, to try to get them to self deport to where they will have a chance for a decent life.  This short clip says it all.   A 6 or 7 year old kid begging and crying out “What will happen to us” and “What are they going to do to us”.   What are they going to do to us … if that was your child would you like the people / government that did that?  Or would you want to hurt them back.   Hugs.  

An Israeli soldier appears to arrest two frightened Palestinian children in occupied East Jerusalem

There are more, it seems an unending amount of these videos.   Going back decades.  Now that I have watched a few, the grand YouTube pusher wants me to view them all.   I can not.  I have done my part.  I just beg that others who can do more not only stop Israel, but punish them for what they are doing.   Hugs.   Scottie

A few more Majority Report clips. I love the show.

#BorderCrises

For Republicans a problem at the border is worth more than a solution.

Fox News Rages Over Green Day’s ‘MAGA’ Lyric During NYE Performance

Great short even toned video from the rational national.  David is so unable to get loud or show outrage that it makes great videos to show conservatives.   Hugs.  Scottie

Bucks County mom behind conservative school movement charged with assault, giving teens alcohol

https://www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/politics/2023/12/28/clarice-schillinger-conservative-pa-schools-activist-charged-with-assault-bucks-county-pac-lt-gov/72038859007/

She is one of the people who claim to know more and be more moral than everyone else so she / them get to tell the rest of us how we must live and how our schools should be run.   The article below shows how unqualified these people are to tell others how to live their lives.   These people are simply self entitled ego driven people who feel entitled to rule over how others live, while often not living that way themselves.   I won’t be coloring this one, too much in it is triggering to me.  

Randy was visiting us the other day and we touched a bit on my abuse. For something realted.  I told them something I had not told before.   By the time I was 7 during my adoptive parents parties with their friends, I would be set / perched on the counter with all the booze and mixers and would be required to fix drinks for the people.   They would come to me and hand me their glass, tell me what they wanted, I would make the drink and hand it back.  If I did the job correctly and everyone left happy, I was rewarded but if anyone complained I was disciplined.  Often right then and painfully humiliated.   Sometimes I would have to stand at the counter and wait on the people playing cards, watching for their drinks to get low and offering to refill them.   I learned to never let an empty glass go unaddressed.  Needless to say, I did not go into detail and it was a brief mention. 

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A former Pennsylvania lieutenant governor candidate and outspoken voice in the conservative “parental rights” school movement has been charged with punching a teenager while hosting an underage drinking party at her Bucks County home in September. 

Clarice Schillinger, 36, is facing criminal charges of assault, harassment and furnishing minors with alcohol during her daughter’s birthday party, according to the case filed in late October. Her attorney has denied all charges and said she will fight them in court.

Schillinger made an unsuccessful run for lieutenant governor as a Republican last year and has played an instrumental role in a political action committee that has poured more than $800,000 into Pennsylvania school district races since 2021. The PAC has focused on supporting school board candidates who opposed COVID-19 lockdowns and argue left-wing ideologies are invading the education system.

Clarice Schillinger, a former Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor and a founder of a PAC favoring conservative school board candidates, faces multiple charges in Bucks County for allegedly providing alcohol to minors.

Clarice Schillinger, a former Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor and a founder of a PAC favoring conservative school board candidates, faces multiple charges in Bucks County for allegedly providing alcohol to minors.
 

In the recent criminal case, Schillinger is accused of punching a partygoer several times in the face during a series of alleged outbursts by drunken adults at her home on Liz Circle in Doylestown, according to an affidavit of probable cause.

The documents state that during the event — which started Sept. 29 and went past midnight — Schillinger’s then-boyfriend allegedly grabbed a 16-year-old by the neck for intervening in a fight between the couple and hit a 15-year-old in the face during an argument over football. According to the allegations in court papers, her intoxicated mother also punched the older teen in the eye and chased him around the kitchen island. Police said they had cellphone recordings of some of these reported events.

To escape the unruly adults, several minors started making their way out of the home, even as Schillinger ordered them to stay, court documents allege.

Cellphone footage showed that as the teens gathered in the foyer Schillinger lunged toward one partygoer before others began restraining her. That individual told police Schillinger struck him three times with a closed fist but that he wasn’t injured, according to the affidavit. 

Schillinger had been throwing a 17th birthday party for her daughter that night, hosting about 20 teens in her basement, where there was a bar stocked with New Amsterdam vodka and Malibu Bay Breeze rum, police wrote in the affidavit. In addition to supplying the underage group with alcohol, she allegedly poured liquor for the teens, asked them to take a shot with her and played beer pong with them, witnesses later told authorities.

State law makes it illegal to serve or allow minors to drink alcohol.

One of the teen’s parents called police early the morning of Sept. 30 to report the assaults and the underage drinking at Schillinger’s home. Investigators interviewed multiple teens who had attended the party, the affidavit states. 

This wasn’t the first time police visited Schillinger’s home — which she’s been renting since the spring — for reports of an underage party, according to court documents.

Emergency dispatch data provided by the Bucks County Emergency Service Division logged at least four different calls at the address.

Buckingham Township police responded to a noise complaint call and possible underage party at Schillinger’s home on Sept. 24, the weekend before the birthday party, according to 911 data and court records.

Police reported in one affidavit spotting a number of beer cans strewn around the property and street that night. They also saw about 20 teens dart into the home and, when they tried speaking with Schillinger, found her to be “intoxicated and uncooperative,” the affidavit states. 

Authorities responded to another noise complaint at Schillinger’s home involving “intoxicated subjects” just after midnight on Sept. 29, though an affidavit says police only made contact with Schillinger’s then-boyfriend, Shan Wilson, that night.

Schillinger is scheduled for a late January preliminary hearing. Her mother, Danette Bert, and Wilson were charged with assault and harassment in connection with the party, but those charges were withdrawn when they pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in early December, court records show. 

In an email, Schillinger said that her case had been dropped and suggested Wilson, whom she described as an “angry ex boyfriend,” was behind the accusations. However, online court records show the case is still active, and a spokesman for the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office said Wednesday that the charges are not being dismissed. 

Schillinger has not responded to a request for further comment, including why she believes the charges against her were dropped.

While Wilson did contact the USA Today Network about the incident, the affidavit against Schillinger did not include any statements from him and relied instead on the testimony of teenage witnesses and the cellphone footage. 

“Ms. Schillinger has dedicated her life to public service,” Schillinger’s attorney Matthew Brittenburg said in an emailed statement Wednesday. “Additionally, she has always been a law abiding citizen. Ms. Schillinger looks forward to the opportunity to defend against these allegations.”

Who is Clarice Schillinger?

Dissatisfied with school closures that followed the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, Schillinger created a political committee to help fund school board candidates who made strict adherence to in-person education their top campaign promise.

That PAC, Keeping Kids In School, focused more closely to school districts near Schillinger’s former home in Ambler, Montgomery County, by giving out thousands of dollars to smaller PACs backing slates of candidates running on an “open schools” platform.

Bucks County venture capitalist and Central Bucks parent Paul Martino took notice of Schillinger’s PAC before the municipal primary in May 2021, and the two created Back To School PA later that summer. 

Martino initially put up $500,000 of his own money for Back To School PA to disburse $10,000 checks to local school board races across the state. 

From 2021, more on Back To School PA:Meet the local parents spending $500K to support school board candidates statewide

Schillinger told the conservative news organization Broad+Liberty after that year’s election that Back To School saw an “incredible win” with 113 of 182 candidates supported by the PAC winning elections.

Back To School took credit for flipping at least six school districts in that story, including Pennridge and Quakertown Community school districts in Bucks County; Harrisburg City in Dauphin County; Hempfield in Lancaster County; Palmyra in Lebanon County; and Southeastern in York County.

The PAC also gave $10,000 to Bucks Families for Leadership, which was an earlier PAC Martino created and funded backing Republican candidates in the 2021 Central Bucks school board race.

Three of the five Central Bucks Republicans that ran in 2021 made it onto the board, but this year’s municipal election saw Democrat candidates sweep five seats and take a 6-3 majority. 

New CBSD board pauses old policies:New Democrat-led board in Central Bucks takes control, reverses controversial policies

While Schillinger’s original PAC and Back To School were described as bipartisan and focused on the single-issue of school closures by her and Martino, most of the candidates endorsed were Republican and often opposed to other pandemic mitigations like requiring masks in schools.

Schillinger threw her hat in the ring for public office in 2022 joining eight other candidates in the Republican primary for lieutenant governor. Schillinger finished fourth, gaining over 148,000 votes of the 1.2 million cast for that office.

Schillinger announced that Back To School PA would be going national during a July 25, 2022, episode of 1210 WPHT’s The Dom Giordano Program.

“Back To School USA is really going to be focused on putting candidates in place that will put our children and their education first,” Schillinger said. “Right now, we are not doing that. We are more focused on these woke and gender ideas.”

More on 2023 school board races:Inside this year’s fight over Pa. school board seats and what happens in the classroom

A website for the national PAC, created in October 2021, is no longer publicly accessible.

Martino told Lehigh Valley News in September that Back To School USA was “more of an idea right now” but indicated Schillinger was still involved in a fundamental way.  

He declined to comment on the charges against Schillinger but wrote in an email this week that Back To School USA “never got off the ground” because other projects took priority last year.

Cop Crashes Into Bar, Charges Bar Owner For Being Mad

St. Louis bar co-owner Chad Morris was charged after he got upset when an officer randomly crashed his SUV into his bar.

If You Behaved Like God

Wow this short animated video shows how silly / and abusive the Fundamentalist version of the Christian God is!  Hugs Scottie.

GOP House Candidate Destroys Satanic Temple Display

The guy is proud of himself.  After all, only his religion should be acknowledged in the US.  After all, religious freedom is only for Christians.  If the country is to be a democracy for everyone, then Christians must understand that they don’t get to rule over others.  They don’t have the right to make rules that allow only their way of life and force others to live as they do.  What do you think these same assholes would do if a Muslim or a person from another faith destroyed one of their Christian displays?   Plus remember that this guy destroyed private property.  That is a crime. Hugs.  Scottie


Des Moines’ CBS affiliate reports:

The Satanic Temple of Iowa says a statue in its Iowa capitol display was destroyed “beyond repair.” The display made headlines this week when an Eastern Iowa state lawmaker called for the governor to remove it, calling the display “blasphemous.”

Governor Kim Reynolds issued a statement saying, “In a free society, the best response to objectionable speech is more speech.”

The Satanic Temple said in a Facebook post, “We are proud to continue our holiday display for the next few days that we have been allotted. We ask that for safety, visitors travel together and use the 7 Tenets as a reminder for empathy, in the knowledge that justice is being pursued the correct way, through legal means.”

The right wing Republic Sentinel reports:

Michael Cassidy, a Christian and former military officer, tore down and beheaded a Satanist altar erected in the Iowa Capitol as the display provoked nationwide controversy, The Sentinel has exclusively learned. Cassidy said in comments exclusively provided to The Sentinel that he destroyed the shrine on Thursday in order to “awaken Christians to the anti-Christian acts promoted by our government.”

Cassidy turned himself into police officers present in the Iowa Capitol, who confirmed that the Satanic Temple of Iowa desires to press charges. The Sentinel obtained a complaint and affidavit which said Cassidy was charged with fourth-degree criminal mischief. “I saw this blasphemous statue and was outraged,” Cassidy continued. “My conscience is held captive to the word of God, not to bureaucratic decree. And so I acted.”

Cassidy ran for the US House in Mississippi last year, finishing 35 points behind incumbent GOP Rep. Michael Guest in the primary. Earlier this year he lost a bid for the Mississippi House.

 

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Yes. So proud of the Episcopal Church for this move. Sure it split the world-wide Episcopal Church, but boy will they look good in the future.

Unfortunately, the right thing to do is not always the popular thing. I respect them very much for doing the right thing, anyway. They did it with women in the church, too. Surprise! The world did not come to an end.

Unless he was in Iowa for other reasons, this cultist drove 13 hours from Mississippi to Des Moines to earn social media cred from Christian nationalists.

He’s probably already raising money.

Social media cred? Is that a thing? I mean, it’s social media where there’s literally no credibility whatsoever.

Their god must be really weak if he is unable to destroy a statue by himself.

Omnipotence. It ain’t what it used to be.

I’m beginning to wonder if they mistranslated “Impotence”.

Pfft. Their god can’t protect them from being shot up in fucking church.

What a useless, impotent little god He must be.

 

That’s the problem with monotheism, the god has to run everything and even deities can get worn out. It’s why pantheons are better, the work gets delegated and important aspects get more focus.

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And they still call it love.

They kill because they care.

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Imagine if a Muslim beheaded a statue of the Virgin Mary and said it was against his religion. I don’t think many Christians would applaud that. But they’re cool with beheading a satanic statue.

As they would be fine with a Christian defacing an Islamic display.

For evangelicals, religious freedom is only for them.

 

‘They violently beat us’: Harrowing testimony of released Palestinian child

A Palestinian child describes how he and his family were trapped in their home for five days at the start of Israel’s attack on Gaza.  He said that if anyone went outside, the soldiers shot them, killing them.  When they took the house they made sure to damage it as much as possible to make it unlivable, then they forced everyone including the women to come out naked, then allowed them to redress, took them to separate places where they beat him and those with him.  The US and western governments are supporting Israel on this.  Why?  Over 18,000 Palestinians dead, many more wounded.  All because Israel lost less than 1,200 in the Hamas attack.  Israel got their pound of flesh and a hell of a lot more.   Hugs

“They kidnapped us in a house and violently beat us.”

WATCH: The testimony of a Palestinian child, who was released after days of being detained with others by Israeli forces in the Zaytun neighbourhood in Gaza city, after his home was stormed and Israeli soldiers “bombed it all and shot at the walls”.

“The women were taken to another unknown place. We didn’t know anything about them.”

Mohammad Mahmoud Saleem described being strip-searched, before Israeli forces took the men and women to separate unknown houses, saying that he doesn’t know the whereabouts of his mother and younger siblings.