Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar, the right-wing hatemonger who is loathed by his own siblings for his reprehensible actions, is seen in this video expressing his approval for two people pretending to be migrant hunters. After they tell him they shoot migrants who cross over to their family farm in Yuma, he responds, “Say a prayer because this country needs you. There’s a bunch of people that are ready to go into action.”
Read the full article. Watch the clip and read the text.
Gosar, you will recall, this year attended the convention of white nationalist neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes. Last year he posted an animated video depicting the murders of AOC and President Biden.
In a ruse to expose tolerance for violence against immigrants, we told GOP Rep. Paul Gosar that we've been shooting "illegals" on our ranch in Southern Arizona.
Said Gosar: "Say a prayer because this country needs you. There’s a bunch of people that are ready to go into action." pic.twitter.com/V5j6W3tEA3
The very smartest political commentators make the point: today’s Republican Party has no “vision,” no lofty goals to better the lives of average Americans. They’re morally bankrupt when it comes to that stuff.
They stand for only the things listed in your graphic there.
What gives them plausible deniability is that some people, at least, seem to have construed the Second Amendment to mean the right to shoot people who cross the border illegally (and/or are on your land, or for being a prominent Democrat or “RINO”, for that matter). Referring to the “Second Amendment” in those circles seems to have become a euphemism for shooting people you have dehumanized.
If Trump Republicans take back Congress, democracy in America will already have died. Democracy depends for its survival on strong majority support for certain ideals and values, not just on institutions and elections. Every vote for a Trump Republican is a metaphorical middle finger to democracy.
So if you, JMG reader, know a registered Republican — a friend or co-worker or family member, for instance — ask them whether they appreciate the fact that their continued membership in that party adds number and heft to the party of Paul Gosar, Donald Trump, Steve Bannon and Alex Jones.
Tell them, remind them, that their “belonging” to that crime syndicate posing as a political party makes them complicit.
They are complicit in the ongoing, unfolding criminal nightmare.
Gov. Greg Abbott redirects $500 million from other agencies to fund border security mission through end of fiscal year
“Abbott said the money would be taken from the budgets of other Texas agencies, including nearly $210 million from the state’s Health and Human Services Commission over two years and about $160 million from the Texas Department of Public Safety.
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” — Francis Wilhoit
Florida governor Ron DeSantis was smacked down by a Republican-appointed judge this week, when the judge ruled that DeSantis was NOT following Florida’s open records laws by withholding information about the migrant flights that his office arranged. The judge has now given DeSantis 20 days to make the records public, while DeSantis had been hoping to hold tight to the information until December. Farron Cousins explains what this new ruling means.
*This transcript was auto-generated. Please excuse any typos. Florida’s Republican governor Ron DeSantis suffered a major blow this week in a court from a Republican appointed judge by the name of l Lee Marsh. And Judge Marsh told Ron DeSantis in his entire administration that you guys are actually violating Florida’s open records laws by not releasing all of the information that you have about those migrant flights that you’ve been paying for This judge, Mr. Marsh, Judge Marsh was appointed by former Republican governor Rick Scott, so is a right wing judge. And even the judge was like, Y’all can’t do this. You cannot hide this information. They have been hit, by the way, with multiple different open records requests from news organizations, from immigration rights groups, from all sorts of people throughout the country. And Ron DeSantis administration has said like, Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. We’ll release it. We’ll give you the information, but we have a very small staff, so maybe we’ll try to get it to you by December, you know, after the midterms.
Of course, Judge Marsha’s ruling says that it has to be turned over within the next 20 days, and the midterms are less than 20 days away. So it’s very unlikely that the DeSantis administration is going to give us this information before the midterms hit because they know it’s going to be very bad because some of the information that has remained hidden are communications, of course, with DeSantis chief of staff arranging the actual flights. Now they’ve actually released a little bit of it. So that’s how we know that there are, there’s more to that. But yes, it has now been confirmed, of course, that DeSantis administration did arrange this, not the DeSantis campaign, the actual administration of this corrupt Republican governor. And if you think the ruling is bad, that you should hear what actually happened in court because DeSantis general counsel started arguing with the judge after he issued the decision.
Let me read this from Politico. During the hour long hearing on Tuesday, Andrew King, assistant general counsel for DeSantis argued that the center, the group that filed the Opens record lawsuit was quote, weaponizing the public records law so they can jump everyone else. King also revealed during the hearing that Ute Meyer, who is uh, DeSantis chief of staff, uh, has no phone logs. And even if he did, it would not be a public record. The governor’s office previously released text messages between T Meyer and Larry Keef. DeSantis Safe are that showed the two officials were coordinating the flights. Nick Mes, Deputy General counsel for DeSantis, tried to argue with Judge Marsh after the judge rendered
His, his decision from the bench mes contended the decision would create a precedent and would require the administration to play favorites with how it responds to public records request. Judge Marsh countered he was constrained by the law and that the administration had failed to turn over records citing, for example, that the administration had blocked out the names of who, those who signed waivers to get on a plane. Attorneys for DeSantis contended that they withheld that information because of the ongoing federal lawsuit where a Massachusetts judge is allowing the names of the migrants who filed the lawsuit to remain confidential. But upon questioning from Judge Marsh, they acknowledged Florida has not been told to keep that information confidential. So the reason this is important, right? This little argument with the judge that took place after the ruling came out is because DeSantis people said, Okay, we’ll release it, but you know, we’ve blacked out all the names.
The judge said, Who the hell told you to do that with? The Massachusetts judge said they’re not releasing them, so we’re not releasing them. Cool. Did he tell you you can’t release them? No. Okay, so you’re not under court order to not release them, un redact the names and get this crap out here in the next 20 days. Again, this is a Republican judge, but the reason they want the names blacked out, of course, is so the media cannot reach out to these people, get interviews with them and let them tell the story about how they were duped to get on Ron DeSantis flights.
Because rainbows make Jesus cry. As I said in the last post on this guy, not everyone lives by his bible. Deliu said his family is Christian-Orthodox and considers homosexuality a sin, saying in the lawsuit it’s “not in accordance with their Bible.” Gay people exist, and they have rights. Gay kids exist and they have rights. This child is in the 7th grade, he is quite aware of gender and sexual orientation, and sorry but not everyone is the same. My rights, gay kids in the 7th grade don’t lose their rights because the bible says they are icky, and his daddy is a bigoted asshole. Hugs
A Wellington father is suing the School District of Palm Beach County after he claimed his son’s teacher put up two LGBTQ pride flags in her classroom. Dr. Francisco Deliu’s 12-year-old son is in seventh grade at Emerald Cove Middle School.
Deliu filed a lawsuit on Oct. 12 against the school district, Palm Beach County School Board, the middle school, principal Dr. Eugina Smith-Freeman and teacher Rachel Raos. Deliu said his family is Christian-Orthodox and considers homosexuality a sin, saying in the lawsuit it’s “not in accordance with their Bible.”
Deliu claimed the teacher’s actions are a violation of Florida’s “Parents’ Bill of Rights” law, which went into effect in 2021. Deliu is asking for a jury trial and wants the court to declare the teacher’s [alleged] decision to discuss gay pride and homosexuality illegal.
Read the full article. Deliu also wants an apology from the school and the teacher to be posted on the district’s website. Wellington, it’s worth noting, is one of Florida’s wealthiest communities. Many of its homes include horse stables and Wellington hosts the annual US Polo Open as well as other equestrian competitions.
He looks to be a lawyer https://www.queerty.com/lit… It surely isn’t his first go-round with making big accusations, either. In 2017, the New Zealand Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal found him guilty of nine different charges including “misconduct”, “unprofessional conduct” and “conduct unbecoming a lawyer”.
The misconduct charges resulted from a series of allegations the barrister made against two high court judges of “discrimination and racism by the Judges towards both counsel and clients, and corruption in carrying out their duties.”
Deliu was fined a quarter of a million dollars and his law license was temporarily suspended.
I love the part of the article where the guy says he’s a “libertarian.” I’m sure he has a great explanation for why libertarianism* means the state must affirmatively take actions to send the message that there is a lower caste of depraved people who must not be spoken about or acknowledged.
*We all know that real-world Ron Paul-style libertarianism wants exactly that, but it’s hilarious to watch them try to explain themselves.
Some affluent areas have public schools that rival the best private schools in their area. So I’m not surprised. The high home prices and high property taxes that fund those schools keep out anyone they don’t want there.
It’s also interesting that people had issues with Ye saying bad things about Jewish people but anyone is free to say horrible things about LBGT people and its ok because it’s your opinion yet both our people were in hitlers concentration camps
The law was written so poorly and so broadly that it allows for any parent to sue for anything and to let the courts or jury decide.
Its supposed to chill speech these asshats dont like so in this case they assumed all LGBTQ teachers/school officials would just pull all the “gay stuff” out of the classroom in advance.
Yes, it was more of a scare type law that was so vague that teachers would be afraid to do anything, even putting up a pride flag. I hope this is a test case that turns out well to knock down this law.
Why is saying that ‘straight people exist’ legal, but “gay people exist’ illegal?
It would be funny if some wise-ass elementary school let boys and girls use whichever bathroom they wanted to because “discussing gender identity was forbidden by law and discussing or asking students what gender they are might be illegal.”
That “Don’t Say Gay” law in Florida HAS to be unconstitutional. Besides, being “against Jesus” has no bearing on education, unless you’re a Christian religious school. I hope he’ll get told to go away and take his jury trial with him; but it’s Florida, so who knows?
Didn’t they just rule for freedom of speech of teachers in the ‘praying coach’ case? of course, they will contradict themselves in a case like this when they rule -against- freedom of speech.
It seems the religious right is on a push to have as many kids born as possible, even if it kills the woman. I am not sure why? The went after same sex marriage claiming they couldn’t be real because they did not produce offspring / children. Now any childless marriage is not real because no children being born. Is that because less and less people are religious in the US. Are they worried that soon they will lose too much money in the collection plates if they don’t get the US to over populate? Do they need more sacrificial lambs to the altar of their god? And why do these people obsess with the marriages / sex lives of other people so much. Are they jealous? I just don’t get it. Hugs
It’s not just same-sex marriages Republicans want to ban. Now they don’t like asexual marriages either.
In July, the Supreme Court of Sweden ruled in a landmark case that a relationship doesn’t have to involve sex to be considered significant. In a case involving an asexual couple in which one of the two parties is deceased, the court emphasized that a relationship should be characterized by a close community in personal terms that normally occurs between married people and that sex doesn’t have to be involved for that to happen. It was a significant win for asexual people in Sweden.
However, in America, a darker reality exists for asexuals even on this Ace Week, as religious nationalist groups are actively trying to block the Respect for Marriage Act from passing in the Senate. Not only is the religious right seeking to ban gay marriage once again, but they have also signaled a future attack against asexual marriages.
As obtained by Politico, some 83 Christian nationalist groups (led by the Alliance Defending Freedom) released a letter in July imploring Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to block the Respect for Marriage Act, because marriage equality somehow opens the door to further immorality, like platonic marriages.
“H.R. 8404 would require federal recognition of any one state’s definition of marriage without any parameters whatsoever. This would include plural marriages, time-bound marriages, open marriages, marriages involving a minor or relative, platonic marriages…”
It’s impossible to ignore calling out the perfidious groomer libel conservatives keep trying that is recycled garbage from the 1970s. However, we cannot ignore the religious right calling for platonic (asexual) marriages to be banned also!
There is an abundance of evidence to show asexual marriages are under threat, also.
The Ace Couple, an asexual married couple who runs a podcast discussing topics related to asexuality, did a four-episode series on the 83 religious groups who signed onto the letter to McConnell asking to block the Respect for Marriage Act.
Each group essentially states in no uncertain terms that asexuality is unacceptable to their religion and should be banned from having equal marriage rights.
The Witherspoon Institute, a right-wing think tank founded by Robert P. George (who founded the anti-LGBTQ hate group American Principles Project), came out with an op-ed entitled “Why We Should Push Back against Platonic Marriage.” The editorial’s author, Alan J. Hawkins, laments the idea of asexual marriages existing because he feels allowing asexual marriages will lead to a “marriage inferno.”
I think it matters deeply that we continue to define marriage as a sexual union. It matters because the continual pruning of marriage reduces its core purpose to something that does not really set it apart from other committed relationship possibilities. This ongoing thinning of marriage’s meaning leaves less and less of the concrete conjugal elements that can bind marriages together. Also, it seriously erodes the legal justification for the benefits, responsibilities, and protections with which the law endows marriage.
The Witherspoon Institute is not alone in this thinking.
Autonomy has within itself the seeds of ever-greater radicalism because coercion can be given an ever-broader definition, beginning with physical coercion but ending with any external or natural consideration shaping one’s “choice.” Truly autonomous choices, on this ever more radical understanding, must be made without the influence of imposed habits, human reason, education, social pressure, legal pressure, cultural expectations, or any other external demand. Autonomous choices spring from within the individual, lest they be traceable to something oppressive or alien to the individual. One wonders, therefore, whether such choices are made in consideration of anything but selfishness.
The religious right views exercising freedom of choice as nothing more than being selfish. They view choosing individual happiness as somehow wicked and evil, and they want to remove the right to choose from us all, forcing us into sex on their terms.
It’s weird to me seeing the religious right come right out and attack sexless marriages.
Growing up in a purity culture right in the heart of the Bible Belt, all I heard as a youth were messages about abstaining from sex, with pastors and Christian leaders imperatively saying, “Don’t have sex! Don’t even think about it!”
Now, the commandment has apparently flipped, with the religious right commanding everyone to have sex.
The religious right states in no uncertain terms that anyone not entering into a sexual, procreative relationship should not be allowed to marry.
This has large ramifications on asexual people—many of whom desire companionship and love— as well as on asexual married couples who depend on the benefits marriage provides. The Respect for Marriage Act would be a vital help to asexual couples who now find themselves in the crosshairs of the culture wars.
And it begins. This is what the Republicans and what Gov. DeathSantis wanted. How is just seeing a rainbow flag being educated “in the ways of homosexuality.” I keep saying the goal is to erase gay people from society. Sorry your religion doesn’t give you the right to kick the people you don’t out of the country, you don’t get to make the people you don’t like hide the fact they are real, you don’t get to use your church doctrine to force people to live straight lives because you don’t want gays to live their lives freely. What other things will it be illegal for a kid to see, that will instruct them in the way of …, how about icons of other religions? For that matter I an atheist, I don’t like all the religious symbols and pictures I see, can I sue people for displaying a cross like wearing one around their neck? They already banned the books that offended them, what next?
The US is built on diversity and different cultures. There is a drive on the right to roll back all advances in society over the last 70 years. To return women to traditional stereotypical roles, to drive minorities back to a subservient roles, To erase the LGBTQ+ and remove representation of them. They want a white Christian ethnostate, and they are pushing hard to get their way. They are a minority that is getting their way, claiming my very existence as an openly gay man in a same sex marriage is wrong and instructing their kid in homosexuality. They want me gone, erased, hidden, it offends their Christianity. Tough shit, their religion offends me. What about that. No one has the right to not be offended.
If this man wants his child isolated from the other people then send his child to a Christian school that follows his religion. Gay kids are real, they go to school, they have the right to live their lives openly as do straight kids. They have as much right to date, to have clubs, to see their symbols as much as Christians have the right to wear their crosses. LGBTQ+ have as much right to be and to live openly as straight kids, as Christian kids, as Muslim kids, as atheist kids and so on. This is not the first time this father has tried to force his religion on others and seems to also be a racist who demands the right to discriminate against others.
People we need everyone to stand up and say enough and fight back against the attempt to remove others from society and existence. We must fight against the attempt to force one religion in the laws and lives of everyone else. These people are the US version of the Taliban. Help us stop them. Vote them out of office. Hugs
Dr. Francisco Catalin Deliu says he has a right to prevent his child from being educated “in the ways of homosexuality.”
A Florida father is suing his 12-year-old son’s school district over the fact that his son was exposed to Pride flags in his computer science classroom.
Dr. Francisco Catalin Deliu of Palm Beach County is arguing that Emerald Cove Middle School, principal Dr. Eugina Smith-Freeman, and his son’s teacher Rachel Raos have been “expressly and/or implicitly advocating for homosexuality as an alternative way of life,” reports CBS 12.
Deliu, a Romanian refugee who fled due to religious and political persecution, is an Orthodox Christian who believes being gay is a sin.
The lawsuit says that in early September, Deliu’s son informed him that Raos had hung two Pride flags in her classroom, searched online “about homosexual lifestyles,” and “proselytized to the students in the class.”
Deliu claims the principal dismissed him when he complained and said she’d have to speak to the Board to determine whether Raos was breaking the law. He also claims that after asking for his son to be removed from Raos’s class and placed in a different computer science class, the school instead moved his son to an art class without telling him.
The suit reportedly does not accuse the school of breaking Florida’s infamous Don’t Say Gay law. It argues that the school violated Deliu’s “substantive human rights” and “natural rights from God.” It accuses the state of “acting contrary to his religious beliefs” and says he has a right to prevent his child from being educated “in the ways of homosexuality.”
Deliu has also previously accused the school of spreading homosexuality through library books.
And these tussles are far from his first time getting involved with the law.
While living in New Zealand in 2017, Deliu’s law license was suspended for 15 months and he was ordered to pay over $250,000 due to “six charges of misconduct, one charge of unprofessional conduct, and one charge of conduct unbecoming a lawyer,” according to the New Zealand Law Society.
The charges were due to allegations of racism and discrimination he made against two judges, which the court reportedly said were “excessive, disgraceful, and baseless attacks on Judges made in provocative and intemperate language, and for the purposes of protecting the practitioner’s own interests.”
For the accusations against his son’s school, he reportedly is seeking a jury trial.
Why has this man fought against rights for gay people all his adult life. He has made it his quest to deny gay people the right to exist in society. His crusade against same sex marriage is totally weird in that it is unreasonable the passion he has to destroy same sex marriage and gay rights. He has traveled the world to try to stop this in other countries. I don’t understand his hate for gay people, for the LGBTQ+. But I do notice in each thing he says he begs for money. Is it a scam, a grift, or a personal mission from his god. He has 6 kids that I am aware of, statistically one or more of them are LGBTQ+. How much he must be hurting them and how desperate they must be to hide it from him. Hugs
Via email from hate group leader Brian Brown:
Right now, there are as many as half a dozen Republican Senators working on a potential backroom deal to impose gay ‘marriage’ on the entire country by codifying it in federal law. NOM is leading the opposition to this scheme, but we are on the ropes and need your help.
Among the Republican Senators scheming to pass the gay ‘marriage’ legislation are Mitt Romney, Susan Collins, Rob Portman and Thom Tillis. Their gambit is to include some fig leaf language “protecting” religious liberty in exchange for every state in the nation being forced to recognize homosexual ‘marriage.’
It is ironic that of these US Senate schemers, three come from states where voters enacted state constitutional amendments defining marriage solely as the union of one man and one woman – Utah, Ohio and North Carolina. So did voters in several dozen additional states.
Our only chance to prevent gay ‘marriage’ from being enshrined in federal law is to mobilize grassroots marriage supporters around the country. We have less than two weeks left before the midterm elections. After that, a lame duck Congress will return to Washington DC and the gay ‘marriage’ legislation will be taken up.
Please make an immediate donation to NOM to help us fight to stop the imposition of gay ‘marriage’ into federal statute. Your donation will be 100% matched thanks to a $100,000 matching fund that has been made available.
I can’t wait till gay marriage is forced on everyone in the US. I have a few people picked out, but it’s hard to narrow it down just just one of them. So can we start working on polygamy now? That would solve a lot of my problems.
That’s the whole problem — no one is trying to force “gay” marriage, or any other kind of marriage down any one’s throat. However, those who do want to participate in it resent highly those who don’t like it and want to bother others with their bigotry and stupidity.
I remember one of his staffer defected when she went around the in the bus and saw the lack of interest. She realized that same sex marriage hurts no one, and there simply isn’t any reason to deny it.
Their gambit is to include some fig leaf language “protecting” religious liberty in exchange for every state in the nation being forced to recognize homosexual ‘marriage.’
If your religion needs protecting from my marriage, you should be out shopping for a more powerful god right now.
He knows damn well that religion is already protected; religious discrimination claims are subject to strict scrutiny, unlike sexual orientation. And yet, show up at a Catholic church and demand a Jewish wedding, and you won’t get it: the institution can refuse to perform a service outside its tradition.
So why does this lying sack of before-the-water-runs-clean anal-douche-extrusion think gays could sue for being refused?
He doesn’t. He’s lying because he’s a liar whose fortune rests on a throne of lies. (Also see above re: his soul being composed of anal douche water.)
His wallet is “on the ropes” since the only place he was making a dime was in Russia and, for some reason, Russia ain’t so lucrative right now.
It’s also hilarious that he’s talking about “gay marriage” being imposed on the country when marriage equality has been the law of the land for 7 years and it’s supported by a solid majority of Americans.
Again another flat out attempt to use made up history to force their religion on everyone. Notice the one guy said he serves his god first the county second. Preaching and forcing Christian doctrines comes before the needs of the county. The right has tried hard to destroy public schools and force their god into them. This is the result of home schooling and church schools that took off in the 1980s and became the Christian thing to do. I remember when James was growing up he was forced to attend religious schools. They pushed this nonsense hard, the country was Christian, the Founding fathers were highly religious Christians, the US was meant by god to his special country of chosen people to lead the world into following the Christian god. These people don’t quit, ever. They are still trying to deny evolution, they worked for 50 years to end Roe, they are doing everything they can to end LGBTQ+ rights, end same sex marriage. They are driven. It is all about controlling others and what others are allowed to do. It is not them worshiping the god they want, letting that religion guide them. No it is about controlling you, because some how their god is sad and cries if not everyone adores him. The secular community must keep fighting back against this.
On October 17, the Sumner County Commissioners in Tennessee voted to codify a new set of “Standing Rules and Procedures” to guide their meetings that references their allegiance to “Judeo-Christian values.”
The updated rules of conduct for a local government meeting wouldn’t be much interest to anyone outside the community—and arguably very little within the community—but one of the changes involved the addition of a preamble (on page 24). The paragraph is nothing more than hyped-up language promising that commissioners will do the job they were elected to do—which shouldn’t need to be stated at all—but the bigger problem is that it says their work must be “reflective of the Judeo-Christian values inherent in our nation’s founding.”
We, the Sumner County Board of Commissioners as the legislative branch of Sumner County, recognize that all powers are reserved by the citizens of this county. In order to perfect the operation of our County government, to ensure that it is just, orderly, efficient, cost-effective and most importantly reflective of the Judeo-Christian values inherent in our nation’s founding, as well as responsive and transparent to the people of Sumner County, our goal in serving the citizens of Sumner County is to exceed the requirements established in Tennessee state law and do hereby adopt these Standing Rules and Procedures.
Honoring supposed “Judeo-Christian values” isn’t just something they aspire to. It’s the most important thing they aspire to. And what are those values? Who knows. They don’t spell it out. But it certainly sends a clear message to non-Christians (and non-conservative Christians) that their needs will always be considered a lower priority.
Even at the meeting where these rules, including the preamble, were adopted 20-4, a few voices pointed out how this wording could be a problem:
Just minutes earlier, the county’s interim law director, Ben Allen, advised the group that the change could set the county up for costly discrimination lawsuits.
“I just believe that this would be a violation of the First Amendment establishment clause,” Allen told the commission. “The supreme court could change their mind on what ‘violation of the establishment clause’ means tomorrow. It’s very expensive to be the ones to find out if that’s the case.”
Nashville Attorney David Raybin says including language about Judeo-Christian values in the commission’s rules preamble is a clear violation of the first amendment’s ban against the government endorsing religion, and that it would be a “slam dunk” case in court.
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“I think we need to be very careful we don’t cross over to something that ends up, taking more of our tax citizens’ dollars over the next coming years in litigation,” said Commissioner Danny Sullivan.
Allen, the interim law director, also said the phrasing could possibly be used in a complaint in case a county employee was ever fired. A hypothetical person could say she was let go because of her non-Christian faith, fairly or not, pointing to the wording as evidence the county discriminated against her.
The Christian nationalists on the Commission, including Matthew Shoaf, pushed back, saying they were just acknowledging history (which is false) and that they supported secularism. but shoving Christian references in places where they’re not needed is a hallmark of Project Blitz, the Christian nationalist playbook.
A few commissioners suggested this was a completely reckless and unnecessary move. If their legal director is warning them about the problem, and they’re opening the door to possible litigation, and all of it is is occurring by choice, what the hell are they thinking?
… It is erroneous to assert that our nation was founded on Judeo-Christian values. The concept of “Judeo-Christian values” did not even exist until the mid 20th Century, let alone at the time the United States was founded. To the contrary, the United States was founded by Enlightenment-inspired thinkers who valued reason and skepticism.
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By adopting a Preamble officially promoting Judeo-Christian values, the Board violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, disregards the wall of separation between state and church, and disrespects the diversity of Sumner County’s citizens. We request that the Board immediately correct this constitutional violation and remove any reference to Judeo-Christian values or other religious ideologies from the Preamble.
None of that means a lawsuit is forthcoming. But the groundwork has been laid. The bottom line is that these commissioners adopted Christian nationalist language despite the advice of their legal counsel. And the statements made at the meeting itself, beginning at the 3:07:01 mark here, make it abundantly clear that the goal is to promote the false belief that conservative Christianity is foundational to our nation’s history and that it must be the basis for the county’s future.
Just consider the comments from Commissioner Tim Jones, who said, “As a Christian, I cannot operate from a position of fear. I serve God first, this county second,” before adding that the county would continue failing because people were not “standing up for what every one of you know is right, that claim to be Christians.” Commissioner Jeremy Mansfield also made it clear that they live in a Christian-majority community, so there was no need to pay any lip service to Muslims, Hindus, or anyone else.
These people are angling for praise from right-wing propaganda outlets.
They don’t give a damn about the people they were elected to serve.
The rise in working-age mortality rates in the United States in recent decades largely reflects stalled declines in cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality alongside rising mortality from alcohol-induced causes, suicide, and drug poisoning; and it has been especially severe in some U.S. states.
Building on recent work, this study examined whether U.S. state policy contexts may be a central explanation. We modeled the associations between working-age mortality rates and state policies during 1999 to 2019.
We used annual data from the 1999–2019 National Vital Statistics System to calculate state-level age-adjusted mortality rates for deaths from all causes and from CVD, alcohol-induced causes, suicide, and drug poisoning among adults ages 25–64 years.
We merged that data with annual state-level data on eight policy domains, such as labor and taxes, where each domain was scored on a 0–1 conservative-to-liberal continuum. Results show that the policy domains were associated with working-age mortality
Especially strong associations were observed between certain domains and specific causes of death: between the gun safety domain and suicide mortality among men, between the labor domain and alcohol-induced mortality, and between both the economic tax and tobacco tax domains and CVD mortality.
Simulations indicate that changing all policy domains in all states to a fully liberal orientation might have saved 171,030 lives in 2019, while changing them to a fully conservative orientation might have cost 217,635 lives.
“If a state policy maker were to say to me, ‘it’s unfair to criticize my state because I have a low-educated, low income population,’ I would ask them, ‘why do you have a low-educated, low-income population?’ It’s because of your policy.” https://t.co/xWfZDkPUzw@AdriannaUSAT
Over four years ago, Brian protested with March For Our Lives to demand action on gun violence in our schools and communities.
This week, he was shot in both hands and through his neck by an AR-15 at his school in St. Louis. He jumped out of a window to save his life. pic.twitter.com/NADUYNRhjg
Both their senators and all their Republican representatives in the House voted against aid for the last hurricane. They shouldn’t get any then. If they don’t like that, then they should vote for representatives who agree with them. They shouldn’t get to vote against funding, then take the funding, then brag about getting the funding for their constituents. I feel like I have walked through the looking glass. I can’t believe this is what our country is now and all of it aided and abetted by the media, even the “liberal” outlets.
I just read a report that proved that many people would rather die “free” than wear a mask. Many people would prefer go without health care and die than obtain universal health care “because I don’t want my tax dollars going to welfare queens and mexicans.” Many people would prefer dying early of a heart attack than not eat meat.
I was shocked/not shocked to read this. This shows a severe mental illness among people who believe their lives are worth less than their ideology and their imaginary notion of freedom.
Related: Donald Trump is, literally, a mass-murderer.
Medical experts have carefully studied the data and have concluded that had Trump, in 2020, urged people to take the Covid-prevention steps urged by the CDC and others, countless thousands of American lives could have been saved. Instead, the monster downplayed or ignored vaccinations, face masks and social distancing.
I remember having a discussion online with a self proclaimed right to life Christian, who objected to any and all Covid restrictions. As far as he was concerned, if people would get sick and die, that was their look out, not his. He had money to make.
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