Category: Religion / Religious / Theocracy

Let’s talk about DOD trashing the Constitution and Latter-day Saints….

As I have written about before this is simply a move by Christian nationalists in the military and government to force everyone to conform to their religious beliefs and desires.  This is again to return to the 1950s when it was normal for Christianity to seem like the dominant religion of the majority of people in the country.  The reasons stated make so sense for the purpose claimed as Belle points out.  This is a minority fundamentalist / evangelical believers trying to force their rule and beliefs onto the majority.   Hugs

 

Her Gotcha Backfired Spectacularly…

Sam and crew go over Graham Platner’s win and his interview with Mika Brzezinski Scarborough on Morning Joe.   Amoung the jokes about her interview they go over his acceptance speech.  I am personally satisfied he has answered all the questions.  I love his line “… if you give me the chance I will be a senator for the people who cannot afford to buy a senator”.  I am a progressive and a believer in DSA policies.  Graham Platner is not the perfect person who is flawless and unlike many his flaws are out in the open, not hidden behind a facade of fake religious politeness.  He is a populist.  I am not looking for religious leaders in our lawmakers, I am not expecting someone who walked blamelessly through life, that they way only one person did and his name was Jesus.  I am looking for someone whose policies help the lower incomes and the public at large, not the privileged few.  I am looking for a congress and White House filled with people who do not think elected office is their golden ticket to personal wealth and authority over others.   Real people screw up and those that ask and work for a second chance should be given a chance to show they deserve it.  In my opinion Platner has and does  shown he deserves his forgiveness.   Plus people look at Graham’s past are not looking at Collin’s past or even Mika who started dating Joe when he was still married.  To me a lot of these people going on about Platner’s past seem to hold him to a different standard than they themselves are held or republican canidates are held.   Hugs.

 

M*A*S*H’s Revolutionary Gay Episode

 

Pete Hegseth Gives D-Day Speech Hitler Would Have Loved

At a D-Day celebration, Secretary of Defense Pete Kegseth claimed that today a different dangerous ideology is storming the beaches of European countries, and he listed them.  Kegseth is a die hard white supremacist Christian nationalist who is trying to enforce a Christianity only policy in the US military to the point military members can no longer have atheists on their dog tags.  So aside from Kegseth implying the Allies had a dangerous ideology which I guess the Nazis would have agreed with as Sam and crew discuss, the dangerous ideology he is demanding Europe stop and repel is Islam and the dangerous men are Muslims.     Hugs

Is This The Moment Dan Goldman Lost His Re-Election?

Another sitting congress person who is bought and owned by Israel to the point where he is adamant that Israel was not breaking the Leahy law on the use of military weapons.   How did we the people let so many of our congress people be owned by foreign governments?  Oh yes it was citizens united.   That was one of the SCOTUS rulings that made bribery legal because the majority of right wing justices on the courts were taking bribes from wealthy people.   Hugs

 

Republican Ghoul Wants “Proof” Children Killed By Israel’s Bombs Are Innocent

A Republican wearing an IDF pin is defending Israel’s genocide and invasion of Lebanon.   He believes anything Israel does is OK, including attacking another country, killing its people, all to steal that country’s land.  Same thing Russia is doing to Ukraine that the US tried to stop.  Yet some members of our government / congress are bought and owned by Israel’s government.  Hugs 

Ryan Miller is wrong about homosexuality & the Bible

Dan McClellan explains why saying the bible is against homosexuality is wrong.   The status of the male as the top of the hierarchy was of primary concern.  Women were of a lower status than men.   For a man to penetrate caused his status to fall to that of a woman.  That was the sin of same sex acts in their society.   So men were told not to penetrate other men as that lowered them to the position of women in their society.  He points out that they felt that a man who wanted to be penetrated was thought to have a mental illness.  He points out how the people of that time were not worried about female same sex acts because they did not lower anyone status because no penis was involved and no male was emasculated.  McClellan points out that the bible really was only concerned with one side of the same gender act so it was not homosexuality that it condemned but the lowering of a male’s top position in society that was the issue.  I have watched and posted a lot of his videos on sexuality in the bible and those who use the bible as a club to bash LGBTQ+ people with.  He is a scholar so he gets into the weeds of the real meanings of the words that make up the text.  He can be difficult to follow sometimes because of that.  He also used the example of slavery in the bible and how it was used to justify owning another person as property.  It is an interesting video that gets easier to understand towards the end as he wraps it all together and warns those who use the bible in this manner that they are causing a lot of harm to those who do not believe or think as they do on same sex acts.  Hugs

 

They posted images of same-sex couples kissing. Now they face prison time.

The religious right in the US salivates over being able to do this here in the US.  The goal is to enshrine being straight and cis into law so it makes being LGBTQ+ illegal.  These people want to eradicate the entire LGBTQ+ community.  They want desperately to return to a time when heteronormaty was assumed the only correct and natural way to present sexual attraction and gender.  Why these people are so butt hurt over other people’s sexual attractions and gender  feelings makes no sense.   Arre straight men angry that lesbians don’t want to have sex with them?  Are religious straight men terrified that they find the woman attractive only to learn she is trans which makes them hornier?  And as always attacks on the LGBTQ+ follow the same script which is that LGBTQ+ are a threat to children, society, and family values.  Family values mean what?  That same sex people don’t have accidental pregnancies?  What is not family about same gender couples?  Oh right it doesn’t look like adam and eve to the hateful religious groups and it doesn’t look like mommy and daddy to the bigots.  Hugs

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Turkey has placed a group of young activists on trial amid a crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights.

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On Wednesday, 11 members of the Turkish rights group Young LGBTI+ were tried over charges of “obscenity” and “violating the protection of the family,” their lawyer told Agence France-Presse.

The defendants face three years in prison for violating an article in the Turkish constitution that prosecutors say undermines “family values.” Among the activists’ offenses: posting images to social media that show same-sex couples kissing, a display deemed “obscene” by the government.

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The trial in the western city of Izmir could result in prison time for the defendants and the suspension of their civil rights. It coincides with an appeal against another court ruling issued in December ordering Young LGBTI+’s dissolution based on the same charges.

While homosexuality isn’t illegal in Turkey as it is in most neighboring Muslim-majority countries, authoritarian President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has made the LGBTQ+ community a frequent target when it suits him. He blames Turkey’s low birthrate in part on gay people.

 

“This trial arises from a policy of excluding LGBT+ people from the public sphere,” said Kerem Dikmen, who is the Young LGBTI+ group’s lawyer and also a defendant in the case.

“This is not about obscenity. Activities that are perfectly legitimate, legal and in line with the Constitution are being criminalized. It is a form of dehumanization,” he said.

Turkey’s tenuous ties to Europe once moderated the country’s official treatment of LGBTQ+ Turks, but with Erdogan’s rise, the country’s integration with the West stalled. Talks on EU membership, first proposed in 1999, effectively ended in 2016 over European concerns on human rights, migration issues, and Erdogan’s democratic backsliding.

In October, draft legislation leaked that would impose penalties targeting Turkey’s LGBTQ+ community and behavior deemed “contrary to biological sex and general morality.”

“Legislators could be considering the criminalization of any expression of LGBTI identities, consensual same-sex sexual activity, and access to vital gender-affirming healthcare,” Dinushika Dissanayake, Amnesty’s Deputy Director for Europe, said at the time. “Under these proposals, people could face jail terms based on gender stereotypes, how they present themselves, and who they chose to be in a relationship with.”

“These proposals present a grave threat to the rights of LGBTI people and those who advocate for LGBTI rights, and they must never see the light of day,” he warned.

While the legislation was withdrawn in November, the new case is testing the limits of current law to the same ends.

“We will not give up defending human rights,” said Young LGBTI+’s lawyer. “But they are trying to send a message to society through us.”

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Greg Owen writes about politics and culture for LGBTQ Nation. An award-winning writer, producer and journalist, he was recently recognized for Excellence in Online Journalism by NLGJA: the Association of LGBTQ Journalists for his coverage of the 2024 election. He’s written for Q Digital since 2015 and for LGBTQ Nation since 2022.

ICE Detention Protests Heating Up | Wali Khan | TMR

This clip was with a reporter detailing the abuses in ICE detention facilities and the illegal actions of ICE agents and for profit prison staff.  Profit over people as these ICE and prison staff do not see the detainees as humans like themselves.   What is concerning is ICE is learning how to use existing laws to make the local law enforcement work against the will of the people.   This young man wont admit he was attacked by ICE agents instead saying he thinks he hit a tree limb in the confusion but I showed Ron the video and he said the guy looks to him like he was hit repeatedly and hard in the head and possibly the body as well.  When will we as a people see that these abuses are so very similar to the abuses suffered by the minorities in 1930s Geermany.   Hugs

Platner Smear Flops | Jeet Heer | TMR

Sam points out that the times interviewed at least four women.  Only one had anything bad to say about Platner and the rest had only positive things to say about him.  The Times couldn’t collberate the claims of the woman who accused Platner of being physically rough with her.   The woman making the accusations is a republican operative and one of the co-founders of the group Ladies for Kavanaugh.   A group that supports Justice kavanaugh who was very credibly accused of rape.  This woman accusing Platner of abusing women is a longtime Republican operative who helped Susan Collins write the speech she gave supporting Kavanaugh.  She used a lot of the same language in the Times smear article as she has used in in other republican-supporting articles and events.   It seems the majority of the attacks aimed at Platner are being driven / created by centrist  and pro-Israel groups.  These attacks include hints of far more serious crimes to come to light but they can’t substantiate them.  Hugs