The States: Maybe A National Divorce Is A Good Idea After All

[Kepler]

If Abbott gets the go ahead to pardon I predict all hell breaking loose and will not be good for him and his party in the long run.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Republicans love kids!

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[aparch]

They're not pro-life, they're pro-birth. Lives be d*mned.




In other news, per Kentucky state law, the gun used in the Louisville shooting will be auctioned off to the public.

[MissThundercat]

No real surprise that red states continually rank at or near the bottom in child welfare, high in poverty, and high in alcohol and substance abuse.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Franklin is “upscale” and full of straight up loonies

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[ScoobyDoo]

No real surprise that red states continually rank at or near the bottom in child welfare, high in poverty, and high in alcohol and substance abuse.

Yes, but they have the love of their AR-15's to comfort them.

[MissThundercat]

Yes, but they have the love of their AR-15's to comfort them.

Fear can be comforting as well, which is why they rock themselves back and forth and hyperventilate over drag queens and the mere existence of trans people.

[French Rage]

Fear can be comforting as well, which is why they rock themselves back and forth and hyperventilate over drag queens and the mere existence of trans people.

Not fear, per se, but the knowledge that the things wrong in their lives are not their fault and due to their stupid actions but rather due to the amorphous ever-changing menacing "other" out there.

[Proud2baLaker]

Arizona supreme court says churches (LDS in this case) totally don't have to turn over any documents, answer any questions, or report child abuse as long as they claim they learned about it during confession. But sure, it's the drag queens that are the problem.

[LynahFan]

Arizona supreme court says churches (LDS in this case) totally don't have to turn over any documents, answer any questions, or report child abuse as long as they claim they learned about it during confession. But sure, it's the drag queens that are the problem.

Awesome. So now we have to have a legal definition of confession? Or do the churches get to define it as “any conversation anywhere at any time for any reason?”

[RaceBoarder]

Has this kind of thing not come up with things like Murder in the past? I thought there was already some sort of confidentiality baked into this.

[Proud2baLaker]

Has this kind of thing not come up with things like Murder in the past? I thought there was already some sort of confidentiality baked into this.

Apparently there was/is a law that allows for clergy confidentiality, but now they have decided it also includes child abuse. Which given so many church's pasts, seems like a great idea.

Things like murder, assault, child abuse, grand theft/fraud, etc should absolutely not be protected by this.

[LynahFan]

Has this kind of thing not come up with things like Murder in the past? I thought there was already some sort of confidentiality baked into this.

To protect the parishioner, I can be slightly* more sympathetic to. But we’re talking about the church learning of the *church’s* guilt. Totally different ballgame.

*if I’m a priest, and someone confessed to an unsolved murder, it would take me about 13 attoseconds to do the math that tells me that the compassionate, loving thing to do in that situation would be to turn that ****er in, even if I’m not required to.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Why do republicans like raping kids so much?

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[Kepler]

All conservatives' fears are projection. They know what's in their own sick heads. Their mistake is they think that's everyone but, no, it's just them.

GOP registration and the sexual predator list are the same circle.