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Mary Jamis, a lesbian woman, was ARRESTED yesterday after she and her partner sought a marriage license in North Carolina.
Share this if you think it’s outrageous.
I’m sharing this because Jamis is a badass.
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![thedailywhat:
Infographic of the Day: Of course the MPAA doesn’t want people to see Bully. If people stopped turning a blind eye to bullying the MPAA could no longer exist.
[thanks jill!]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1ka08RHZV1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
Infographic of the Day: Of course the MPAA doesn’t want people to see Bully. If people stopped turning a blind eye to bullying the MPAA could no longer exist.
[thanks jill!]
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onedoesnotsimplybecomejuthika:
Kassim Alhimidi wept over the body of his wife, Shaima Alawadi, at a prayer ceremony on Tuesday. She died after being found severely beaten in her home near San Diego.
This just broke my heart.
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(Source: domesticterrorism)
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On his “conscience” bill - The Blunt Amendment - Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO) said the following in a February press release:
This bill would just simply say that those health care providers don’t have to follow that mandate if it violates their faith principles. This is about the First Amendment. It’s about religious beliefs. It’s not about any one issue.
Except that it is about one issue: a woman’s choice.
It’s about her choice to follow her own principles, be those in faith or godless heathenism. It’s about her choice whether or not to use contraception based on those principles.
The Blunt Amendment tells me women should not be allowed to make that choice. Rather, the employer makes those health care decisions for the entire company based on his or her own moral compass. Keep in mind this amendment is applicable to any kind of health coverage and allows employers to opt out of coverage based on “their religious beliefs and moral conviction.”
From S.182:
[The Affordable Care Act] does not allow purchasers, plan sponsors, and other stakeholders with religious or moral objections to specific items or services to decline providing or obtaining coverage of such items or services, or allow health care providers with such objections to decline to provide them.
By creating new barriers to health insurance and causing the loss of existing insurance arrangements, these inflexible mandates in PPACA jeopardize the ability of individuals to exercise their rights of conscience and their ability to freely participate in the health insurance and health care marketplace.
I’m thoroughly entertained by legislative language like the sentence I bolded above. You’d think the Affordable Care Act forced employers to escort their female employees to the Abortionplex.
So if I attend the Scrooge Church of Selfish Jackassery, can I object to having to provide health care to my employees at all? On the grounds that it interferes with my unmitigated greed and selfishness which is, after all, the principle tenant of my religion?
What the fuck happened to separation of church and state?
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Let me just say. Abortion is NEVER “acceptable.” Whether you were raped, you have physical conditions, or you just simply can’t keep your legs closed… How can you be so selfish to put your self above your OWN CHILD? Be responsible for your actions, and choose adoption. That child has a PURPOSE, and a PLAN! A purpose to be a HISTORY maker, a WORLD changer, and a DEMON CHASER!!
Yes, 100% agreed!
How selfish of women that can’t keep their legs closed when there are millions and millions of people who would want to adopt your child… under certain circumstances.
Let’s look at a quick graph:
Here’s the adopted children in the year 2000 by race. Oh look at that! Those are some really good numbers!
Until you face the reality of some situations. I’ve always seen adoption in the same way I see dog stores. Some people go into dog stores with a really specific dog they want to choose. They want it a certain age, a certain color, and with certain features that they are looking at.
And it’s the same for adoption (sadly). People go into adoption agencies looking for certain characteristics, age, etc. when adopting and just look at the numbers. While 489,824 adopted WHITE boys were living in households, only 122,378 black boys and 102,463 Hispanic boys were adopted.
1,017,666 white adopted children were living in US households compared to 254,161 black children and 215,909 Hispanic children. You could combine all of the minority race children that were adopted (784,247) and you would still have less minority children being adopted compared to their white counterparts.
Let’s look at this statistic from the same report:
A higher percentage of adopted children under 18 were Black or African American (16 per- cent) than the percentage of biolog- ical children (13 percent) and the percentage of stepchildren (12 per- cent). This higher percentage may be due in part to the fact that the percentage of children in the child welfare system who are Black is higher than the percentage of chil- dren in the overall population who are Black, and may also reflect a higher number of informal adop- tions in African American communi- ties.
Let me translate: There are more black children waiting to be adopted or living a life of adoption than there are black children living with their birth parents.
And that’s just a small part of the terrible world of adoption. What about the abandoned feelings a child who isn’t adopted feels? Constantly moving around? The struggle for an identity? Being put up for adoption never goes away and while it’s preferable to not living a life at all it’s not a walk in the park.
Depending on how you look at it, terminating it before it starts might be a more sensical (and, arguably, moral) decision.
^ PERFECTLY SAID.
(Source: census.gov)
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