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There's a reason I can't in good conscience consider myself a Catholic anymore. The Church got up to some serious poo poo, and god knows how much of it is still going on behind the scenes now.
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Schizotek posted:It's not just Catholic clergy. Basically any profession where people have access to kids is gonna have pedophiles. Teachers, clergy of all faiths, coaches. Family members. And if they're seen as a community leader people will make excuses for it. The scandal with the Catholic Church was the overarching institutions response to the issue being to hide the perpetrator and then shuffle them off somewhere else to do the same thing. Not to mention the evidence that they've been doing just that for at least 50 years.
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Remember that suicide is still a mortal sin in most if not all of their doctrines, so by attempting to do so these kids are proving that they are wicked.
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Hey, it's not as bad as the ones that used to take kids out to Barbados and other Carribean and South American countries so they wouldn't be able to go anywhere if they tried to run. Exodus International was terrifying.
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:That being said, nothing's going to happen. If we couldn't do anything after a bunch of innocent kids were murdered during school then we're certainly not going to do anything for a bunch of folks who "choose" to live a sinful lifestyle getting shot up at a sin den nightclub. It's easy to want it as a knee jerk reaction, but the push always tapers off, and Congress is hostile to the idea. Given the SCOTUS precedent in the last few years, the only thing that's going to make sweeping gun control happen is a full on repeal of the 2nd, and you couldn't right this minute get 2/3 of Congress to agree to call the fire department if the statehouse were on fire at that moment, much less get 3/4 of the States to ratify. It sucks that we can't even really have a rational conversation about it. I mean, I'm pretty blatantly pro-2nd Amendment, and don't see any way short of mass confiscation that would have kept a guy who could pass the background checks to work as an armed guard for a federal contractor from obtaining a weapon, but there's got to be some way we can better prevent this kind of thing. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 23:52 on Jun 13, 2016 |
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Teddybear posted:Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter has ordered that the ban on transgender military personnel be lifted immediately. Well, that's one way to make an official statement on the whole bathroom law bullshit without actually outright swinging at it. Good on 'em, though.
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I mean, it is a little odd because usually the unisex bathrooms are single and not multiple stalls, but still.
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Fun update on North Carolina this morning, the NCAA has pulled all championship games for 2016 and 2017 out of the state, save those that mandate an in-state team gets home field advantage. http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/ncaa-relocate-championships-north-carolina-2016-17 quote:The board stressed that the dynamic in North Carolina is different from that of other states because of at least four specific factors:
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fishmech posted:The vast majority of millennials are already out of college. Only the very youngest are still in high school or college. So most millenials don't need to care about free college that much. Given the sloppy loving definition of 'millenials', some of them have kids getting ready for college.
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iospace posted:https://twitter.com/wpjenna/status/783019928421105664 This shouldn't surprise you, his VP has been an avid conversion therapy advocate. Mike Pence For Congress 2000 posted:• Congress should oppose any effort to put gay and lesbian relationships on an equal legal status with heterosexual marriage. Far as I'm aware, he's never backed down on most of this.
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Next time someone says women are useless in combat, introduce them to Lyudmila Pavlichenko. Soviet sniper on the Eastern Front. 309 confirmed kills. One of the deadliest and most effective women in recorded history. With Elenaor Roosevelt's help, also one of the strongest agitators to get the US into the European theater. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 12:27 on Oct 9, 2016 |
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MaxxBot posted:People aren't going to suddenly start hating gays because Trump won, especially since Trump never even says anything bad about gays. Things are going to suck in the short term but there's no way the long trend towards LGBT acceptance is going to suddenly reverse itself. People don't have to start. There's already a vocal minority who just had that hate validated by the highest offices in the country, and a literal monster of a man is one 70 year old Cheeto having a heart attack away from the Presidency.
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The Dark One posted:This woman is scum. 100% Luckily it looks like the law is absolutely not on her side.
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there wolf posted:Parental rights fall under the due-process clause of the 14th. Shittiest mom of the year is claiming that the court never informed her when her child applied for emancipation, so she had no opportunity to challenge the loss of her parental rights, and therefor the lack of due process means they should still be intact. So daughter, using the current law in Minnesota that grants emancipated minors control over their own medical decisions, is violating her mother's parental rights by getting medical care her mom hasn't signed off on. If I'm reading the article right, the child never -had- to apply, Minnesota law isn't very definite, but seems to agree that living on their own with no parental attempts to get them to return home after running away or being kicked out is sufficient. http://www.lawhelpmn.org/files/1765CC5E-1EC9-4FC4-65EC-957272D8A04E/attachments/142FAC1B-D276-4E40-97D4-9662A7B0DE56/y-12-emancipation.pdf It is, of course, going to be woefully expensive to prove, and all because a 17 year old is transistioning and the parent who abandoned them wants to put the brakes on. Case is, more than likely from what I can tell as a layperson, going to be dismissed anyway because by the time it comes to court the daughter will be of age and the mother's requests will be without merit. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 20:17 on Nov 18, 2016 |
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there wolf posted:You don't need a judge to declare it or something like that? Learn something new everyday. Varies heavily by state, naturally.
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In other relevant news : http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/first-amendment-defense-act-would-be-devastating-lgbtq-americans-n698416 Article posted:Earlier this month, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and Senator Mike Lee of Utah, through his spokesperson, told Buzzfeed they plan to reintroduce an embattled bill that barely gained a House hearing in 2015. But this time around, they said, the First Amendment Defense Act (FADA) was likely to succeed due to a Republican-controlled House and the backing of President-elect Donald Trump. Looks like the redefining discrimination to not apply to gays and slut-shaming bill is coming back!
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Badger of Basra posted:How do you propose that the opponents repeal a law when they aren't a majority in either chamber of the legislature Normally, I'd say via political horse-trading, but the NC GOP already just proved they can't be trusted to bargain in good faith ever again. 
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mandatory lesbian posted:why would that be tho, like doesn't this indicate its separate from sexuality? Might have something to do with not being straight enough for the straights, and getting a ton of 'oh, you're just in denial, come back when you're all the way out of the closet' from the other side.
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OwlFancier posted:What is a political issue if not a societal problem though? All things are societal problems and we use politics to solve them because the apparatus of the state is the strongest single force over society. To put it bluntly as a political issue, we need to make evidence-based sexual education mandatory on a national level both for public health reasons as it is necessary that teenagers actually be taught prevention for STDs and unwanted pregnancies, but also because there needs to be an acknowledgement that there are more sexual identities possible than one.
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Gorilla Salad posted:So the question is whether the GOP is vindictive enough to cut off their own nose to spite their face? Did you see their very, very first act upon convening? You know, the attempt to flatline their own ethics watchdogs?
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Taitale posted:First of all it's clinically significant distress or impairment so that binary state you talk about doesn't exist. While there are definitely potential issues around what constitutes clinical distress the fact that the DSM recognises that lack of access to medical interventions can cause that level of distress it doesn't seem the bar is set very high. The biggest group who I think would have an issue with the current diagnosis are people who don't seek all the stereotypical medical interventions/have a non-binary identity and get stuck with doctors who decide that it means they aren't trans enough for any treatment at all. Even then that is more a problem with outdated thinking than the diagnosis itself. Yeah, Vindicator's failing the Psych 101 test here and seeing the existence of symptoms as the existence of the entire disorder. I say Psych 101 because this is exactly what almost everyone who ever takes any abnormal psych courses does before they learn to consider symptoms in the context of how they affect the patient. Many people express symptoms and tendencies that are in congruence with a possible diagnosis based on the DSM's criteria. However, if those symptoms are not causing them distress or impairment, they are not diagnosed as disorders, but normal quirks of the function of human consciousness.
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Vindicator posted:Like I said, try to find a surgeon willing to perform GRS based on a 'normal quirk of the function of human consciousness.' You're still not getting it. If dysphoria did not rise to the level of distress or impairment, then a patient would have no reason to seek GRS. To give an analogy, cross dressing can be seen as a coping mechanism and symptom of gender dysphoria, however not all cross dressers are trans.
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Vindicator posted:I'm getting it, believe me. Your position is that trans folks who pursue GRS are distressed/impaired to such an extent that they can be diagnosed as mentally ill. Do you think that all trans folks who pursue gender confirmation surgeries are mentally ill? Do you think that trans folks whose dysphoria does not rise to the level of significant distress or impairment should be barred from pursuing medical transition options, including surgery? I have deep concerns about labelling all trans folks with the intention of undergoing gender confirmation surgeries as mentally ill. I mean, you can't conceive of any other possible motivations a trans person might wish to undergo confirmation surgeries? My standpoint is that people suffering significant distress and/or impairment are suffering from mental illness, yes. The same as are those suffering depression, anxiety, or PTSD issues, to name the most common issues currently in the wild. De-stigmatization of mental illness and treating it like any other medical condition that requires treatment is the goal here, not trying to generate new euphemisms that do not accurately reflect the problem and how it can be approached to better the patient's life. Mental illness is, for the vast majority of cases, no more the fault of the person suffering it than Type 1 diabetes would be.
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What's your better option? Without a viable diagnosis, insurance companies are going to continue to find ways to deny treatment.
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What exactly is gained by doing so? It seems to me that you're just creating unclear definitions and generating a new edge case for the sake of avoiding a label.
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Vindicator posted:I'm wondering how many arguments there would have been, telling queers back in 1972 not to worry about their mental illness diagnosis, because there's nothing to be ashamed of when the doctor tells you your brain doesn't work right because you don't conform to heteronormative societal standards. But the problem is that it isn't 'disordered thinking' in the first place. I at least am tacitly accepting that as a calculated policy position. The primary author of policy for the incoming administration is, due to the President's lack of interest and general unfitness, going to be Mike Pence. Mike Pence is a hardline believer in conversion therapy who despises all things LGBT. The process of gutting the ACA is already well under way. In this political climate, maintaining gender dysphoria as a diagnosis and SRS among the effective treatments for it is vital. The biggest gift you could possibly give Pence and insurance companies is being able to classify gender as a personally held choice and declare all treatments to change it as elective and cosmetic and therefore not required to be covered by insurers. Is that the most feel-good of answers? gently caress no, but it's more likely to have positive results than 'Oh, you wanna be a ~lady~? Hope you have a couple hundred grand saved up, otherwise go gently caress yourself.'
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Edit : You know what? Nobody is going to have a positive result from continuing this argument.
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That is a much calmer and more reasonable way of saying what I wanted to. Props, Muffin.
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DeadlyMuffin posted:Is this actually true? I don't think I could get treatment without some sort of diagnosis, even paying cash. You'd have to test it, but I'm fairly sure there's a doctor out there willing to do pretty much anything you want, cosmetically, so long as you can convince them you're of sound mind or deep enough pockets. Otherwise people like Stalking Cat couldn't exist. Most medical professionals would have deep ethical concerns that you aren't actually harming yourself, though. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Jan 14, 2017 |
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Taitale posted:Chelsea Manning is getting her sentence commuted. This is good. It isn't the pardon I would have liked to see, but it recognizes that her sentencing was woefully over-reaching to try and make an example for anyone else tempted to leak documents. Too bad years in solitary as well as untreated gender issues because the military 'didn't know how' to treat them are going to mean she's got a long road to being any kind of productive member of society ever again. Solitary confinement really messes with people.
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Taitale posted:That's because it is torture. Call it what it is. You'll not get any objection from me there.
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Tias posted:Pertinent to the case, I think, is that the court admitted the leaks did not endanger any military personnel - how the hell can you be locked away half your life for embarassing the military? Don't forget that the prosecution was still pushing all the way into the trial for a conviction on 'aiding the enemy' which carries a possible death sentence, despite her willingness to enter a guilty plea. Oh, and outright made up "wantonly causing to be published on the internet intelligence belonging to the US government, having knowledge that intelligence published on the internet is accessible to the enemy" as a new offense to charge her with.
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Shukaro posted:Bi people are actually insatiable lust demons in human skin I feel like I missed this memo somewhere. Are there sweet demonic powers I could have been taking advantage of this whole time?
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Easy Salmon Recipe posted:+1 Initiative, according to the last splatbook I read. Hrm. I should reroll as an Elf for that sweet Dex bonus. 
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Eimi posted:Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck Where are you quoting that from? Google's having no luck, and I don't want to lose my poo poo without attribution.
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fishmech posted:Pistols are mainly good for committing suicide, they're pretty useless for any common self-defense scenario. Nobody should buy one for that purpose and it's real bad advice. Shut up fishmech. You know as little about firearms as you know about anything else.
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Yup. It's actually making me wish I could GTFO, because the only way to make this bullshit stop that I've come up with so far is to re-run Sherman's March to the Sea, but starting at the Texas border this time and making sure to burn everything.
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cis autodrag posted:This is what you're not getting. Gay white men allow themselves to be grouped into the same minority group as trans people, lesbians, etc when it suits their needs, but are able to distance themselves from that group when it advantages them. They get to have it both ways and that's hosed up. Is it intentional or just ironic that you've just used the primary argument biphobic people everywhere use to try and push bi folks out of queer spaces?
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