SophieJean
SophieJean's JournalWell, I guess it's a good thing
the moron didn't fire his weapon. Sounds like you're justifying his over-reaction. What's fair about threatening to shoot teenage girls for the "crime" of throwing water on a fascist.
NBC news poll
September 29, 2020
Sixty-six percent of adults say they don't think the Supreme Court should overturn Roe v. Wade, according to an NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Tracking Poll.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/poll-majority-adults-don-t-support-overturning-roe-v-wade-n1241269
WTF?
And who protects the child when their own parent(s) are the rapists?!
Btw, no child should be forced to remain pregnant-it is extremely damaging both physically and emotionally. The US might as well be the Middle East. Fuck forced birther Amy Covid Barrett.
Who will be making judicial decisions-Barrett or her husband/People of Praise?
There is no way Barrett could distance herself from her close ties to People of Praise, and this fact should not be whitewashed.
"One of the most controversial aspects of People of Praise is the severely patriarchal belief system it promotes. People of Praise used to refer to female members as “handmaids.”
Former People of Praise member Coral Anika Theill, who joined the group in 1979 and is now 65, told the Associated Press that when she was a member, women were expected to live in “total submission” to their husbands. Theill told AP, “My husband at the time was very drawn to it because of the structure of the submission of women.”
Theill has written about her experiences with People of Praise in her book, “Bonsheá: Making Light of the Dark.” Biesecker and Smith note that in her book, Theill “recounts that in People of Praise, every consequential personal decision — whether to take a new job, buy a particular model car or choose where to live — went through the hierarchy of male leadership. Members of the group who worked outside the community had to turn over their paystubs to church leaders to confirm they were tithing correctly.”
"Adrian Reimers, another ex-member of People of Praise, wrote about the group in his 1997 book “Not Reliable Guides.” According to Reimers — who now teaches at Notre Dame University — People of Praise believe that wives must “submit in all things” to their husbands.
Reimers wrote, “A married woman is expected always to reflect the fact that she is under her husband’s authority. This goes beyond an acknowledgment that the husband is ‘head of the home’ or head of the family; he is, in fact, her personal pastoral head. Whatever she does requires at least his tacit approval. He is responsible for her formation and growth in the Christian life.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/amy-coney-barrett-tied-to-far-right-religious-group-that-believes-women-must-submit-to-their-husbands/
Same reaction,
and there are highly credible accounts from ex members that People of Praise is not a normal Catholic ideological group, as well as the fact her mother and father have always been members, so it is who she is. This person didn't bother to mention the obvious patriarchal issues, and no, that's not going away.
Barrett must be asked questions about her past decisions which really don't have much to do with her Catholicism, other than to dole out cruelty to regular human beings via her extremely narrow rulings.
Generally very disappointed in DU-where are the liberals? Not Here.
Elie Mystal gets it right.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/amy-coney-barrett-extremist/
The Vox article is hardly representative of the "left."
Author Grady seems to only be interested in making sure no one is confused about the connection between Barrett's Catholicism and the extremist group, People of Praise, of which she is a member, and the supposed link to Atwood's Handmaid's Tale. Apparently that may have been a different extremist group called People of Hope. Both groups are made up of religious extremists who abhor the idea of women having bodily autonomy, but Grady doesn't seem concerned by that fact. She repeatedly negates the connection to Handmaid's Tale, (although female advisers in People of Praise were called handmaids at one time,) deliberately minimizing the extremism of People of Praise, and not bothering to explain why it is not a normal ideology within the Catholic religion.
Grady's real agenda is to both-sides the entirely justified anger and anxiety from progressives over Barrett being chosen to replace Ginsburg, while giving equal weight to the laments from the religious right that Catholicism is being disrespected. That's not the case at all, and her article is offensive because that is exactly the attack Barrett's supporters are already using.
Her conclusion sums it all up: "The result is a controversy about two political parties that increasingly see themselves as pushed to the breaking point — and who believe they have no space left to interact with the other side in good faith." Sure, that's what's happening alright. Only one political party is busy shoving their Christo-fascist scotus pick onto the supreme court, and who will likely undo all of Ginsburg's amazing accomplishments.
A far better critique is made by Elie Mystal of The Nation:
Amy Coney Barrett is an Extremist-Just Not the Kind You Think
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/amy-coney-barrett-extremist/
Signed,
and also commented. This is so unbelievably disgusting I'm feeling physically ill. Looks like uber fascist Malkin has found a way to be "relevant."
Is it a contest?
Murdering innocent animals for pleasure definitely correlates with sociopathic behavior towards human beings. Educate yourself.
There is a proven link between the abuse of animals
and sociopathic behavior towards human beings. Generally, people who harm others, have a history of abusing animals as well.
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