You think it's okay to punish someone for zillions of years based upon how they act in an eyeblink of a lifetime, because God said so. You think that whatever God says is moral because he's God and therefore utterly moral, but he isn't moral at all, and anybody who actually *reads* the Bible sees this. He commanded…

You do realize that conservative men are starting to threaten acid attacks on women, right? One of these shitbags is even in the American government. If there's any difference at all between American christofascists and the Taliban, it's only in where they are on the timeline of destroying women's rights.

Oh, so a crying baby is worse than a slobbering-drunk old racist who thinks it's awesome to hit babies and insult people? Dunno, I think I'd take the baby.

Oh, of course it's a smokescreen. The Catholic Church hasn't given a shit about vaccinations since the 1800s. Her priest is probably totally fine with vaccinations. She failed in her first attempt to dodge the law, so she's just throwing everything she can at the wall to see if anything sticks. I had an ex try the…

Any dickweed parent who decides not to vaccinate should be required to sit through a video of a baby gasping for air with whooping cough. We're having an epidemic of it in my state because of anti-vaxxers and I'm fucking sick of coddling ignorance at the expense of public health.

There haven't been two viable political parties for a while now. The Republicans have been slowly spiraling into sheer madness since the day they got into bed with the dominionist Christians about 20 years ago. I'm predicting they'll have to totally screw the pooch on one or two more Presidential elections before they…

This can't be right, nobody's that ridiculously uninformed, misogynistic, and crazy. Nobody. This is some pretend asshole who's just acting like an extreme caricature of an insane, super-controlling fundie. Nobody could ever be that stupid and that obviously terrified of women's sexuality. Oh, he's serious? Huh. Well,…

:( That sounds so sucky. If it helps, I got my mom an FTD bouquet one year for Mother's Day and it was apparently simply lovely. She'd taken a pic of it and it looked great to me. Smaller than the web pic looked, but I guess that's to be expected. Everything seems like it went well.

Congratulations on the next step! Mr. Hyzenthlay and I talked about this subject pretty early on, well before we moved in together. We dated for about eight years before getting engaged by mutual decision as we both had some previous baggage to deal with, and we got engaged a few months before eloping. That was a…

It's normal if you're a totally insecure high school girl raised on Cosmo magazine and reality shows. It's not normal if you're a well-adjusted adult woman. She manufactured drama purely to get a rise out of you, and you didn't respond with drama. So you passed a test, just not the one she'd created. You got out of…

What an asshole! He took advantage of you for 3 years and happily took advantage of your generosity for 5, and that's how he acts? Lady, this is the best present you could possibly get for Valentine's Day. He's abusive, he's cowardly, he's a festering pile of dog snot, and he did you the inestimable favor of getting…

That's horrifying and disgusting! I hope you did something about it after that old goat victimized you. You know you weren't the first or the last woman he preyed upon in the name of "teaching" them. Here's hoping you found some healing after such a ghastly experience.

Amen! I haven't ever seen it, and I don't want to. It sounds idiotic and insulting. If I want to cry, I'll watch "Wall-E" or "Up." If we're not real girls, then your brother might not be a real boy. He might want to get checked.

You're very welcome and I share your hopes that she escapes before her abuser escalates even further.

A lawyer's already mentioned in a response to one of these comments that this case is fishy on a bunch of levels. I'm not surprised. Forced-birth groups are as untrustworthy as religious fundamentalists, and for the exact same reasons.

Anybody who "looks forward" to subjecting anybody to the kind of unimaginable pain of hell is not as loving as s/he thinks s/he is. Even when I was a Christian I would never, ever have said I "looked forward" to anybody suffering that kind of excessive punishment. An eternity of pain, torture, fire, and condemnation…

Glad you asked!

People abuse their partners because of a variety of terrible issues. Without professional help to resolve those issues, it's just about impossible to change that pattern of response. The problem is that giving in to the urge to commit physical violence is like breaking a dike. You can try to put the dike back together…

Their leader is about the most hate-filled raging tyrant you could ever encounter. One of the kids who left theorizes that when he and the other boys made it clear they wouldn't tolerate their dad's physical abuse, that's when the picketing started. He gets to unleash the full force of his hatred and rage on others…

Alas, according to polls, the #1 thing that springs to people's minds when the word "Christianity" is mentioned is "anti-gay." If you want to change your religion's affiliation with bigotry, you've got a lot of work cut out for you.