You are reliably one of the nicest, most decent people on the internet. I take personal offense to anyone who fucks with you, Jinni.

>MD was an upstanding citizen, respectful to all

That surprises me. It’s my understanding that “Baptist” isn’t trademarked, so anyone can call their organization a Baptist whatever, and it’s the reason why it’s the Westboro Baptist Church, notwithstanding the fact that their doctrine is pretty much Calvinist.

Catholic annulment is bullshit, but it doesn’t render the children of the not-marriage illegitimate. (See Canon 1137).

>They are supposed to call the police to report any violence that is reported to them!

I asked a Catholic priest one time why women were denied the priesthood. He told me it was because Jesus was a man, and he selected only men to be his disciples.

Handbook 1: Stake Presidents and Bishops describes who should attend for a disciplinary council (6.10.1, page 60):

My brother is in a interracial marriage. I’m in a same-sex marriage. I asked my brother how he’d feel if I was a member of a church that not only piously refused to solemnize interracial marriages, but my church also spent hundreds of millions of dollars over decades persistently lobbying federal and state…

>The California Mormons I’ve known have been uniformly nice people

Mormonism is a cult.

>They actually tried to rehabilitate homosexuals instead of just outright killing them

The same way Americans buying identical medication from Canada or Mexico for less money “endangers public health.”

>She’s the NYT’s handpicked “feminist voice” who’s been serving the same warmed-over hot takes about Feminists Going Too Far and Young Women These Days, Well I Never since the GD 90’s.

Emma Bunton’s Free Me was a particularly nice adult contemporary record.

Tarantino literally strangled Diane Kruger in this scene.

“After a rigorous internal investigation, we found no evidence of wrongdoing.”

“The explicit barriers and unconscious biases that impede female advancement in the music community.”

>being a poor, I could probably make three plane trips

These sorts of guys are your colleagues, which tends to strip some of the allure from the profession.

Justice Kennedy is and always has been a conservative. It must be noted that while Sandra Day O’Connor was the Court’s previous “swing vote,” Kennedy was deemed a reliable member of the conservative bloc.