It’s a shame they don’t implement the great system Mike Pence created in Indiana when he expanded Medicaid here. For a reasonable monthly premium, those enrolled receive medical, some dental, vision and prescriptions with no out of pocket. The emphasis is on prevention, with participants encouraged to meet age-based…

I’m surprised hospitals aren’t heavily lobbying these morons. Mike Pence expanded Medicaid in Indiana in 2015, and rural hospitals aren’t closing here like they are in the red state holdouts.

Even if it’s true that rural Missourians don’t support the Medicaid expansion, who cares? A majority of voters in the state do.

The Republican Party is a full blown death cult at this point. Per a recent NYT article (linked below), its most extreme elements have pivoted from “Stop the Vote” conspiratorial efforts to “Stop the Vaccine.” In this case of Missouri Republicans telling their own constituents to eat shit and die, it’s one more…

First thing you could do, if you haven’t already, is write them a variation (depending on context I don’t fully have) of two simple sentences: “good for you/I’m happy for you” and “I’m here if you ever need anything”.

Everyone is being very supportive (or else being very quiet, but mostly the former). I guess I just mean, this has been a really rough time for them, and I’m trying to figure out something to send them that would be fun and also show we’re supporting them as they try to figure out their truth. Most “coming out gift”…

I’d say the biggest thing, especially early on, is just letting them know that you support them. Coming out is terrifying, and it can be a time when it feels like your family and friends-your entire support network, really-is unstable or unreliable. Not necessarily because those people are bad or that you cannot trust…

Just in case any of y’all were thinking about turning gay, of course

I attended a babtism where the priest lectured us all for a half-hour over homosexuality. It came out of nowhere. The idiot.

After his wife, incredibly enough, didn’t leap on stage and murder him, somehow, his sermon got worse.

Man, and I thought the pastor who officiated our friend’s wedding:

The IRONY of using Melania as the epitome of “hot wife” while her husband banged a pornstar while she recovered from birth. 

That’s actually really sad. To think of a child being scared of becoming something he can’t control with no way of stopping that... that’s awful.

*ahem:*

So, the “sin of Onan” has been blown somewhat out of proportion. Onan wasn’t killed because he masturbated - he was killed because he refused to carry on his family line by fucking his dead brother’s widow.

please someone prove this asshole has ever eaten shellfish, mixed linen with wool, or combined dairy and meat, and then “let his blood be upon him.”

My brother has always been offended by this characterization. He’s the youngest of 4, and seeing his sisters try to dress their bodies (I had a ‘womanly’ body from like 11-12 on) in an age-appropriate way that the church would approve of confused him. We have talked a lot about how concerned he was that he would just…

Not just misogynistic, misandrist too, perpetuating the age-old myth that men are relentless horndogs who only crave physical sex all the time and nothing else, and are incapable of connecting to their wives/partners as two emotional persons coming together.

OK, if I can’t look butch, then Mr. Pastor dude can’t have a body that looks like he is about six months pregnant (sorry to pregnant women, but you know what I mean). Now, I’m not saying he should have a body like an Olympic swimmer, just don’t go around looking like you swallowed a volleyball.

Corinthians?