Since the ‘Baby Veronica’ lawyers are involved, I suspect there is more to it than a dogwhistle. I mean yes, the racist attitudes against Indians still run very strong in America.

Each tribe has its own government. They decide the rules for citizenship. Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma doesn’t have a blood quantum cutoff. So yes, someone with 1/64 Choctaw blood is a citizen of that nation, same as someone who is 4/4.

Sigh. Folks are so damn obsessed with blood quantum - and we are the only people in America subjected to this.

Yes, which makes me think they should no longer be foster parents; or only have children placed with them who are already adoptable.

No, they do, as a religious thing. Kathryn Joyce wrote an interesting book about adoption and American fundies, interview about it here: http://www.npr.org/2013/04/16/177…

Well, considering the cops did squat (beyond endangering her more by going directly to daddy) when one of the daughters reported her own father raping her, I can see why Sauvage might not feel reporting to the police wasn’t an option. That, and DV wasn’t even illegal in France until 1992! By then she’d already been…

She could be. Warren Jeffs “ married” a 12 year old girl. He has certainly married off 13 and 14 year old girls to his cronies. Even more grotesque (yes, FLDS land gets worse...) Warren Jeffs raped boys as young as 5 years old. There is so much vicious, horrible abuse going on in that community

1) The article is not ‘made up facts’. 2) FGM is primarily practiced in parts of Africa, the Middle East and Indonesia. Girls at risk in NOrth America come from immigrant communities that originate in those regions. 3)If you research male circumcision in the US, it has gone down dramatically in the last few decades. I…

Per your #3, FGM goes waaaaaaay beyond masturbation. It is done to allegedly ‘cure’ women of any sexual desire so she will never have sex before marriage, and after marriage be strictly faithful to her husband.

“harpy”. Gosh that wasn’t sexist and condescending at all. No sirree bob.

FGM is a lot older than Islam. And it isn’t a universal Islamic practice. It seems to have originated in northern Africa, and is practiced by some Christian communities and tribes that follow traditional religions, as part of a puberty rite. But, it looks like some Islamic societies outside that region have taken it…

Unfortunately, it IS ubiquitous. Almost all women have experienced street harassment - what leaves women unsettled there is one never knows which individual harassers will escalate it beyond a verbal insult to groping, hitting, or worse. I’ve known women who have had to deal with a stalker or 2. The fear of the threat…

Yeah, that was my thought too. I had forgotten all about otherkin - yay - and now I am reminded. FFS!!!

Oh Helen Alvare. I mean look, if she wants to play martyr for the Mother Church and refuse birth control (and wear hair shirts and mortify herself) that is her business. Just don’t expect the rest of us to live by her religious dogma.

Me too. Apparently that isn’t too uncommon. No way was I going to remove, um, tissue, to ‘bury’ or ‘cremate’ or whatever. Fuck these moronic evil legislators.

Hahaha oh look the little asshat thinks it understands logic and biology, when clearly it understands neither. All it can do it type. Badly.

Hell yes!

Well this is interesting: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/busted…

Christians need to pay attention to the poison in their own religion. This “Christian Patriarchy” bullshit goes hand in hand with dominionist theology which has become pretty widespread in conservative Evangelical churches. It’s good to shine a light on people like Doug Wilson, Doug Phillips (now defunct Vision…

I don’t recall what health troubles she had - I think with the last child (Josie?) she had pre-eclampsia or something that was dangerous, but I don’t think it was a prolapsed uterus. I was being sarcastic, but alas in the quiverfull communities there is definitely some weird competitiveness going on. I could see some…