Lots of people jumping in here to find excuses and complicating factors to try to diminish the seriousness of an adult targeting vulnerable kids for his own sexual gratification.

Sex workers are a population that is very vulnerable to sexual and physical abuse.

Pretyt much. Doing it EARLY is the best bet, and definitely not giving them their own devices until teen years. Like, NO, kids don’t need Iphones, kids need sturdy flip phones with basic call, address, text stuff. And if you have a home phone they don’t even need that unless you’re letting them be pretty independent…

This is a really good point. Perhaps there could be a good balance between giving children freedom on the internet, but only granting them that freedom gradually after some talks. Like maybe disable the internet on the family computer until parents have had a chance to talk to them and teach them how to use it. Same…

Yes, when we were on trial, my husband’s lawyer was showing pictures like crazy saying “they look happy, there was not abuse”, I had a great judge, he told her to stop doing that because no abuser on the world would show pictures of their kids or wife scared.

“Just spend the money” is the financial plan of every single poor person I know: money comes in, just spend it, because you never know when you’ll have more.

That is not the song he is talking about, at all. That’s the Alessia Cara song currently on the radio. This is *James Blunt*’s hit song called Beautiful from the early aughts.

The reason they have so little left is because they’ve structured to pay their student loan debt off as fast as possible. If they didn’t have that there would be almost $40k left over.

$500k for a family of 4 in NYC definitely does not make you rich. But having 2 cars (with payments!) in NYC is ridiculous. You need at most 1 car, and more likely zero cars.

IMO, the left bringing up exceptions was a huge mistake. We never should have allowed the dialogue to be about the “right kind” of abortion.

Anyone bringing theological debate to a secular legislature should be disqualified. Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s, you asshole.

God Toby really is the worst. I think Kara’s summary is super unfair. She didn’t date him because he promised to “lose weight for her”. She was upfront that she was committed to losing weight and she needed someone who could commit to living a healthy lifestyle with her. She told him early on that she couldn’t be…

You didn’t mention Christopher Darden’s fantastic wife Beth and their fabulous daughters Tess (who clues her parents in on William’s queer status) and Annie. This part of the family is what makes the show watchable for me.

This isn’t really an especially gendered thing. Lots of women don’t get over ex-boyfriends and spouses, its literally the “Crazy Ex Girlfriend” archtype in media.

Christian knowledge? You mean artful dodging based on selective reading?

But it is. You can’t deny it or hide from it or refute it. This is modern Christianity. Those hilarious memes about how every dude says “not all men are like that”  is exactly like christians saying “not every Christian is like that.”  Time to look at the mote in one’s own eye.

Romans 1:26-27

I mean, it does. In Leviticus 18:22, and in Leviticus 20:13, and in Romans 1:26-27, and in 1 Corinthians 6:9, and in 1 Timothy 1:10.

Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s great that the people who ignore these verses are the people we consider moderate or decent Christians, but their decency is inversely proportional to…

As someone who was raised catholic, and even served as a church council member for several years, I disagree. The teachings of the bible are all dependent on the bible in its entirety being truth (new and old testament included). Once you start realizing that, in order to be a righteous human being who treats others…

Leviticus 20:13 is pretty clear on the matter. One more reason people trying to reconcile Christianity with modern thoughts on justice and humanity are just wasting their time. Christianity is bunk. Find something less problematic to believe in.