Sidewalks are considered public space, yes. I’m not saying it’s right, I’m saying it’s the law. Again, abortion providers often have their homes* picketed in a similar-or-worse manner than this. Check out the documentary “After Tiller” and you’ll see what I mean.

It’s legal to do that kind of thing in front of doctors offices and abortion clinics, why not private homes?

Yes, my heart breaks for the PTSD suffered by the rapist who got caught, convicted, and was punished with a slap on the wrist.

Turner will have to endure this humiliating protest and live with the shame forever, even if the actual sign-holding peters out in a few weeks.

I think it’s wonderfully optimistic that you think he’ll feel shame over this.

You’re cute when you’re angry, sweetie.

Also, amidst the indignation at her getting a new job, it’s worth pointing out that she had tenure at Missouri and is non-tenure-track at Gonzaga. That means a huge pay and benefits cut. Given the tough academic jobs climate, she’s unlikely ever to get a tenure-track job again, so her career has suffered permanent…

Speak for yourself. At least five nights a week, I wake up in a cold sweat from having yet another nightmare about Ms. Click’s disrespect for the First Amendment. Sometimes she’s a Godzilla-sized monster, trampling student journalists and TV news crews like bugs beneath her massive feet. Other times she’s…

Anything for a Click, huh?

She definitely doesn't deserve to have her life ruined. It is kind of interesting that even this long after the events in question the focus is on her one stupid comment and the actual event that they were at is fading from public memory.

This kinda feels like this crossing the line. What the woman did was wrong, ironic, kinda funny, but she didn’t harm anyone, and I thought her getting fired in the first place was too much.

At a 1981 press conference in which she was asked: “Do you teach the poor to endure their lot?” She replied: “I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people.”

I read something by a person who visited and was appalled that with all the money coming in, the conditions were still terrible. Instead of using donations to improve conditions, she seemed more interested in growing her order and putting nuns all over.

Yes please!

Her fetishization of suffering is horrifying. It made me think of a new game called “Who Said It? Mother Theresa or Pinhead?”

Trying to convert people basically in exchange for helping them is pretty bad in and of itself. If you’re portraying yourself as Saint of the Gutters, it shouldn’t matter the creed of those needing your help. You give the help.

This covers some of it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism…

Because while he only dreams of torturing the sick and poor and be considered a hero for it, she actually did it