This is like the basic difference between republicans and democrats. Republicans believe you should have to earn basic care by being a deserving person, while democrats feel like there are just basic things we are all deserving off by virtue of being human.

It’s for probation on the charge of felony unlawful restraint, not sexual assault – therefore, he will not have to register as a sex offender.

A religious belief is not eating pork or not working on Saturday. This is treating people like shit and then blaming god when you get caught.

1. That’s not how “tolerance” works, you idiot.

Oh so offensive. My two favorite priests at my high school (populated by priest and nun teachers) were clearly gay. They were also wonderful teachers and mentors, kind men who cared about students. To insinuate that one’s sexuality makes one more likely to abuse children is offensive on pretty much every level. 

Oh, they think this is dealing with that particular problem. So much of what Pope Francis is saying above is a not-so-subtle attempt to shift blame for the abuse scandals onto gay priests. Then, the church can say, “Look! We’re dealing with the problem.”

I grew up in Greenwich Connecticut, home of well connected elite millionaire and their kids, and it was standard practice for parents to use their connections to get each-other’s kids high profile internships on Wall Street and Washington, and they would happily take them and not get paid, because they could afford to…

I actually sort of agree with the pope here. Being gay is really just about being “fashionable” therefore they really have no place in the Church’s tradition of sparkly dresses and fancy hats.

This being NC, I think they know full well that, had the UNC board fought the law, the legislature would have responded with something rational and reasonable like dissolving the university and replacing the board with the current leadership of the KKK. 

In 1967, Egypt threatened to revoke the citizenship of inarguably their biggest movie star ever.

Thanks for the educational insight. And you’re not incorrect at all. it’s just that I was being hyperbolic by using “Theocracy” not in the formal political sense, but to point out that the theocratic segments of society in those nations have too much influence on their governments, sorta making them “theocracies” by…

Timely remind that we can delude ourselves as much as we want, arguing over semantics, but at the end of the day, every modern State in the Middle East is an opressive theocracy - including the US beloved Israel. The only difference is the degree and the effort to disguise it as a “democracy”.

I think at this point we should probably just assume that if you see a man on TV, he’s probably sexually assaulted someone.

Actually? Yes.

I completely agree with the mom... under no circumstance should the child be shamed for her name, it’s not something she has ever had control over.

If “Ivanka’s role was limited to recommending an architect,” the project was doomed. Ivanka was in charge of the Trump Baku (Kazakhstan), completed in 2016 using dubiously sourced funding (Iranian Revolutionary Guard). This hideous building, which literally looks like a dildo lodged in a vagina, is still unoccupied…

I’m glad the defense didn’t work, but i’m also glad someone attempted it. Because this is what you get when you make asinine anti-abortion laws like this shit. If you want to act like life begins at conception just to be a dick, then yeah, deal with crazy rape defenses like this. Maybe they will rethink the bullshit…

Your response is way better than mine. Mine was “Huh.” I mean, when you start jacking around with laws to make them bend to your will, Kansas legislators, I suppose it’s only natural that others would do the same. And, of course, either way women get the short end of the stick. Huh.

OH MY GOD

I’ll just leave these here for reasons: