I used to live in Utah and an eight year old kid of two gay parents is going to be ostracized because s/he can’t get baptized into the One True Church. This is EXTREMELY ugly business and the blowback the LDS Church is getting is more than deserved.
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Complementarianism—not a word except to the very conservative Evangelical Protestants like Wayne Grudem, Albert Mohler, Denny Burk and the rest of the gang trying to make it a word. In other words, it’s b.s.
It’s probably a stealth “young, restless and Reformed” (read: Calvinist) congregation. I’d bet money on it.
Jesus told his disciples if a man asks you for your coat, give him your cloak as well, and if a man tells you to walk with him a mile, walk with him two. (It’s my understanding the occupying Romans were all about impressing the local guys into carrying their packs around.)
Franklin Graham was raising money for them a month or two back from his Facebook page. Asshat.
I’d note this article isn’t correct about Scientology and prescription medication (or OTC meds for that matter). I know someone who was a Scientologist (and now is out, has been for ~12 or 13 years) and she was told she couldn’t continue auditing on OT 7 unless she stopped taking her anti-epilepsy meds. She fought…
You don’t have to be an old ass to get shingles. I got it three years ago at 51. A tiny spot, the size of a quarter, on my lower leg. Right on the sciatic nerve. HURT LIKE HELL. And I didn’t recognize it for what it was. When I figured out what I had and showed it to the doctor, it was too late for anything other than…
I wish this had come from somewhere besides Pulpit and Pen. It's a horrible, horrible website.
There are not enough plastic bags around here for all the barf I want to hurl. And I'm one of those people with a plastic bag full of plastic bags.
Best Christmas gift: When the original Cosmos was on TV way back in 1980, I wanted the companion book by Carl Sagan so bad, but it was $19.95 and I was a poor college student with no extra money. I said nothing to nobody about what I wanted, because it was such a geeky thing. Come Christmas Day and one of the…
One of the office admins got a book about a guy converting from Islam to Christianity and becoming a bigwig at a North Carolina church from another office admin. It was totally a non-sequitur gift because K isn't religious *at all*. (I read the first chapter of the book online and it was like WTF is this crap? It…
This guy is not a "reporter." He's maybe a "blogger." Really, though, he does his only "journalistic" work (which consists of smearing and throwing innuendos) on Twitter. Which has banned him three times I know of, and then let up a few hours or at most less than a day later. (I thank whatever guardian angels got me…
Actually, it was higher, much higher. What happened was that word got out that Kirk was trying to inflate the score and lots of people showed up to give that thing 1/2 star, thus bringing it down to its current score.
Unless they've signed a W-4 with no withholding (which is a HUGE RED FLAG to the IRS), they're paying taxes. They're just not filing income tax returns. This is, of course, depends on whether the employer is using a payroll company or program, as opposed to just cutting a check or giving the employee cash.
Well, I know at least one bank (my employer) will accept Mexican consular IDs as legitimate ID for opening a bank account. And of course nobody is asking about immigration status. If the money's green, we'll take it—after we run your name through the Office of Foreign Asset Control database.
Common law and state law are superseded by federal trademark law.
The article is wrong. Intellectual Reserve, Inc., an arm of the LDS (Mormon) church, owns trademarks on certain combinations of "Mormon" but not strictly on the word "Mormon."
It's a trademark issue. The LDS (Mormon) church (wait, INTELLECTUAL RESERVE, INC., seriously, that's who is suing) claims that the trademark "Mormon Match" would confuse people about Intellectual Reserve's already-existing trademarks. I am not a trademark attorney, and I will defer to TM attorneys, but the word…
HBO's "The Leftovers" looks like it will be more entertaining and have less Antichrist. Plus it's out sooner.