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Under his eye. You're all so fucked. Anyone not looking to leave that country is fooling themselves.
Can we get a law in place that says if you have to sue the government to stop some obvious bullshit, that you recover your legal fees?
And not from the government, but instead from the dipshit who decided to enact the policy
No freedom of religion without freedom FROM religion.
Resist a theocratic state.
"The First Amendment clearly says "Congress shall make no law" and this is an executive order. Seems constitutional to us"
Supreme Court (probably)
Jesus fuck I hate how plausible this is.
Same. I've got a real bad feeling about this.
I have a family member who told me last year that they believe Christians are the most persecuted group in the USA, even more so than gay people.
In truth it was very challenging to stay calm in the face of someone saying something so blatantly biased and false. Packaged as an opinion, of course, but presented as the truth.
I asked questions and challenged some of the statements being made, but I know for a fact that the only thing I accomplished is that she's unlikely to make that particular statement in front of me again. No minds were changed that day. It's just sad.
As someone who actually IS persecuted in this country for things I cannot change about myself, I really don't get why someone would want to live under the delusion that they are being persecuted when they otherwise aren't. It's not fun and there's no benefit to being persecuted.
My very christian mom used to always tell me that I'm gay and athiest because it's popular, but that she believed I'm actually a closeted christian. In her opinion, I chose the way I am because christians are so persecuted in the US.. Nevermind that I'm autistic, highly introverted, and have never cared about popularity or pop culture in general. I've been out to my parents for over a decade and she's only recently started to come around on it because I have a fiance now, and she sees how happy he makes me. :)
Christians are fucking wild with the BS they're willing to believe, so long as their pastor can make them chuckle and tear up a little bit inside of a 40 min speech.
And by that, they mean something like this? Xtians get all kinds of privileges and everyone else has to convert or be a second class citizen?
They want to be David vs Goliath. Being the ones persecuted means that they can go on the offensive without feeling bad about it. It means whatever they do is justified as being a means of survival. It gives them an excuse.
I have a family member who told me last year that they believe Christians are the most persecuted group in the USA, even more so than gay people.
I asked questions and challenged some of the statements being made
I imagine some of those questions included:
edit: A couple more additions.
Has marriage between two christians been illegal for nearly the entirety of the existence of the USA?
Are there camps that some misguided parents send their children to to be "deprogrammed" from being christian?
There's a group of people that go around in white sheets with pointy hats and they burn crosses, often on other peoples property. That seems pretty anti-christian to me and should be the first to be investigated.
Everything about the GOP as very anti-christian. Jesus was a bleeding heart socialist by today's standards. I'm not sure what books these fools have been reading that says otherwise.
I am entirely serious when I say this:
The latest meme/talking point working its way through all the newer, e-celeb type american christian pastors, the ones that are extreme but not quite as bonkers as the qanon, I-am-a-prophet types...
The latest sermon topic is 'the sin of empathy'.
they don't read. their megachurch pastors tell them what the bible says about who to hate. they draw all their rhetoric from Leviticus and Numbers to justify their gross misinterpretation of Revelations. they ignore the gospels entirely. here are the things you need to know when dealing with christofascist propaganda
Jesus is pretty cool. You show me a christian who follows jesus' teachings, and I'll have mad respect. You give me some dipshit doing the most anti-christlike shit imaginable, but with crosses all around, and I'll make fun of him forever. Just a way of un-tarnishing the brand.
I'm down for whipping church sanctioned conmen and maybe even cursing some figs.
the task force will work to fully prosecute anti-Christian violence and vandalism in our society
Yeah, Democrats did this already. They're called Hate Crimes and it's the law. Not a measley little EO.
How many EOs does this dickhead have now in these two weeks alone?
How many does a normal president have in a full four year term?
Thats fine, I'm just as happy being fully "anti-religon" for equality.
Good thing I'm not biased against Christians specifically. Fuck all religions equally - fair and balanced.
They're gearing up to roll out project 2025.
They're not "gearing up;" it's steamrolling us as we speak.
Every time I read something he said it hurts my brain. Everything about his speech patterns is so fucking stupid.
