There are only two possibilities for @Jeff_Iorg to have made this argument. He’s either very ignorant of the law (sure someone could sue the SBC over not having women pastors, but there is zero way such a suit would go anywhere. What does he think, that a U.S. court is going to invalidate the practice of tens of thousands of churches including Catholic churches??)
OR he’s a subversive trying to liberalize the denomination through scare tactics. Neither option is good.
David Brooks saying the quiet part out loud:
“We [journalists] have to establish some distance from the Democratic Party. These are people we cover, these are not people we root for. We’re not supposed to be spin doctors for them.” https://t.co/Y36PwoqJcn
Former abortionist Abby Johnson on Lindsay Clancy:
"We have become extraordinarily practiced at looking at a dead child and asking first what his or her mother was going through.
And abortion taught us how to do that.
For decades, the defense of abortion has depended on shifting the moral center of the story away from the human being who dies and toward the human being experiencing the crisis. The mother’s suffering becomes the justification. But suffering does not make killing good,” Johnson wrote....
Johnson argued that culture has spent more than 50 years training itself to begin with a mother’s fear, financial stress, lack of support or depression until the child’s humanity nearly disappears—first in abortion and now in cases like this one."
This is superb.
The lesson begins with the usual catechism: J.K. Rowling has “bigoted opinions”.
Then someone makes the unforgivable mistake of reading what she actually wrote.
Suddenly, certainty requires definitions. Slogans require evidence. “Everyone knows” requires rather more than everyone saying it.
Critical thinking really is murder on a fashionable consensus.
@jamesrwoodtheo Get Sunergos Coffee, Nords doughnuts, and go to the Christian Book nook. They’re all right next to each other. Sunergos coffee is the best.
“It’s been 25 years since the 9/11 terrorist attack and so much has happened over the last 25 years. For example, back then, we were against the terrorists.”
- Bill Maher
Never forget when Rick Monday saved an American flag from being burned at Dodger Stadium, earning a standing ovation from the crowd.
On April 25, 1976, Chicago Cubs outfielder Rick Monday was playing against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium when two protesters entered the field. They attempted to set an American flag on fire in the outfield during the game.
Monday quickly ran toward the protesters and grabbed the flag before it could be burned. The crowd erupted in applause, and the stadium later displayed the message, “Rick Monday… You Made A Great Play.” The moment became one of baseball’s most memorable patriotic acts.
Fathers working outside of the home is a historical anomaly.
For most of human history, work was done in the home and its outbuildings.
Husbands and wives worked side by side on the family farm, the family industry, the family business.
But the industrial revolution took work out of the home, and men had little choice but to follow their work into factories and offices.
The literature of the 19th is full of laments for the "missing fathers," who were technically still home but were out of the house all day.
Most people today do not want father absence to be followed by mother absence. Especially in those crucial early years of a child's life: