Octopus Overlords

Unagi wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 6:15 pm

AWS260 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 9:10 am In the year of our Lord 2021, my Catholic high school still loves to hate the gays.

Benet Academy's administration has come under fire following its decision to rescind an employment offer to the new girls lacrosse coach after learning that she is gay.

Jesus wept.

They reversed their rescinded offer. Under a lot of eyes. I’ll be curious if she feels like taking the re-offer.

LordMortis wrote: ↑Tue Jun 21, 2022 8:23 am Aniken is space Jesus? Jesus went on a rampage killing children when called to do so by the darkness and only rehabbed in death from the compassion of his son after his son turned away from the same darkness?

I thought Star Wars was a classical Greek hero story with sprinkles of old Norse and Asian culture stuffs retold in white hat black hat movie reel and then re-imagined as space opera. Wasn't Lucas openly a drooling Joseph Campbell fanboy?

Pyperkub wrote:Dude believes midichlorians determine God.

LordMortis wrote: ↑Tue Jun 21, 2022 8:23 am Aniken is space Jesus?

Max Peck wrote: ↑Tue Jun 21, 2022 12:33 pm

LordMortis wrote: ↑Tue Jun 21, 2022 8:23 am Aniken is space Jesus?

Given that we're talking about the alt-right et al, Anakin as their Space Jesus is about right. It says as much about their idea of Christianity as their view of Star Wars.

I mean, they probably cheer for the Empire, not the Republic.

Max Peck wrote: ↑Tue Jun 21, 2022 12:33 pm I mean, they probably cheer for the Empire, not the Republic.

Same-sex sexual activity is wrong for the same reason throwing up a pizza after eating it is wrong: it's not what our bodies are made to do.

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 5:54 pm Please be a parody account please be a parody account

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This is not a parody account.

Holman wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 6:25 pm tl;dr: Sex for pleasure is bulimia.

LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 8:38 pm What is it with these people.and pizza?

LordMortis wrote: ↑Tue Jun 21, 2022 8:23 am Aniken is space Jesus? Jesus went on a rampage killing children when called to do so by the darkness and only rehabbed in death from the compassion of his son after his son turned away from the same darkness?

I thought Star Wars was a classical Greek hero story with sprinkles of old Norse and Asian culture stuffs retold in white hat black hat movie reel and then re-imagined as space opera. Wasn't Lucas openly a drooling Joseph Campbell fanboy?

Just in case you missed it:

Chancery Court in Davidson County, Tennessee, has ruled that taxpayer funded establishments can place signs that say "No Jews Allowed" ... as long as there is at least one establishment where services for Jews are provided.

hepcat wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 12:10 pm p.s. are we sure this is legit?

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — A panel of Tennessee judges has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a couple who alleged that a state-sponsored Christian adoption agency refused to help them because they are Jewish.

The lawsuit against the state challenged a 2020 law that installed legal protections for private adoption agencies to reject state-funded placement of children to parents based on religious beliefs.

Much of the criticism of the law had focused on how it allowed adoption agencies to discriminate against LGBTQ people. But Elizabeth and Gabriel Rutan-Ram sued over claims that they were discriminated against because they were Jewish, in violation of their state constitutional rights.

The panel made its 2-1 decision last week to dismiss based on other grounds and did not directly rule on the law’s constitutionality.

The majority concluded that the couple's legal claims were moot, as they were able to complete the programs and receive certification through DCS months after being rejected by Holston.

"Because the Couple has received the very services they claim they were previously denied, the Panel Majority adopts the Defendants' analysis and concludes that any issue related to denial of services is not capable of the prospective relief the Plaintiffs seek and is now moot," read the panel majority opinion.

The majority ruled that the couple's complaint about the Holston Home for Children was inapplicable because they originally planned to foster a child in Florida, while Holston only handles in-state arrangements.

"The contract the Department has with Holston … provides funds only for services for children' in the custody of the State of Tennessee.' Thus the services the Couple sought from Holston are not funded by the Department and therefore lack a causal connection to the alleged injury," continued the majority.

The panel majority also ruled that "the Plaintiffs have not shown that the Defendants would not contract with a Jewish agency similarly situated to Holston; therefore the Act does not single out people of the Jewish faith as a disfavored, innately inferior group."

Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle offered a partial dissent to the panel opinion's claim that the couple lacked "constitutional standing."

"The foregoing law makes clear that the allegations in the Amended Complaint, such as the barriers the Couple faces now as foster parents and continue to face in obtaining the efficiencies and other benefits and advantages of working with private agencies, are sufficient to establish standing," reads the dissent.

LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 12:47 pm So the Twitter headline is fairly inaccurate.

The majority concluded that the couple's legal claims were moot, as they were able to complete the programs and receive certification through DCS months after being rejected by Holston.

"Because the Couple has received the very services they claim they were previously denied, the Panel Majority adopts the Defendants' analysis and concludes that any issue related to denial of services is not capable of the prospective relief the Plaintiffs seek and is now moot," read the panel majority opinion.

The majority ruled that the couple's complaint about the Holston Home for Children was inapplicable because they originally planned to foster a child in Florida, while Holston only handles in-state arrangements.

"The contract the Department has with Holston … provides funds only for services for children' in the custody of the State of Tennessee.' Thus the services the Couple sought from Holston are not funded by the Department and therefore lack a causal connection to the alleged injury," continued the majority.

The panel majority also ruled that "the Plaintiffs have not shown that the Defendants would not contract with a Jewish agency similarly situated to Holston; therefore the Act does not single out people of the Jewish faith as a disfavored, innately inferior group."

Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle offered a partial dissent to the panel opinion's claim that the couple lacked "constitutional standing."

"The foregoing law makes clear that the allegations in the Amended Complaint, such as the barriers the Couple faces now as foster parents and continue to face in obtaining the efficiencies and other benefits and advantages of working with private agencies, are sufficient to establish standing," reads the dissent.

It's not great but it's a far cry from "No Jews Allowed" signs. Right now.

Grifman wrote:Muslim children in the US pledging themselves as martyrs for Iran:



Thus is insane.

Yeshiva University says it's pausing all student clubs on campus just days after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to block a lower court ruling that ordered the school to recognize an LGBTQ group.

In an unsigned email to students, the New York City school said that, considering upcoming Jewish holidays, "the university will hold off on all undergraduate club activities while it immediately takes steps to follow the roadmap provided by the US Supreme Court to protect YU's religious freedom. Warm wishes for a Shannah Tovah."