#Republican legislators in FL hit the pause button on a bill that would have given any “#unborn child” new #protections after opponents raised concerns it would impact women’s #ReproductiveRights in ways similar to the AL IVF ruling.
Opponents called it an effort to establish “fetal #personhood” that would put #abortion providers & people who help #women obtain an abortion at risk of being sued. “Although I have worked diligently to respond to questions & concerns, I understand there is still work that needs to be done,” state Sen #ErinGrall, who sponsored the bill, said in a stmnt. "It is important we get the policy right w/an issue of this significance.” [best way to get it right? Scrap it.] #law#MaleSupremacy#evangelism
The #Florida bill’s derailment comes as #Republicans grapple w/the #political fallout from the #Alabama Supreme Court ruling declaring #embryos children. While many in the #GOP were initially quiet on the ruling, #conservative lawmakers are now voicing their support for #IVF. The issue underscores the party’s election-year challenges over #women’s #ReproductiveRights.
#Mississippi cited that line of reasoning in its case to challenge Roe at #SCOTUS, a move his supporters say helped pave the way for Roe’s fall in 2022.
The day the #Alabama SC released its #embryo decision & Parker’s concurrent ruling, the chief justice said in an online broadcast that “God created government” & that #Christians should take it back from the “possession” of others.
The comments came during an interview w/ #QAnon supporter #JohnnyEnlow, author of “The Seven Mountain Prophecy.” Enlow describes #TomParker as a “true pioneer” of the movement, while Parker thanked Enlow for promoting the #SevenMountainMandate.
#TomParker added in the #QAnon interview that the country’s original form of govt was based on the #Bible, a common view of supporters of the #SevenMountainMandate, & that its #laws should reflect that. Scholars criticize that interpretation….
Still, Parker’s support for the movement is not new.
“The very God of Holy Scriptures, the Creator, is the source of #law, life, & liberty,” he said in 2005 on his FIRST DAY as an #Alabamajustice.
I decided I wanted to do a frame-by-frame analysis of the Super Bowl "He Gets Us" ad, getting into the iconography and meaning of this recruitment attempt tailored to attract moderate to liberal non-Christians and cultural Christians into the fundamentalist evangelical belief system.
It got long. REALLY long. Long enough that I'm dividing it into several posts. Here's part one:
someone in the community room made a salient point that it’s hard for devrel to do their “thing” right now with AI / find biz alignment with AI bc most of the tools are so low in the stack and not too many on the dev tooling side yet. devrel could find a place by helping to build the tooling/figure out what’s needed. more product mindset bc you know devs.
my hot follow up take is this is the difference between #devrel and #evangelism.
Regardless of how the ICJ finds, rest assured Trudeau, good Catholic boy, and the Liberal Cabinet, kowtowing to the US, will continue to support, fund, and arm genocidal Israel.
Housefather and Mendicino are gleefully complicit in the deaths of hundreds, including children.
If Freedom of Religion amd Freedom of Speech means a tax exempt fascist terrorist sect wants to enslave and silence women, time to repeal the First Amendment
[Editorial] TWH’s editor-in-chief, Manny Tejeda Moreno, looks forward to 2024 through a review of the documentary “The Mission,” whose story of a Christian missionary killed by an uncontacted tribe unwilling to be converted portends a continued rise in spiritual violence.
I'm starting a #Fediverse project, if anyone's interested, where I get content which is not being posted to #Mastodon and set up an RSS feed bridge.
So if there's some content or there's some organisation which is not on the Fediverse and you think it should be, let me know and I'll see what I can do.
I mean it's always going to be an unofficial reposting of other people's content, and some people may object and ask to shut it down, but maybe it will alert them to the huge audience and the alternatives to Twitter, etc.
The ultimate success of this project would be for it to shut down completely!
Christian Zionism is horrifying. Modern day prophecy-fulfillment through mass slaughter.
"Christian Zionists view Jews as intensely utilitarian (they must own the land of Israel, then die en masse as a trigger condition for Jesus’ return), their views on Palestinians are even more grotesque. Palestinians, being extraneous to the apocalypse, are considered an obstacle to its arrival. Evangelicals have accordingly made alliances with the most extremist elements of Israeli society, joining together in a mutual desire to expel or annihilate Palestinians from God’s kingdom of Zion. The necessity of such an annihilation is a major part of why Christians are so militant about “standing with Israel”: By eliminating Palestinians, Jews edge closer to the eschatological preconditions that presage Christ’s return."
"more war means more deaths and “God’s timepiece” ticking closer to the blissful Rapture when true believers will be “snatched up into the clouds,” evading the stench of the deaths they’ve funded, to sit beside Christ among His elect host."