Moms for Liberty lose big

Bridget has been asked to resign from the school board. She refused.

Of course she did.

Moms for Libertines more like.

And FTR, prudery has no place in public life. These folks can get up to whatever fun they want. They can even tell us all about it words and pictures if they want. Ho hum.

But quit trying to have a double standard: one for rulers, and another for ruled. That’s when your ticket gets cancelled.

-nods sagely-

Even more simply, as it was frequently applied to various mega-church preacher scandals throughout my life:

“Do as I say, don’t do as I do.”

Maybe God forgave her, just like the pastors said they were forgiven. Clean slate, all good!

Sure, Catholics don’t put as much emphasis on the Bible. But that doesn’t mean they don’t own them. I’ve never met a practicing Catholic who didn’t have at least the family Bible you mention. (Heck, I’m not sure if I know any non-practicing ones who don’t have one. If they still identify as Catholic, they usually at least keep one.)

Also, Vatican II specifically said “The books of Scripture must be acknowledged as teaching solidly, faithfully and without error that truth which God wanted put into sacred writings for the sake of salvation.” That surprised me too, since Biblical inerrancy is so associated with Biblical literalists and Evangelicals and Fundamentalists. The difference seems to be in what they mean.

All that said, I am aware there is a lot more diversity in Catholic though. I know there are those who lean more literal and are more like Evangelicals, and those which lean more liberal and can even be to the left of the Mainline churches. So I guess there could be the type who don’t own a Bible.

However, I don’t think that’s the type of Catholic that DeSantis wants to portray himself as. He’s trying to appeal to Evangelicals, after all.

“Inerrant” is not the same thing as “literal”. It can mean that it contains exactly the metaphors, fables, and parables that God intended for it to contain.

Depends on the ruler. If you’re really rich, like Bezos rich, your Ticket is Golden and never gets cancelled no matter what.

At least half my friends are Catholic, some practicing, some not, and I don’t think most of them have a Bible. Like I said above, my wife is a practicing Catholic, involved in the parish teaching Sunday school, and I go to church every Sunday with her. We don’t have a family bible. Nor did my parents, and they were pretty hard core Catholics (I’m the one who insisted on buying one, and it was King James, so not even the Catholic one.) The surveys I linked to upthread give quite different numbers for Canada and the US Catholics, and I find the Canada numbers much more believable to my experience than the US ones. I’m sure there’s a divide, but I can’t believe it’s like 40-50%age points.

As I see it, Bezos is spending his energy getting richer, not telling other people how to live their lives. Other than having lots of money, which certainly opens a lot of doors and forgives a lot of sins, I don’t see how he is a ruler, or trying to be one. If he is buying political influence (which I don’t know to be true or false), I’ll bet little to none of that influence is going towards moral imperatives for the rest of us.

I understand you used him as an example of being very rich, not necessarily a rich ruler. But the implication is there, and I don’t know of that many Bezos-rich people who are trying to do anything except expand their wealth. I’m not saying that this is not an activity that is harmful to the rest of us, but it is an activity where moral hypocrisy is seldom an issue.

You shouldn’t talk with your mouth full anyway.

I think that’s where the term “gaggle” comes from.

So they want Americans to be…in a state of wakefulness? There seems to be another way to phrase it, but it’s escaping me right now…

Make Americans Get Awake

Well, falling asleep during your threesome is very embarrassing . They’re just looking out for regular people.

I’d be very pleased to attend a Wake for the Republican Party.

Get woke!

If they succeed in that. goal of awaking Americans, you’ll all be woke!

You just know there was some back and forth before they decided against an exclamation point at the end

Making Adderall Groovy Again!