I’m guessing this is Junior’s version of big strong men with tears in their eyes calling him sir, since if a black man ever approached him in real life I’m sure he’d immediately call the police.
Hey, I thought early voting was cheating!
Whose fault is it that IVF is shut down in Alabama? Why, the clinics’ fault, of course!
“These clinics should start providing these services again. It is not fair to patients to have their embryos held hostage and procedures cancelled,” Rep. Susan DuBose, (R-Hoover), told AL.com Sunday. “My heart goes out to the families caught in IVF process.”…
Why is it important to him that they accept it? If I were to leave a church, I’d just stop going to it and stop claiming to be an adherent of that particular faith and go on with my life. I’ve known more than a few people who’ve left churches, including the Mormon church, who’ve done just what I described. Hey, that’s what I did when I left the church I was raised in.
I do believe you hit it out of the park on this. Yes, he wants a savior and he wants to stand tall and proud saying, “Yes, I voted for him and that helped put him in office”. He’s convinced, like so many of his fellow groupies, that the opposition is Satan, Inc. as personified by every Democrat on the planet and thus cannot accept that his side is not angelic. And because of the harm his idol has done and continues to do to the country and th incredible damage that idol will do if e-elected, I cannot muster any sympathy for this swindlee.
Happy to help. BTW, when did you depart for greener pastures?
If you click on the link I provided, it takes you to Section 32 of the Church’s General Handbook. In Section 32.6.2.5, there’s a matrix listing acts which require and acts which may require a membership council be held. Section 32.6.4.1 has a list of acts which do not trigger a membership council. Section 32.11.4 indicates when withdrawal of membership is required. You’ll note there’s also a matrix indicating the results of suh withdrawal. The Church does’t withdraw from the person, just indicates the person is no longer a member; however, those who’ve had their membership withrawn are still encouraged to attend Church meetings, study scipture, and “correct their behavior” (my term) so they can have their membership restored. The entire section is kind of interesting reading. Just a few years ago, the old Handbooks of Instructions were replaced by this General Handbook.
Or even Anglican, which I’ve often heard referred to as Catholic Lite. BTW, I grew up in one of the churches in the Anglican Communion, the Episcopal Church.
Yeah. When I heard what Tan the Conman’s purported reason for deportation is, I laughed. First, isn’t “disloyalty to the queen” treason? Yeah, right. A traitor kicking out someone else for treason? Not that I believe Prince Harry was disloyal. After all, the only people griping about him are Tan and the bigots who are upset he didn’t marry a lily-white Brit.
WTF? Yet another pubblie who doesn’t grasp that this country is not a Christian country, nor are the states.
Didn’t some reporter already ask him about that after he joined in on the idea that states should get to define marriage?
And honorary honky? No way! The best they’ll ever do for someone more complected than a particular brand of soap is to call him “one of the good ones”.
Dead serious here. Some years ago in Georgia (of course), one old white guy felt the need to tell me, who happens to be white, that because I married a Korean woman I am therefore a <he used the bigots’ popular word for Blacks> myself. Evidently “it” doesn’t “rub off”; “it” is just contagious. No one drop of blood research necessary!
Have you forgotten we only have Schrödinger’s elections now? If the vote for president is not for Trump, the ballot is invalid in whole unless down ballot choices are for republicans, in which case those and only those portions of the ballot are valid. That leads us to early ballots are cheating if and only if any choices are for other than republicans, in which case those and only those portions are invalid; all portions of the ballot which are for republicans are valid.
Christ, I wish I were making that up instead of describing fucking conversations I’ve had with those idiots who support Trump and the other traitors.
Debt forgiveness for me, not thee.
AIUI, he felt that being repeatedly “summoned” to discuss his behavior/lifestyle/non-tithing with his bishop amounted to harassment, which he didn’t care for.
Oh, eons ago. Decades. Before they put in Light Rail, and when the Cosmic Aeroplane and the Blue Mouse were in full bloom.
I still get things sent to me by friends back there. And i can look up Pat Bagley editorial cartoons online to get my “fix”.
The Episcopal Church: Catholic Lite. Same great taste, one third less guilt.
Deleted for evil, not stupid.
“High Anglican” which is the sect to which my high school adhered, is practically indistinguishable from Catholicism. And I was brought up strict Catholic with Irish Catholic nuns teaching me.
Pretty much boils down to a nerd fight about who has the better music, in my slightly facetious opinion.
Fortunately my choir master was willing to straddle the gap, and we sung both sides…
I’ve known Episcopalians who refer to themselves this way, and others who take offense at the term. I know that no one uses the term to deliberately offend anyone, and I think the divide stems from those who can look at things (including themselves) in an ironic and self-deprecating way and those who can’t.
There’s the small detail of who’s the head of the Church, the Pope or the King of England, but I’m sure that’s a minor issue compared to the music.
I have been atheist all my life, so the details dont bug me.
I paid lip service to the Catholics, and the Anglicans, but I was in the choir because I like to sing, the subject of the music means nothing to me.
I mean, like, amongst my favorites is J.S. Bach’s “Jesu Joy Of Man’s Desiring” which I have sung in English, and orginal German.
I admit to being a choral nerd
Having said that, we are wandering so far off topic we could be lost in the Amazon Jungle
Yeah, I was born an atheist and never saw a reason to change.
Country and Western?
My mom, raised Mormon, decided in 1946 to marry a nice Catholic boy. Sometime in the late 1970s, maybe early 80s, she got a letter out of the blue from Salt Lake Central Bureau of Purity (note: not the real name) informing her she had been excommunicated, seemingly without any defense being heard, since no one asked her. She was quite surprised they went to the trouble, and that it took so long.
And then she threw the letter away and got on with her life.
Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders has apparently taken her game (pun intended) to the next level. Not content with a lavish taxpayer funded podium (or lectern), she and her family enjoyed a suite at the Super Bowl plus other access such as being on the field at halftime and after the game. Who paid for that extravaganza? It’s a secret that once again she’s desperately trying to hide from prying eyes.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/who-paid-for-sarah-sanders-six-figure-super-bowl-extravaganza
Is that what we’re now calling embezzling funds to pay for her friends to go with her on a European vacation?
aside: The Catholic church near me plays recorded religious bell music during the day – including the Lutheran hymn “A Mighty Fortress is Our God.”
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