Good thing we only mutilate boys' genitals.
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It's still shocking to me how most Americans consider genital mutilation a normal thing. My European mind can't comprehend.
If it shocks you farther, it's just a little check box when you have a baby boy. Just a little bit of the paperwork before discharge. You don't even have to be there, and it's "free". Very strange, all things considered.
I watched my little boy like a hawk so they wouldn't "accidentally" whisk him away and mutilate him.
My mutilated american dick thanks you for your concern 😔
Thank you for mentioning this. I don't even have that set of equipment, and it boggles my mind that this is normal and acceptable to anyone. Even using religion as a reason just seems ridiculous. Why the hell would you ever cause that much physical pain to a child for a cosmetic procedure?
"Oh, they're transing the kids!" Fucker, you asked your doctor to cut off part of your son's junk before he even developed the capacity to lift his own head. Shut the fuck up.
Haha, oh honey circumcision may be the most common genital mutilation procedure, but wait til you learn how those transphobic motherfuckers write exceptions for coercive intersex surgeries into their anti trans laws.
Fundies are salivating to do the same thing
Seriously I was waiting for the punch line at the bottom, "... Just like Christian Nationalists"
This just sounds like Texas on a regular day minus the dog thing.
Do Americans actually get text messages like those? I thought it was a joke
The dem ones are at least somewhat sane

YMMV. But if you volunteer regularly for campaigns, your number/address inevitably ends up on someone's suckers list. And then election season means getting your phone blown up by these as the voting deadline closes in.
"NO religious freedom," so let's ban that religion? Every religion believes theirs is correct.
"Women brutalized" "Slavery allowed" "Child marriage & rape" These things are already illegal from our other laws.
"Girl genital mutilation" I think this one is already illegal, as well.
"No pet dogs allowed" First of all, wut? But second of all, I'd love to see some Texas politician try to pass a law that outlawed pet dogs. They'd probably get shot to death by the other politicians before they left the chamber.
"BAN SHARIA NOW!" BAN MARTIANS NOW! BAN FISH RIDING BICYCLES NOW! BAN ADULTS FROM SEEING WHY KIDS LOVE CINNAMON TOAST CRUNCH NOW! BAN LICKING UNTIL YOU GET TO THE TOOTSIE ROLL CENTER OF A TOOTSIE POP NOW!
BAN POLITICIANS WHO WASTE OUR TIME WITH MEANINGLESS LAWS AND CULTURE WARS NOW!
Every religion believes theirs is correct.
From a purely argumentative standpoint, that doesn't mean that one of them isn't. Again, strictly from a rhetorical point of view.
These things are already illegal from our other laws
From a rhetorical point of view, strictly, one could say, if one were to defend the statement, which I'm not, but one could, hypothetically say that any religion actively espousing those things is worthy of condemnation regardless of our laws.
“Girl genital mutilation”
Same goes for this. Hypothetically.
“No pet dogs allowed”
Yeah I don't know either. Even hypothetically.
BAN MARTIANS NOW!
No notes.
Christian nationalism
- No religious freedom
- Women brutalized
- Slavery allowed
- Child rape and marriage
- Dogs are not guaranteed good treatment
MAGA Christian nationalism is a death cult.
Good thing they don't read the Bible, because other than the pet dog thing, it's a tie
What's the point in creating a law that bans Sharia Law when the people who would allegedly institute mandatory observation of Sharia Law would just vote to repeal it and then institute it anyway?
Oh, right, Republicans are fucking idiots and this is scaremongering to drive them to the polls.
A lot of this is a tacit attempt to control Muslim municipal populations be restricting how they govern themselves locally.
So you can step in at the state (maybe federal, if Chip Roy gets his way) level and announce this mayor or judge or city council is illegitimate because the leadership isn't Christian.
Very specifically, this is in response to EPIC City, a master-planned community north of Dallas that's being bankrolled by a group of Muslim real estate developers. But you can see it echoing the disgust conservatives have for Minneapolis and Dearborn, Michigan, with their own large Muslim populations.
Isn’t all of this what republicans want, just swap fake Christianity in for the only religion, and allow pet dogs (but also the state can kill them randomly with no consequences)?
Sharia is already prohibited... by the same first amendment which republicans ignore when they advocate for a theocracy...
Basically all of those bullet points listed are things republican "christians" do. They only have a problem with it when it's brown people doing it.
Lest you think I'm advocating for sharia law, I'm not. I'm simply pointing out that "christian law" would be effectively the same thing, and they're both equally prohibited by the constitution.
If you just change "GIRL genital mutilation" to "BOY genital mutilation", that list is all things America is famous for.
We're allowed to own dogs. Until a cop comes within shooting distance, at least.
Yo is there any way to weaponize this into banning all binding arbitration because that would be based.
Obviously no. Prior efforts at invoking this kind of legislation in Oklahoma failed and the federal court struck it down fairly quickly.
Texas actually already has House Bill 4211, the "Sharia Compound Ban", which states
The purchase agreement and any other agreement or rules governing the residential arrangement or the ownership interest in the entity may not require that a dispute concerning the arrangement or interest be brought before a tribunal other than a court established under the laws of this state or the United States.
This was intended to prevent the completion of EPIC City, a master-planned Islamic community-centered residential development project just north of Dallas. Although this mostly seems to be focused on investment and ownership stake in residential and commercial properties by a large pool of wealthy Muslim investors.
If there's any effort to invoke this law at a functional level, it will likely be targeted at the minority Muslim Texas residents, with the intent of depriving them of their property and possessions.
Weren't there files released that pointed to Melania actually being underage when she started her relationship with Trump?
Sorry, sorry, it was referred to as him riding the 'Lolita Express'. Fuck I hate these people.
Look at these scary sounding words!
Vote for me!
On a side note: let's ban ALL religions, the world will thank you the world population will, well, the first generation will curse us, while every next generation will thank is for not being beholden anymore to badly written stonage fairytales
Are we forgetting we have a literal pedophile as the president?
How about we get that out?
You know what else is a death cult that brutalizes everyone? ICE.
Never seen an em-dash placed within a hyphenated word before ("death—cult")
The Epstein party continues to be concerned about women and children.
Excuse me but Republicans have been in control of Texas for like 30 years straight. So does that mean that they the Republicans are trying to install Sharia law in order to prevent it?
Sounds like a lot of Epstein projection
Why is this screenshot cropped, rotated and tinted?
Show up to a rally with a Bible and start reciting verses - the kind they get pissed off about when you bring them up. Like the women brutalizing, child murder, no religious freedom, and slavery. Don't forget the ones against mixed fabrics, tattoos, and shellfish!
Who but the Republicans in charge would be the ones who could put the Sharia in Texas law?
I live in Texas and so I occasionally see ads from our current Senator John Cornyn saying that the reason we need to vote for him is that he'll save us from sharia law. So he thinks this complete non-issue is so important that it needs to be central to his campaign. For my money, that alone should disqualify him from being Senator.
If he's going to waste money during his campaign on a non-issue, there's no way that he can be trusted to sign laws as a Senator.
And yet the GOP is trying to implement sharia law every day.
Filthy heathens! OUR faith allows pet dogs!