It's a chance to bring suffering and perhaps death to the weakest and most vulnerable, so there was little doubt how the Republican Supreme Court would rule.
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Pretty sure you can faithfully practice your religion and not know what your kids are up to 24/7.
I hope California simply ignores this vile abortion of children’s human and Constitutional rights. What a despicable, inhuman shithole of a country. Americans need to start burying their criminal, pedophilic, predatory government. Literally.
...Parental, free speech and religious rights to do what?
to ignore the privacy rights, free speech rights and religious rights of their child.
Conservatives think of childen as property, so it's not surprising.
unsurprising, when you realize they get their ideology from an iron age reboot of bronze age legal codes written by... grumpy old pervert men.
parents’ claim that their rights [...] were violated.
Their rights? What about their children's!?
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The Supreme Court has been packed with religious nutjobs who don't give a damn about the mental health of transgender students.
The court’s ruling focused on the parents’ claim that their rights under the free exercise clause of the Constitution’s First Amendment were violated. The court also said they have valid parental rights claims under the Constitution’s 14th Amendment.
That is very troubling. I could have understood a First Amendment justification for the school and the staff, although they have to live with restrictions on what they say all the time.
Basing this on the parents' free exercise clause means that the parents have a religious right to know the details of their children's lives, which implies they have a right to force their religion on their children.
That is a monstrous claim, as children have a right to their own religion and exercise thereof under the First Amendment, too.
Conservatives view children as property. It shouldn't be that surprising of a ruling; its why they love pedophilia.
which implies they have a right to force their religion on their children.
Alito has pretty consistently implied that he believes religious freedom gives christians the right to impose their religion on others. Or that other people don't things that christians disagree with is somehow infringing on their religious freedom.
And Thomas is just a piece of shit who has explicitly said he just wants to make liberals miserable. I don't even think all the bribes actually influence his decisions, he would've been this terrible for free.
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I've never had to face what it's like to be transgender. But I am what most would classify as "bisexual."
I didn't tell my mother about my sexual orientation until I was pressured to by my extended family at the age of 17. My mum is a religious Conservative who believes the LGBTQI+ community is a bunch of brainwashed kids having sexuality forced upon them from TV shows and drag queens. I didn't feel comfortable then, and it was scary, and the more I get to know my mum, the more I regret telling her. Now I know that every time she spews bigotry, she's doing so with the knowledge that I'm in the group she's targeting. Her knowing that her daughter, whom she raised and thought of as "normal" didn't stop her from spreading misinformation and fear-mongering. She treats me well, but she doesn't accept my whole self no matter how much she says she does. She still disregards my identity as nothing more than a trend for the mentally ill. She once told me, "Yeah, yeah, I know you think you're bi," meaning she doesn't actually believe I am but that I have been brainwashed to think I am.
So even though it's not the same experience, I understand what it's like having an extremely personal piece of information about your identity -- that you're still getting used to yourself -- being shared, with scary potential outcomes. I can imagine how even scarier it would be for someone in this situation to be transgender. While the general public has made some progress with the LGBTQI+ community, transgender people are still not safe.
Knowing about cases like Brianna Ghey (she was murdered by "friends," not her parents) breaks my heart. I can only imagine how terrifying it is to just exist as a transgender person in this world. Just because someone is your parent, doesn't mean that they will protect you any more than strangers or friends. Sometimes parents don't have your best interests at heart and can be your biggest bully.
Having such danger forced upon a CHILD is absurd. If it were up to me, I would leave it up to the student involved whether or not to share this information with their parents. It's not a medical condition, and children aren't properties of their parents. While I understand that some would want to be there for their children, some don't love their children unconditionally and would choose religion over their children any day. I think a student would know more about their parents' likely response than the school staff (who only see the parents for brief moments) and the government. I don't feel comfortable with this decision excluding the students' autonomy. They're not pets; they have a voice and personhood that should be respected.
So uh… in your shoes, I’d for damn sure be very tempted to go full NC with your mom over that behavior. That is unacceptably toxic and hateful.
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Putting children in danger is a very Christ-like thing to do.
God damnit, this timeline sucks greasy orange balls.
I mean, the Bible includes a story about children who get mauled by bears as punishment for making fun of a bald man... So yeah that tracks.
I'm convinced the god of the OT and NT aren't actually the same. One is vengeful, powerful and directly intervenes in the visible world, the other is merciful, subtle and their defining ability is the judgement of the dead, but they somehow need a blood sacrifice to shield them from the wrath of the first one? Doesn't line up to be the same, imo.
I've got a full head canon here, if anyone cares.
Part of the issue is Yahweh kind of absorbed El, Asherah and Baal into it, so the mishmash of stories make him seem bipolar, even just in the OT.
Oh absolutely, if we're looking at the actual way Abrahamic mythology formed historically, the whole thing becomes a little clearer... but also, "one true god that has always been and is and will always be" becomes more transparently bullshit.
Go ahead, please
I posit that there are two gods in Christian mythology, neither of which are as omnipotent and omniscient as their followers make them out to be, and neither of which is strictly benevolent.
We have one we could call Creator who fashioned the material world. It made humans, gave them curiosity to explore it, but also withheld the ability to judge good or bad or really form an independent free will so that they would remain subservient.
Then we have another, who I'll call Judge, who also sought dominate humanity, but had no control over the material world. It disguised itself as another creation and leveraged their curiosity to open the humans' minds to its concept of justice, revealing that enslavement.
The fruit is just a metaphor for the willingness to entertain and follow the line of thought. Likewise, the shame before their Creator isn't strictly shame about physical nudity, but acute awareness of their vulnerability.
The Creator, wrathful that his creation was no longer as naive and easily controlled, cursed them with mortality and denied them the leisure they had enjoyed until then, figuratively throwing them out of paradise and locking it away, coercing their obedience by controlling the necessities of life instead.
As humanity multiplied, the Creator grew weaker. At some point, it decided to pour its power into mortal shape to anchor itself in the material world, hoping to re-establish its rule through a mortal avatar.
That didn't go as planned: the Judge managed to influence that vessel, leading it to adopt (and subsequently teach) a highly controversial and definitely not wrathful-Creator-compliant philosophy that promised a way out of the trap of guilt and shame. It promised a heaven, a return to that paradise.
This eventually put that avatar at odds with the authorities, saw him sentenced to death and all. But while the Creator had obsessed over controlling the mortal world, the Judge had grown in power in the spiritual. When the vessel died, with all the power anchored to him, that power was absorbed by the Judge.
That cry of "My father, why have you abandoned me" was about the Creator's last-ditch effort to withdraw when it realised the plan.
Anyway, the Judge proceeded to expand its control, using the shame and guilt sowed by the Creator as stick and the promise of salvation as carrot. Because obviously it couldn't just deliver absolution without attaching strings and threats to compel obedience. Adopting the pretense that it was still the same "one true god" was a useful bait-and-switch to maintain legitimacy. That is, by the way, the same reason the Roman Emperors typically adopted some name of previous Emperors into their list of bynames: They might not actually be descended, but it's useful to pretend.
The reason I chose to name it Judge is that it mirrors the place in Christian Eschatology that the Creator occupies in the Creation myth: Both lay claim to the title of King, both claim to be the one true god, but their roles are different. One decides what to create, the other what to destroy.
And both are callous, power-hungry egomaniacs, because that's apparently the type it takes to reach for power in the first place.
Note: I don't consider this an actual, serious theology to base a religion on. I'm an atheist, I don't believe either god exists (though a thing doesn't need to be real for the idea of it to have influence).
I just like thinking about mythology and symbolism. Human stories reflect human nature and human experience.
You might, for example, consider that absorption of power a metaphor for the way a martyr may posthumously rally followers away from one position and to another: it doesn't have to be an instant transfer so much as a process of shifting influence. You might consider the "influence" of the Judge on the young Jesus simply be the application of critical judgement, which would be the Judge's initial gift to humanity. You might consider the whole thing a cynical comment on how, for all our enlightenment and progress, we as a species spend so much time destroying instead of building.
But that's what I tried to do here: Create a story, taken from things others have come up with and combined in a way I hope is both original and interesting.
If you can't trust the parents with this sort of information, and the child fears letting them know, should the child even be in the custody of those parents?
This. My first reaction to this article was "duh why wouldn't the parent know?" Then I thought about it a little harder. Yea parents should know, and parents should be accepting / supportive. But shoulda coulda woulda doesn't mean shit in the face of what is. If the kid hasn't told their parents they likely fear the outcome...
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