TRANS PARTNERS ARE COMMON IN GROYPER SUBCULTURES/ALT RIGHT #maga #trump ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ7RWsbebp0

 

Is It Time for the Catholic Church to Ordain Women as Deacons? (Open to Debate podcast)

The election of Pope Leo XIV as the head of the Catholic Church has reignited a long-simmering question in the Catholic Church: Should women be ordained as deacons?

Deacons can preach, baptize, and officiate weddings and funerals, but not consecrate the Eucharist. Under Pope Francis, the Vatican launched commissions to study the issue and elevated women to senior positions — moves seen as laying the groundwork for potential change. Supporters say ordaining women would restore an early Church tradition, not break with it, and make the Church more inclusive and responsive to modern society. Opponents say the records indicate the opposite and that it would violate longstanding doctrine. They warn it could blur theological lines, sow confusion about the priesthood, and open the door to demands for women priests—something the Church has firmly rejected. They also point out that women already hold influential, non-ordained leadership roles.

Now, under new leadership, we ask: Is It Time for the Catholic Church to Ordain Women as Deacons?
Interview: 

https://opentodebate.org/debate/is-it-time-for-the-catholic-church-to-ordain-women-as-deacons/

Senate Republicans just put a dangerous ideologue and Trump protector on a key court

Republicans in the Senate have given right-wing, anti-LGBTQ, anti-woman, white supremacist, extremist Steven Menashi a lifetime seat on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. No Democrat present voted for him, and one Republican—Susan Collins—voted against him (like that's enough to erase her Kavanaugh and Gorsuch SCOTUS votes). ....
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/11/14/1899446/-Senate-Republican-just-put-a-dangerous-ideologue-and-Trump-protector-on-a-key-court

Hypocrisy, God, and the Originalism of Judge Kavanaugh

...So, in a challenge to what amounts to amending the clear words of the Constitution without authorization, a challenge about the clear text, Kavanaugh the Originalist ignored that text, got his history wrong, and seems to have manipulated history and tradition to reach the conclusion he preferred. If originalism was more than a marketing strategy, conservative judges like Roberts wouldn't add words to the clear presidential oath laid out in the Constitution and Kavanaugh would not have defended the practice. If the dead letter of the Constitution mattered above all else, they would have made a hard decision that would inevitably have disappointed conservatives. Instead, they went out of their way to bend history and ignore the text...

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/freethoughtnow/hypocrisy-god-originalism-kavanaugh/