Quick Takes – Queer College: Queering God; Queering Straightness; Unqueering Gay Men

     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.

     The focus this time: The timeline where a transgender YHWH smites Gay men for not being queer enough.

     First, a little mood music:

     Carrying on…

     Maybe the Left will rethink the entire “separation of church and state” stance they hold once God comes out as Queer

“Swarthmore College offers a course on ‘Queering God,’ most recently taught during the spring 2019 semester, that provides a feminist and queer perspective of the Bible, while also exploring God’s gender identity.

“The course, taught by Professor Gwynn Kessler, questions whether God is a masculine or feminine figure through the examination of feminist and queer writings. Its course description says the class ‘stretch[es] the limits of gendering-and sexing-the divine.’ Key themes of the class, also outlined in the course description, include gender, embodiment, masculinity, liberation, sexuality, and feminist and queer theory.

“’Part of the student community definitely wants to have more representation and to have LGBTQ issues addressed in courses and elsewhere on campus,’ a Swarthmore student, who asked to remain anonymous, told Campus Reform. ‘This means spreading awareness and getting people to action through taking courses like this.’

“Natalie, another Swarthmore student who asked for her last name not to be published, noted that the school demonstrates ‘normalized progressivism, unfazed by even the most controversial topics.’”

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Florida Democrats: Swamps Are People Too

     It is becoming increasingly common around the world, including the United States of America, to grant human rights to “nature” or “Gaia”, including granting “rights” to rivers, glaciers, and mountain—and then let eco-radicals sue on behalf of said geographic features. Now, the Florida Democratic party is making it part of their platform.

“Almost overlooked at the Florida Democratic Party’s bi-annual convention in Orlando last weekend was adoption of a platform resolution that includes potentially revolutionary language for efforts to protect Florida’s environment.

“One of the ‘be it resolved’ clauses in a ‘Demand Clean Water’ resolution approved by the party’s general meeting includes a handful of key words: ‘recognizing and protecting the inherent rights of nature, as we have done for corporations.’

“The seemingly odd wording is a nod to an emerging national legal strategy in the environmental protection community, one that already is appearing in other statements in Orange County and elsewhere. The effort is to legally declare that rivers, lakes, forests, estuaries, reefs, or other natural features may have inherent rights against degradation, which can be defended in court, much as corporations have been found to possess inherent rights.

“The notion has been emerging in recent years, and is being contested in courts, notably in a multi-pronged battle in Toledo, Ohio. Yet it has roots in a 1972 U.S. Supreme Court case, in which Justice William O. Douglas proposed it, in a dissenting opinion for an environmental dispute, creating a concept which environmental activists now are seeking to validate.”

Pictured: Typical Florida Politician

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The Fight Against the Duo-Normative Diarchy Comes To Congress

     Increasingly, we are seeing more and more “throuples” arise to challenge the duo-normative oppression of the diarchy that insists that marriage and other such intimate relationships and domestic partnerships are limited to only two people, with the irrational animus that anything non involving exactly two people is some how aberrant.

     Gay, Lesbian, and mixed-sex throuples, not only in foreign countries, but also in the United States are known. Now, such arrangements are found in Congress!

“Photographs and text messages obtained by RedState show that Rep. Hill was involved in a long-term sexual relationship with a female campaign staffer. The woman, whose name is not being released, was hired by Hill in late 2017 and quickly became involved in a ‘throuple’ relationship with Hill and her estranged husband, Kenny Heslep.

“Heslep and the staffer, according to text messages provided to RedState, believed the polyamorous arrangement to be a long-term, committed relationship. The trio took multiple vacations together, including to Alaska, where this photograph was taken.

“…

“Also of concern in the alleged throuple relationship is the age differential between Hill, Heslep, and the staffer. The staffer was 22 and a new college graduate when the relationship started; Hill and Heslep were in their 30s. “

Blurred Picture via RedState Screencap

     Sure, Rep. Hill has abandoned both for a new staffer, but it’d be bigoted to say that a woman who demands multiple lovers will be willing to demand more and abandon old loves to seen a new kick, since that happens with couples, dontchaknow.

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The Perpetual Whittling Away of Venezuela

     How bad is it in Venezuela? So bad that fleeing Venezuelans are willing to accept forced labor and sexual exploitation rather than go back. Increasingly, nations are recognizing that something has to be done to stop the perpetual slow collapse of Venezuela, even to the point of calling on the United Nations. After all, with Maduro going out of the way to alienate potential allies, then certainly opposition within the United Nations could be found, right?

     Wrong.

“The United Nations’ Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights Venezuela released a blistering report on Venezuela in July. It found that President Nicolas Maduro’s government engaged in widespread human rights abuses, including the torture and murder of political opponents and average citizens.

“Yesterday, Venezuela was also elected to the United Nations’ Human Rights Council, an intergovernmental body charged with ‘strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights.’

“Also being elected to fill several of the 14 vacant seats on the 47-member council were Mauritania—where local human rights groups estimate that up to 20 percent of the population is enslaved—and Sudan, currently led by a hybrid civilian-military council chaired by a general who overthrew the last president in a coup.”

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News of the Week (October 20th, 2019)

 

News of the Week for Oct. 20th, 2019


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Firing Line Friday: The Republican Party and Mr. Nixon

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.

     In the previous two Firing Line Friday posts, the wipeout, on the Presidential level, of the Democrats in 1984 was subject to a pre-emptive post-mortem. ‘Twould be interesting to contrast with such a similar pre-emptive post-mortem with then RNC Chairman George Bush.

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The Hydra of Equity: Silent and Venomous

     The Modus Operandi of the Left consists not of bold and open fighting, or judicial/executive overreach that succeeds due to the Right meekly acquiescing, but rather of a death of a thousand cuts wherein organizations influence and change, sub rosa of course, the fundamentals upon which society rests, meaning that those aforementioned overreaches or seemingly bold actions is not the fighting, but the victory celebration.

     These organizations support and reinforce each other both directly as as “stand alone complexes”, giving the illusion of a broad consensus, which is underscored further by a dearth of non-Left wing organizations involved on this level of influence and interaction. Together, these groups and organizations form a hydra, such that if you bring one down, a plethora of others will spring up while the rest of the extant heads are unaffected, with successes not only in deep-blue cities in deep-blue states, but in conservative states and locals as well. This is especially troubling when the real life example of the implementation of the Left’s Eschaton Immanentizing plan known as “equity”.

     “Equity”, as has been described before, is neither equality under the law, equality of opportunity, nor even the equality of results; it is the belief that some people benefit from unearned privilege by means of systems of oppression that pervade though every aspect of society, and that the only way to achieve true equality, it to not only treat people unequally, but aim for an inequality of outcomes where the designated oppressors end up with less in order to compensate from the institutional privilege they have from the systems of oppression which arises as if it were some mystical miasma of malfeasance to be combated, even to the point of “equity” being seen as integral to “real” democracy since people can not have an “equal” say unless those with institutional privilege are handicapped in order to negate the intstitutional power they are alleged to have. Such a thing can not be disproven, and thus can be perpetually invoked as a justification.

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Nevada Legalizes Torture Killing Patients with Dementia

     Being starved and dehydrated to death is a horrible and agonizing death, as many a British child knew before succumbing to the Orwellianly named “Liverpool Care Pathway”. Now in Nevada, a diagnoses with Dementia can bring down such a death sentence.

     SB121, passed this year, would allow an advanced directive, in the case of dementia, to not only refuse medicine and treatment, but to be denied food and water:

“2.The form for end-of-life decisions of a power of attorney for health care for an adult with any form of dementia may be substantially in the following form, and must be witnessed or executed in the same manner as the following form:

END-OF-LIFE DECISIONS ADDENDUM STATEMENT OF DESIRES

(You can, but are not required to, state what you want to happen if you get very sick and are not likely to get well. You do not have to complete this form, but if you do, your agent must do as you ask if you cannot speak for yourself.)

……………….. (Insert name of agent) might have to decide, if you get very sick, whether to continue with your medicine or to stop your medicine, even if it means you might not live, ………………… (Insert name of agent) will talk to you to find out what you want to do, and will follow your wishes.

If you are not able to talk to ……………….. (insert name of agent), you can help him or her make these decisions for you by letting your agent know what you want.

Here are your choices. Please circle yes or no to each of the following statements and sign your name below

[…]

4. I want to get food and water even if I do not want to take medicine or receive treatment.     YES     NO”

     Purportedly, one can reverse or negate any such declaration in the future by simple verbal command. However, this form is explicitly for dementia, and is signing over power and making a living will if dementia was indicated, thus leaving the patient legally incompetent to decide for themself if they choose to have food or water or not!

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News of the Week (October 13th, 2019)

 

News of the Week for Oct. 13th, 2019


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Firing Line Friday: What’s Ahead for the Democrats? Part II

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.

     In 1984, President Reagan won every state except Minnesota (and the District of Columbia), though the Democratic Party was still dominant in the House of Representatives and on the state level. In this two-part episode, Buckley, along with guests Mark J. Green, Murray Kempton, and Richard Brookhiser examine the prospects of the Democrats in June of 1984.

     Here is Part II:

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