i am a Atheist and a skeptic and a bit of a anti-theist. i think people can have there believes as long as it is keeped private and does no harm. my religious background is Jehovah Witness i think of my self as an apostate witch means i left my religion but it has more meaning to a jw or ex-jw.
LOOK AT THIS BULLSHIT. THIS IS WHY MEN AND BOYS DONâT REPORT WHEN THEY GET SEXUALLY ASSAULTED BY FEMALES.Â
There are too many of these to even post. My heart hurts for male rape victims, because this is a LARGE part of why they feel they have nobody on their fucking side. AND MEN LARGELY PERPETRATE THIS SHIT. Pay attention.Â
Rape. The word they are looking for is rape. An adult sleeping with a minor is statutory rape. She cant even say that he lied about his age. He was her student.
A quadriplegic man in Ohio was able to use his hand again because of a tiny chip implanted in his brain. Â
24-year-old Ian Burkhart was seriously injured in a diving accident that left him paralyzed from the elbows down.
Photo: Ian Burkhardt/BBC
Now, 6 years after his accident, heâs able to use his hand again for the first time.
It didnât come easy, though. He compares his earliest trials to a 7-hour exam that left him âcompletely and mentally fatigued and exhaustedâ.
Photo: Ohio State University/Batelle/BBC
âYou really have to break down each part of that motion and think about it in a more concentrated way. For the first 19 years of my life it was something I definitely took for granted.â
A federal judge ruled Mississippi's ban on same-sex adoption is unconstitutional.
U.S. District Judge Daniel Jordan issued a preliminary injunction against the ban, citing the Supreme Courtâs decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide last summer. The injunction blocks Mississippi from enforcing its 16-year-old anti-gay adoption law.
The Supreme Court ruling âforeclosed litigation over laws interfering with the right to marry and rights and responsibilities intertwined with marriage,â Jordan wrote. âIt also seems highly unlikely that the same court that held a state cannot ban gay marriage because it would deny benefits â expressly including the right to adopt â would then conclude that married gay couples can be denied that very same benefit.â
The challenge to Mississippiâs law was filed last year by four same-sex couples, who were joined by the Campaign for Southern Equality and the Family Equality Council.
âTwo sets of our clients have waited many (almost 9 and 16) years to become legal parents to the children they have loved and cared for since birth,â Roberta Kaplan, lead attorney for the plaintiffs, said in a statement. âWe hope that it should finally be clear that discrimination against gay people simply because they are gay violates the Constitution in all 50 states, including Mississippi.â
The Human Rights Campaignâs Mississippi state director Rob Hill also praised the ruling.
âThis welcome decision affirms that  qualified same-sex couples in Mississippi seeking to become adoptive or foster parents are entitled to equal treatment under the law, and commits to the well-being of children in our state who need loving homes,â he said in a statement. âJudge Jordan has repudiated reprehensible efforts by our elected leaders to deny legal rights to our families. They are on the wrong side of history, and todayâs decision confirms, yet again, that they are also on the wrong side of the law.â
The one-sentence Mississippi law â which reads, simply, âAdoption by couples of the same gender is prohibitedâ â was adopted in 2000. While several other states, including Alabama, Florida, Nebraska and Michigan, had similar bans, all have since been overturned.
Mississippi remained the lone holdout until Thursdayâs ruling. (Some states still have restrictions on fostering children, however, and other roadblocks for same-sex couples remain.)
In a 2013 blog post for The Huffington Post, former Mississippi Gov. Ronnie Musgrove, who signed the adoption bill into law, said he supported overturning it.
âThis decision that all of us made together has made it harder for an untold number of children to grow up in happy, healthy homes in Mississippi â and that breaks my heart,â Musgrove wrote.
The ruling came soon after Mississippiâs Senate passed a âreligious freedomâ bill, which would give businesses the right to deny service to LGBT people.
For the record, she actually abandoned the movement BEFORE they all got whooping cough, but abandoned it too late. Thereâd been a breakout of measles in her area that caused her to reassess, and she and her doctor had already drafted and started a catch-up vaccination schedule, but her kids caught whooping cough just before it could be started. Then she wrote a blog post for The Scientific Parent explaining how she and her husband had come to wrong decisions in the first place, how they changed their mind, the consequences they suffered as a result, and asking other parents to please vaccinate their kids. And now sheâs an activist for destroying the misinformation of anti-vaxxers, and reaching out to anti-vaxxers because sheâs understands their fears but knows their kids deserve better.Â
She was trying to the best for her kids and just didnât know how to interpret the validity of information or its sources, an actual skill that can be actually difficult and that is under-taught and a necessary first step to being able to trust vaccination research, so chose no action over taking an action she wasnât sure of. She kept looking into it with family and friends and even eventually came to the right conclusion before her kids became sick, but it was still too late.
Honestly it was pretty brave of her to publicly admit she was wrong. She could have just quietly vaccinated her kids and not become a national news story, but instead she spoke out, even saying âIâm writing this from quarantine, the irony of which isnât lost on me.â and also âI am not looking forward to any gloating or shame as this âdefectionâ from the antivaxx camp goes public, but, this isnât a popularity contest.  Right now my family is living the consequences of misinformation and fear.  I understand that families in our community may be mad at us for putting their kids at risk.â
She understood the consequences and still put herself and her story out there.Â
You know what, it does take a big person to admit they were wrong so publicly and work to undo the harm. I believe I made fun of her in the past, but timemachineyeah changed my mind.
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