“You’ve gotta respect everyone’s beliefs." No, you don’t. That’s
what gets us in trouble. Look, you have to acknowledge everyone’s
beliefs, and then you have to reserve the right to go: "That is fucking
stupid. Are you kidding me?" I acknowledge that you believe that, that’s
great, but I’m not going to respect it. I have an uncle that believes
he saw Sasquatch. We do not believe him, nor do we respect him!”
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Dear White Christian Lawmaker, I just don't understand how you're getting away with it. Has the nation gone so numb at this point that no one is willing to stop you? Have people forgotten that as state leaders you are not endowed with any sort of divine status? Put simply, you aren't actually allowed to legislate based on your personal religious beliefs, signing bills into law based on nothing but scripture. Not any more. I see you, si…
"I have no children."
There was a decent chance that the subject would come up if I were in the company of new parents. The chances would double if there were earshot-adjacent young marrieds who very much wanted children, and if there were older women in the room, forget about it. Aunts and stuff, not even necessarily mine. For the better part of the last twenty years, "I have no children" has been the axis on which conversa…
