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Leaf (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone to United States | News & Politics@midwest.social · 4 days ago

Southern Baptists seek to ban porn, women pastors, and marriage equality

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Southern Baptists seek to ban porn, women pastors, and marriage equality

www.advocate.com

Leaf (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone to United States | News & Politics@midwest.social · 4 days ago
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The largest Protestant denomination in the U.S. will consider a measure this week in support of banning marriage equality.
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    They left the most fucked part out of the headline.

    And conservatives of various stripes have echoed one of the resolution’s call for pro-natalist policies and its decrying of “willful childlessness which contributes to a declining fertility rate.”

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      So in other words: have babies or you’re breaking the law?

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      I love the handmaid’s tale.

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    The southern Baptists? The same denomination that split from the northern because they wanted to argue that god was cool with slavery? I’m shocked. SHOCKED!

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      In their defense, it is right there in the book.

      They’re not wrong, just assholes.

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    seek to ban if for themselves right?

    NOT INFLICT THEIR DOGMA ON THE POPULACE, RIGHT?

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    But NOT Guns because GOD!

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      That’s why you gotta have more kids.

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    The big secret is that it’s the northern, eastern and western baptists as well.

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    Oh, they’ll ‘consider’ it, will they? :rolleyes:

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    Which is guaranteed to happen because some of y’all were too lazy to vote.

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