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Can I read the Quran instead?

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https://apnews.com/article/transgender- ... 072d580a94

Speaks for itself.

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People in replies be like "I want this" and even going so far as to openly assert that Christianity is superior.

Speaking in biblical terms, we live in the end times. o_o

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People in replies be like "I want this" and even going so far as to openly assert that Christianity is superior.

Speaking in biblical terms, we live in the end times. o_o

The dreaded comments section.

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SC Senate set to consider a near total abortion ban.

The ongoing standoff between the South Carolina Senate and House on abortion access will take centerstage Tuesday, April 25 when the Senate returns to debate a near-total abortion ban.

Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, passing a stricter abortion ban has been a top priority for the General Assembly.

Attempts to pass a total abortion ban failed last year when female GOP Republicans, Sen. Katrina Shealy, R-Lexington, Sandy Senn, R-Charleston, Penry Gustafson, R-Kershaw, along with Sen. Tom Davis, R-Beaufort, banded together with Democrats. They helped stall and ultimately kill a near-total abortion ban. Lawmakers tried to reach a compromise but ended the year with no resolution in sight.

The Senate did not have the votes to pass anything less than a six-week abortion ban.

Will this year be different? It seems unlikely, not unless Senate leadership was able to flip Republican hold outs. Davis said last year that he would filibuster and prevent the bill's passage. He will go up against Sen. Richard Cash, R-Anderson, who has been the chief advocate for the House's version.

https://www.independentmail.com/story/n ... 123022007/

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Civil Rights Groups Sue Over Anti-Democratic Laws Targeting Jackson, Mississippi

April 24, 2023

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-al ... ssissippi/

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Friday, April 21, the NAACP, Mississippi State Conference of the NAACP, Jackson City Branch of the NAACP and six residents of Jackson, Mississippi filed a federal lawsuit challenging two recently enacted laws that target Jackson’s majority-Black population. The complaint, which was filed against Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R), Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch (R), the chief justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court and other law enforcement officials, challenges House Bill 1020 and Senate Bill 2343, two bills that were signed into law on the same day the lawsuit was filed. The plaintiffs contend that these two anti-democratic laws intentionally “discriminate[] against the majority-Black residents of Jackson on the basis of race in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution” and ask the court to block their enforcement.

One of the challenged laws, H.B. 1020, creates a new court system with unelected judges in a portion of Jackson, the state’s capital city that is over 80% Black. Specifically, the unelected judges will have jurisdiction over “preliminary matters, criminal matters, violations of motor vehicle and traffic laws, and disturbances of the peace” within the state’s Capitol Complex Improvement District (CCID), a special district in Jackson centered around the state capitol building with its own police force. The complaint alleges that the unelected judges in the new CCID court, who are appointed by the white, conservative chief justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court, would have the authority to set terms of bail and release for “Jackson residents unfortunate enough to have charges filed in the CCID court rather than the Jackson Municipal Court.”

Additionally, H.B. 1020 allows Mississippi’s white attorney general to appoint the CCID’s prosecuting attorneys, which the plaintiffs similarly argue is unfair to Jackson residents. “H.B. 1020 singles out the predominantly Black population of Jackson for prosecution in a second-class criminal justice system in which the vast power and the immense discretion to enforce the law is placed in the hands of politically unaccountable prosecutors,” the complaint states.

In addition to creating an entirely new court system within the CCID, H.B. 1020 requires the chief justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court to appoint additional temporary judges to the Hinds County Circuit Court — which currently oversees Jackson — despite the fact that Black Mississippians in Jackson have historically elected Black judges to serve on that court. This scheme of “packing the existing court with unelected judges,” according to the plaintiffs, contravenes the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause since it “strip[s] Jackson residents of the right enjoyed by all other Mississippi residents to Circuit Court judges who live in the community and are locally elected.”

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'MAGA movement' widely unpopular, new poll finds

President Donald Trump is still unpopular and so is the political movement created in his image, according to a new national NBC News poll.

The Make America Great Again, or ‘MAGA,’ movement, which takes its name from Trump’s first campaign slogan, was the least popular individual or group tested in the new survey. Just 24% of Americans have positive views of the movement, while 45% voice negative views.

These numbers come as President Joe Biden made Trump — and his movement — the centerpiece of his re-election launch video on Tuesday.

Biden in his video that “MAGA extremists are lining up to take those bedrock freedoms away.” Biden and his fellow Democrats often use the term “MAGA” as a catch-all to describe pro-Trump Republicans who embrace the former president’s more extreme positions, including his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... r-AA1akbdw

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'Immense And Needless Suffering': Idaho's Abortion Ban Is Creating A Crisis Of Care

Panic was the first thing Dr. Kylie Cooper felt when her home state of Idaho implemented a near-total abortion ban following the repeal of federal protections last year.

As a maternal-fetal medicine physician in the largest hospital in the state, Cooper wasn’t used to feeling panicky. Her job working with high-risk obstetric patients didn’t allow for anxiety or fear. She was good at working under pressure, but this was different.

“Every time I was on call since the ban went into place, I had so much anxiety. What if I get that call and they’re previable? What are we going to do? There’s just fear there,” Cooper told HuffPost. “And anytime you insert fear into medical decision-making, it’s not a good situation.”

Cooper had worked for nearly five years at St. Luke’s hospital in Boise, which saw between 350 to 400 births a month.

She started to have trouble sleeping. Lying awake at night, she pictured her patients’ faces and remembered their circumstances: some with complicated fetal abnormalities, others with pregnancy conditions threatening their own lives. What am I going to do if that type of patient shows up again? How are we going to navigate this? she thought, staring at her bedroom ceiling.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/idaho-ab ... a819c2f792