Rev. Kellie Kelly

Birth control is also going to be on the chopping block soon, and they won’t be done there, either.

We’re been saying it and saying it:

All our freedoms are intertwined.
All our struggles are one.

Solidarity and collective liberation or bust, literally.

We can do this:

BREAKING NEWS: META AND MARK ZUCKERBERG REMOVE LONG-STANDING ANTI-LGBTQ HATE SPEECH POLICIES AFTER ANNOUNCING END OF FACT-CHECKING PROGRAM | GLAAD Meta Quietly Removes Major Sections of Hateful Conduct Policies Protecting LGBTQ People and Other Marginalized People GLAAD: “Zuckerberg’s removal of fact-checking programs and industry-standard hate ...

Meta has quietly removed major sections of its hate speech policy protecting LGBTQ people, people of color, women, immigrants, and other marginalized groups. Today’s alarming policy changes will allow anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, and cease to protect LGBTQ users from being targeted with such attacks

TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. We, your Memorialists, the House of Representatives and the Senate of the State of Idaho assembled in the First Regular Session of the Sixty-eighth Idaho Legislature, do hereby respectfully represent that: WHEREAS, the decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644 (2015), is at odds with the Constitution of the United States and the principles upon which the United States is es- tablished; and WHEREAS, liberty has long been understood as individual freedom from governmental action, not as a right to a particular governmental entitle- ment; and WHEREAS, Obergefell invokes a definition of "liberty" that the framers would not have recognized, rejecting the idea captured in the Declaration of Independence that human dignity is innate, and instead suggesting that it comes from the government; and WHEREAS, when the framers proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal" and "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights," they referred to a vision of mankind in which all humans are created in the image of God and therefore of inherent worth; and WHEREAS, Obergefell undermines this vision by declaring that citizens must seek dignity from the state; and WHEREAS, Obergefell relies on the dangerous fiction of treating the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution as a font of substantive rights, a doctrine that strays from the full meaning of the Con- stitution and exalts judges at the expense of the people from whom they de- rive their authority; and WHEREAS, Obergefell's inversion of the original meaning of liberty causes collateral damage to other aspects of our constitutional order that protect liberty, including religious liberty; and WHEREAS, the Supreme Court recognized in United States v. Windsor, 570 U.S. 744 (2013), that the definition of marriage is "an area that has long been regarded as a virtually exclusive prov…

WHEREAS, Obergefell arbitrarily and unjustly rejected this definition of marriage in favor of a novel, flawed interpretation of key clauses within the Constitution and our nation's legal and cultural precedents; and WHEREAS, since court rulings are not laws and only legislatures elected by the people may pass laws, Obergefell is an illegitimate overreach. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the members of the First Regular Ses- sion of the Sixty-eighth Idaho Legislature, the House of Representatives and the Senate concurring therein, that the Idaho Legislature rejects the Obergefell decision. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Idaho Legislature calls upon the Supreme Court of the United States to reverse Obergefell and restore the natural def- inition of marriage, a union of one man and one woman. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Idaho Legislature insists on restoring the issue of marriage and enforcement of all laws pertaining to marriage back to the several states and the people. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Chief Clerk of the House of Representa- tives be, and she is hereby authorized and directed to forward a copy of this Memorial to the Supreme Court of the United States.

IT WAS NEVER JUST ABOUT TRANS PEOPLE

Idaho has introduced a resolution to ask SCOTUS to REPEAL Obergefell and allow for states to make gay marriage ILLEGAL again.

We will NEVER go back.

See text here: legiscan.com/ID/drafts/HJ...

This isn't the only thing meta has been doing, it's been restricting the reach of LGBTQ accounts for nearly a year under its social and political content minimization policy.

Expect to see more of this with project 2025 architect Dustin Carmack in charge of policy at Meta.

Opinion | Jimmy Carter Deserved Our Thanks and Respect, Not Our Sneers We in the media and chattering class jeered at a man who probably improved more lives over a longer period than any recent president.

"when his church refused to integrate, he left to help found a new one that welcomed everyone"
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/o... many lovely factoids I didn't know about Carter, in this eulogy from @nickkristof.bsky.social

Report: Hospitals Rarely Advise Doctors on How to Treat Patients Under Abortion Bans Doctors described hospital lawyers who “refused to meet” with them for months, were hard to reach during “life or death” situations and offered little help beyond “regurgitating” the law, according…

According to a new report, doctors in abortion ban states described hospital lawyers who:

•“Refused to meet” with them for months.
•Were hard to reach during “life or death” situations.
•Offered little help beyond “regurgitating” the law.

What Is A High Control Group? How to Spot Cults and Other Controlling Collectives

My first BlueSky post.

Want to know what high control group (sometimes called cult) is? Want to evaluate whether a group you or a loved one has ties to might be such a group? That's the focus of this piece.

medium.com/@shariwoodbu...

Jane Fonda is a cat with nine lives; that in her eighth or ninth she's become an absolutely brilliant and effective climate activist is a reminder that sometimes age means coming into your own and then some. I mean, not to dismiss the work she did as an actress and activist earlier, but. HBD Jane!

That kind of thing.

I saw this quote today and felt it was important to share…

French philosopher Simone Weil: “The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to [them], what are you going through?”

“At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.”

— Che Guevara

Until abortion is legal in every state, lets require men to get a mandatory vasectomy until they are proven emotionally mature, financially responsible and ready to be a father.
Wait, what do you mean regulations on men's bodies make you uncomfortable?

The prospect of not being able to divorce a shitty or abusive husband is going to make women less likely to marry, not more.

I just leave this here.....

Train yourself toward solidarity and not charity. You’re no one’s savior. You are a mutual partner in the pursuit of freedom.

colorful abstract quilt

"Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats" was not in fact written by Voltaire; it was an addition by a translator, Peter Gay. It is still excellent advice for our times! (quilt by Fern Hamlin included because beauty and joy are always welcome)

The health and well-being of a pregnant person must be prioritized over a politician’s personal religious views.

“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” -Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

And it’s on every cis person in this country to fiercely have trans people’s backs in every macro and micro way, now and always. In the bathroom & in the streets. When they’re present or not. Everywhere.

May we work toward a world that allows Transgender people to one day become elders whose wisdom will uplift us all.
May we never forget the tragedy of hatred and its consequences.
May we remember not only the pain, but all the joy, colors and endless possibilities represented by Transgender people.

It’s mostly white people who talk about echo chambers. Maybe you need the internet to meet people with different ideas but the rest of us do not. We know what the “other side” thinks because we deal with it every day! Everywhere! We’re fine. Carry on. Happy Saturday!

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I live in SW Ohio so there are A LOT of signs and billboards and even wall murals spewing fear and hate, especially around the topics of Jesus and Abortion. I am constantly telling them to f&$k themselves!

One of fascism's main tactics is to physically and mentally exhaust you. To flood the zone with outrageous bullshit, to make you bite on a dozen pump-fakes — so that when the real shot comes, you're too worn out to react.

We need to pace ourselves. It's only been a week. Alert fatigue is dangerous

Saw recently someone go, instead of “Baruch HaShem,” (thank God), “Baruch Spinoza.” 😂😂😂

I dream of a post-scolding world. And love this moment from Everything Everywhere All at Once.

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.

We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive