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What's the point in creating a law that bans Sharia Law when the people who would allegedly institute mandatory observation of Sharia Law would just vote to repeal it and then institute it anyway?
Oh, right, Republicans are fucking idiots and this is scaremongering to drive them to the polls.
A lot of this is a tacit attempt to control Muslim municipal populations be restricting how they govern themselves locally.
So you can step in at the state (maybe federal, if Chip Roy gets his way) level and announce this mayor or judge or city council is illegitimate because the leadership isn't Christian.
Do Americans actually get text messages like those? I thought it was a joke
I have personally never gotten any voting text messages, but I've received a few voting emails recently from the scum in my neck of the woods. I personally find it sad and pathetic, but then again, I'm not the type who is easily swayed by an email or text.
The dem ones are at least somewhat sane
YMMV. But if you volunteer regularly for campaigns, your number/address inevitably ends up on someone's suckers list. And then election season means getting your phone blown up by these as the voting deadline closes in.
Yes
We also get them as postcards
Where's the reset button? Do I have to stick a needle into the Washington Monument or something?
Excuse me but Republicans have been in control of Texas for like 30 years straight. So does that mean that they the Republicans are trying to install Sharia law in order to prevent it?
Very specifically, this is in response to EPIC City, a master-planned community north of Dallas that's being bankrolled by a group of Muslim real estate developers. But you can see it echoing the disgust conservatives have for Minneapolis and Dearborn, Michigan, with their own large Muslim populations.
Good thing we only mutilate boys' genitals.
Thank you for mentioning this. I don't even have that set of equipment, and it boggles my mind that this is normal and acceptable to anyone. Even using religion as a reason just seems ridiculous. Why the hell would you ever cause that much physical pain to a child for a cosmetic procedure?
"Oh, they're transing the kids!" Fucker, you asked your doctor to cut off part of your son's junk before he even developed the capacity to lift his own head. Shut the fuck up.
It's still shocking to me how most Americans consider genital mutilation a normal thing. My European mind can't comprehend.
If it shocks you farther, it's just a little check box when you have a baby boy. Just a little bit of the paperwork before discharge. You don't even have to be there, and it's "free". Very strange, all things considered.
Free? Free?!! In a hospital, in the U S of A?!!! Ok now I'm really shocked.
It's not free. It costs hundreds of dollars. The user above may have had it covered by insurance, but that's a different thing. Entirely NOT free
Oh, phew. I was worried for a minute there.
Well, it's "free" under insurance, yes. The bigger thing is that it's covered under every insurance and I think Medicaid, the public assistance healthcare. Not that it's all that expensive when a birth is like, tens of thousands of dollars sometimes.
I've never met anyone who paid for it, though. I wouldn't be surprised if it was in law that you had to cover it (while shit like birth control is still debated).
Insurance gets charged if it is done, but a friend told me there is no actual charge to the parents. She said there was a lot of pushback about not getting it done and that was one of their "selling points" when she said she wasn't going to pay for it. Seems like fraud of some kind.
"Now that your son is born, would you also like us to cut off a bit of his penis? It's only $500 if you have a coupon!"
Do you get to keep the leftovers?
Only at hospitals that decline to accept tips.
Nah... they let you keep the placenta, sure, but the doc gets to keep the foreskin for their special baby skin leather doctor's coats.
Filthy heathens! OUR faith allows pet dogs!
Some real big projection going on.
"NO religious freedom," so let's ban that religion? Every religion believes theirs is correct.
"Women brutalized" "Slavery allowed" "Child marriage & rape" These things are already illegal from our other laws.
"Girl genital mutilation" I think this one is already illegal, as well.
"No pet dogs allowed" First of all, wut? But second of all, I'd love to see some Texas politician try to pass a law that outlawed pet dogs. They'd probably get shot to death by the other politicians before they left the chamber.
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Every religion believes theirs is correct.
From a purely argumentative standpoint, that doesn't mean that one of them isn't. Again, strictly from a rhetorical point of view.
These things are already illegal from our other laws
From a rhetorical point of view, strictly, one could say, if one were to defend the statement, which I'm not, but one could, hypothetically say that any religion actively espousing those things is worthy of condemnation regardless of our laws.
“Girl genital mutilation”
Same goes for this. Hypothetically.
“No pet dogs allowed”
Yeah I don't know either. Even hypothetically.
BAN MARTIANS NOW!
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Child marriage and rape (within marriage) are legal in far too many US States.
Slavery is allowed in far too many US States.
Brutalizing women (if you consider things like revocation of bodily autonomy or incarceration for miscarriages) is legal in far too many US States. If you consider unpunished crimes against women, though illegal, it is far too common in many US States.
Many landlords forbid having pets and there's little to no recourse for pets killed by the state.
Also these are laws that Christians insisted were fundamental for their religion in our country's past. Hell, some still say that.
Fundies are salivating to do the same thing
Seriously I was waiting for the punch line at the bottom, "... Just like Christian Nationalists"
Isn’t all of this what republicans want, just swap fake Christianity in for the only religion, and allow pet dogs (but also the state can kill them randomly with no consequences)?
This just sounds like Texas on a regular day minus the dog thing.
If you just change "GIRL genital mutilation" to "BOY genital mutilation", that list is all things America is famous for.
We're allowed to own dogs. Until a cop comes within shooting distance, at least.
How does this even make sense mechanically? What would it mean when one system of law bans another system of law?
Yo is there any way to weaponize this into banning all binding arbitration because that would be based.