Education Department “Lifting the Pause” on Some Civil Rights Probes, but Not for Race or Gender Cases.
Education Department “Lifting the Pause” on Some Civil Rights Probes, but Not for Race or Gender Cases.
A memo to the department’s Office for Civil Rights reveals that the agency will allow “only disability-based discrimination” cases to proceed. Thousands of outstanding complaints will continue to sit idle.
A memo to the department’s Office for Civil Rights reveals that the agency will allow “only disability-based discrimination” cases to proceed. Thousands of outstanding complaints will continue to sit idle.
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And this makes me wonder if Greg Abbott is trying to get someone for discriminating against him being in a wheelchair.
Because it's always different then.
It will be for "christians" who are suing
Why the scare quotes?
Edit: yeah I don't care about your "no true Scotsman." There are tens of thousands of sects of Christianity, and the contradictory nature of their holy book allows all of them to claim they got it right.
You don't get to just artificially distance yourself from these people, just because you disagree with 13% of what they believe. You have no authority to claim that these people are any less Christian than you. Sorry if that makes your bullshit religion look bad.
They aren’t scare quotes. The people suing are not really Christians doing their best to follow the path their religion sets.
They aren’t christians they just pretend to be.
They most certainly are Christians. Who are you to question their faith?
I've said it before, they should make it "no true Christian" rather than "no true Scotsman," as I've seen it used for that far more often.
There are actual expectations of what you should believe as dictated by the texts some of which are very clear. If you are against clothing the naked, feeding the hungry, or tending to the sick you are overtly working against the path Jesus sets in the NT.
Perhaps it is more accurate to say these people are falsely claiming their faith as the motivation for their bigotry.
Have you read the Old Testament? Because god's behavior in the OT directly contradicts those messages of love you're referring to.
And let's remember that Jesus said that he did not come to abolish the law, and that not a single word of it will be changed (or something like that), so none of that "hurr durr its the new covenant" bullshit.
Not only that, but the NT also contradicts itself as it explicitly advocates for slavery. Which is wholly incompatible with "love thy neighbor". So which do you listen to? Can't be both... What reason do you have to ignore the one thing and fixate on the other? How difficult would it have been for Jesus to have, just once, explicitly condemn slavery? One of the most abhorrent things a person could do to another person, and it was happening all around him, and yet he couldn't just say it was bad?
This is why slavers in the US were able to use the Bible to justify the practice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bible_and_slavery#New_Testament
This is despicable shit, and nothing you say or do could ever convince me otherwise.
Do you not get that what Jesus said in regards to naked, hungry, and sick people is in no way undone by what you claim (regardless of the degree of accuracy or lack thereof)?
So it's OK to own humans as property?
Or do you disagree with Jesus and the Bible (Old and New Testament)?
Put down the straw bale as constructing straw men is always a waste of everyone’s time.
Yeah that's not a straw man at all. The Bible is explicit about condoning slavery. I think it's an extremely important question to ask people who claim to adhere to biblical values.
It should also be a very simple question to answer, and the fact that so many Christians seem to struggle with it is frankly despicable.
Not the commenter you replied to, but some "Christians" don't necessarily behave in a Christian-like manner when it comes to things like helping those in need, or treating others the way you would have them treat you.
See my edit .
To add, Jesus himself explicitly condoned slavery. Just putting that out there.
They are self described Christians but have zero concern for living as the religion prescribes