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This sort of thing really annoys me and not because I've got a position staked out except that I'm against entryism as a tactic. If you think you've got a better way then fork. Split off and form your own sect and if you have the "better" way then people will follow. Don't take over something that already has it's followers and force your religion on them.Would've been Bizarro a few years ago. Perhaps not in today's climate but still raised a smile.
Church of England is considering gender-neutral terms. No more Our Father?
I agree up to a point, in that it's a bit jump-on-the-bandwagon-then-hijack-it. OTOH, that particular brand of Christianity has reactively adapted to perceived cultural mores many times before. e.g. It wasn't that long ago female vicars were first allowed, or homosexuality becoming more accepted.This sort of thing really annoys me and not because I've got a position staked out except that I'm against entryism as a tactic. If you think you've got a better way then fork. Split off and form your own sect and if you have the "better" way then people will follow. Don't take over something that already has it's followers and force your religion on them.
Those two things are oddly related. I wasn't really onboard with female vicars either because it took jobs away from homosexuals who have long been a part of the clergy. Homosexuality has recently become more publicly accepted, but it was always there as many an altar boy can attest.I agree up to a point, in that it's a bit jump-on-the-bandwagon-then-hijack-it. OTOH, that particular brand of Christianity has reactively adapted to perceived cultural mores many times before. e.g. It wasn't that long ago female vicars were first allowed, or homosexuality becoming more accepted.
But making these things illegal could harm the trans kids!!!
Well done President Dick Cheney and his pet monkey.Perhaps not that bizarrre in the middle east but certainly depressing.
Iraq to lower the ‘age of consent’ for girls to nine
Women’s rights activists accuse the government of attempting to ‘legalise child rape’
Iraq is poised to slash the legal age of consent from 18 to to nine, allowing men to marry young children.
The proposed legal change also deprives women of rights to divorce, child custody and inheritance.
Iraq’s parliament, which is dominated by a coalition of conservative Shia Muslim parties, is preparing to vote through an amendment that would overturn the country’s “personal status law”.
The legislation, also known as Law 188, was heralded as one of the most progressive in the Middle East when it was introduced in 1959 and provides an overarching set of rules governing the affairs of Iraqi families, regardless of their religious sect.