A new policy at Catholic schools in Worcester, Massachusetts, will prohibit LGBTQ+ students from expressing themselves.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Worcester’s new policy goes into effect at the start of the new school year.
The policy requires students “to conduct themselves at school in a manner consistent with their biological sex.” Students also “may not advocate, celebrate, or express same-sex attraction in such a way as to cause confusion or distraction in the context of Catholic school classes, activities, or events.”
“They issued a policy from the diocese to all of the schools to be able to have some consistency,” said Raymond Delisle, chancellor and director of communications for the diocese.
The policy cites canon law of the Catholic Church and points made by Pope Francis.
“It’s not citing specific feelings or issues by an individual bishop or an individual person, but really citing and basing it all on what the church has been teaching all along,” Delisle said.
In an appeals court Thursday, Helsinki’s top prosecutor said publicly quoting the Bible and publishing a booklet about Christian sexual ethics violates Finland’s “hate speech” law. The appeal escalates this U.S. ally’s prosecution of dissidents from leftist politics, a marker of repressive regimes.
The prosecutor has charged Member of Parliament Paivi Rasanen and Bishop Juhana Pohjola for writing and publishing, respectively, a booklet supporting natural marriage.
“This [case] is a God-given wake up call for Christians and others worried about the direction our society is going,” Pohjola said in a post-court press conference Friday morning U.S. time. He noted convicting a religious leader for publishing theological documents would in effect criminalize Christianity in Finland and encourage similar oppression worldwide.
Rasanen is also criminally charged with posting a Bible verse to X (formerly Twitter) and stating Christian theology in a radio interview. The prosecutor wants all recordings of the radio interview taken down and the booklet to be unavailable online, and fines levied against both Christians.
Good example of why hate speech laws are a disaster for free speech. Hate itself is not illegal. The idea of making an emotion illegal is absurd. When a state defines some kinds of hate as being illegal and some kinds of speech as hate speech, you get the Finnish nonsense above. You can be sure that anyone who supports hate speech laws is either stupid or a totalitarian. ABN
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Potential physician payment bonus for 2021 if 75% of patients received at least one dose of COVID vax for a typical practice — TOTAL = $382,125.00
There were two main programs for “incentives” for this regulated biological product. The first was pretty straight-up; this many bucks extra per jabbed patient as an “incentive”. The government paid insurance companies, who then would reimburse providers. The amount of money for this program is staggering, although the government has not made the individual distribution amounts of insurance companies, pharmacies, etc. public.
More details and documentation at the link above. Most of us have heard of this program but the link provides solid numbers. This ‘bonus program’ is not medicine, it is corruption plus quackery plus unholy greed. I personally feel deep shame for anyone who facilitated this ghoulish obscenity, which endangered patients and betrayed their trust. And that this was done even to children… for money. ABN
Most readers probably know what Kennedy is talking about, but it is well-worth repeating and emphasizing. I will add that this is a very difficult area because there is the deep logic that if we don’t do it others will. There is no single moral act or opinion that can be a bottom line on this. And this is especially true of bioweapons since labs are so easy to conceal. ABN
It would be even better if Garland were related to Weiss. One fraud plus another fraud plus another fraud obviously proves there is no fraud. This is the definition of tautological fraud. ABN
No one knows precisely what is driving the phenomenon, but there is an inexplicable lack of urgency to find out. A concerted investigation is in order.
Deaths among young Americans documented in employee life insurance claims should alone set off alarms. Among working people 35 to 44 years old, a stunning 34% more died than expected in the last quarter of 2022, with above-average rates in other working-age groups, too.
I had this experience three times. Three separate pharmacies refused to fill doctor lawfully prescribed ivermectin. One was polite, the second was a rude bitch, and the third was a member of the state pharmacy board. He was polite and discussed his refusal with me. In his mind it came down to ‘this all came from on-high’ and he would not go against that. Who is on-high, I asked. He said he really did not know and I believe him. So, at least two of them were good people caught in a moral dilemma and forced to make a choice they felt they could not refuse. The third probably would be a happy Bolshevist interrogator if the opportunity arose. ABN
…The ethical implications of these and other data on sentience are obvious because of how insects and countless other animals are used and abused in research and conservation projects because some people think it’s impossible that they are sentient beings or they casually write them off as so-called “pests.” Nonetheless, detailed data show they feel morally relevant pain.
Knowing that animals are sentient should—and must—make a difference in how we view, represent, and treat them. The details—the breadth and depth—of the Birch et al. and Gibbons et al. research set an excellent example for future comparative research on many other animals. I look forward to seeing what these studies yield about the biodiversity of sentience and I’m sure that more “surprises” will be uncovered. Who’d have thought that small-brained flies, mosquitoes, cockroaches, and termites would show strong evidence of pain? In fact, they do.
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