Twisting Religious Freedom into Religious Oppression

Exercising religious freedom should not mean freedom to eliminate secular life, freedom to act in place of our government, and freedom from taxes.

These things are especially terrifying given how easy it is to claim “religion” in the US.

The Evangelical version of religious freedom makes people like me, who identify as Jewish, deeply unsafe.

As ever, oppressors find a way to use the machinery of liberation to oppress us.

Anyway, when the Supreme Court inevitable rules that we can just publicly fund religious schools we’re all fucked. The courts have already decided that anti-discrimination laws do not protect staff or students as soon as we hint religion. We know exactly what those Creationist Museum people are going to teach the next generation. Hell, we already know what many public schools teach about slavery and the Civil War today.

I am terrified.

The Wordpress kerfuffle seemed to have a lot of folks trying to understand various arguments, but doesn’t it just come down to “Matt Mullenweg is resentful that WPEngine built a genuinely big, competitive business off of his open source project?”

Today’s non-scale victory– one of the many lesbian couples who work out at my gym together told me I was looking great today, and then just kept saying things like, “My gosh!” when they saw the weights I was lifting.

I realized yesterday I had no concrete vacation plans this year, and that always leads to a bit of a struggle. We’re going to take advantage of a place to stay in Seattle in June (and probably head to Portland too). I’m also thinking of finding something relaxing for the first week of May.

My original opinion of the LOTR movies was Fellowship is kind of boring, Two Towers is excellent, and Return of the King is good, but not great. I have not done a rewatch in probably… 18ish years. Would my opinion change?