Everyone everywhere worries about the sex lives of others. You are worrying about the sex lives that evangelicals are worrying about and such worrying is actually part of their sex lives, which makes it part of yours.
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I don't see it that way. Sexual stuff is by definition titillating, so everyone is interested in it. But, "worrying" is a different level. When I hear something sexual, I am interested. But if it is two (or more) people who are able to consent to whatever they are doing, I'm not the least bit worried about it.
And, as far as Swift brainwashing young people into pegging or whatever. Well, I highly doubt it, but if she is, so what? Or, are we going to say that adults should not be able to use tactics to brainwash young people? Because, that is gonna get a lot of Sunday School cancelled and youth pastors fired.
Of course, what he is really saying,"Only I and people who think like I do should be able to brainwash them."
“Worrying” can mean “thinking excessively about or being overly concerned with”. It’s a colloquial usage, but in the South we say “I was worrying about those ribs they were so good.”
I don’t think Swift is brainwashing anyone, nor do I think she has gone full blown tradwife MAGA. I think almost all reactions to Taylor Swift are over-reactions. Her music isn’t my cup of tea. But she is incredibly talented, extremely well marketed, and a cottage industry all unto herself.
Your last comment is spot on.
Its only indoctrination if you don't agree with it.
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There was a time when the church was THE health care provider. There was a time when the church actually fed the poor and tended to the sick and injured. But right about the time of the advent of the evangelical movement the church abdicated these duties and beginning in the 80s the church began selling the hospitals to corporate entities. Most evangelical churches have a "food pantry" but their largest budget items are building and maintenance and staff, not "benevolence".
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Marshall
Pretty creepy truthfully
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Marshall
A California mayor told high school students her daughter is a lesbian due to childhood trauma, that MLK’s activism was "not really helpful," and that church/state separation is a "myth."
One kid secretly recorded her.
The fallout has been intense.
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One kid secretly recorded her.
The fallout has been intense.
Mayor criticized for preaching bigotry during secretly recorded speech to high school club
Holly Andreatta’s comments on race, religion, and LGBTQ identity went viral after students documented the talk and challenged her in real time
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Polds4OSU
Marshall
I read the essay. I read the assignment. I read the TA's response to the essay.
My objective response as both a professor and former department chair, and as a conservative Christian, though I no longer identify as an evangelical as this student clearly does:
1. The student did not complete the assignment as the essay written. The essay was a statement of beliefs, but not a proper response to the research article.
2. The TA was correct in not awarding any points for the assignment. There was a rubric. You read the essay and check off boxes on the rubric. The essay failed the rubric. As I read the essay and the rubric the essay earned a zero.
3. Where the TA made an error, perhaps, was in using the term "offensive". The TA would have been better served to use completely neutral language.
4. I do not see what the terminable offense here was. As her department chair I would have had to support the TA completely.
The TA should have just given her a C or D and moved on. Im guessing they have had conversations about the students religious beliefs during office hours at some point and they had to see where this could go if the student was flunked.
Plus if its anything like my experience as a TA its a guess just how knowledgeable the TA was (as a former department head you know way more about this than I do). My first two TA assignments were sheep production in the fall and applied nutrition in the spring. Sheep production had a bunch of animal science students who had raised sheep their entire life and knew more about it than I really desired to learn-I was assigned because the prof was a good researcher and my grad advisor (who didn't teach undergrad classes) thought it would be good experience for us to work together. My 2nd semester was right up my wheelhouse and at 23-24 knew the material as well as the adjunct teaching the class. Guess which one I did a better job grading papers at? Without any knowledge of the TA's skillset we probably don't know the full story here.
The rubric wouldn't have supported a C or D, though that would have been the easy way out.
Oh, I'm sure there's a lot to the story that we don't know, and my approach was pretty simplistic, read the assignment, read the essay, apply the rubric objectively. But, simplistic approach, applying the rubric objectively, I came to the same conclusion the TA did, for what it's worth. And, unless there is a ton of stuff I don't know, as department chair I would have backed the TA.
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I'm thankful the case happened at OU, rather than at OSU.
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