He really doesn't see the irony in those statements.
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I have a significant portion of my family on my dad's side that are Mormon, back to the very founding of the Mormon church. Joseph Smith Jr.'s granddaughter Audentia married into my family. What's more, I have family that is in nearly every major offshoot of the Mormons that has existed. Our family connection to Joseph Smith Jr.'s Counsel of Twelve through Lyman Wight who took a group to Texas after Joseph Smith was killed in Carthage, and Brigham Young went to Utah, is well known and documented. So, I spent a significant amount of time as I was learning about religion in the 90s trying to define a "cult" and trying to understand whether or not the Mormons, and thus my Mormon family, were one. The conclusion that I came to is that all are religions are cults depending on who is doing the defining of what a cult is. The early Christians were certainly considered a cult by both the Romans and the Jews. All religions have heretical beliefs depending on who defines the orthodoxy. All religions have heretical practices depending on who defines the orthopraxy.
Tommy Tuberville is an idiot.
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As a P.S. while I was at the evangelical university I spent a good deal of time studying bioethics and part of my studies were philosophy, and part of the philosophy was world view. The three great monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, share a common worldview whether Tommy Tuberville knows it or wants to accept it or not. That is to say they share a monotheistic worldview and not a pantheistic, atheistic, or polytheistic worldview.
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Reuters reports that former Jan. 6 defendants are meeting with DOJ officials, drafting proposed indictments, and pushing investigations into the prosecutors, judges, and agents who handled their cases.
Career lawyers who upheld the rule of law are being harassed, sidelined, or placed under review — not for misconduct, but for doing their jobs.
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Career lawyers who upheld the rule of law are being harassed, sidelined, or placed under review — not for misconduct, but for doing their jobs.
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Reuters reports that former Jan. 6 defendants are meeting with DOJ officials, drafting proposed indictments, and pushing investigations into the prosecutors, judges, and agents who handled their cases. Career lawyers who upheld the rule of law are being harassed, sidelined, or placed under...
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Pretty sure Tuberville wouldn't understand 50% of what you just said. He's one of the shining examples of these guys just spouting sh** off without knowing jack about which they speak.
Which brings us back to, "Tommy Tuberville is an idiot."
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Laws that allow women crazy enough to take pictures of people who don't look female enough to use the women's room sounds like a great scene from the movie "Idiocracy". The article gave no clue how the suspected person photographed is supposed to prove she is a born woman, if a woman. Would an ID be enough? Or would a policewoman have to look between the legs, especially if the first name is gender neutral?
I doubt women would welcome men with cameras monitoring them to make sure they look fem enough as they enter the restroom. Something must be perversely wrong with Republicans who want such a law.
I doubt women would welcome men with cameras monitoring them to make sure they look fem enough as they enter the restroom. Something must be perversely wrong with Republicans who want such a law.
Texas unveils “tip line” to report & send pictures of suspected trans women using the restroom
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Ok what's the bigger issue here? Women taking pictures of other women they suspect weren't born female or pervy men taking pictures of women in restrooms and claiming they are doing a public service if they are caught? This seems like its going to create the problem that people pushing this are pretending is an issue.
The last remaining republican to actually care?
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There’s no getting around this if we want to avoid the deficit cliff ahead.
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When we're not living in the Twilight Zone, it's like living in Idiocracy.
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Turning Point USA (TPUSA) will hold a four-day conference this weekend in Phoenix, Ariz. — and one of the main attractions is a recreation of the booth in which the organization's founder, Charlie Kirk, was shot and killed in Utah in September.
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Turning Point USA (TPUSA) will hold a four-day conference this weekend in Phoenix, Ariz. — and one of the main attractions is a recreation of the booth in which the organization's founder, Charlie Kirk, was shot and killed in Utah in September.
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Turning Point USA (TPUSA) will hold a four-day conference this weekend in Phoenix, Ariz. — and one of the main attractions is a recreation of the booth in which the organization's founder, Charlie Kirk, was shot and killed in Utah in September.
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Turning Point USA (TPUSA) will hold a four-day conference this weekend in Phoenix, Ariz. — and one of the main attractions is a recreation of the booth in which the organization's founder, Charlie Kirk, was shot and killed in Utah in September.
I guess people are getting over it enough that they want to put up a reminder.
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Yes, historical accounts and modern scholarship suggest Alexander the Great likely had intimate relationships with men, particularly his close companion Hephaestion and the eunuch Bagoas, alongside his marriages to women, fitting the fluid sexual norms of ancient Greece where such relationships were common and not labeled as "gay" or "homosexual" as we understand them today. While some ancient sources described deep emotional bonds and physical intimacy with men, the concept of fixed sexual identities (gay/straight) is a modern construct, making it more accurate to say he was likely bisexual or had same-sex relations.
Evidence for same-sex relationships:
Hephaestion: Described as his "lover," "life-partner," and companion from youth, their bond was exceptionally deep, leading to profound grief for Alexander after his death.
Bagoas: An Iranian eunuch with whom Alexander had a publicly acknowledged intimate relationship, even kissing him at a festival.
Ancient sources: Texts mention his attraction to men and his disinterest in women during his youth, with some historians interpreting these accounts as evidence of homosexuality or bisexuality.
Context of ancient sexuality:
Fluidity: Ancient Greek and Macedonian cultures had different views on sexuality, often emphasizing roles (active/passive) rather than fixed orientations, and same-sex relations were accepted, especially between older men and youths, as seen in the Royal Pages system.
Not "Gay" or "Bisexual": These modern labels don't perfectly apply, as the Greeks lacked such terms; relationships with men and women coexisted without contradiction.
Conclusion:
While Alexander had wives and children, strong textual evidence points to significant intimate relationships with men, suggesting a sexual life that included both sexes, fitting within the flexible norms of his time, even if the specifics remain debated by historians.
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