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  Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Baker Who Refused to Bake Cake for Gay Couple

  by Simon in

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  2. current

  seems like such an obviously correct decision to overturn the previous overreach - it should never have been necessary to go to the supreme court but happened because the rights of the religious were being ignored.. as the fundamental level, no one should be able to compel you to work for them or to provide services that go against your beliefs, and certainly not have the government be able to force you to comply.. if this was allowed there would be so many unreconcilable situations that would clog up courts over nonsense.. i also have little patience for these activists that intentionally look to be offended.

  it really doesn't do their cause any good to go round looking to make trouble for people.

  it's also misguided because it ends up strengthening religious rights over effectively stupid issues.. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/04/us/politics/supreme-court-sides-with-baker-who-turned-away-gay-couple.html.

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  The government is us, dude: we the people.
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  Whoop there it is!!!!

  by James Mixon in

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  walked into panda express for lunch the other day and there was a unusually long line.

  i notice a large group of folks that had a familiar dress and smile on their faces.

  the women dresses below the knees and the men wearing the top of line goodwill special suits.

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  They didnt "place" that magazine; they littered.

  I would have been tempted to say, "Oh, excuse me, ma'am, you forgot your reading material!" while handing it back to her.
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  So What Drastic Money Change is Next?

  by OnTheWayOut in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  okay, they cheapened the product by getting rid of hardcover books.

  they reduced printing of mags.

  they drastically reduced the number of pieces of printed paper that members would "place" in people's hands in various ways, the biggest one being that they put them on a cart and don't encourage people to take them.they cut d.o.

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  Pancake breakfasts? Bull and oyster roasts?

  Kingdom Catering could be a whole new direction to go in!

  No ladies auxilliary for them! Charge a per person fee and cater congregation picnics! Imagine how quickly they would come back in style!

  If that works, branch out into wedding receptions. If you want to get married in the Kingdom Hall, you have to use Kingdom Catering for your reception!

  Instead of selling some halls, turn them into catering venues.

  Come on folks, surely we can mine the Bible for some appropriate cherry-picked verses to support this!

  Jesus, the First Caterer, turned water into wine at the wedding feast of Cana. Enter Kingdom Winery! He turned loaves into fishes to feed his followers! Kingdom fishing charters on the lake in Warwick!

  Go with gluttony! It seems to be the one sin that WT has never been concerned with!
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  A & E documentary - family fall-out

  by Tallon in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just seen this on exjw reddit - sickening beyond belief!.

  long story short, we have not seen hubbys non identical twin nephews (jeremey and jerome) since we gave the middle finger to the jw's 7 or 8 years ago.

  we last saw our nephews when they were 9 or 10ish.

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  How the hell do these parents get away with it? In the US, parents have to take care of their kids until they are 18. Why aren't they charged with abandonment or neglect?

  Glad you could help them out, though. I imagine they will have a tough time of it for awhile. What an awful thing for them to have to deal with.
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  North American History - Red George MacDonnell

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. current

  greetings to the colonies .

  i have come across this individual in the course of some local history research - back in the late 18th c his aunt and her husband owned the estate where i now live and his parents settled nearby.

  he gets credit for a victory at ogdensberg in the war of 1812.. is 'red george macdonnell known to the average american/canadian or is he an obscure figure?

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  The island I live on was first settled by the British in the late 1500s. It's in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay and was contested land between the colony of Virginia to the south and the colony of Maryland which it now definitely belongs to.

  When I teach my fourth graders Maryland history, it is hard for them to understand that for the first 200 years, Marylanders were British subjects. They lived and died British before the American Revolution. They likely never imagined a new country and quite possibly would have been horrified by the idea.

  Contested borders are interesting to me. William Penn was granted a colony north of Maryland and there was some dispute over the boundary. So, Mason & Dixon were dispatched to do a survey and their finished Mason-Dixon Line not only settled the dispute between those two states, but created the line between the North and the South, the free states and the slave states before the Civil War. I grew up a few miles from that line and routinely drove back and forth across it barely noticing the small, aged stone markers that still exist in some spots.

  Maryland, being a border state, was tricky during the Civil War. We were a slave state, but did not fight for the Confeferacy with the South. We were a Union State, and seeing as how we "won," we really don't consider ourselves a Southern state. We feel more in line with the Northeast, a part of the Boston to Washington megalopolis with all the attending population and traffic, high-cost living yet higher salaries, and the general excitement of being in the middle of where it all happens.

  Sorry. History lesson is finished. There will be a quiz in the morning.
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  Osprey live webcam at Loch Garten, Scotland.

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  three eggs waiting to hatch.. https://www.rspb.org.uk/reserves-and-events/reserves-a-z/loch-garten/live-video-webcam/.

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  Yes, there are 2 babies! I watch this cam a lot and I've seen her take a fish, pick it apart to eat it and give tiny bits to the chicks. She then cleans up the nest and settles down on top of them to keep them warm.

  I'm kind of addicted!

  But, so sad. The Scottish cam isn't working today! Yesterday I watched the eggs left unattended for long hours in the afternoon. But, when I checked it out after dark, there was an osprey settled in on top of the eggs. I want to know if they hatch!
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  North American History - Red George MacDonnell

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. current

  greetings to the colonies .

  i have come across this individual in the course of some local history research - back in the late 18th c his aunt and her husband owned the estate where i now live and his parents settled nearby.

  he gets credit for a victory at ogdensberg in the war of 1812.. is 'red george macdonnell known to the average american/canadian or is he an obscure figure?

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  ...with vegetarian and vegan options. Sounds like the kind of place Red George would have loved!

  With all seriousness, Americans are likely to know nothing of the man. We don't tend to talk about defeats.

  Now, I can tell you all about the battle of Baltimore, though, where Francis Scott Key was held prisoner aboard a British ship in the harbor through the night, just straining for a peek at the flag that flew over Fort McHenry in the dawn's early light. (Spoiler alert: it was the stars and stripes!)

  That is totally cool history, though! How neat is it that you've traced him from your neighborhood across the Atlantic! Have you found where he was buried? It seems he was back in Britain before he was age 40.
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  Maryland area members!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if there are any members in the maryland area, who would like tocommunicate with others close by them send us a pm.one person from the maryland area sent us these old watchtower itemsyou may recognize.

  this person who was a personal friend of ray franzwould enjoy a meetup or just friendly conversation.old watchtower itemshttps://imgur.com/a/kcygif3.

  petra!

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  Memorial stadium? Long time gone!
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  Osprey live webcam at Loch Garten, Scotland.

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  three eggs waiting to hatch.. https://www.rspb.org.uk/reserves-and-events/reserves-a-z/loch-garten/live-video-webcam/.

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  They are amazing raptors and exist on every continent except Antarctica.

  Tom and Audrey, the local osprey pair, have come back to the same nesting platform as last year.

  After an unfortunate incident with crows, all eggs were lost last year. This year, however, 2 eggs were viable and one has hatched!

  I hope this link works.

  http://chesapeakeconservancy.org/explore/wildlife-webcams/osprey/
  
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  Major Article in Today's Philadelphia Inquirer on JW Child Abuse

  by Room 215 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://www.philly.com/philly/news/jehovahs-witnesses-sexual-abuse-children-beliefs-rules.html.

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  This is my old circuit, the one I grew up in.

  And, boy, the skeletons are coming out of the closet.

  Disturbingly, it looks like they haven't learned their lessons yet.

  Somewhat ironically, one of the kingdom halls in this circuit was sold off and now serves as a local court!