{"id":29304,"date":"2017-09-02T12:05:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T19:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29304"},"modified":"2017-09-02T12:05:59","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T19:05:59","slug":"open-thread-922017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/02\/open-thread-922017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/2\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here comes another scorcher.&#160; 98\u00b0 and muggy forecast today.&#160; I&#8217;m writing early, because our fantasy football draft is less than two hours away.&#160; I&#8217;m missing my morning nap, so I&#8217;ll have a longer one this afternoon.&#160; Tomorrow is a Wendy day.&#160; I&#8217;m sure the neighbors are more than ready for me to be de-skunked.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:44 (average 5:47).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-09-02-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zvV7iFrKNN8\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/karinmoveon\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Reverend Barber on White Supremacy<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zvV7iFrKNN8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I agree with everything he says, and I have been exposing Republican racism for what it is and standing against it so long, that when I started, the racist Republicans were Democrats!&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/the-last-word\" target=\"_blank\">The Last Word<\/a>: <\/font><strong>Mueller may have new evidence of Trump obstruction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The New York Times reports that Robert Mueller has an early draft of a letter Trump and one of his aides composed when preparing to fire James Comey and is examining that letter in his investigation. David Frum, law professor Jed Shugerman, and Neera Tanden join.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_lw_aevidenceobstruction_170901\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Tick\u2026 tick\u2026 tick\u2026 <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/are-evangelicals-inventing-a-new-form-of-christianity-all-about-sex-46ff64454c8f\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font><\/p>\n<p>Evangelical Christians are up to something new.<\/p>\n<p>At least that\u2019s the position of many criticizing the \u201cNashville Statement,\u201d a controversial document championing \u201cbiblical\u201d sexual ethics that was penned this past week and signed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/identities\/2017\/8\/31\/16226088\/evangelical-leaders-signed-sexuality-church-nashville-statement\" target=\"_blank\">roughly 150 prominent evangelical leaders<\/a>. The document [<em>Republican pseudo-Christians delinked<\/em>], divided into 14 articles and released by the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (CBMW), mostly parrots denunciations of LGBTQ identities and relationships common among right-wing evangelicals. But it drew added attention for doing something unusual: extending their condemnation to Christians who affirm queer people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe affirm that it is sinful to approve of homosexual immorality or transgenderism and that such approval constitutes an essential departure from Christian faithfulness and witness,\u201d Article 10 of the statement reads. \u201cWe deny that the approval of homosexual immortality or transgenderism is a matter of moral indifference about which otherwise faithful Christian should agree to disagree.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement triggered outrage almost immediately, especially among LGBTQ and LGBTQ-affirming Christians who saw it as a direct attack on their understanding of the faith. Within hours, several <a href=\"https:\/\/openandaffirming.org\/sign-the-petition-the-nashville-statement-is-an-affront-to-our-values-as-christians\/\" target=\"_blank\">progressive Christian<\/a> groups issued their own <a href=\"https:\/\/sojo.net\/articles\/jim-wallis-nashville-statement-damaging-people-and-evangelical-witness\" target=\"_blank\">counter-statements<\/a> refuting the evangelical document <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/nadiabolzweber\/2017\/08\/the-denver-statement\/\" target=\"_blank\">point-by-point<\/a>, with some <a href=\"http:\/\/auburnseminary.org\/auburn-seminary-calls-faith-leaders-condemn-anti-lgbtq-bigotry\/\" target=\"_blank\">deriding<\/a> it as \u201canti-LGBTQ bigotry.\u201d Faithful America, an online advocacy organization for progressive Christians, already has <a href=\"http:\/\/act.faithfulamerica.org\/sign\/nashville_statement\/?t=1&amp;akid=1033%2E187027%2EfEwJBo\" target=\"_blank\">thousands of signatures<\/a> for a petition rejecting the statement.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians are trying to violate the rights of LGBT Americans to their sexual identity and of authentic Christians to practice our faith through accepting and loving them, as is. Click through to sign the Faithful America petition. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/0902Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0902Cartoon\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0902Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/0902Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"654\" height=\"504\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">A perennial favorite!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here comes another scorcher.&#160; 98\u00b0 and muggy forecast today.&#160; I&#8217;m writing early, because our fantasy football draft is less than two hours away.&#160; I&#8217;m missing my morning nap, so I&#8217;ll have a longer one this afternoon.&#160; Tomorrow is a Wendy day.&#160; I&#8217;m sure the neighbors are more than ready for me to be de-skunked. 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