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<\/p>\nYesterday, I got caught up in trying unsuccessfully to fax to my doctor’s office, and ended up failing to schedule these posts. I do apologize. I finally have reached them by phone – i left amessage and it was promptly returned. I am actually feeling much better today but I did describe the side pain, so maybe I’ll learn something. I will have everything up in time for tomorrow.<\/p>\n
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Democratic Underground (kpete) – An open letter to Jimmy Carter from Michael Moore.<\/a> Keith Giles – The 6 Genders According To The Talmud and Biological Science<\/a> Food For Thought Yesterday, I got caught up in trying unsuccessfully to fax to my doctor’s office, and ended up failing to schedule these posts. I do apologize. I finally have reached them by phone – i left amessage and it was promptly returned. I am actually feeling much better today but I did describe the side pain, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":50381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[3704],"class_list":["post-51035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nQuote – The news last weekend that you\u2019ve decided to enter hospice \u2014 an \u201cend of life\u201d hospice as the news reports called it \u2014 was devastating. I broke down and cried. People will say that at 98 years old you\u2019ve been blessed to live such a long life. And of course, that is true. But I\u2019m not crying over you. I\u2019m crying for us. We need 10,000 more of you, not one less as you leave us. Pundits will continue to \u201cexplain\u201d and misunderstand your presidency. The Right despises you because you\u2019re the Christian they fake-claim to be themselves. You\u2019ve lived like a true Christian \u2014 humble, kind, forgiving, and always making sure your actions matched your words. You could have had a lucrative post-presidency, raking in the big bucks by sitting on corporate boards and investing in growth capitalism (greed).
\nClick through for full letter.<\/a> He really speaks for all of us, IMO.<\/p>\n
\nQuote – Both scientists and ancient Jewish texts agree that there are 6 different human gender types. Let\u2019s start with the Ancient Jewish sources since, for most Conservative Evangelical Christians, the Jewish religious sources are likely to be more credible. Let\u2019s start with the Jewish Mishnah…. The Mishnah identifies 6 different categories that include the binary \u201cMale\u201d and \u201cFemale\u201d but also 4 other types that fall in between that spectrum.
\nClick through.<\/a> I’m stretching a bit here, including Gender History under Women’s History. But I believe that’s appropriate. Certainly irrational prejudices based on gender go way beyong pure misogyny. Some sources read eight genders, some read six, and C.S. Lewis referred to seven genders, so maybe he was familiar with both and took an average. Most people of faith, even the crazies, usually concede that “what God does is well done.” What they don’t get, and need to, is that multiple variations on gender are “a thing that God does.”<\/p>\n
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