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The Messiah Lutheran Church in Marquette, Michigan this weekend held a workshop to inform people about bullying of LGBT youth and teach them how to help.
On Sunday the church held a suicide prevention forum to teach its members more effective ways of communicating with at-risk youth. The church is also encouraging people to speak up if they see someone being bullied.
“We’ve become more knowledgeable of what’s going on because it’s not actually only the bullying that occurs but people who put up with the bullying and let it occur and so I think I’ve seen people step forward and try to stop it,” said Grant Soltwisch, team leader.
The church says they accept people from all walks of life and feels that regardless of a person’s sexual orientation, no one should be turned away.
The
throngs of tourists and other visitors who will pass through
Emancipation Hall in the Capitol building in Washington in 2016 will now
have a large, white, marble bust of former vice-president Dick Cheney
to gaze at as they feel the vibe and contemplate the majesty of American
democracy. And indeed it can be majestic. Which makes it all the more
depressing that one of the world’s most notorious torturers is now
memorialised and honoured under the dome of the Capitol.
Cheney
directly, personally authorised the torture of thousands of “suspects”
netted in various countries around the world and flown to Cheney’s
secret torture chambers. (Water-boarding wasn’t the half of it.) The
Irish government, of course, facilitated the torture flights by
providing a stop-over service at Shannon.
In
the course of the thrilling campaign which won him the presidency in
2008, Obama, on one occasion at least with his arm across his chest and
his hand on his heart, promised that, under his administration, no one
would be above the law. The allegations of illegality, corruption and
torture made against the Bush regime would be fully investigated, no
matter how high the evidence led. He invoked the ancient principle: “Let
justice be done though the heavens fall.”
That
lasted for a couple of weeks once he had the feet under the table in
the Oval Office. He called Justice Department officials off the
investigation, and granted all the miscreants of the Bush years immunity
not just from prosecution but from civil action by victims. In so
doing, Obama lifted the taboo from torture. Now his administration has
sunk even lower.
Here’s vice-president Joe
Biden at the unveiling of the bust: “As I look around the room and up on
the platform, I want to say thank you for letting me crash your family
reunion.” (Actually, the occasion had nothing to do with a “family
reunion”, but you have to factor in that Biden is an idiot.) “I actually
like Dick Cheney. I can say without fear of contradiction that there’s
never been one single time there has been a harsh word, not one single
time in our entire relationship.”
Two things
for the New Year. One - can we, after his seven years in office, finally
free ourselves from the delusion that Barack Obama stands for anything
other than the same old decrepit, fly-blown, morally inert hypocrisy? Two
- it will be a stain on the conscience of a generation if nobody takes a
lump-hammer and smashes Cheney’s head in during 2016. They could bash
the statue, too, when they are at it. -
See? Standing up for the bodily autonomy of pregnant people is seen as extreme to Republicans. They hate women soooo much that letting a woman (or anyone) make decisions about their bodies and their lives without the patronizing, patriarchal control of politicians is seen as extreme.