- Texas keeps trying to force Christianity into public schools
- Texas has a bounty system for women who lose a child in childbirth
- Texas continues to use the 13th loophole to compel labor without pay for prisoners
- In Texas, emancipated minors and teens with parental permission can be married over the age of 16
- Texas actually bans FGM, but they do allow male genital mutilation
- Texas police do also shoot dogs.
Texas Republican Primary having a normal one
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unmagical@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 2 weeks ago
Some real big projection going on.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Fundies are salivating to do the same thing
jumperalex@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Seriously I was waiting for the punch line at the bottom, “… Just like Christian Nationalists”
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“No girl genital mutilation”
None for boys either, right?
Right?!
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Interesting how they don’t mention it, right? Male circumcision is standard in Islam, it should be on the list. Anything to avoid addressing the genital mutilation elephant already in the room.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 2 weeks ago
This just sounds like Texas on a regular day minus the dog thing.
Bombastic@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Do Americans actually get text messages like those? I thought it was a joke
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
YMMV. But if you volunteer regularly for campaigns, your number/address inevitably ends up on someone’s suckers list. And then election season means getting your phone blown up by these as the voting deadline closes in.
Witchfire@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yes
tomiant@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Where’s the reset button? Do I have to stick a needle in Florida or something?
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I have personally never gotten any voting text messages, but I’ve received a few voting emails recently from the scum in my neck of the woods. I personally find it sad and pathetic, but then again, I’m not the type who is easily swayed by an email or text.
robocall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Christian nationalism
- No religious freedom
- Women brutalized
- Slavery allowed
- Child rape and marriage
- Dogs are not guaranteed good treatment
MAGA Christian nationalism is a death cult.
BillyClark@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
“NO religious freedom,” so let’s ban that religion? Every religion believes theirs is correct.
“Women brutalized” “Slavery allowed” “Child marriage & rape” These things are already illegal from our other laws.
“Girl genital mutilation” I think this one is already illegal, as well.
“No pet dogs allowed” First of all, wut? But second of all, I’d love to see some Texas politician try to pass a law that outlawed pet dogs. They’d probably get shot to death by the other politicians before they left the chamber.
“BAN SHARIA NOW!” BAN MARTIANS NOW! BAN FISH RIDING BICYCLES NOW! BAN ADULTS FROM SEEING WHY KIDS LOVE CINNAMON TOAST CRUNCH NOW! BAN LICKING UNTIL YOU GET TO THE TOOTSIE ROLL CENTER OF A TOOTSIE POP NOW!
BAN POLITICIANS WHO WASTE OUR TIME WITH MEANINGLESS LAWS AND CULTURE WARS NOW!
tomiant@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Every religion believes theirs is correct.
From a purely argumentative standpoint, that doesn’t mean that one of them isn’t. Again, strictly from a rhetorical point of view.
These things are already illegal from our other laws
From a rhetorical point of view, strictly, one could say, if one were to defend the statement, which I’m not*, but one *could*, *hypothetically say that any religion actively espousing those things is worthy of condemnation regardless of our laws.
“Girl genital mutilation”
Same goes for this. Hypothetically.
“No pet dogs allowed”
Yeah I don’t know either. Even hypothetically.
BAN MARTIANS NOW!
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unmagical@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Child marriage and rape (within marriage) are legal in far too many US States.
Slavery is allowed in far too many US States.
Brutalizing women (if you consider things like revocation of bodily autonomy or incarceration for miscarriages) is legal in far too many US States. If you consider unpunished crimes against women, though illegal, it is far too common in many US States.
Many landlords forbid having pets and there’s little to no recourse for pets killed by the state.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Also these are laws that Christians insisted were fundamental for their religion in our country’s past. Hell, some still say that.
RattlerSix@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Good thing they don’t read the Bible, because other than the pet dog thing, it’s a tie
Artafernes@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
Well according to us (muslims) its send by same god soooo thats why maybe ?
Furbag@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What’s the point in creating a law that bans Sharia Law when the people who would allegedly institute mandatory observation of Shario Law would just vote to repeal it and then institute it anyway?
Oh, right, Republicans are fucking idiots and this is scaremongering to drive them to the polls.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A lot of this is a tacit attempt to control Muslim municipal populations be restricting how they govern themselves locally.
So you can step in at the state (maybe federal, if Chip Roy gets his way) level and announce this mayor or judge or city council is illegitimate because the leadership isn’t Christian.
TacoSocks@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Why would they choose Texas for their EPIC city? Is north of Dallas just an area with an existing Muslim population or financially smart area?
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Sharia is already prohibited… by the same first amendment which republicans ignore when they advocate for a theocracy…
Basically all of those bullet points listed are things republican “christians” do. They only have a problem with it when it’s brown people doing it.
Lest you think I’m advocating for sharia law, I’m not. I’m simply pointing out that “christian law” would be effectively the same thing, and they’re both equally prohibited by the constitution.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sharia is already prohibited…
The various ideological tenants of the law aren’t prohibited. If a county wants to declare itself “dry” and refuse to issue alcohol sales permits, for instance, there’s no real state or federal guarantee against it. The fact that the people passing the law are doing so in the name of an Islamic faith rather than a Christian faith or a secular commitment to sobriety doesn’t normally play into the rule’s legality.
Lest you think I’m advocating for sharia law, I’m not.
I don’t think people writing or voting on this legislation really know anything about Islamic religious teachings or legal codes.
If someone in a city council tried to cap the interest rate local creditors could charge, based on their opposition to the concept of usury, I doubt a lay Texan would key in on this being an aspect of Islamic fundamentalism unless some AM Talk Radio host or Joe Rogan affiliated podcaster mentioned it. If a local school district passed an ordinance protecting transgender athletes from discrimination, how many people might trace this back to The Prophet’s positive attitudes toward mukhannathun or Ayatollah Khomeini and Al-Azhar’s fatwas explicitly permitting reassignment surgery… unless a conservative pundit explicitly brought it up.
“christian law” would be effectively the same thing
There was a whole Thirty Years War suggesting the definition of “Christian Law” is not so well-defined. But, again, I think there’s a very limited understanding of historical religious strictures across every faith. People tend to only know what they’re told of, within the context of the speaker delivering the message.
What you’d consider a normal Evangelical religious edict might fly directly in the face of a traditional Catholic or Eastern Orthodox legal code.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Sharia law isn’t the sum of prohibitive laws based on Islam, it’s an entire legal system based on Islamic law.
If a county bans alcohol sales, it’s not sharia just because Islam prohibits alcohol. Even if someone on the county council happens to be muslim, if the legal system itself is secular, then an alcohol ban implemented under that system is also secular.
Sharia law implies you have imams writing the legal code, not legislators who happen to be muslim. “Freedom of religion” means anyone can practice any religion, but no laws can be passed on the basis of religion.
If you ban alcohol because it’s bad for the liver and the arteries, or because it destroys lives and families, or because drunk drivers are dangerous, then it’s not religiously motivated no matter what religion the people passing those laws follow.
The same logic applies to tax code and trans right. They should be written on a secular basis with the intent to be designed for what’s most beneficial to society. What’s a fair rate for people to pay to keep the public systems running and provide social safety nets for those who need them? What’s the most fair and inclusive way to enshrine human rights without marginalizing anyone?
If your religion says “be a good person and help others” so you get into politics so you can write good policy, it doesn’t make your policy religious unless you write religion into it or pass it under a religious legal system.
And I understand that there are major differences between protestant/catholic/orthodox christians, but the differences in substance doesn’t change the fact that if the legal system is secular, then the laws passed under it are secular (if those laws abide by the secular constitution).
When I said republicans want a theocracy, I meant it literally. They want to change the legal system from a secular one to a religious one. The substance of policy that would result from that change is secondary to the change itself. And yes, when they say “christian” they mean “evangelical protestant.” Which is even scarier, because at least catholics and orthodox christians respect human rights and value things like compassion and selfless service.
NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
If you just change “GIRL genital mutilation” to “BOY genital mutilation”, that list is all things America is famous for.
GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
We’re allowed to own dogs. Until a cop comes within shooting distance, at least.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Isn’t all of this what republicans want, just swap fake Christianity in for the only religion, and allow pet dogs (but also the state can kill them randomly with no consequences)?
Yliaster@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Are we forgetting we have a literal pedophile as the president?
How about we get that out?
You know what else is a death cult that brutalizes everyone? ICE.
Pappabosley@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
But his a good Christian paedophile
roguetrick@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yo is there any way to weaponize this into banning all binding arbitration because that would be based.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Obviously no. Prior efforts at invoking this kind of legislation in Oklahoma failed and the federal court struck it down fairly quickly.
Texas actually already has House Bill 4211, the “Sharia Compound Ban”, which states
The purchase agreement and any other agreement or rules governing the residential arrangement or the ownership interest in the entity may not require that a dispute concerning the arrangement or interest be brought before a tribunal other than a court established under the laws of this state or the United States.
This was intended to prevent the completion of EPIC City, a master-planned Islamic community-centered residential development project just north of Dallas. Although this mostly seems to be focused on investment and ownership stake in residential and commercial properties by a large pool of wealthy Muslim investors.
If there’s any effort to invoke this law at a functional level, it will likely be targeted at the minority Muslim Texas residents, with the intent of depriving them of their property and possessions.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
So basically they’re fine with a HOA making all sorts of overreaching rules about keeping dogs as long as they don’t have any basis in a brown people religion?
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Look at these scary sounding words!
Vote for me!
On a side note: let’s ban ALL religions, the world will thank you the world population will, well, the first generation will curse us, while every next generation will thank is for not being beholden anymore to badly written stonage fairytales
Jax@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Weren’t there files released that pointed to Melania actually being underage when she started her relationship with Trump?
Sorry, sorry, it was referred to as the ‘Lolita Express’. Fuck I hate these people.
Eh_I@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The Epstein party continues to be concerned about women and children.
SalmiakDragon@feddit.nu 2 weeks ago
Never seen an em-dash placed within a hyphenated word before (“death—cult”)
Hiro8811@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s written by ai
not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Excuse me but Republicans have been in control of Texas for like 30 years straight. So does that mean that they the Republicans are trying to install Shia law in order to prevent it?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Very specifically, this is in response to EPIC City, a master-planned community north of Dallas that’s being bankrolled by a group of Muslim real estate developers. But you can see it echoing the disgust conservatives have for Minneapolis and Dearborn, Michigan, with their own large Muslim populations.
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sounds like a lot of Epstein projection
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Why is this screenshot cropped, rotated and tinted?
pyre@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
so Sharia law is the gop platform?
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Always has been.
Bwaz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Wow, close call there, Texas, you’re addessing a major risk there.
So, do Christofascist laws next.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’d consider this a Christofascist law.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Is the Sharia Law in the state with you right now?
tomiant@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Filthy heathens! OUR faith allows pet dogs!
Etterra@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
Show up to a rally with a Bible and start reciting verses - the kind they get pissed off about when you bring them up. Like the women brutalizing, child murder, no religious freedom, and slavery. Don’t forget the ones against mixed fabrics, tattoos, and shellfish!
Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Who but the Republicans in charge would be the ones who could put the Sharia in Texas law?
tomiant@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
It’s right up their alley. “Ban THEIR sharia law! Vote for OUR sharia law!”
ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Okay, there’s a lot going on with this one, but I’d also like to point out a particular anti-pattern in the “stop to unsubscribe” text. Note that it doesn’t say that you should reply with the word ‘stop’, it’s just a statement, as if any of the boomers (to which this is targeted) would know to do that. Not that it would work if they did, but it’s just particularly insidious.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Repugs have been mirroring sharia for years, at least since the dump’s first term
officermike@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Good thing we only mutilate boys’ genitals.
Fokeu@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
It’s still shocking to me how most Americans consider genital mutilation a normal thing.
taiyang@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If it shocks you farther, it’s just a little check box when you have a baby boy. Just a little bit of the paperwork before discharge. You don’t even have to be there, and it’s free. Very strange, all things considered.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
My mutilated american dick thanks you for your concern 😔
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Really can’t be overstated how different “female circumcision” is from the male version.
Like comparing ear piercings to ear cropping.
glimse@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Saying they’re the same is bad but comparing circumcision to ear piercing is even worse. Piercings heal, that foreskin is gone forever.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
So do you think the mild forms of FGM should be allowed because those are pretty comparable to the male one? Personally I think both should be banned.
lena@gregtech.eu 2 weeks ago
They should both be banned
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
Please elaborate on how Type IIa (by World Health Organization standards) differs so greatly.
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Thank you for mentioning this. I don’t even have that set of equipment, and it boggles my mind that this is normal and acceptable to anyone. Even using religion as a reason just seems ridiculous. Why the hell would you ever cause that much physical pain to a child for a cosmetic procedure?
“Oh, they’re transing the kids!” Fucker, you asked your doctor to cut off part of your son’s junk before he even developed the capacity to lift his own head. Shut the fuck up.
JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Haha, oh honey circumcision may be the most common genital mutilation procedure, but wait til you learn how those transphobic motherfuckers write exceptions for coercive intersex surgeries into their anti trans laws.