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(neither Catholic nor Protestant) chiming in to add another dimension; the problem isn't just that they're not letting Catholic priests keep the seal of confession (that is a problem), this bill explicitly protects E-V-E-R-Y other type of confidentiality and seal known to law, including several I had never heard of.

Just a 'screw you' to religious persons, that is the one type of confidentiality that is expressely being targeted.

I am, among other things, a mandated reporter myself, and glad to be so. I feel strongly about the evils of child abuse and the duty of every person to act & prevent it.

However, this bill wasn't designed to protect children*, it was made to attack religious freedoms.

*please check with the child abuse prevention organization of your choice; note that their advocated approach to prevent/end child abuse has nothing to do with diminishing religious freedom or the seal of confession. That is not the root of the problem, and so cannot be the focus of an effective solution.

NCR

Washington Governor Signs Abuse Bill Requiring Priests to Break Seal of Confession

Spokane Bishop Thomas Daly said in a statement that clergy there would not break the seal of confession even if required to by law.

Hey, pray for these priests extra hard, Washington state just passed a bill trying to force them to break the seal of confession. Pray for your politicians and victims of abuse while you are at it

you will feel so alive again.. like so incredibly alive. i dont know when that will be but it will be. u are gonna feel so alive that ur cheeks hurt from smiling oh man oh man i promise that day is coming. you do have a future, you do have good things coming, and you’ll survive everything that’s thrown at you until you reach that day

lowkey mad they never told us who did it. 

as a protestant there’s some pretty crummy portrayals of protestants in media but honestly i get sooooo angry on behalf of catholics for all the horror movies revolving around nuns and priests and the catholic church specifically. like. LEAVE MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN CHRIST ALONE. STOP BLASPHEMING THINGS THEY CARE ABOUT

Thank you!!

Some good old accessory tops

I figured it would be useful to collect some accessory tops for you. In my opinion such tops come sooo handy, the layered look with them can be quite unique. So here goes the list of my faves:

Obliviate Acc Turtleneck

Drip Accessory Top

Daybreak Acc Long Sleeve

Acc Strapless Bra

Road Trip Accessory Top

Acc T-Shirt

Acc for the Heroine Top

Sheer Acc Top

Stella Lingerie (acc) 

Playdate Bodysuit by @pralinesims

Accessory Shirts (3 versions) by @solistair

Accessory Tops by @wildlyminiaturesandwich

Bandeau Bra by @leeleesims1

Jackie Acc Top by @ikari-sims

Acc Tops by @deetron-sims

Supernova Acc Top by @kismet-sims

Delia Bralette (acc) by @blushchat

I think the really insidious part of the whole "I don't need to forgive the people who hurt me" attitude that's so prominant nowadays, is that it perpetuates the cycle of abuse.

Not every person who does bad things has a tragedy fueling their behavior. But a lot of them do. You can be a victim and also an abuser. Those are not mutually exclusive things. In fact, one of the best ways to become an abuser is to take the pain of the injustice you've experienced and to let it fester inside you. And that is what happens if you don't forgive.

And before anyone tries to tell me that you can't forgive someone because that means letting them to continue hurting you. That's not what forgiveness is. Resuming a relationship with someone who hurt you is Reconciling. Forgiveness is when you choose to let go of the anger and the hate and the bitterness and heal. I know this is an honest misunderstanding, but it's a dangerous one.

You don't have to remain a victim in order to forgive. But if you do not forgive you will become the same as your abuser. That's not a risk, but a fact. The cycle of abuse can be broken but you have to choose to do it.

You have to choose to heal. You owe it others and to yourself.

Look I believe deeply in research and studies and careful analysis of heaps of data ("In God we trust; all others, bring evidence.") but something deep in my bones tells me that being outside playing so much you inevitably attempt to eat dirt is, in fact, a healthy thing.

if pointing out that the age of getting a phone decreasing along with the prevalence of short form video as the dominant form of social media content during the most significant collective educational gap in recent history all of which happened during one of the most significant windows of psychological development in a human lifetime has had a deleterious effect on the attention spans, self-regulation, impulse control, social skills, tech literacy, and actual literacy of zoomers and gen alpha. if pointing out that that is a real and serious problem makes me a boomer and an old crank who has fallen for “kids these days” propaganda someone find me a porch and a rocking chair so i can yell at you to get off my lawn

“A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.”

- C.S. Lewis

One thing that’s really cool about being made in the image of God is that it’s possible to cut potatoes into sort of medallion things and then toss ‘em in butter and oil and Italian seasoning and garlic and salt and pepper and then put down a rather absurdly generous sanding of Parmesan all across the parchment paper and then slap those oily seasoned potatoes right over the Parmesan and roast ‘em at 400 degrees until their undersides look about like so

An old like answers a very recent concern of mine

I see the worst opinion I’ve ever seen and then I go to their profile and it says 16 and I just go about my day