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Putting chaplains in public school is the latest battle in culture wars
Here comes the American far-right "Christian Taliban," all set to indoctrinate a new generation of Americans into a warped, right-wing "Christianity."
Our Founders must be spinning in their graves.
Lawmakers in mostly conservative states are pushing a coordinated effort to bring chaplains into public schools, aided by a new, legislation-crafting network that aims to address policy issues âfrom a biblical world viewâ and by a consortium whose promotional materials say chaplains are a way to convert millions to Christianity. The bills have been introduced this legislative season in 14 states, inspired by Texas, which passed a law last year allowing school districts to hire chaplains or use them as volunteers for whatever role the local school board sees fit, including replacing trained counselors. Chaplain bills were approved by one legislative chamber in three states â Utah, Indiana and Louisiana â but died in Utah and Indiana. Bills are pending in nine states. One passed both houses of Floridaâs legislature and is awaiting the governorâs signature. [color/emphasis added]
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The bills are mushrooming in an era when the U.S. Supreme Court has expanded the rights of religious people and groups in the public square and weakened historic protections meant to keep the government from endorsing religion. In a 2022 case, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch referred to the âso-called separation of church and state.â Former president Donald Trump has edged close to a government-sanctioned religion by asserting in his campaign that immigrants who âdonât like our religion â which a lot of them donâtâ would be barred from the country in a second term. âWe are reclaiming religious freedom in this country,â said Jason Rapert, a former Arkansas state senator and the president of the National Association of Christian Lawmakers, which he founded in 2019 to craft model legislation, according to the groupâs site. Its mission is âto bring federal, state and local lawmakers together in support of clear biblical principles ⊠to address major policy concerns from a biblical world view,â the site says. The group hosted House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) late last year at its gala at the Museum of the Bible in Washington. The chaplain bills, Rapert said, are part of an effort to empower âthe values and principles of the founding fathers.â Critics who compare such efforts with theocracy, he said, are creating âa false flag, a boogeyman by radical left to demonize everyone of faith.â Rapert says heâll push in the next round of chaplain bills to make the positions mandatory. Heather Weaver, senior staff attorney at the ACLU Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief, called allowing chaplains into public schools âa constitutional time bomb.â âIt definitely would be a much more direct route to promoting religion to students and evangelizing them than weâve seen in the past.â she said. [color emphasis added]
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#christian nationalism#separation of church and state#establishment clause#national association of christian lawmakers#american christian taliban#michelle boorstein#the washington post
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By: Brad Polumbo
Published: Jun 25, 2024
Republicans are very concerned about left-wing indoctrination in the public school system, and often for good reasons. Yet, it seems that some Republican leaders feel differently about ideological indoctrination in the classroom when theyâre the ones doing it.Â
In Louisiana, a recent law mandates the display of the Ten Commandments across all public educational institutions, from elementary schools to universities. The bill, championed by Republican Governor Jeff Landry, was signed into law at a private Catholic school. During the ceremony, Governor Landry declared, âIf you want to respect the rule of law, youâve got to start from the original lawgiver, which was Moses.â
This makes Louisiana the only state in the nation with such a mandate. Other red states havenât ventured into this territory in recent years, perhaps because they know itâs blatantly unconstitutional. Nonetheless, Governor Landry appears undeterred, openly stating that âcanât wait to be sued.â
He may not have to wait very long.
A coalition of groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), has already announced its intention to file suit, condemning the mandate as âunconstitutional religious coercion of students, who are legally required to attend school and are thus a captive audience for school-spons.ored religious messages.â The ACLU also added that the mandate âsend[s] a chilling message to students and families who do not follow the stateâs preferred version of the Ten Commandments that they do not belong, and are not welcome, in our public schools.â
This is not uncharted territory. The ACLU cited the 1980 Supreme Court case Stone v. Graham, where the court explicitly ruled that the First Amendmentâs Establishment Clause, which prohibits the establishment of a formal state religion, prevents public schools from displaying the Ten Commandments.Â
âIf the posted copies of the Ten Commandments are to have any effect at all, it will be to induce the schoolchildren to read, meditate upon, perhaps to venerate and obey, the Commandments,â the Supreme Court ruled in that case. âHowever desirable this might be as a matter of private devotion, it is not a permissible state objective under the Establishment Clause.â
Governor Landry is surely aware of this precedent and simply does not care that this legislation will almost certainly be blocked in the courts. Nonetheless, it represents an opportunity for him to signal his cultural war bona fidesâa move that, in any other context, Republicans might rightly describe as empty âvirtue signaling.â
Regrettably, this isnât just an isolated incident among Republicans in one conservative state. Louisianaâs initiative has garnered support from many of the most prominent figures in the modern GOP. One such figure is Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, who praised the legislation in an interview with Real Americaâs Voice. âThis is something we need all throughout our nation,â she said. âIâm so proud of Governor LandryâŠ. We need morals back in our nation, back in our schools, and if thereâs anything weâre going to present in front of our children, it should be the word of God.â
This stance appears to be a mainstream view within the Republican Party, as the partyâs leader, Donald Trump, also threw his support behind Louisianaâs efforts in a post on Truth Social:Â
The Republicansâ embrace of this religious mandate in public schools is deeply hypocritical, contravening many principles they have previously claimed to stand for, and incredibly short-sighted.Â
Firstly, they are proving to be fair-weather fans of the First Amendment. These same types regularly champion free speech when it comes to opposing government censorship or progressive attempts to crack down on âhate speechâ (which now includes uttering basic biological truths), and they are absolutely right to do so. However, you cannot selectively support the First Amendment, endorsing free speech and freedom of religion clauses while actively violating the Establishment Clause. After all, if Republicans can disregard the parts they donât like when itâs inconvenient, then progressives can too!
Secondly, Republicans are compromising their stated beliefs about the importance of parentsâ rights and opposing âindoctrinationâ in schools. Now, they suddenly advocate for the governmentâs role in teaching children morality, instead of leaving this responsibility to parents or families.
Which is it? Consistent supporters of parentsâ rights believe that it should be up to parents to teach their kids about morality, whether it concerns pronouns or prayer.Â
Thereâs also the issue of misplaced priorities. Louisiana ranks 40th out of all 50 states in education. Meanwhile, 40 percent of 3rd graders cannot read at grade level, according to The Advocate. Yet, the governor prioritizes mandating posters of the Ten Commandmentsâand allocating tax dollars to defending it in courtâthat many students probably canât even read.
Even many conservative Christians can see the issue here. As radio host Erick Erickson put it:
When the 3rd grade reading level is only 49 percent, I donât see why the state wants to spend money on lawyers for a probably unconstitutional law making the Ten Commandments mandatory just to virtue signal a side in a culture war. Actually use conservative reforms to fix the schools instead of putting up posters half the 3rd grade cannot even read.
Perhaps the most common Republican rejoinder is that displaying the Ten Commandments is an educational initiative focused on historical context rather than a promotion of religion. But while thereâs no disputing its historical significance, itâs not being presented as part of a broader course on religion that features a variety of religious and secular perspectives, which would be fine. Instead, beliefs from a particular religious tradition, the Judeo-Christian one, are being elevated and mandated to the deliberate exclusion of others. This selective approach is hardly subtle: Governor Landry purposefully signed the bill at a Catholic school and even referenced Moses!Â
Thereâs no denying that the Ten Commandments are inherently religious, as they proscribe not only murder and adultery but also idolatry, taking the Lordâs name in vain, and working on the Sabbath. So, conservatives making this âhistory, not religionâ argument are straining credulity.Â
Whatâs more, further empowering government schools to promote a specific ideology to students will not end well for conservatives. Itâs not exactly breaking news that the public education system is overwhelmingly staffed and run by people with increasingly left-leaning political and cultural views. Conservatives should be fighting to restore viewpoint neutrality in the public squareânot further undermining it and thereby making it easier for woke ideologues to propagandize to everyoneâs kids.Â
Itâs sad, but ultimately not surprising, to see so many Republicans proving to be inconsistent allies to true liberal values. At least those few genuine, principled defenders of the First Amendment now know who our allies areâand who they are not.Â
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Moral consistency requires opposing both.
... Secularism means that no particular ideology is being forwarded and getting special treatment. Go have your belief. Believe what you want. Privately. You donât get special treatment because you believe this with tons of conviction. Secularism means that your belief in your faith covers none of the distance to proving that itâs true. Conviction is not evidence of much of anything. Except conviction. -- James Lindsay
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âIf you want to respect the rule of law, youâve got to start from the original lawgiver, which was Moses.â
Leviticus 25:44-46
Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property. You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly.
Who's going to tell him?
#Brad Polumbo#christianity#Ten Commandments#religion in schools#secularism#indoctrination#religious indoctrination#child indoctrination#childhood indoctrination#freedom of religion#ideological indoctrination#freedom from religion#First Amendment#Establishment Clause#US Constitution#unconstitutional#religion#religion is a mental illness
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Addison Kliewer at KOCO:
The Supreme Court of Oklahoma ruled Tuesday that the nation's first religious charter school is unconstitutional.
The St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School in Oklahoma City was set to open its doors in the fall for the 2024-25 school year. The court ruled that a charter school, which is publicly funded, must be nonsectarian, or not religiously affiliated. In its ruling, the six-justice majority said that St. Isidore, because it is sponsored by the Catholic Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, will evangelize the Catholic faith while being funded by the state. "This State's establishment of a religious charter school violates Oklahoma statutes, the Oklahoma Constitution, and the Establishment Clause. St. Isidore cannot justify its creation by invoking Free Exercise rights as a religious entity," the ruling said. "St. Isidore came into existence through its charter with the State and will function as a component of the State's public school system."
The court directed the Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board to rescind its contract with the school, which was approved in June 2023. The lawsuit was filed by Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond last year, claiming the school violates both the state and federal law, which the court agreed with.
The Oklahoma Supreme Court rules in Drummond v. Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board that the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, the nationâs first religious charter school, is unconstitutional based on violating the Establishment Clause.
#Separation of Church and State#Oklahoma#Oklahoma Supreme Court#Schools#Religious Education#Catholic Schools#Charter Schools#Gentner Drummond#Religion In The Schools#St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School#Drummond v. Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board#Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board#Oklahoma City Oklahoma#Oklahoma City Archdiocese#Establishment Clause
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I wonder how the folks who call marriage and the family "idols" prioritize them in relation to NATO, the FDIC, the American public school system, the establishment clause, the interstate commerce clause, psychiatry, or boomers' retirement funds.
Or whether they're willing to take the Hezekiah option against them the way they do against marriage and the family.
#Neoliberalism#Each and every one of those things allows the American middle class to pursue hedonistic lifestyles#Hedonism#idolatry#idols#NATO#FDIC#WTO#Public school system#Establishment clause#Interstate commerce#Ok boomer#not ok boomer#Psychiatry
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Texas Senate: â[The bill] will remind students all across Texas of the importance of the fundamental foundation of America.â
Actual Foundation of America:Â âCongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.â
Texas:Â âNo not like that.â
#establishment clause#separation of church and state#are y'all okay#good lord what is happening in there#I suppose they're trying to say it's okay because it's not US Congress (as in the federal government) making this law?#I don't think that defense is going to hold up
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Should Christians Be Involved in Politics, and Is the USA a Christian Nation?
Written by Junior A. Goizueta Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are my own and do not represent any organization or group. This article examines the topic logically, based on personal insights and research, rather than advocating a specific position. The intersection of faith and politics has long been a point of contemplation for Christians. In a nation as religiously diverse asâŠ
#Christian involvement in politics#Christian values#Christianity#civic responsibility#establishment clause#faith and politics#First Amendment#free exercise clause#Goizueta Leadership Journal#Jesus and politics#Junior A. Goizueta#moral values#politics#religious freedom#secular government#separation of church and state#Treaty of Tripoli#U.S. Constitution
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prayer in school
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...
just in case all the turnip MAGAt Christians who bang on about the constitution STILL donât get that American was founded on separation of church and state.
if you insist on bringing the 10 commandments and required prayer into schools, then you must give equal time to satanists, pagans, Wiccan, and every other religious view.
evilgelicals are not only hypocritical about their own religion, they are hypocritical about their alleged patriotism.
#establishment clause#separation of church and state#you can pray in school#kids can pray in school#read bibles they just canât be required to do so unless you teach the Quran and other religious books
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In 1956 the US national motto was changed to "in god we trust"
Before this, our motto was E pluribus unum Latin meaning "out of many, one". You'd think that the United States, a government described in the Gettysburg Address as being "of the people, by the people, for the people" would love the old motto. But instead, a government with laws preventing itself from establishing a state sponsored religion is using "in god we trust". I cannot express how disappointed I was when I found this out.
Freedom of religion cannot be expressed without freedom of religion.
E pluribus unum - out of many, one
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No representation without taxation.
#law school#law student#real lawblr#establishment clause#free exercise clause#first amendment#constitutional law#did you know you have rights?
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The Intelligent Design of Creationist Attacks
All roads lead to #SCOTUS. The movement to teach theological arguments in science classes is no different. #intelligentdesign #creationism
You and I do not believe we live in the midst of perfection. Removal of all rational arguments, statistics, data, and sound scientific evidence for why this is the case would leave us with only the bitter fruits of our lived experiences. These are more than enough to reach such a conclusion. In the United States, we are joined in our environmental pot â slowly crescendoing to a rolling boil â byâŠ
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#1984#ACLU#AI#artificial intelligence#atheism#authoritarian#bertrand russell#brave new world#christianity#congress#conservative#constitution#creationism#creationists#democracy#edwards v aguillard#establishment clause#evangelical#intelligent design#Politics#republican#sb 619#Science#SCOTUS#skeptic#Supreme Court#west virginia
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By: Elizabeth Weiss
Published: Jan 20, 2024
Recently, the Navajo Nation has embarked on a mission to stop flights to the moon, especially those intending to deposit human cremated remains (commonly referred to as âcremainsâ). The Navajo Nation regards the moon as sacred, arguing that depositing cremainsâor any objects, for that matterâconstitutes an act of desecration. This controversy centers around the Peregrine Mission 1, a NASA-spon.sored expedition to the moon. Two private companies, Celestis and Elysium Space, plan to use this mission to transport the cremains of individuals who opted for a lunar resting place.
Upon receiving a letter from Buu Nygren, the Navajo Nationâs President, the White House convened a meeting to hear their objections to those flight plans. Although the White House correctly concluded that the government did not have the authority to stop the flight or hinder the private companiesâ plans, one may wonder why these religious concerns of the Navajo Nation were ever seriously considered in the first place. Typically, the U.S. government refrains from interfering in scenarios where religious beliefs are at stake, as evidenced by the longstanding conflict between fundamentalist Christian creationists and the teaching of evolution in schools.
Yet, the case appears different when it involves Native American traditional religionsâa loosely defined amalgamation of beliefs, often intertwined with Christian elements, and lacking formal sacred texts. In these instances, the US government has been bending the First Amendment of the Constitution so greatly that it is bound to snap.
The First Amendment of the US Constitution clearly states, âCongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.â This means that the federal government should be neutral towards all religions, avoiding favoritism to any denomination. Although the U.S. Government generally avoids supporting or discriminating against specific religions, as demonstrated by the diverse holiday displays ranging from nativity scenes to the Satanic Temple altar in Iowa, traditional Native American religions have been the exception to this strict adherence to the First Amendmentâs Establishment Clause.
This exception is evident in NASAâs collaboration with the Navajo. In NASAâs 108-page education guide, âStory of the Stars,â intended for âClassrooms and Community-Based Educational Events,â Navajo religious beliefs are treated as being of equal importance to NASAâs scientific research. On page 3, the guide contains a statement from the Navajo: âWe are the Holy People of the Earth. We are created and placed between our Mother Earth and Father Sky.â Further evidence of religious support in this guide is a story stating, âAfter the creation of the Earth, sky, and the atmosphere, the Holy people realized the whole university was entirely dark.â It is interspersed with tales of sacred directions, seasons, beliefs, and rules of life. Notably, in the acknowledgements, Leland Anthony Jr. is listed as the projectâs âspiritual advisor.â
Given this content on NASAâs website, itâs hardly surprising that the White House would hastily convene a meeting with the Navajo Nation to consider the validity of objections to moon flights. However, these considerations favor one religion and teach one religion, thereby violating the US Constitution.
Another example of the Federal government showing a denominational preference appears in the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). Enacted in 1990, NAGPRA aids in the repatriation and reburial of human remains and artifacts deemed âsacred,â or as grave goods, or objects of cultural patrimony. A specific instance of this favoratism within NAGPRA is the requirement that at least 2 of the 7 individuals on the review committees âmust be traditional Indian religious leaders.â Additionally, each NAGPRA meeting begins and ends with a âtraditional Indian prayer.â For example, Armand Minthornâs prayer at the January 5, 2023 meeting started with, âToday, as we come together, we thank our Creator for our life, our family, and our friends. And we ask our Creator today to give us strength and courage to go on and go forward.â
Perhaps most troubling is the acceptance of Native American religious creation myths as evidence for present day tribal affiliation to past populations. These tales have been leveraged to empty museums and universities of research collectionsâcollections that might otherwise contribute to advancements in forensic identification techniques, aiding todayâs Native American crime victims.
Final examples of the US government supporting Native American religions involve discriminatory practices based on sex. For instance, at the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center, religious traditions led Inuit elders to forbid female archaeologists from handling certain artifacts. Similarly, when the California Department of Transportation archaeologists collaborated with the Kashaya Pomo tribe, the tribeâs religious protocols dictated that menstruating women be isolated, prohibited from conducting fieldwork, kept away from Native elders, and forbidden from talking about spiritual topics!
It is time for the US government to stop its unconstitutional denominational preference of Native American religions. Stopping these preferences would uphold the First Amendmentâs Establishment Clause, protect scientific endeavors, and prevent discriminatory practices.
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You shouldn't be any more comfortable with the Navajo making demands based on their religion than Xianity or Islam. Being loosely defined and vaguely "spiritual" doesn't change any of that.
Imagine an Orthodox Jew dictating "that menstruating women be isolated, prohibited from conducting fieldwork, kept away from Jewish elders, and forbidden from talking about spiritual topics" and being able to get traction and compliance from the government (and government institutions).
Your religion's rules apply to you, not me. If your religion forbids putting cremains on the moon, don't send any cremains to the moon. If your religion demands the moon be honored, go honor the moon. Over there.
#Elizabeth Weiss#Navajo Nation#Native American religions#First Amendment#US Constitution#Establishment Clause#secularism#separation of church and state#freedom of religion#indigenous religions#religion#religion is a mental illness
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"The Great Escarpe"
#multifarious#comics#conundrum#attack of the fabric tubes#establishment clause#big space satellite thing#cherrybomb.#consumption are ideas#roof has a door on it look again and you might see it
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"just because what china is doing with BRI is better than colonialism doesn't mean it's not a form of colonialism"
"just because free ice cream and puppy dogs dancing through meadows is better than burning in fire for 513 years doesn't mean free ice cream and puppy dogs dancing through meadows aren't a form of burning in fire for 513 years"
#if you make a claim without bounding the range of the clauses then youre not rly saying much#i see this sorta logic all the time#like. either your metric of 'better' is unbounded & so broad so as to be analytically useless#or theres a qualitative gap youre not accounting for where you do have a bound & something can be of a different 'kind'#but then you have to establish that the object is of that kind in the first place which just gets you back to square 1!#you have to establish that falls in the range of 'better but not qualitatively different'#which assumedly is what the argument is over in the first place right#this is what happens when you extinguish popular analysis of colonialism of any economic analytic & just turn it to 'bad people'#plus what happens when you dont have a concept of superprofits & how to maintain them vs how to maintain profits#or how quantity becomes quality (at critical points of intensity)#but if you just want a thought terminating cliche you can just say#'at a certain point yes it does lol'
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How long is the wait before you have to Kribble Krabble???
Cuz like. We've no idea how long B-Man was head elf, right? We know that he was for SURE head elf for Scott for 8 years at least. And we KNOW he's been there for a HAUTE MINUTE given the photo he has with Mad Santa, okay? So HUNDREDS of years, then about 8 for Scott.
Then Curtis takes over and we know he's been head elf for like, at LEAST that year (given how he says "fyi I'm head elf NOW" to Jack, and Santa comments frequently enough on how Curtis needs to get his head in the game (wildcats!) bc he's head elf now), right? Then literal DECADES pass and we KNOW in that interim, Curtis explodes but then doesn't and goes on kribble krabble instead, right?
Okay. So like. Betty has deffs been there for a HAUTE MINUTE. I don't think there's ANY comment on how/when she started. So we can assume Betty has been there for DECADES at least if the whole Escape Clause debacle had Curtis exploding his way to Kribble Krabble.
Now I THINK she mentions she deferred it a bunch, or SOMEONE mentions she did. So like. Okay. We can deffer a Kribble Krabble. Cool! But how long did she do that for? How long did B-MAN do that for?
Moving on!
So Betty finally goes on Kribble Krabble, and then a year later Noel goes with her on his (their) Kribble Krabble so basically, WHEN DOES THE KRIBBLE KRABBLE TAKE EFFECT? BECAUSE THIS IS VERY MUCH GIVING
#dani speaks#the santa clause#the santa clauses#tsc#tsc2#tsc3#tsc 2#tsc 3#tscs#file this under 'more issues dani takes with franchises ignoring their pre-established lore for nostalgia points'#specifically tscs lol#but i just woke up thinking of pyros and cs. and then of tscs (and idk how pyros got me there)#and then of kribble krabble and then found myself wondering at the frequency and THEN. as the kids say#THE MATH AIN'T MATHING#and now i had to share the math not mathing with the 5 of you around year round.#you'll also have to forgive my shit citing of sources#i haven't watched the series since last year and i have no plans to do so again if i can avoid it#you'd have to get me really. very. entirely. shitfaced#like NOT EVEN DRUNK. SHITFACED#ANYWAY HI. HUBBERS GOT SICK LAST WEEK AND I WAS PULLING A BIT MORE WEIGHT SO HE COULD RECOVER#AND THEN I GOT WHAT HE GOT BUT LIKE. DIET VERSION#BUT WE ARE BACK IN OPERATION TODAY! FOR THE MOST PART!#there is still too much snot for my liking (which is more than usual but not a lot bc again. cold/flu lite)#BUT WE'RE GETTING THRU THE WORKDAY. IT'S NOT EVEN 9 YET. BUT WE'LL DO IT!#and then i can hopefully cast aside cursed tscs thoughts and finally post the scrimble from last week#which i finished thursday#then ouch oof ow. throat hurty#ALSO YES I KNOW THAT NOEL AND BETTY GOING ON KRIBBLE KRABBLE TOGETHER WAS DONE FOR THE CUTE SEND OFF FOR THEM#AND I LOVED IT!#JUST PUTTING THAT DISCLAIMER THERE
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ANIMATED IS MY FAVOURITE TRANSFORMERS SHOW AND I COMPLETELY FUCKING FORGOT THAT SARI NOT TECHNICALLY BEING 100% ORGANIC IS A MAJOR PLOTPOINT đđ
That's okay! I'm gonna mull things over and decide what side of the fence I come down on, but hey, she has a human father, right? You can submit her with him too :) Then whatever way I rule she'll be sure to get in (I am determined to run her, I was soooo disappointed when I had to disqualify her from Artificial Kids due to the headache clause)
#the headache clause is basically 'secondhand canon is confusing and trying to understand it is giving me a headache'#which it was only confusing because it was a REALLY specific technicality that had an established precedent#and i couldn't figure out where she landed#emcee rulings
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