Is anyone else an atheist with BC besides me?

Has anyone seen the on air arrest of CNN reporter, producer and camera person in Minneapolis? The reporter was totally awesome, keeping his cool. The camera was still running after the police took it away. The reporter told them they were live on CNN before they did anything.

The officer has been fired and arrested. They said he has had 18 previous complaints. I want to know how he made it past 5 complaints before being fired.

I think that is true of a lot of places in that time period. This is what was called Jim Crow and it was everywhere. I remember going to a store in the early 1940's with my grandmother. I wanted to use the drinking fountain and my GM said that's the colored fountain. I thought it was a silly remark because anybody could tell it was green. This was in Wichita, KS. I know the town I grew up in had some sort of deed restrictions to keep non-Caucasians out. In a way it was fortunate for me because it meant my parents never had an occasion to pass on their bigoted views. That was in OK.

We always lived in mixed neighborhoods in Houston. It really helped in Seattle when I counseled African Americans in my job. They knew I understood and believed them. Several men told me it was harder working here where they were the only or almost only the only black person on the job. They said it was hard to tell if the boss really didn't like them personally or was just a racist.

The best part of hiring the most qualified person for the job is you end up with multiples of every group of people in your area. I was able to do this and minorities could actually relax and take job criticism for what it was. Because we were expanding significantly, it wasn't all that difficult for me to change the predominately white male shop I took over into something that was 50% female at all levels and had a racial makeup that reflected our community 40% minority.

Amanda...thanks I listened to it and hope all the demonstrators register to vote and then vote.

None of the Christian republicans I heard had any problem with our racist president wanting a church/bible photo op even if bullets and tear gas were needed to attack peaceful protesters. If there were such a thing as a recruiting campaign for atheists, that image could be very valuable. There is no low to which orangehead will not stoop to feed his narcissism and his white, christian base.

It’s more likely the federal prison riot squad. Barr sent them to DC and Miami.

Franklin Graham can't pull up his big boy pants with the supreme court decision re: gay and transgender persons in the workplace. Looks like they are going to have to do some serious work to continue to discriminate on the basis of sex.

"Many faith-based organizations, like schools or nonprofits, do not allow L.G.B.T. people to work there, citing religious beliefs that sex should only be between a man and a woman who are married.

"No question it is going to make it harder to defend our religious freedom, as far as an organization being able to hire people of like mind," said Franklin Graham, who leads Samaritan's Purse, a large evangelical relief group.

"I find this to be a very sad day," he said. "I don't know how this is going to protect us."

Looks like he just can't find it in his Christian heart to celebrate that this decision is going to protect gay and transgender persons.

Do they think by not acknowledging them they cease to exist? I don't see what difference it should make. People usually don't come to work with a badge declaring they're gay, so who would even know? I've worked with gay, lesbian and trans employees and there was no difference from working with hetero people. I'm strongly in favor of making workplaces (and society) open to everyone.

I think it's always been that way for many evangelicals, Alice. They were much quieter about it during the Obama years. Trump just gives them permission to shout it, loud and proud.

"I can't hire you because I believe my invisible sky daddy said gays are yucky. I also can't stop thinking about it and it makes me feel all tingly." 

Gotta wonder how many in that organization are in the closet. Sad. I guess they’ll have to stay there

Religious liberty is the right believe and teach to fellow religious anything one can imagine.

Civil liberty is the right of the minority to be treated the same as the majority in the civil realm.

Civil liberty cannot be infringed by religious beliefs or imaginings.

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I don't think you understand what "defunded" means. --- "Defund the police" means reallocating or redirecting funding away from the police department to other government agencies funded by the local municipality. That's it. It's that simple. Defund does not mean abolish policing. And, even some who say abolish, do not necessarily mean to do away with law enforcement altogether. Rather, they want to see the rotten trees of policing chopped down and fresh roots replanted anew. Camden, New Jersey, is a good example. Nearly a decade ago, Camden disbanded (abolished) its police force and dissolved the local police union. This approach seems to be what Minneapolis will do in some form, though the nuances are important.

Different from abolishing and starting anew, defunding police highlights."

You may want to read the rest of the article. I'd be interested in your thoughts about it.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/06/19/what-does-defund-the-police-mean-and-does-it-have-merit/

I think it needs to go even one step further and reverse the trend of Police thinking of themselves as warriors. That encourages an "us vs them" mentality. When they see the people they are supposed to be serving as their enemy, it makes abuses of power not just permissible, but inevitable.

I prefer the approach of training our police as guardians. To "Protect and Serve" shouldn't just be slogan painted on their car doors.