You know, WHEN MAGAS ARE AT THE BAR CAUSE FOOTBALL IS ON.

...dumped most of their blue laws in 2018.

I hate these people so much.

I have no words to express how much I hate them.

The Scandinavian countries have the most generous pro-family benefits on earth and their birth rate is falling. Other countries with similar enticements face the same falling birth rate.

Women especially have discovered the joy of single, and child free, lives. They aren’t going back to the 1950s

Not going to really have any choices at all other than the way the government wants it.

And stay single until this shit blows over

Republicans and the Heritage Foundation?????

He's left oodles of gifts with oodles of women.

My now DW (we were not married at the time) went to look at a house for rent and when we were in the process of putting down our deposit the lady asked us if we were married? We told her no just dating. She said that she would not be able to rent to us because were not married. We couldn't believe it. We left, laughed a little and said to ourselves "I hope this is a common thing in this State" 😁 It wasn't.

I can't imagine this being accepted these days, but there are a lot of things I'm seeing that I never thought would happen.

The Bible Belt is a strange place even today - very weird and very real.

When do the Handmaids become available... 🤔

vision of an authoritarian, misogynist, white-supremacist kleptocracy.

Maybe a future Dem POTUS should try out the Insurrection Act on them.

A terrorist organization.

That's what you get when you allow freedom of religion without a guarantee of freedom FROM religion.

But we can't do that. Wouldn't be bipartisan.

Including lusting after your own daughter.

I don't think it needs to be religious, and I assume that any funding would not require religious affiliation.

Home economics and parenting skills training are also super important. Without them, kids whose parents didn't simply inherit those skills through generations of successful role modeling are at an extreme disadvantage.

Home economics was absolute BULLSHIT when I was in school. it was forced upon girls to prepare them for marriage and kids. Eff that shit for those of us not interested in either. Title IX banned the teaching of home economics solely to girls. It is now radically different and both boys and girls enroll in it. It is not called "home economics" anymore and hasn't been called that for decades. It is not about "marriage" preparation as it was pre-1972, training girls to be wives.

Nope, no going back. Marriage isn't necessary for anything anymore. Its purpose is obsolete and has been for centuries. Thank god for that.

Nothing is perfect. Also, no blithe rejection of imperfect systems is perfect.

We're playing old tapes. Home economics is unisex and necessary even for singles. Same for learning how to parent. "I'm never going to use this," is the common objection anyone makes to being "forced" to learn something. But it goes against principles of social equality not to ensure all people have access to fundamental life skills and vital guidance concerning their importance.

It's really in the interest of a country's future workers that they know not just how to get a living but how to maximize the "life" side of work/life balance (a thoroughly progressive priority).

I remember there was an all out political knock-down drag-out in NOLA when I was a kid over blue laws. Louisiana had them, and they prohibited all kinds of work related stuff from being sold on Sunday, as well as alcohol. Except in NOLA, where alcohol was OK, because it was NOLA and the hospitality industry is that big here. But the city wasn't exempt from the hardware laws, which were driven largely by hardware stores that didn't want to compete with up-and-coming big boxes that could afford Sunday staffing. So drugstores like Katz & Besthoff and Walgreens, which were the shiznit before the big boxes like K-mart came, had to rope off some aisles and refuse to sell parts and tools on Sunday. Which meant that if your toilet exploded Sunday morning, you couldn't get the stuff to fix it, but you could get shitfaced drunk as you contemplated the stupidity of the situation. Even with that stupidity it took several years to get the hardware blue laws overturned, so now Louisiana is a mix of wet and dry parishes on Sunday but you can get the parts to fix your toilet all 7 days, everywhere in the state.

Laissez les bons temps rouler!

…and the Sunday blue laws were ineffective then. I’d grown up in Rochester NY, where there were no blue laws, so it seemed very strange and ridiculous. I remember the roped off aisles in the grocery stores, and there didn’t seem to be much logic about what items were forbidden.

I don’t remember the specifics anymore, but it was stuff like you could buy dish soap to wash your dishes, but not a cooking pot to make food in, or a dish towel to dry the pot after washing it.

This was only one of many reasons that Texas seemed like a foreign country to this Yankee girl.

They also probably want to ban divorce, birth control and the reporting of spousal and child abuse.

By a 34 time felon and adjudicated rapist, multiple time divorcee who had his ex buried in a golf course for a tax break.

Piggy and the Mrs. should sign up ASAP!

What they are proposing here would cost billions.

Why can't these people face the fact that their mythology is dying. People can do and live however the hell they want. It ain't up to the religious bigots anymore.

Except when it comes to women’s bodies

Tax the churches back into political silence.

Fucking evangelicals have the worst marriages in the world.High divorce rate.