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• Obama Justice Department Threatens University With Lawsuit Because Transgendered Man Can‘t Use Women’s Bathrooms

  May 24, 2012 at 6:01pm

  In reply to EqualJustice.

  @abbygirl
  Actually they did just that. Also, did anyone notice how he claimed that they wouldn‘t let him use the men’s room either? When did that happen or did he just make that up?

• Obama Justice Department Threatens University With Lawsuit Because Transgendered Man Can‘t Use Women’s Bathrooms

  May 24, 2012 at 5:53pm

  In reply to TheeRealist.

  Here‘s what I don’t get. They insist that gender is only a social construct (which in my opinion would mean it has next to zero relevance and isn’t connected to sex in any way) and yet try to argue that someone who by sex is a man but by “gender” (which, once again shouldn’t be relevant at all) should be allowed to use the bathroom reserved for members of the female sex (not gender). Moreover, if gender is a social construct, and therefore in no way connected to sex, why is it that so many “transgendered” people feel the need to pass themselves off as the opposite sex?

  While we’re asking questions, how is it that gender, a social construct, can exist in 5 different varieties if society has never recognized more than two? These people have contradicted themselves left and right so many times that it’s not even possible for a critically minded person to take them seriously. The way these people talk about gender, it sounds as though “gender” is derived from interests and behavior, in which case calling it gender is misleading.

• Beck Asks if Ten Commandments Are Slipping Away From American Society

  May 24, 2012 at 11:39am

  In reply to karen162.

  @Dave
  There are only two versions of the Ten Commandments and the only changes in them is that instead “Remember the Sabbath day…“ the second one says ”Keep the Sabbath day”. The law you quoted, which isn’t in the Ten Commandments and appears no fewer than three times, is the origin of the Jewish practice of not eating milk and meat at the same time.

• Israeli Archeologists Unearth 2,700-Year-Old Seal Featuring the Name of Jesus’ Traditional Birthplace

  May 23, 2012 at 9:56am

  In reply to ThePostman.

  Aramaic wouldn’t have been used until after the Babylonian exile in 586 BCE.

• Israeli Archeologists Unearth 2,700-Year-Old Seal Featuring the Name of Jesus’ Traditional Birthplace

  May 23, 2012 at 9:37am

  In reply to Constructionist.

  I happen to be conservative but as a religious Jew I personally don’t use BC or AD. The reason has less to do with the dating starting with Jesus’s birth (though technically the date was off by four years) and more with how the current system refers to Jesus. For example, AD translated literally means “year of our lord” and for me, someone who doesn’t believe that Jesus was divine, such a statement would be contrary to my faith. I have no problem wishing someone a merry Christmas, but using BC and AD feels too much like declaring that I believe something I don’t.

• ‘This is For You, White B–ch’: Woman Allegedly Attacked While Ordering Lunch at Colo. McDonald’s

  May 22, 2012 at 6:09pm

  In reply to PETTYDRAMA.

  The whole point of the story DISCOURAGE race baiting by showing the end result.

• More Than 40,000 Ultra-Orthodox Jews Rally at Mets Stadium to Determine the Dangers of the Internet

  May 21, 2012 at 11:36pm

  In reply to bamamontana.

  @MZK1
  My dad grew up in Philadelphia and he told me that the only election that ever mattered was the democratic primary.

• Israelis Investigating This Footage that Seemingly Shows West Bank Settlers Firing on Rock-Throwing Palestinians

  May 21, 2012 at 1:01pm

  In reply to Man-On-A-Mission.

  Define “forcefully taken”. If you mean driving people from their land so you can build there, perhaps you should look elsewhere. Israeli settlements are built on land that was previously undeveloped. There was no one to steal it from. The fact is that even though Israel has halted settlement building in the past and even forcefully removed Israelis from the homes and businesses they had built (who’s land was forcefully taken again?), Israel has received nothing in return. There are ZERO Israelis living in Gaza today and yet they still launch rockets at Israel. They even destroyed the flower export company Israel STOLE FROM ISRAELIS to give to the Palestinians.

  Do some research and you‘ll find that Israel hasn’t gone ONE YEAR since its founding (that‘s 64 years for those of you who can’t count) without some form of terrorist or military action being taken against it. And when PA leaders routinely meet with murderers and treat they as heroes, I’m sure the real issue is how many “settlements” there are.

• Israelis Investigating This Footage that Seemingly Shows West Bank Settlers Firing on Rock-Throwing Palestinians

  May 21, 2012 at 12:49pm

  In reply to ThatOtherGuy.

  @Majadad
  Show me the law where it says settling unowned land is stealing. Israeli settlements aren’t built on the remains of Arab towns nor were any of the dwellings built as part of an Arab town. Until you can provide me with a name of even one person who was driven from his house so an Israeli could live there all you’re doing is spouting words that you heard from somebody else who clearly knew nothing.

  And as for “impediments to peace”, I would say being violent, aggressive, uncooperative…pretty much anything other than PEACEFUL, is an impediment to peace. And launching rockets at civilians counts as aggressive, violent, and EVIL.

• This 5-Year-Old Girl Is Now Living as a Boy Following ‘Gender Identity Disorder’ Diagnosis

  May 21, 2012 at 10:30am

  In reply to Brittany-Imbriaarts.

  The extra chromosome conditions you mentioned do happen (though I seriously doubt there are many cases of someone having four chromosomes, if any). But such cases are not common and there are significant other symptoms on the physical level and neurological level that would have been even more prevalent than a simple gender swap, and all children with such conditions are entirely sterile. As for the case of people being intersexed at birth or having mismatched genes vs. sex (the latter of which I have never even heard of), I see those as simple birth defects. I once met someone who had two toes that weren’t separated. Neither of your instances would likely apply here.