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Pastor offers to sign vaccine exemptions in exchange for becoming online member of his church | TheHill

The pastor told the Post that, according to his church’s bylaws, a person can only be considered an online member once they stream services and donate at least $1 to the church. He further explained that by offering people the opportunity to become members, his signature on a religious exemption form holds more weight.

“I’m willing to sign it no matter what,” he said. “But I want it to have weight. In order for it to carry any weight, you have to be an online member of our church.”

The church currently has a little over 300 in-person members, according to the Post.

In order to obtain Lahmeyer’s form, a person reportedly has to provide their phone number and email address. The form also asks the person to describe their religious belief that requires the exemption and to provide a pastor’s name and signature.

Lahmeyer told the Post that he would not assess anyone’s reasoning behind why they want an exemption.

“What if someone says, ‘God told me not to get a vaccine.’ I don’t know if God told them that. I’m not going to argue with that,” he said.

Some have pushed back on Lahmeyer’s offer to sign vaccine forms, arguing that his signature is unnecessary. Charles Haynes, senior fellow for religious freedom at the Freedom Forum in Washington, said that a person explaining their religious beliefs should be enough, the Post reported.

“He’s not really selling a religious exemption,” Haynes said, adding that Lahmeyer’s exemption offer was comparable to televangelists selling prayer cloths. “He’s selling a bogus idea that you need one.”

Source: Pastor offers to sign vaccine exemptions in exchange for becoming online member of his church | TheHill

Violência Doméstica

Vivaldi translation: A fragile woman, she is able to forgive. She doesn’t understand much of what is going on. The manipulator works hard on the issue of guilt. This man often justifies the violence for which “the victim gave reasons”. The woman, in turn, for living within a cycle of manipulation, believes she is responsible for her husband’s behavior.

VIOLENCE VICTIMS ARE FRAGILIZED WOMEN. THEY NEED HELP .

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Uma mulher fragilizada, ela é capaz de perdoar. Ela não compreende muitas o que está passando. O manipulador trabalha muito a questão da culpa. Muitas vezes, esse homem justifica a violência por que “a vítima deu motivos”. A mulher por sua vez, por viver dentro de um ciclo de manipulação, acreditar ser responsável pelo comportamento do marido.

VÍTIMAS DE VIOLÊNCIA SÃO MULHERES FRAGILIZADAS. ELAS PRECISAM DE AJUDA.

Marii Freire Pereira

https://Pensamentos.me/ VEM comigo!

Santarém, Pá 15 de setembro de 2021

Imagem & criação: Marii Freire Pereira/ Pensamentos.me/ VEM comigo!

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Facebook and Google condemned over ads for ‘abortion pill reversal’ | Abortion | The Guardian

Facebook has served “abortion reversal” adverts 18.4m times since January 2020, according to a report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), promoting an “unproven, unethical” and “dangerous” procedure.

Google shows the adverts on more than four-fifths of searches related to abortion across a number of US cities, according to the CCDH research, targeted at search terms such as “unwanted pregnancy” and “abortion pill”.

The adverts promote an unproven theoretical use of high doses of the hormone progesterone to “reverse” the effects of taking mifepristone, the first of a pair of drugs used in a medical abortion.

But there is a “lack of medical evidence demonstrating the safety and efficacy of the treatment”, according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine, and it can lead to dangerous haemorrhaging.

Source: Facebook and Google condemned over ads for ‘abortion pill reversal’ | Abortion | The Guardian

COVID in children: Infections skyrocket 30X, now account for 30% of cases | Ars Technica

COVID-19 cases in children have risen 30-fold since late June and are now at record highs, with nearly 500,000 new child cases reported in the past two weeks, according to the latest data released by the American Academy of Pediatrics on Monday. Pediatric cases have “increased exponentially,” the AAP said in a statement.

The rise coincides with a dramatic surge in overall COVID-19 transmission driven by the hypertransmissible delta variant. But with more adults vaccinated, children are getting hit harder in this wave than ever before, and they make up a larger and larger share of the cases.

At this point, the US has recorded 5.3 million cumulative cases in children, accounting for 15.5 percent of total cases in the pandemic. That percentage has risen steadily during the current surge, up from 14.2 percent at the end of June.

Source: COVID in children: Infections skyrocket 30X, now account for 30% of cases | Ars Technica

Children worry about the Future and they Want to save the Earth

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Some children are so aware of the need for environmental care

And the information they need, that will help them to treat the environment correctly is right here

When they start implementing solutions as they make excellent contributions

We will no longer see deforestation, the climate crisis and plastic pollution

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So help the children to have a green future today

Now that you know that they can treat the environment in a better way

A green future will be a bright one for us all

It is good for us to answer the environmentalists call

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Manufacturers would stop polluting our rivers and streams

Our children would be allowed to have hopes and dreams

Pollution problems would disappear so very fast

Even the climate crisis would become a thing of the past

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Opinion | After Brazil’s Independence Day, It’s Clear What Bolsonaro Wants – The New York Times

For Mr. Bolsonaro, it was a show of force. In the morning, addressing a crowd of around 400,000 people in Brasília, he said he intended to use the size of the crowd as an “ultimatum for everyone” in the three branches of government. In the afternoon, at a demonstration in São Paulo of 125,000 people, the president called the elections coming in 2022 “a farce” and said that he will no longer abide by rulings from one of the Supreme Court justices. “I’m letting the scoundrels know,” he bellowed, “I’ll never be imprisoned!”

It seems to be part of a plan. By picking a fight in particular with the Supreme Court — which has opened several investigations of him and his allies, including of his role in a potentially corrupt vaccine procurement scheme and his efforts to discredit Brazil’s voting system — Mr. Bolsonaro is attempting to sow the seeds of an institutional crisis, with a view to retaining power. On Sept. 9 he tried to back down a little, saying in a written statement that he “never intended to attack any branch of government.” But his actions are plain: He is effectively threatening a coup.

Perhaps that’s the only way out for Mr. Bolsonaro. (Apart from properly governing the country, something that apparently doesn’t interest him.) The antics of the president, struggling in the polls and menaced by the prospect of impeachment, are a sign of desperation. But that doesn’t mean they can’t succeed.