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Republican-Led Election Reviews Take Shape In Pennsylvania And Wisconsin There are some good examples of Republican incompetency in this article. I'll provide some highlights below. The Wisconsin inquiries include a wide-ranging investigation backed by the state Assembly speaker, an attempted...

I knew only one gay guy at my school. He was rather popular and very involved with cheerleading. That's just one person, but he never appeared to be bullied.

I don't find the notion of trial being where love is proven as immediately problematic, but how does that fit with your image of God? You presumably believe that God has always been all-loving, even before any trials, i.e., prior to the incarnation. Did God not need to prove God's love prior to...

Offering support doesn't have to come in that form. Support students by being a good teacher and creating an engaging learning environment. My high school didn't tolerate any sort of bullying, but none of the classrooms had LGBT, BLM, or any other sort of contentious symbols. You're correct...

The ethics and morality surrounding sexuality and gender identity are contentious. Ignoring the weight of such things in an effort to maintain moral posturing isn't really the job of a teacher.

I'd imagine that flag makes some students uncomfortable, particulary in Missouri. A teacher should seek to estalish an environment that limits the number of distractions. An LGBT flag really doesn't do that in some contexts.

I agree, but the world we find ourselves in is hardly conducive to a loving embrace. I see no reason why this is the world an omnipotent and omniscient God would come up with if that God were also omnibenevolent. You hinted at it above: "Without free will there can be no love, no self-gift." If...

I take no issue with the LGBT flag being displayed in classrooms. However, I do find it entirely reasonable for a teacher to remove it if some students and their parents find it problematic.

Yes, that would be something maintained by someone who embraces free will. I can't help but wonder why God chose to give humans the limitations or dispositions we have though. Part of conforming to Christ (and the most important part in my mind) is conforming to the love of Christ, i.e., to love...

Yes, it was a hasty post. It was an example of how predictions can be tested. I'm not a creationist. I was merely helping the other dude to understand what was being requested.

Scientific theories make predictions. For example, a prediction for a creationist might be that there wouldn't be any trans-species evidence in the fossil record. That prediction would be tested within *paleontology. Another example might be the prediction that there wouldn't be any vestigial...

This would be incorrect. The authorities in the Church determine such things. Again, an individual Catholic can certainly choose to disregard the authorities of the Church on such matters, but they wouldn't be doing so as a good Catholic. If you disagree, then you shouldn't have any issues with...

What you've been arguing is that choosing to get vaccinated constitutes an engagement with "remote moral evil." The act itself isn't an immediate moral evil, e.g., willingly aborting an unborn child. The moral evilness of it is remote. You haven't yet articulated how choosing to not get...

No law above God, sure. That doesn't mean God is lawless. God is governed by God's nature. To say otherwise would be incoherent. You can say that sin entered the world through man's disobedience. (Rm. 5:12) That can be accounted for in a free will solution or an open solution. However, you've...

I think this opens up way too many cans. To say that God can't sin because God makes the rules is just to say that God is inconsistent. The standards God uses to judge others, i.e., sinners, aren't the same standards God lives by. Is God love? If so, does that mean God can't not love? If God can...