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Well, no, that's not true. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE comes to mind.

Okay. This is a link to an article about the Cornell surgeon and his horrific practices on little girls.

TRIGGERS up the wazoo, people, so think before you click on the link.

cereta has some thoughts on it.

Me, I'll be over here just seething, because OHMYGOD. This is happening HERE. RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW.

Stop the world, I wanna get off.

ETA: A link to contact Cornell: http://weill.cornell.edu/visitors/contact-us.html

By way of hanncoll:

Like hanncoll says in her post, in general I'm in favor of every person believing (or not believing) what seems right to/for them, and I try not to get judgmental about ANY religious beliefs. However.

If what I've just read today about Scientology's position on autism is true, they can officially kiss my ass.

Apparently, Jett Travolta, the 16-year-old son of John Travolta and Kelly Preston who recently passed away, had autism, but his parents, who are Scientologists, refused to acknowledge it. (John's own brother, an autism activist, believes Jett had autism.) Scientology is pretty well known as eschewing psychology (think Tom Cruise here.)

That's bad enough. But. Here's worse:

According to the Church of Scientology, people with mental illnesses are "degraded" and capable of curing themselves by working harder on the church's teachings.

Source.

Degraded.

By way of cereta:

Michigan Ruling Bars Domestic Partner Benefits

And because Lucy's always better at wording things than I am, I'm just c/ping her comment from her post:

Go on, tell me again those amendments were just about "defining marriage," and not about making life as unwelcoming as possible to gays and lesbians. Tell me again this stuff isn't just flat-out fucking malicious. Tell me what kind of "morality" it takes to actively sue to deny someone health benefits for no reason other than because you apparently don't think they deserve them.

That said, good on the University of Michigan for doing everything to protect its employees, and for seeing the solution as expanding coverage, not limiting it.




And now I think I'll try to stop spamming LJ.