You see – it doesn’t have to be religion
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January 10, 2015 at 1:34am
Vladimir Putin’s Russia has legislated to bar transgender and transsexual people, and those with ‘sexual fetishes’, from holding a driving licence on the grounds that they are mentally disordered.
Remind me – do they have shariah law in Russia? Does the Russian Orthodox Church have anything to say about transsexuals and driving licences? No and no.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30735673
Will the Russian Police pull people over then drop their trousers to test them.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20150109/world/saudi-blogger-flogged-50-times.551216
Steve Bell on the Charlie Hebdo attackers: ‘Sinister figures with a severe case of jihadi’s droop’ – video
http://gu.com/p/44m6x/sbl
Epic logic fail, Daphne. Pretty obvious that it does not have to be religion.
That detracts not one iota from the fact that any ideology that prohibits rational thinking or can not live with it, (all religions) are definitely Not A Good Thing.
[Daphne – That’s exactly what I said. And no, it isn’t ‘pretty obvious’ that it does not have to be religion. It is obvious only to people with a sense of perspective and context. You only have to read what’s being written on comments boards and Facebook to see how people think religion is the problem.]
Ooops, you may have missed this:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20150110/world/hundreds-dead-in-nigeria-massacre.551226
Nothing to do with religion at all.
Dear Daphne
With all my respect to your publications, why do you think that the BBC article above is a truth? According to the Times of Malta who published the whole article, the new law in Russia which came into force on 29 of December 2014, any person who have a mental disorders which is listed as such by World Health Association, cannot be a holder of driving license. So the Putin himself is not a person who includes transgenders and other to the above mentioned classification. For your info, this rule exists in Russia for century but now it is linked to World classification.
[Daphne – You’re a little confused. There’s no such thing as the World Health Association, and if you mean the World Health Organisation, then it doesn’t give recommendations on the matter of who gets to drive and who does not. Nor does it classify transgender people as mentally disordered. Are you suggesting that somebody with a phobia or depression shouldn’t be allowed to drive?]
Daphne, you are wrong on that one. WHO does classify transsexualsm as a mental disorder. In fact, there was a debate in the media not long ago to pressure WHO to remove transgenders from the list:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2220064/I-sick-I-transgender–World-Health-Organisation-urged-transsexualism-list-mental-disorders.html
Are you sure about that?
http://ncronline.org/blogs/grace-margins/orthodox-church-s-role-russia-s-anti-gay-laws
http://rt.com/news/church-same-sex-unions-404/
http://www.newsweek.com/putins-god-squad-orthodox-church-and-russian-politics-64649
http://www.pravmir.com/russian-orthodox-spokesman-same-sex-marriage-could-lead-to-collapse-of-west/
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/02/world-congress-families-russia-gay-rights
Candy takes bus.
The Russian Orthodox church blesses the guns used by Russian soldiers – specifically the weapons, not say, the soldiers. It was all the hype when Russian troops were preparing to intervene in Crimea.
There was a comment in another blog regarding insulting the prime minister in Malta which prompted me to look up the incident he mentioned and find that insulting the prime minister, and showing disrespect towards the government are actual charges brought against people in Malta.
I wonder what the parameters for these charges are?
[Daphne – The president, as far as I know, and not the prime minister. The prime minister is equal to the rest of us before the law; the head of state has special status.]
If I remember well a protesting hunter was arraigned with charges including insulting the prime minister in Republic street a few months ago, and I have to admit it sounded like we went back in time.
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/court_and_police/45065/court_hears_evidence_in_hunters_illegal_protest_case#.VLGB8MlwbqB
[Daphne – Grounds for the prime minister to tweet that today we are all hunters, then.]
This is the quote from TOM ”All nine pleaded not guilty to a series of charges: conspiring to commit a crime, inciting others to break the law, insulting and shouting threatening words at the Prime Minister, forming part of an illegal protest during which they showed disrespect towards the government, making obscene gestures and breaching the peace.”
I had read this article at the time but did not seem to notice the charges, but now that I have I am intrigued.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140924/local/Ten-hunters-charged-over-Valletta-protest.536952
It doesn’t have to be religion. It does not exclude religion either.
Holly hitchhiked her way across the USA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAHRAKQMfzA