I hate it here…

DES MOINES, Iowa (KWWL) - A resolution was introduced in the Iowa Senate Wednesday that asks the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a ruling that guarantees the right to same-sex

    • PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social
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      15 hours ago

      The cheeseburger thing is rabbinical law.

      It doesn’t say you can’t have a cheeseburger anywhere in any of those books.

      It says “don’t cook a baby goat in its mother milk”

      Rabbis extrapolated that to be : no cheeseburgers

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        And they also decided “do no work on the Sabbath” also meant “don’t push the buttons on the microwave.”

        Or that if you circle your city with a wire, that counts as your city limits for purposes of traveling on the Sabbath.

        Point is, rabbinical law has always been about finding the loopholes because they consider it a mark of godliness.