So last month, when the Center for Science in the Public Interest announced it was filing a class action lawsuit to stop McDonald's from using Happy Meal toys to market to children, the fierce and ugly backlash
against the mother of two who was brave enough to attach her name to the case was predictable.
An Ontario court recently dismissed a claim that a father claimed
against the mother of his child, claiming that he was a victim of sexual DNA theft.
In a highly publicised decision that caught most music industry watchers off guard, a federal jury in Minneapolis last week handed the Recording Industry of America (RIAA) an unprecedented and overwhelming victory in the form of a $ 1.92 Million (U.S.) award
against a mother of four for allegedly file - sharing 24 songs.
Not exact matches
While it's never a good idea to bet
against Mother Nature or gravity, the good news is that many
of the things most likely to bring your business down are man - made and sometimes the product
of your own actions or — more likely - inactions.
And contrary to the platform plank, which was opposed to all abortions, George was
against abortions with the exception
of rape, incest and where the life
of the
mother was threatened.»
In a partnership with Uber and
Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), Frito - Lay's Tostitos has created a limited time «Party Safe» bag — one that is equipped with sensors and can detect any trace
of alcohol on a person's breath, USA Today reports.
There have been a high rate
of drunk driving accidents during past Super Bowl Sundays, which is why Tostitos has partnered with Uber and
Mothers Against Drunk Driving to try to keep 25,000 cars off the road on game day.
Correction: A previous version
of this story stated that Rava's class action lawsuit
against the Oakland A's concerned a hat giveaway at a «
Mother's Day game» in 2004.
The daughter
of the famed poet Lord Byron, Lovelace's
mother had her thoroughly schooled in math and sciences as a bulwark
against the young woman exhibiting too many
of her dad's literary tendencies.
What I tried to do was come up with common characters we face at work — like the «manterrupter» who interrupts you in a meeting, or the office mom who ends up taking on the
mother lode
of menial tasks — as well as some
of the internal barriers, like the feeling
of being an imposter, and then digging through the research to find out how you can push back
against these things.
Like increasing numbers
of low - income
mothers and fathers, Ms. Navarro is at the center
of a new collision that pits sophisticated workplace technology
against some fundamental requirements
of parenting, with particularly harsh consequences for poor single
mothers.
A lawsuit Mischa Barton filed
against her
mother Tuesday is the latest example
of a...
This group included the B.C. Tech Association,
Mothers Against Drunk Driving Canada, the Cruise Lines International Association, the Downtown Vancouver BIA, B.C. Restaurant and Foodservices Association, the Urban Development Institute, the Surrey Board
of Trade, and more.
1: Have no other gods — NOT A LAW = > In God we trust is on our legal currency 2: Make no graven image — NOT A LAW = > intellectual property is a God to many, we have tones
of laws protecting
against false copies 3: Don't take the name in vain — NOT A LAW = > false testimony is a crime as is swearing in some states 4: Honor the Sabbath — NOT A LAW = > employment law in many states prohibits forced labor on religious days 5: Honor thy father and
mother — NOT A LAW = > minors have limited right to transact commerce under 19.
Many aligned on the left will see both
of these as «making history,» finally striking a prophetic blow
against the tyrannies
of heteronormativity, discrimination, and the abuse
of mother earth.
For I have come to set a man
against his father, a daughter
against her
mother, and a daughter - in - law
against her
mother - in - law; and a man's enemies will be those
of his own household.»
«It is to the credit
of Mother Pascalina that she endured it, and to Pius XII that he defended her
against unjust attacks.»
Pakistan's High Court
of Appeal has rejected an appeal from
mother -
of - five Asia Bibi
against her death sentence.
After the appearance
of the interview,
Mother Teresa issued a clarification, noting that the advocacy
of divorce «is clearly
against Catholic teachings and my own convictions.»
Among them will be Iraq's Father Douglas Bazi, a Catholic priest who was kidnapped, tortured, and shot before being released for ransom and who now cares for 500 ISIS survivors, and the daughters
of Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian
mother on death row since 2010, for blasphemy
against Islam.
She dedicated the award to the
Mothers of Srebrenica organisation and survivors
of the killings who have spoken out
against hate and intolerance.
For I have come to set a man
against his father, and a daughter
against her
mother, and a daughter - in - law
against her
mother - in - law; and a man's foes will be those
of his own household.
the son treats the father with contempt, the daughter rises up
against her
mother, the daughter - in - law
against her
mother - in - law; a man's enemies are the men
of his own house.
My question to your
mother would be, how come you are
against abortion but don't care about the well being
of an unwanted child.
How is the value
of the fetus is to be weighed
against the needs and desires
of the
mother?
Let yourself be all
of the
mother that you are — when you yell or get frustrated, when you ask forgiveness, when you feel your heart straining
against your rib cage, all because
of how he looks asleep in your arms, all because
of the sound
of childish voices laughing outside, all because
of the quiet nights in the monastery
of the baby's room, just rocking in a time outside
of time, it's all real and it's all you and it's all okay.
These men and women have fought for the abolition
of slavery (Wilberforce), established orphanages for abandoned children (Mueller), advanced civil rights for racial minorities (King), fought
against HIV / AIDS (Koop), provided human touch, restored dignity, and shelter for the poor (
Mother Teresa), created places
of belonging and contribution for people with disabilities and special needs (Tada), and fought
against the sex trade and human trafficking (Caine).
35 «For I came to set a man
against his father, and a daughter
against her
mother, and a daughter - in - law
against her
mother - in - law; 36 and a man's enemies will be the members
of his household.»
I support the
mother's right to control her own body
against government - mandated incubation
of non-externally viable embryos and fetuses.
Against the angry censure
of a scandalized populace, Cromwell defends the whims
of his king, to whom he stands in a relationship similar to Bonhoeffer's child to his father, or Mantel to her
mother: a relationship in which loyalty to a flawed caregiver takes precedence over loyalty to truth.
Against the skeptics, no fewer than five doctors declared there was «no medical explanation»
of the healing attributed to
Mother Teresa.
Her answers to my series
of questions were both astonishing and revealing: She confirmed for me that her academic team did not speak to a single patient, medical analyst, associate, or worker
of Mother Teresa's before writing their paper
against her; nor did they examine how all her finances were spent; nor did they speak with anyone at the Vatican involved with her sainthood cause, or consult the Vatican's medical board which certified the miracle attributed to Blessed Teresa.
But for the same reasons we both likely reject government - mandated organ donations, I reject legal prohibitions
against the right
of a
mother to choose to terminate a pregnancy prior to external viability (i.e. ~ 22 - 24 wks).
Mantel's memoir, like the novels, is thick with smoldering grievances:
against teachers («I don't know if there is a case on record
of a child
of seven murdering a schoolteacher, but I think there ought to be»); adults generally («In Hadfield, as everywhere in history
of the world, violence without justification or apology was meted out by big people to small»); and above all,
against the Catholic Church, which stood in judgment on her
mother when Mantel was a child.
In Mark, Jesus seems to engage in just the sort
of activity that James warns
against, refusing to heal a very sick child because she and her
mother are not Jewish.
He who stood
against king and court in defense
of religious liberty, and saw his
mother spend thirteen weeks in prison for refusing to pay a church tax.
Thus it was with a grim literalness that there was fulfilled, in the life
of entire cultures and not only
of individual families, the alienation described by the saying
of Jesus in the Gospels: «I have come to set a man
against his father, and a daughter
against her
mother, and a daughter - in - law
against her
mother - in - law; and a man's foes will be those
of his own household» (Matt.10: 35 - 36).
1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils
of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or
mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws
of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families
against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're
against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and
mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins
of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence
against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)
Some feminists hypothesize that if fathers shared the details
of child rearing with
mothers, sons would not need to rebel so strongly
against their
mothers, and a healthier transition would be possible.
• In the Talmud, Rabbi Eliezer the Great predicts that «as the footsteps
of the messiah approach, shamelessness will spread,» and he quotes Micah chapter seven: «son spurning father, daughter rising up
against mother, daughter - in - law
against mother - in - law — a man's own household his enemies.»
you're pitting the rights
of mothers as women
against the rights
of unborn daughters as women.
In our own time, the Supreme Court, in Roe v. Wade, struck down the abortion laws
of all fifty states, effectively wiping out all legal protection
of unborn human beings
against being killed upon the request
of their
mothers.
We ask them for guidance in beginning and starting over again, not
against or as an alternative to our inherited tradition, but in confidence that the Church, our
mother, lives for the sake
of ever more fully serving the truth
of Christ.
Herod got his dance and Salome, at the suggestion
of her
mother, who was not a fan
of John's proclamations
against her, asked for and received the Baptist's head on a silver platter.
Denene Millner's posts about parenting black boys as a black
mother did far more to wake me up to realities
of racial injustice in this country than my subscription to The New York Times, and Kristen Howerton's «Rage
Against the Minivan» blog introduced me to the concept
of white privilege in a way that made sense and inspired change.
Of course even the potentiality of a fetus has some value, but this value (even plants have some value) is nothing absolute and should be weighed against the values of those — especially the mother — actually functioning at a much higher level (i.e., at the level of sentiency, at the very least, if not at the level of rationality
Of course even the potentiality
of a fetus has some value, but this value (even plants have some value) is nothing absolute and should be weighed against the values of those — especially the mother — actually functioning at a much higher level (i.e., at the level of sentiency, at the very least, if not at the level of rationality
of a fetus has some value, but this value (even plants have some value) is nothing absolute and should be weighed
against the values
of those — especially the mother — actually functioning at a much higher level (i.e., at the level of sentiency, at the very least, if not at the level of rationality
of those — especially the
mother — actually functioning at a much higher level (i.e., at the level
of sentiency, at the very least, if not at the level of rationality
of sentiency, at the very least, if not at the level
of rationality
of rationality).
They tore away Children our
of their
Mothers arms, and dash'd out their Brains
against the Rocks; others they threw in the River, diverting themselves with this brutish Sport, and giving great shouts while they saw»em in this misery.»
What
Mother Theresa and her organization are doing is criminal, which in a court
of law, would have a laundry list
of offenses listed
against them.
For example, Helena, the
mother of the Emperor Constantine in the fourth century, claimed to verify her discovery
of the cross on which Jesus had died by placing it
against the bodies
of sick people and watching, when she did so, their immediate recovery.
Say: Who then can do aught
against Allah, if He had willed to destroy the Messiah son
of Mary, and his
mother and everyone on earth?