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Little early to the party here, but I wanted to wish the Canadian side of the Pacific Northwest a very happy Canada Day celebration. I've met so many people from this amazing province, and every conversation I've had with people from Vancouver, Victoria and inland BC have been extremely awesome (outside of Reddit of course). I visited the big Vancouver city in 2018, drove through much of inland BC on a road trip to Edmonton in 2011, and I'm visiting Vancouver Island later in July. I love British Columbia. Especially the people (outside of Reddit) and the nature.

I live in Washington (US state) and I feel sad at the political situation. I am NOT sad that Canadians are boycotting the USA en masse, and we honestly deserve it. I would happily boycott this country if I didn't live here, and I'm honestly surprised that cross border travel from British Columbia is only down 40 percent since I thought it would be much higher. I'm sad that these cultural ties that many US states have with certain Canadian provinces (like the West Coast with BC, New England with Quebec and the Maritimes) have been severely damaged and will be extremely difficult to repair. Anyways, I hate to bring the USA in this, but I definitely don't feel like celebrating 3 days after Canada Day, and I wish all Canadians a very happy Canada Day this year.

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/06/30/canadians-react-to-cancelling-digital-services-tax/

Duh. No one elected them to go elbows down. Gonna be a short lived minority.

A longtime music teacher at a Catholic school in the New Orleans area recently lost his job when it was revealed to an evidently "disgruntled" parent that he was another man's widower, igniting a scandal within an archdiocese that has otherwise largely been occupied with trying to reorganize its finances in federal bankruptcy court after its clergymen spent decades sexually molesting children.

In an email to community members at the archdiocese-run school from which he was dismissed, Mark Richards explained that he had been fired because a parent notified officials about an obituary for his husband, who died of a heart attack in September 2023.

Richards' email alluded to how his employment contract at St Francis Xavier school in Metairie, Louisiana, contained a morality clause prohibiting educators from "contracting a marriage in violation of the rules of the Catholic church" and "actively engaging in homosexual activity", along with other conduct that the document maintains is inconsistent with the teachings of the religion that does not recognize same-sex matrimony.

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I've seen this thing a lot where people are preaching about the goodness of God and they go on about all of the amazing things God represents, but when they see someone worship Him a different way or hold a different belief from them then all of a sudden it's "MY God."

And like!!

It's not wrong to call Him "my God" because it's a nice thing to acknowledge that He's there for everyone and personal, but it feels so petty to switch it up when you're talking to someone that you don't agree with who still believes in Him...

Like even though we worship differently, it doesn't give you the right to invalidate my faith, y'know?