Iceland's next leader will be an openly gay former flight attendant who parlayed her experience as a union organizer into a decades-long political career.The country is in economic crisis, and so she's been handed a nasty clean up job left by conservatives in her land, just as Obama has here. More after the jump.Both parties forming Iceland's new coalition government support the appointment of Johanna Sigurdardottir, the island nation's 66-year-old social affairs minister, as Iceland's interim prime minister.
"Now we need a strong government that works with the people," Sigurdardottir told reporters Wednesday, adding that a new administration will likely be installed Saturday.
Iceland's previous conservative-led government failed Monday after the country's banks collapsed last fall under the weight of huge debts amassed during years of rapid economic growth. The country's currency has since plummeted, while inflation and unemployment are soaring....She was the only minister to see her rating improve on the previous year's score, Capacent Gallup said Wednesday. The poll of 2,000 people had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percent.
"It's a question of trust, people believe that she actually cares about people," said Olafur Hardarson, a political scientist at the University of Iceland.
While a woman has served in the largely symbolic role of president, Sigurdardottir will be Iceland's first female prime minister.
She lives with journalist Jonina Leosdottir, who became her civil partner in 2002, and has two sons from a previous marriage.
And now ... without further delay ... the winning definition of "saddleback" ... by a gaping margin ... definition number 5.Related:"Saddlebacking: the phenomenon of Christian teens engaging in unprotected anal sex in order to preserve their virginities."Here's why this definition is perfect: Saddlebacking, like barebacking, involves one person riding up on another's backside. But in this case, it's not the bare-naked cock-in-ass that's the most important feature of the ride, but the fact that the person being ridden has been saddled - thanks to the efforts of the Rick Warrens of this world - with religious hang-ups and serious misconceptions about sex. Like the barebacker who casually tosses away his health - or his partner's health - because he believes, quite erroneously, that "risky = sexy," the saddlebacker offers up her ass because she believes, quite erroneously, that she can get fucked in the ass - vigorously, religiously - and still be considered a virgin on her wedding night.
After attending the Purity Ball, Heather and Bill saddlebacked all night because she's saving herself for marriage.I've set up a website - www.saddlebacking.com - to popularize the new definition. (Get to work, Google bombers!) Spread the URL far and wide, please, and let's get this term into common usage as quickly as possible.
* Savage Love: define 'Saddleback'
When we look at the stories priests and ministers who have engaged in pedophilia and other forms of predatory sexual behavior, I know I wonder if we, as a society, should be asking whether exactly how safe it is for children and teens to share public space priests and ministers. It's not that priests and ministers engage in predatory sexual behavior as a group, but there sure seems to be a very small, but consequential minority of these folk who use their positions of trust and authority to prey on women, children, and teens.
The latest story of a minister using his position of trust and authority to prey on teens is from San Diego's News 10 (emphasis added):
A Los Angeles man who served as a minister and music teacher at five churches in San Diego and Riverside counties pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of molesting two boys he mentored.During his arraignment at the East County Regional Center in El Cajon, Jimmie Xray Robinson Jr., 47, denied multiple accusations of lewd and lascivious acts with minors.
...This month, DNA evidence obtained by police allegedly implicated Robinson in the El Cajon case, the lieutenant said. The suspect was booked on charges involving that alleged victim and one of the prior ones, a 15-year-old boy.
The San Diego Union-Tribune adds:
Robinson was linked to the incident by DNA evidence. He was arrested late Saturday morning at Living Word Faith Ministries on Market Street in downtown San Diego by members of the U.S. Marshal's Regional Fugitive Task Force, [El Cajon Police Department's Lt. Tim] Henton said.Robinson used his position in various churches to build mentoring relationships with troubled boys, Henton said.
Henton identified the churches as Prince Chapel on Cuvier Street in La Jolla; Grace Chapel in Temecula; Church of God on 5th Avenue in Chula Vista; Unity Fellowship Church on University Avenue in San Diego; and Christ Church San Diego on Fern Street in San Diego.
I know when I look at the number of reports of the predatory sexual behavior by priests and ministers towards women, children, and teens, to me it sounds like that as a society, I find I feel we have more to fear from those who identify as priests and ministers than from those who identify as trans women or gender variant people who make use of public women's restrooms.
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* Pam's House Blend tag: sexual hypocrites
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