Daily Links #103: Judge requests OK woman get sterilized

Judge Stephen Friot

• Oklahoma woman who used a counterfeit cheque receives a reduced sentence after getting sterilized at the request of a federal judge, who says the Supreme Court “has yet to recognize a constitutional right to bring crack- or methamphetamine-addicted babies into this world”. I have no words.
  (via @RoryFleming8A; retweet by @radleybalko)

• Utah “family values” Republican Rep. Jon Stanard, who believes in “traditional marriage” and voted for tougher anti-prostitution laws, resigns after using taxpayer money to – you know how this ends.
  (via @fark)

• This case of a Spanish man who’s fined almost $600 for hurting “religious feelings” after he Photoshopped his face onto an image of Jesus as a joke illustrates why religious feelings do not deserve respect.

• Fox News pulls column written by its own executive vice president attacking the US’s historically diverse Olympic team for being “darker, gayer, different”.
  (via @KFILE)

• Finally: Dumbed-Down Security Briefings Still Too Difficult for Trump to Read.
  (via @StephenAtHome)

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