SIGNS OF THE TIMES: Oklahoma mom who once married her son will now go to jail for marrying her daughter
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Patricia Ann Spann, 46, and her biological daughter Misty Velvet Dawn Spann, 26, got married in the town of Lawton about 17 months after same-sex marriage became legal in the state of Oklahoma.
To get around the potential snag of their shared family name, Patricia Spann listed her name as Patricia Ann Clayton on the pair’s marriage license application, filed with Comanche County.
For her part in marrying her daughter, two years after she was legally allowed to contact her children following an annulled marriage to her biological son, Patricia Spann will serve time in jail, according to the Oklahoman.
The newspaper reported that she pleaded guilty to felony incest Tuesday, and under a plea deal, the 46-year-old will serve two years in prison followed by eight years of probation. She will have to register as a sex offender following her release.
Incest is punishable by up to 10 years in prison in Oklahoma.
Patricia Spann told child welfare investigators she lost custody of Misty and her two other children before reconnecting with them in 2014. That’s when Patricia and Misty “hit it off,” and started the relationship that eventually landed them both in jail.
Before the pair was arrested, they made their home in Duncan, Okla., about 30 miles from the Texas-Oklahoma state line and less than 20 miles from Lawton, where they were married.
Her children were legally adopted by their paternal grandmother after Patricia Spann lost custody, and she even told investigators she thought her marriage to Misty was legal “because her name was no longer listed on Misty’s birth certificate,” according to the Duncan Banner.
In 2008, according to the Associated Press, Patricia Spann also wed one of her sons. He had the marriage annulled 15 months later, though, citing incest.
The Oklahoman reported that Misty Spann is due back in court next week as part of her plea deal.
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Israeli soccer star appears in disturbing sex video
Player and three others seen humiliating naked woman in a video that is spreading on social media.
A well-known Israeli soccer player from one of the country's top teams appears in a disturbing sex video that was spreading across social media Thursday morning.According to Israeli sports news site News 1, the video shows the player, together with three other former players from the same team, performing humiliating sexual acts on a naked woman. It is unclear from the video if the woman was even conscious at the time.
The video was shot several years ago when the player was signed with a different team, but released on line on Wednesday evening.
MAKO News reported that the player's current team is aware of the video and preparing to take possible disciplinary steps.
The Push to Make Human-Chimp Hybrids
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In a long article
adapted from a chapter in his forthcoming book, psychologist David
Barash proposes that society should sanction the making of human-chimp
hybrids. He refers to this new creature as a "humanzee" and says that
"making it would be a terrific idea."
Barash recognizes some of the
scientific challenges to making a humanzee but claims that it is "by no
means impossible or even unlikely that a hybrid or a chimera combining a
human being and a chimpanzee could be produced in a laboratory. After
all, human and chimp (or bonobo) share, by most estimates, roughly 99
percent of their nuclear DNA."
His main argument for pursuing
the creation of a human-chimp hybrid is based on the belief that humans
have an unwarranted belief that we are special creatures. As Barash
puts it, "Moreover, I propose that the fundamental take-home message of
such creation would be to drive a stake into the heart of that
destructive disinformation campaign of discontinuity, of human hegemony
over all other living things."
This argumentation claims that
the dehumanization of others, what we call racism, is allowed because
we've provided an empty space between the value of humans and the lesser
value of animals. Close that gap, Barash believes, and racism will
truly begin to be wiped out.
However, he does acknowledge
the potential for humans, viewing the hybrids as less than human, to
abuse the humanzee. But, and allowing his scary utilitarian roots to
show, Barash then quickly writes, "This is possible, but it is at least
arguable that the ultimate benefit of teaching human beings their true
nature would be worth the sacrifice paid by a few unfortunates."
Pushing back on the potential
for abuse, he posits that some hybrids could be "delighted by her
ability to [write poetry or program a computer] while swinging from a
tree branch."
"And—more important," he
writes, "for any human being currently insistent upon his or her
species’ specialness, to the ultimate detriment of literally millions of
other individuals of millions of other species, such a development
could well be a real mind expander and paradigm buster."
Ultimately, what Barash is
after is the erasure of the uniqueness of human personhood. His argument
for the making of a human-chimp hybrid is built on his rejection of any
real distinctions between humanity and the rest of the animal kingdom.
He wants science to take the animal with the DNA that best matches human
DNA and erase the distinction.
It should be noted that Barash's anthropology stands in direct defiance to the Bible's anthropology.
The Bible's anthropology
reveals to us that God made humans in His image. Genesis 1:26 reveals,
"Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And
let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of
the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every
creeping thing that creeps on the earth.'"
The irony is that anti-theists
are standing on a very tiny ledge (a tiny ledge, frankly, that may
actually be non-existent) whenever they trumpet that racism, misogyny,
and other attempts at dehumanizing others is wrong. If all that remains
in the world is power, winners and losers, and no transcendent morality
exists, then what's stopping those in power from doing whatever they
want to those who are not in power?
You see, Christians argue that
because all humans are made in the image of God, all humans, regardless
of race and gender, have innate worth. Because of the Bible's
anthropology, those in power have no right to abuse their power and take
advantage of those who are not in power. Those in power answer to God
for how they abuse it.
The answer to combating racism
isn't to completely dehumanize all humans. The problem of the abuse of
power will still remain. The answer is to embrace a Biblical
anthropology. Granted, that requires embracing the God of the Bible.
The thing is, I don't believe
that David Barash actually cares about human dignity and value. I posit
that his underlying motive for advocating the creation of a human-chimp
hybrid is to destroy God.
Obviously, David Barash can't
get to God. The next best thing is for him to erase the image of God
from humans. However, once society begins surrendering the innate value
of humans based on our being made in the image of God, society is going
to resemble the worst of any conceivable dystopian worlds.
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