I wanted to bring people's attention to a petition on Change.org that kind of impacts us. Not directly, but it would be a horrible precedent to set in terms of mutant health care.

There's a bill progressing through the Pennsylvania State Legislature that would allow medical personnel to refuse to treat mutants based on "freedom of religion". It came out of the Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences discussing obligatory mutant-specific medicine classes for medical professionals, not just the week of human-variant medicine they get right now. There were also requests from doctors and emergency personnel for extra funding for mutant-specific equipment. All good, right? Except the anti-mutant bigots came out in droves to protest against "unfair treatment" and some jerk politician decided to curry favor with them and started this bill. Which is getting way more traction than it should.

So, there's the petition to strike the bill down. I'd really appreciate it if people would go and take a look at it and make an informed choice to sign. And send it to all your non-bigoted friends and family. I know it's not much, but it's something. There's also the possibility of protests as well as media campaigns and boycotts if it goes any further.

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So, with all the Star Wars fever going on, for the education of those of us who haven't actually seen this epic yet, how about a marathon movie session this weekend? Start Friday night with the first three, continue Saturday night with the second three? If there's the set up for it - and hey, we live in a mansion and there's plenty of tech geeks, so there probably is - we could even do a projector screen somewhere large enough for all comers. That old ballroom, maybe? BYO blankets, pillows and movie snacks.