exmorte posted:

Not trying to stir anything up, but Libertarianism hardly seems like a great platform for being pro-circumcision but apparently it is?


Minnie Strone's comment kinnnd of sickened me though, glad I don't live in that state anymore.

pig slut lisa posted:

Of course students have a right to freely express themselves in a test answer. But that doesn't mean they have a right to a good grade for every answer.

e: not to mention the fact that in-school speech by a K-12 student may constitutionally be infringed to a greater extent than out-of-school speech

Gravel Gravy posted:

I know it's from a few pages back, but are you sure that isn't a joke account?

I mean who would name their kid that?

Edit: Minestrone is soup.

Gravel Gravy posted:

I know it's from a few pages back, but are you sure that isn't a joke account?

I mean who would name their kid that?

Edit: Minestrone is soup.

Lady Naga posted:

It's a parable.

quote:

We all know the story — Mozilla co-founder Brendan Eich was recently pressured to resign from his position as CEO of the company he helped create after word got out he donated $1,000 to a group supporting Proposition 8, the California measure that banned gay marriage in California, in 2008.

Since Eich’s ouster, a number of people, including some who support gay marriage, have denounced what has been called a “witch hunt,” warning that free speech and free thought is officially dead in America.

“The whole episode disgusts me — as it should disgust anyone interested in a tolerant and diverse society,” wrote Andrew Sullivan, hardly a conservative icon. “If this is the gay rights movement today — hounding our opponents with a fanaticism more like the religious right than anyone else — then count me out. If we are about intimidating the free speech of others, we are no better than the anti-gay bullies who came before us.”

But an op-ed posted Saturday at GOPUSA by Matt Barber goes even further and warns of a growing “homofascism” that seeks to ultimately criminalize conservative Christianity — the form of Christianity that adheres to the teaching that while God loves the sinner so much he sent his son to die on the cross for everyone, he abhors sin — all of it.

Barber acknowledges that many — even some who profess to be Christian — “think that I and others are using hyperbole when we refer to this sexual anarchist ‘LGBT’ movement as ‘homofascist’ or the ‘Gaystapo.’”

“I hope you’ll think again,” he wrote. “It’s time to wake up and smell the impending anti-Christian persecution. It’s fully at hand.”

Barber cited BarbWire contributor Laurie Higgins, who commented on a Washington Examiner story:

CEO and co-founder of Mozilla (and inventor of JavaScript) Brendan Eich is forced to resign because of his $1,000 donation to Prop 8 six years ago. So, I guess it’s semi-official: American citizens who believe marriage is inherently sexually complementary cannot work in America–not even in their own companies. First Amendment: R.I.P.

When asked if his religious beliefs about marriage should constitute a firing offense the way racism or sexism does, Eich told CNET no, the Examiner reported.

“I don’t believe that’s true, on the basis of what’s permissible to support or vote on in 2008,” he said. “It’s still permissible. Beliefs that are protected, that include political and religious speech, are generally not something that can be held against even a CEO. I understand there are people who disagree with me on this one.”

Of course, that was in 2008, when even Barack Obama and Joe Biden said they did not agree with gay marriage. No one, of course, suggested they resign or withdraw from the race for their views.

But times, apparently, have changed.

That, Barber noted, is the America we used to live in.

“That’s the America of our founding. Welcome to ‘Amerika,’” he added. “Homofascism is the order of the day and Christian ‘intolerance’ simply will not be tolerated. That was before we became the godless, wicked nation we are today. A once-great nation that now takes ‘pride’ in calling ‘evil good and good evil.’”

Barber went on to say Bible-believing Christians need to “buckle up.”

“Your whole world is about to change,” he wrote. “The Rainbowshirts are emboldened and they’ve broken out the long knives.”

“They smell blood in the water. I’ve often said that these folks want those who speak Biblical truth about human sexuality and legitimate marriage either 1) dead, 2) imprisoned or, if they can have neither of these, 3) marginalized to the point where they can’t even support their families,” he added.

Barber concluded with an even sterner warning.

“Freedom is hanging on by a thread, America, and it is those who worship the sin of Sodom that are determined to finish it off once and for all,” he said.

CowHammer posted:

quote:

“Freedom is hanging on by a thread, America, and it is those who worship the sin of Sodom that are determined to finish it off once and for all,” he said.

Ezekiel 16:49 posted:

Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Noctis Horrendae posted:

Fandyien posted:

how disingenuous do you have to be to pretend that one jackass getting fired is anywhere close to that

Phone posted:

Oh my goodness: http://www.theonion.com/articles/th...circ=technology

The Onion

quote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YJsxMcAJoA

Is NBC predicting RFID implanted in Americans in 2017 or are they the mouth piece for the beast?

If you take the RFID Microchip they can TRACK your every move, Control your MONEY, Control your FOOD and possible even KILL you if you don’t obey!

A number of states like Virginia, have passed “stop the mark of the beast legislation” in an effort to stop this.

Remember, they do things over time to condition the population into think this is normal. Please understand, you are just a number to the government. A RFID Chip is the governments means to control you for the rest of your life.

Please note that NLF has done research into this issue and believe that the RFID legislation was removed from the final Obamacare bill. The fact that such language was ever considered should be disturbing. Will the RFID language be put back in?

Phone posted:

Oh my goodness: http://www.theonion.com/articles/th...circ=technology

The Onion

Mo_Steel posted:

"You have to go to a place" is the reason why Amazon is demolishing Best Buy. QED vaccinations are bad. Now if I could get a shot through the mail, preferably without expecting it so I don't tense up, then we'd be somewhere.

muscles like this? posted:

Regardless of everything else involved, I'm pretty sure you don't have a 1st Ammendment right to answer whatever you want on a test.

Mo_Steel posted:

"You have to go to a place" is the reason why Amazon is demolishing Best Buy. QED vaccinations are bad. Now if I could get a shot through the mail, preferably without expecting it so I don't tense up, then we'd be somewhere.

borkencode posted:

Giant Goats posted:

Because a child wouldn't be further scarred for life by knowing that speaking up caused the death of another human being - especially if, as the odds are in favour of, that human being was a family member or someone else the child was close to.

jackpot posted:

There's an argument against raising the minimum wage that says something like 95% of all people already earn over the minimum anyway, and most of that 5% is high school kids working fast food, besides. There's a counterpoint, though, that says that's horseshit because those making $7.25 an hour won't be the only ones to have their wages increased (rising tide, etc) ... I just don't have the right words to say it. Anybody got a link?

Riptor posted:

Liz Warren's image macro has been going around a bunch recently:



Only thing is, that percentage is unsourced. I'd love to have a source to send to people who are doubting it; anyone know where that figure comes from?

Discendo Vox posted:

I assume it's referring to averages? It's awkwardly phrased. The term "discrimination" implies a degree of active bias that's unclear, too.

Radish posted:

I'm not sure why gun nuts want to use this as an example of how a gun could have made things better since in this situation no one was killed and when people bring guns to these types of things the body count is much higher. I'd want people to forget about this instead of highlighting it as how guns save lives when there weren't any fatalities to stop.

Emron posted:

School stabbing today, which means it's time for some gun smug. I've seen a few statuses about it already, but I'm expecting the images of incredulous babies and condescending wonkas to start right around the lunch hour. Regardless, brace yourselves.

Crain posted:

Well reddit's already on it: "well, I suppose it's time to start laws that ban owning knives"

VitalSigns posted:

The guy who posted this is a gay Republican

Emron posted:

School stabbing today, which means it's time for some gun smug. I've seen a few statuses about it already, but I'm expecting the images of incredulous babies and condescending wonkas to start right around the lunch hour. Regardless, brace yourselves.

VitalSigns posted:

The guy who posted this is a gay Republican

Perestroika posted:

Out of curiosity, did this really gain much traction in the US media? All I ever heard from it was an open letter from another employee basically asking people not to judge the entire company for the CEO's decision. It seemed like the whole deal was over before it even really began.

It's also cute to euphemistically call Prop 8 a "traditional marriage cause" when it was nothing less than a concerted attempt to specifically outlaw gay marriage.

Perestroika posted:

Out of curiosity, did this really gain much traction in the US media? All I ever heard from it was an open letter from another employee basically asking people not to judge the entire company for the CEO's decision. It seemed like the whole deal was over before it even really began.

It's also cute to euphemistically call Prop 8 a "traditional marriage cause" when it was nothing less than a concerted attempt to specifically outlaw gay marriage.

ArchRanger posted:

Judging by the few hours of Fox I have to listen to at work each week the right wing tried pretty hard to push it for a couple days but no one really seems to be biting beyond those who are looking for any reason for hate already.

VitalSigns posted:

The guy who posted this is a gay Republican