(Source: christopherstreet, via truth-has-a-liberal-bias)
"I’ve had several cases over the years in which the anti-abortion patient had rationalized in one way or another that her case was the only exception, but the one that really made an impression was the college senior who was the president of her campus Right-to-Life organization, meaning that she had worked very hard in that organization for several years. As I was completing her procedure, I asked what she planned to do about her high office in the RTL organization. Her response was a wide-eyed, ‘You’re not going to tell them, are you!?’ When assured that I was not, she breathed a sigh of relief, explaining how important that position was to her and how she wouldn’t want this to interfere with it"
— The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion - When the Anti-Choice Choose
CALL FOR ANTI-GAY TO BOYCOTT INTERNET
With Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, and Google, and many other tech companies all supporting gay rights, I call for all those supporting the Godly war against the gay agenda to boycott computers and the Internet. Alan Turing, one of the main pioneers of computers, was gay himself! This is about more than a silly cookie. Support God and the sanctity of marriage! Boycott the Internet NOW!
(Source: skepticalavenger, via christiantheatheist)
Jerry Coyne on the incompatibility of science and religion.
“…Why are we always in the crosshairs? Let us alone. Let us do our job. Let us be Catholics. Let us make our contribution to the common good according to our own likes. That’s what America is about.”
Really?
UGH! The persecution complex.
Not to mention the whole “NOT LETTING US DISCRIMINATE IS DISCRIMINATION!!!” bullshit.
Made it to the clinic! There were plenty of anti’s, getting away with things I didn’t think you could do, but apparently Louisville doesn’t care! I shadowed and was dragged into a few arguments, but overall a very worthwhile morning.
Why does that “on his knees praying” guy make me so angry?
I know what you mean Aaron, the entire group infuriates me!
I’d love to know why they have such little faith, and are actively disobeying their god. The Bible specifically speaks out against this sort of behavior. There message of humans are messed up and in no position to judge, so god will take care of it, is all over the Bible:
James 4:11-12 Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
Romans 2:1-3 Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God?
James 4:12 There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
Matthew 7:5 You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.
Ephesians 4:29 Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
James 1:26 If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s religion is worthless.
This is just a small sample of verses like these I could rattle back at these people. Yet they fail to realize that the very God they are using to condemn those getting an abortion, has already told them they have no right to judge. I’m not making this up, its right there in their holiest of books!
Every Christian who does this is not only ignoring the Bible, but a direct command from Jesus. A lot of the New Testament was written by Paul, but on this issue, of passing judgment on others, Jesus was very clear when he defended the woman caught in adultery.
John 8:7 Let any of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.
If you’re going to claim to be a Christian, an follower and believer in Jesus Christ, then maybe you need to do a better job obeying him. This constant harassing and protesting of those at abortion clinics is a direct act of disobedience. The verses I referenced, taken directly from your Bible, does not condone this sort of behavior, yet you persist. I no longer believe in God but I do believe these people are being asshats. I wonder how many of them believe their actions will get them into heaven? Of have they forgotten Matthew 7:21-23:
Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’
Maybe they need to spend a little more time reading their Bible and praying for forgiveness than standing outside of abortion clinic judge people when they’re already facing a difficult and painful choice.
One of the many reasons I follow nonplussedbyreligion, and you should too.
HYPOCRISY: Romney Maintained Massachusetts Contraception Requirement That Mirrors Obama’s Rule
Mitt Romney has launched a petition accusing the Obama administration of “using Obamacare to impose a secular vision on Americans who believe that they should not have their religious freedom taken away.” The move is the latest in a concerted campaign effort to rally the conservative base around a supposed “war against religion” and misrepresent oroutright lie about a new regulation requiring employers and insurers to offer contraception coverage.
“We must have a president who is willing to protect America’s first right, a right to worship God, according to the dictates of our own conscience,” Romney told an audience of nearly 3,000 people in Colorado. “We’ll either have a government that protects religious diversity and freedom, or we’ll have a government that tells us what kind of conscience they think we ought to have.” But Romney’s new-found outrage is a stark contrast from his record as Massachusetts governor, when he tacitly endorsed a very similar coverage mandate and greatly expanded government-funded contraceptive services.
In 2002 — the very same year Romney campaigned for governor of Massachusetts — the state enacted a “contraceptive equity” law that required insurers that provide outpatient benefits to cover hormone replacement therapy and all FDA-approved contraceptive methods. Similar to the Obama regulation, the law exempted “an employer that is a church or qualified church-controlled organization” from the requirement and the legislature soundly defeated an amendment that “would have allowed affiliated institutions such as hospitals, universities, and nursing homes to deny their employees coverage.” The defeated amendment closely mirrors the expanded conscience protections religious groups are now clamoring for.
Wanna keep quoting Reagan, GOP?
Among the changes pushed through by Gingrich and his conservative caucus as part of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, was the replacement of the Aid to Families With Dependent Children program, which had been in place since 1935, with something called TANF: Temporary Assistance to Needy Families. The new program put a five-year limit on cash benefits for needy recipients, imposed tighter limits on who could receive food stamps (most immigrants became ineligible), and most importantly, required welfare recipients to get a job within two years of receiving benefits.
Ironically, Gingrich, a key champion of the work requirement, now claims that poor children don’t see anyone around them working, when by Gingrich’s own design, those on welfare, after the 1996 reforms, are required to work.
Meanwhile, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Gingrich and the Republicans’ crowning achievement also increased Americans’ reliance on food stamps. By restricting the cash assistance available to families, TANF indirectly pushed more working families to rely on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programs — also known as “food stamps” — to fill in the gap.
So despite his zeal to push “personal responsibility” and to force people off welfare, Gingrich, like Dole, may have inadvertently become a Republican godfather of food stamp growth.
Or to put it another way: Gingrich just might have been the “food stamp Speaker of the House.”
(via diadoumenos)
Newt Gingrich’s big ideas? - Putting individuals who brought more than two ounces of marijuana into the United States to death.
The Washington Post - Wonkblog - On Saturday’s edition of “Up With Chris Hayes,” Gary Johnson brought up an old Newt Gingrich idea I hadn’t heard before: Putting individuals who brought more than two ounces of marijuana into the United States to death. That sounded extreme, even for Gingrich. So I looked it up. And sure enough, there it is: “The Drug Importer Death Penalty Act of 1996.” What makes the bill even more amazing is that Gingrich himself is a confessed pot smoker. When he was young, he said, experimenting with drugs “was a sign we were alive and in graduate school in that era.”
Audience boos the golden rule at the Republican debate
During the South Carolina GOP debate, the audience booed Ron Paul when he talked about the golden rule regarding international relations.
I’m no fan of Ron Paul, but the hypocrisy of the GOP supporters in the crowd amazes me, it shouldn’t by this point but it does.
These are the same people who demonize everyone who isn’t Christian and act so morally smug and superior, yet they seem to hate everything Christ actually stood for.
Here’s some video of that particular part of the debate.
"For all of their years of claims that massive voter fraud is going on at the polling place, such that photo ID restrictions are required to ensure the integrity of the vote, you’d think that when Republicans have a chance to run their own elections, they’d be sure to want it to be as “fraud”-free as possible.
Nonetheless, despite onerous polling place photo ID requirements now passed into law in about a dozen states where the GOP controls both the legislative and executive branches, voters will be able to cast their ballot in next Tuesday’s “First-in-the-Nation” Republican Iowa caucuses without bothering to show a photo ID — even though the Republican Party itself sets their own rules for voting there."
Nonetheless, despite onerous polling place photo ID requirements now passed into law in about a dozen states where the GOP controls both the legislative and executive branches, voters will be able to cast their ballot in next Tuesday’s “First-in-the-Nation” Republican Iowa caucuses without bothering to show a photo ID — even though the Republican Party itself sets their own rules for voting there."
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Republicans Require No Photo ID to Vote in Republican Iowa Caucus
We didn’t need any more proof that the GOP’s voter ID efforts were aimed at suppressing the votes of Democratic constituencies, but it’s always nice to have.
(via ryking)
(Source: diadoumenos)
![A Westboro Baptist Church Member Wearing a ‘Glee’ T-Shirt At Anti-Gay Protest.
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A Westboro Baptist Church Member Wearing a ‘Glee’ T-Shirt At Anti-Gay Protest.
