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« on: April 19, 2015, 05:25:31 PM »

Add to the long list of madness:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/arizona-lawmaker-church-attendance-mandatory-article-1.2164602

http://now.snopes.com/2015/03/27/sen-sylvia-allen-suggests-mandatory-church/

The context was. . . gun violence.

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This of course would not pass Constitutional muster in any shape, manner, or form, but it nonetheless illustrates how batty many conservatives are. I mean, I'm nonplussed that a legislator would even express the idea.
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« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2015, 05:29:10 PM »

This would likely be very good for the Satanist's.
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« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2015, 05:30:46 PM »

god-fearing christians can't force us to attend church but OBUMMER's acorn thugs can force us to buy his health insurance?!
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« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2015, 05:42:20 PM »

Cue the Seventh Day Adventists and their end times theories.  (Required observance of Sunday as a day of worship is one of their sign posts of what will happen on the way to the Apocalypse.)
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« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2015, 06:21:39 PM »

The context of the statement isn't that surprising when you consider how often people like to tie the issue of gun violence to their own hysterical moralistic notions about how sick and violent American society is despite the fact that gun violence has been declining for years. It's just that this time it was a religious nutjob instead of a common-or-garden leftist.
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« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2015, 06:43:30 PM »

If they define synagogues, mosques, Hindu temples etc. as "church", I could be persuaded... but I think we all know they won't.
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« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2015, 07:10:49 PM »

If they define synagogues, mosques, Hindu temples etc. as "church", I could be persuaded... but I think we all know they won't.
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« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2015, 07:19:29 PM »

Isn't his what we've been hearing recently from progressives: someone running a small business can't decline to be a part of a religious ceremony?
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« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2015, 07:23:23 PM »

if you make it permanent you'll get rid of every societal problem within a few days.

a good bill *nods*
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« Reply #9 on: April 19, 2015, 07:31:12 PM »
« Edited: April 19, 2015, 08:18:20 PM by True Federalist »

Isn't his what we've been hearing recently from progressives: someone running a small business can't decline to be a part of a religious ceremony?
This has nothing to do with a business picking and choosing who they serve from the general public.
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« Reply #10 on: April 19, 2015, 07:36:19 PM »

I love the actual quote:
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Will Jewish temples and Muslim mosques be required to move their services to Sundays? Or will that be a moot point after everyone goes to Christian re-education camps?
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« Reply #11 on: April 19, 2015, 07:44:42 PM »

Isn't his what we've been hearing recently from progressives: someone running a small business can't decline to be a part of a religious ceremony?

Boo hoo. Some folks don't want business owners to be allowed to discriminate against gay customers. Are you going to manage to whine about that in every thread where you can find some desperate way to try and make it relevant?
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« Reply #12 on: April 19, 2015, 08:27:46 PM »

You find all the best kinds of crazy in the state legislators.
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« Reply #13 on: April 19, 2015, 08:35:11 PM »

This would likely be very good for the Satanist's.

Indeed it would.
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« Reply #14 on: April 19, 2015, 08:44:05 PM »

Isn't his what we've been hearing recently from progressives: someone running a small business can't decline to be a part of a religious ceremony?
This has nothing to do with a business picking and choosing who they serve from the general public.

Never mind the fact that gay marriages aren't religious ceremonies.
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« Reply #15 on: April 19, 2015, 08:48:58 PM »

Isn't his what we've been hearing recently from progressives: someone running a small business can't decline to be a part of a religious ceremony?
This has nothing to do with a business picking and choosing who they serve from the general public.
Never mind the fact that gay marriages aren't religious ceremonies.

I dunno; some of the ones I've officiated have invoked religion, at the request of those being married.
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« Reply #16 on: April 20, 2015, 10:10:54 AM »

god-fearing christians can't force us to attend church but OBUMMER's acorn thugs can force us to buy his health insurance?!

A-ha, well it just hit me that Fox would probably say this at LAST is Odumbo's plot to force everyone to become a Muslim!

This would likely be very good for the Satanist's.

If there actually was a threat of something like this happening, and there isn't, you definitely would see a spike in mock religions like that and religions generally. A colleague of mine and I joke a lot that we need to get into the God business, so there we'd have it, ha.

Interestingly, though, in 2012, PA lawmakers passed a symbolic piece of legislation called "Year of the Bible" and I think back in the 1980s Reagan signed some executive order to a similar effect. This is all because Christians are a very large and somehow persecuted majority!
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« Reply #17 on: April 20, 2015, 01:02:12 PM »

America needs a good Terror.
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« Reply #18 on: April 22, 2015, 03:22:22 PM »

Isn't his what we've been hearing recently from progressives: someone running a small business can't decline to be a part of a religious ceremony?
This has nothing to do with a business picking and choosing who they serve from the general public.

Never mind the fact that gay marriages aren't religious ceremonies.

Are they different than other marriages in this respect?  Even if it is not a religious ceremony for some because they have removed the religious belief and are left with only its ritual form and setting, you are telling someone the must perform for something that to them has a religious significance counter to their beliefs.  It is like telling a Jehovah's Witness he must say the Pledge of Allegiance, or telling the Quaker he must swear an oath in court.
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« Reply #19 on: April 22, 2015, 04:24:13 PM »

I love the actual quote:
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Will Jewish temples and Muslim mosques be required to move their services to Sundays? Or will that be a moot point after everyone goes to Christian re-education camps?

Ugh, bad theology is bad
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« Reply #20 on: April 22, 2015, 04:29:30 PM »

Yes, the GOP are bordering on fascism.  Next story, please. 
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« Reply #21 on: April 22, 2015, 05:38:28 PM »

In defense of the 2nd amendment but wants to violate the 1st, the irony.
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« Reply #22 on: April 22, 2015, 09:41:58 PM »

LOLOLOL.

I love the actual quote:
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Will Jewish temples and Muslim mosques be required to move their services to Sundays? Or will that be a moot point after everyone goes to Christian re-education camps?
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« Reply #23 on: April 22, 2015, 10:18:30 PM »

Yes, the GOP are bordering on fascism.  Next story, please. 
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« Reply #24 on: April 22, 2015, 10:40:00 PM »

because no one's ever done something stupid in a church :b
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