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GaryWilcox -> RE: The Swedish meatball masacree – never forget! (2/24/2017 2:34:56 PM)
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ORIGINAL: bounty44
ah, here we go again maybe...
could you please elucidate all those laws the "Christian fundamentalists" are wanting to change "based on their beliefs."
as a very helpful part of that answer, could you also enumerate exactly what it is they believe?
and as a small helpful hint, as the Christian faith is not an essential part of being "pro-life", you can forget abortion.
I did, elsewhere. Its weird that you need this pointed out to you, because it has been resisted for the last thirty years in America, and is evident in some of the cabinet postings Trump has made. Seriously, this is something grown-ups talk about all the time-- I am surprised that you aren't at least vaguely aware of these issues. (Unless you're just playing possum and intend to poo-poo all of this with Orwellian double-speak. I wait in eager anticipation.)
The big one is abortion. You are so cute to even suggest that this isn't something that Fundamental Christianity and it's leaders haven't been pushing for years. America has had abortion as a settled issue ever since Roe v. Wade, but Falwell, Graham, and Buchanan spent decades and millions trying to have it overturned with a sympathetic Supreme Court since the day it went live. Many states have introduced their own specific restrictions on abortions in an attempt to make it more and more difficult to have one without government consent. Pence in particular wants to get rid of Roe v. Wade and make abortion illegal again. Which won't stop it from happening... just stop it from happening safe and under legal protections.
Yes, bounty, abortion is a Christian thing. Don't pretend it isn't. That's being dishonest and it makes you look stupid.
The next big one is religion in schools, starting with Intelligent Design. That's basically the biblical creation myth introduced as a 'theory of fact', and teachers are sometimes forced to teach it alongside Evolution. Which means Christianity has already forced its way into high schools all over the land. It is a badly-guarded secret that Trump's Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is a fan of creationism being taught in public schools.
Next would be anything to do with gay or trans-gendered people. It was only two years ago that Kim Davis of Rowan County, Kentucky refused to issue marriage certificates to gay couples (or allow anyone else in her office to do it) because of her Christian beliefs. Instead of practicing the teachings of Christ and letting God sort out the holy and the unholy, she clung to her Leviticus like a sullen child, and eventually lost. Trump has already removed Trans protections and is going back on everything he promised to those poor, dumb Log Cabin Republicans who believed him. Oh, and his Secretary of Education has funded 'gay cure' programs that use electric shock to try and reprogram gay men and women (and children) into heterosexual normals.
All of these things share a common factor: Someone, somewhere, has decided "I want you to live the way I want to live, under my rules", instead of live and let live ideas of 'teach what is not common to all at home' or 'that's someone else's business, not mine'. Why not let gay people get married? Why tell transgender people to use a different bathroom? Why take away someone else's access to abortion? Because you don't like it? That's very, very snowflake-y.
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