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Why it's worse than Mumbai, or, in the words of HIM, "Hate is hate, in India or America, Let me ask you: Have you not seen the awful similarity between what happened in Mumbai and what's happening right now in our cities? What troubles me so deeply, and should trouble all thinking Americans, is that there is a real, unbroken line between the jihadist savagery in Mumbai and the hedonistic, irresponsible, blindly selfish goals and tactics of our homegrown sexual jihadists.”
danf, Pat Boone must be looking at different cities than the one I live in. All I see is a bunch of sad sacks like myself stumbling around moaning about losing our jobs.
The first words out of Huckabee's mouth in defense of his indefensible position included the word "anatomical".
I was really hoping Stewart would ask him if he opposed marriage between infertile people. How would he have backed out of that dead end? Jeebus, prolly.
I do kinda like Huckabee's vision of returning us to Old Testament times, though. I would dig ruling my slaves with an iron hand from atop my throne of skulls. Then I could go trade some wives around like baseball cards before being decapitated by my rapacious progeny. Now that's livin'.
See, now back inna day we had the Sexual Revolution.
But all that did was give us a bajillion new warts and boring hippies with combovers who are into "The Lifestyle".
Now, it's the 21st century, AIDS is a $2000/month bet with your pharmacist, the Internet is the new fern bar, and well...I guess what I mean to say here is...
I watched that interview earlier today. As much as I disagree with Huckabee, I appreciate the way his approach mirrors Jon's. He's not a shouter, either. Both men afforded each other the modicum of respect that it's so rare to see these days.
Did you hear the one about the Sexual Jihadist? He/she's the same as a religious Jihadist except instead or strapping on a bomb, the Sexual Jihadist just uses a strap-on.
As much as I disagree with Huckabee, I appreciate the way his approach mirrors Jon's. He's not a shouter, either. Both men afforded each other the modicum of respect that it's so rare to see these days.
I agree with you. I am totally opposed to Huckabee's politics (meaning the views I'm aware of), but I have a lot of respect for how he conveys his stance.
No, it should be in English and Gay (the secret language that the World Domination Agenda is written in). Yeah, when BOP & I watched that, I kept yelling "when didja choose not to be gay, Mike?" Glad Stewart asked it, sorry he didn't press it, but was generally very impressed with how he conducted himself. 'Cause I was yelling.
Doesn't covenant marriage (a contract) open the door for other types of contractual marriages? Anything one could dream up, really, including homosexual unions?
We have a gay-marriage 'revival' going on here in our neck of the woods as well, see way back in the early nineties homosexuals were granted the rights for a "registered partnership"in Sweden, and I jumped for joy having been on the frontlines pushing for the right of a union, with all what it implies legally, inheritance, dependant, pension-points and so on. I knew it would open doors to adoption and IVF help but that took a long while coming (donating eggs in Sweden wasn't legal until 2003 and shortly after that, gay couples won the right to be artificially inseminated as well - so ten years!).
A few years back people began pushing harder for a gay marriage (here the word itself is important) and I couldn't figure out why. Some priests have been doing 'blessing ceremonies' in church since the "partnership" law came into effect (some were secretly doing this before but now it is a lot more common). Some churches are opposed to the idea, but what I don't get is... what the hell do they have to do with it? I think a legally binding contract of "marriage" should be only issued by the state, not the Church of the Flying Spaghetti monster, or Luther, or St Pete or whatever. Have it like in France, only the civil marriage counts, the church thing is just your family ceremony/party if you're into that sort of thing. Get married in church and it's not legal until the civil union.
(I've been looking into what is missing from the partnerships laws if you compare to the marriage, legally - and you must be 18 and have close ties to Sweden if you want a partnership, while straight folk can apply for a permission from their local authorities, with the signatures from each parties parents and maaaaybeee get an OK on getting married between 16 an 18. Seems there's some other difference as well. This bugs me, I thought we had cleared this boulder already!)
(then again, I think the age of marriage is fine at eighteen and no special permissions needed, sixteen seems uhm, well a tad young doesn't it? Back in moms day it was at 21, and since she married at nineteen she had her parents applying for permission for her marriage and the way she tells the story they had to ask the King of Sweden. Haven't double checked on that it sounds hilarious. So my father was my mothers guardian when she was 19 and 20, and when she turned 21 and was officially an adult he said "we'll, it's not like I lose any power she's never obeyed me before either")
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