[quote]Obama is following the precedent he set as Senator from Illinois. He supported a bill that prohibited any negative information about homosexuality, cross dressing, etc be taught in comprehensive sex ed programs.[/quote] Define "negative information".
[quote]Businesses are public places (typically) - public as in it might be accessbale to the general public as customers or employees.[/quote] This is being covered in another thread so I won't belabor the point too much other than to say that open to the public is NOT the same as a public place like a park. If it is a business it is owned by someone who should be allowed to set the rules over what goes on inside as long as it is lawful. Banning smoking in privately owned
[quote]If they could create life they would have by now in a lab and they cannot. Heck they can't even save every embryo they implant in the IVF process.[/quote] So they haven't been able to successfully recreate the womb, it doesn't mean they won't be able to at some point in the future. [quote]Those who are pro-abortion protest war.[/quote] Just for the record, I am NOT pro-abortion, I am pro-choice. I would like nothing more than for abortion to not be necessa
[quote]The moment it was bailed out by the government it stopped being a true private company.[/quote] No they didn't. In most cases the government only provided a loan or bought shares int he company neither of which stops the company from being a private company. While shareholders do have some say in how a company functions there are limits on shareholders power and the same limits should apply to the shares owned by the government. The government had thei
Usually I am all about cutting government spending. However when it comes to our combat veterans I think they should be taken care of 100%, at least from a medical standpoint. There is no combat veteran who should ever be denied any healthcare (mental or physical) that they need and they shouldn't have to pay a cent out of pocket for it. They have already paid the ultimate price by putting their lives on the line to protect this country.
[quote]He's never going to tell a woman to go get an abortion. [/quote] How do you know that you have already admitted that man cannot possibly understand the actions that God performs so how could you possibly know that he would never tell a woman to get an abortion? [quote]He tells us when we are faced with a life and death situation like this that we should choose life.[/quote] How does war factor into this. In war we are faced with the choice between life and
[quote]Case in point look at the smoking bans going on...thats just one example of the gov steping in telling private companies what they can and can not do ( even though said substance is legal )[/quote] I've been against those as well. [quote]O really its just now starting to scare you?[/quote] The intrusion of this government into our lives has been scaring me for some time now, I just wish there was something that could be done to stop it. I've tried writing
1. How interested are you in the sex life of other people? (X) I couldn't care less. ( ) I don't want them to do it where I will see it. ( ) I am very concerned! I need to know what they do and how they do it. 2. If two men enter a "civil union" or sign a contract about the sale of a car of the one to the other, what rights should you have in that deal? (X) I couldn't care less. ( ) I need to know that their d
[quote]God's ways are not our ways. We all die, we all have a clock in our systems that are running backwards. One day, the clock for you and me will stop. For some the clock doesn't tick very long and for others it does. God, in his providence declared this particular baby would only live for a short amount of time. It's his perogative, not ours. [/quote] So who's to say that God didn't grant the doctors the knowledge to perform abortions to help him carry out some of these short tim
[quote]Still, for someone who dismisses evidence as "statistical bullshit" (no doubt it's just a coincidence that plenty of people who smoke or are exposed to second hand smoke happen to get lung cancer...), I can tell there'll be no convincing you of even the most blindingly obvious things. Still, I was hoping I'd get to see at least one person try to deny the harm caused by smoking on this thread though - only on JU![/quote] This merely proves a correlation NOT a causal relationship
I have been against all of the bailouts and stimulus bills from the get-go. The problem is that none of them are actually aimed at doing anything but making people (and now companies) dependent on the government to survive and that never leads to good things. Hell just today I was watching an interview with Barney Frank related to the recent bonuses paid to AIG employees where he was actually suggesting that the US Government start firing execs at AIG since the government owns 80%
[quote]well it's hard to budge when you're right! The question is who's right? [/quote] And that's my point. You think that you're right, I think that I'm right. I'm open to changing my mind but citing stuff from the bible isn't going to change my mind, and I doubt there is anything that I can say to change your mind.
[quote]Just yesterday there was a news story that a man was given 10 years imprisonment for viewing child pornography and another man who sexually molested a child got a year and probation![/quote] I definitely agree that are justice system is far too lenient on sexual predators. Too often the victim is blamed for the act: "She shouldn't have dressed that way", "She shouldn't have had so much to drink", etc. When it comes to cases of rape we should require much longer pris
[quote]The laws of the land are about protecting and benefitting the common good of society. Since when is it beneficial to the common good of society for the law to treat cohabitation (of any arrangement) equal to marriage?[/quote] Equal in the eyes of the law and that's all. If you want to think of them as unequal in the eyes of god that's your perogative. Imagine for a second that you are deathly ill and you are in your hospital room about ready to flat line and there i
[quote]you're only saying that El-D because I had not only experienced what we're discussing but I was able to show how what seems like a disaster be anything but in the end. I'm no diff than anyone else. I believe we always reap what we have sown. I'm saying that it's never right to do the wrong thing and I want to help others to see what I'm saying is absolutely true. There are lots and lots of success stories like mine and the one I shared about the Pastor in NY. And to take the life of an
[quote]Scientists have confirmed that at the moment the sperm and the egg join (fertilization), new human life is created, and is completely different from his/her mother. The creation of a baby occurs at ferttilization and zygote stage begins the nine month journey.[/quote] This is still a bone of contention, and will remain one for a long time to come. For me pregnancy doesn't occur until the egg has implanted in the uterus and all of the pills, and plan B, certainly prevent
[quote]The person doing the rape isn't practicing chasity. The victim of the rape can have been chaste before and after the rape.[/quote] And what is the woman supposed to do if she is impregnated by the rapist. As someone who has known more than one woman who has been raped I know that they would have felt tortured having to carry a child to term after such an act. Luckily none of them got pregnant from the event. But this is why things like Plan B need to exist to
[quote]I disagree. Plan B does both...prevents contraception and kills the baby.[/quote] No it doesn't "kill the baby" any more than the regular birth control pills do. Plan B prevents conception and must be taken within 72 hours of the intercourse. In fact the longer you wait the less chance it has to be effective. It will NOT terminate an existing pregnancy therefore does NOT kill a baby. Your article is obviously biased from the get go because it refers to
I'm trying really hard not to get pulled into the abortion debate once again but I feel it happening. [quote]use Plan B, which is abortion.[/quote] Plan B is NOT abortion. RU 486 is the abortion pill. Plan B is like a heavy dose of the birth control pill that will help to prevent conception, if you are already pregnant taking Plan B will NOT terminate the pregnancy. [quote]On #6, my point is and has always been there are no "mistakes" when the virtue of cha
[quote]IN MY WORLD, A BABY IS NEITHER A MISTAKE NOR A PUNISHMENT...THEY ARE GIFTS AND MIRACLES FROM GOD. [/quote] Just because you don't see a baby as a mistake or a punishment doesn't mean that everyone agrees with you. To a young woman in high school who had plans on going to college it could be seen as a punishment if that child prevents them from going to college to pursue the career that they wanted. In my wife's case a pregnancy could kill her, that is definitely a p
[quote]Either way, whether one supports laws that prohibit murder or not is a question of one's religion.[/quote] I disagree but we can just agree to disagree on this point. [quote]It's not a recommendation. It's a law. It is indeed FORBIDDEN for Jews to eat certain animals by Jewish law. If you read your Bible you will see that the "abominations" in question are listed on stone tablets given to the Israelites as their law. It has nothing to do with other peoples and I don't s
[quote]Yes, it is. That's what religion is: law. (In Hebrew there is only one word for "law" and "religion": "dath"). That's what the Bible was, originally, a law book. And it just happened to outlaw murder.[/quote] But just because it was in the bible and it happens to be outlawed in the United States (and other countries) doesn't mean that the law was based on religion. [quote]It's the English translation (and the Latin translation) that use the word "abomination" and it is
[quote]The law that murder is wrong is based on a religious definition too. Does that mean that not legalising murder means forcing someone's religion on everyone?[/quote] No it's not. You don't need religion to know that killing people is wrong. You need to outlaw murder to have order in society, you don't need to bar homosexuals from getting married to have order in society. [quote]No. Why would Eskimos have to follow the same law as a desert people?[
[quote]Oh, c'mon? You know as well as I that when it comes to our Presidents, we know their middle names and certainly their middle initials. Right off the top of my head, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, William Jefferson Clinton, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard M. Nixon, John Quincy Adams, etc.[/quote] But how many of those presidents were referred to by their middle names when they preferred to be addressed by their first names? During the run up to the election last year many on the r
[quote]Just curious. Then where does the hope that you have in your heart come from then, if not from Almighty God?[/quote] My hope comes from my knowledge that humans are a resilient species. We have faced many trials and tribulations through our time on this earth and I have hope that we will be able to conquer anything that is thrown our way. Some need faith in a diety to have that hope, my faith, if you want to call it that, is in humanity.