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I can't figure out if you are mentally retarded, a fascist, or both.
Or maybe you are just a troll.
My following comment here isn't directed specifically at DocMcStuffins. This thread just gave me the opportunity to rant about something that's been getting to me.I can't figure out if you are mentally retarded, a fascist, or both.
Or maybe you are just a troll.
My following comment here isn't directed specifically at DocMcStuffins. This thread just gave me the opportunity to rant about something that's been getting to me.
To be clear I didn't vote for Trump nor for Hillary. But it seems that these days anytime, anyone disagrees with someone about a political issue it's not long before people start throwing out terms like Fascist or Nazi. To use the term so loosely shows a lack of understanding of what they did to the world 75 years ago. More than that, it's intellectual laziness. If you disagree with what someone is saying argue your point rationally. This is what turns me off about American politics these days. It's all turned into a shrill shouting match with very little discussion of ideas.
Rant finished. I will say no more.
I kinda like Trump's Executive Order on Religious Freedom
post something of a real opinion instead of reactionary semi-trollish threads.
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Agreed. Stop letting other people think for you and write something of your own true value. Just like the idiots on FB that can't think for themselves and do that copy/paste bullshit from someone else's status. (no offense to anyone who does, but really, have some original thought)
Correct sir. Citizen Kane (Character: Charles Kane)PS
Is that Orson Wells in the gif?
He simply isn't qualified for the job. He isn't a statesman or diplomatic at all, he speaks unfiltered and that is going to continue to cause gigantic problems and disruptions for the US Government at home and abroad.
A lot of people are attracted to him because of his unfiltered mouth and Twitter feed, but I say it is what makes him such a terrible choice as president.
watch the video
I watched the video and found it devoid of meaningful content.
It basically amounted to "yay religious freedom" without explaining what the executive order would practically do, or how we didn't have religious freedom previously.
what's wrong about this post?
However from the standpoint of LGBT activist groups, they are solidly against any legislation or executive order that would allow the denial of services to a gay person.
Well look, the definition of a fascist is someone who thinks the rights of corporations is more important than the rights of minorities. That was true in nazi Germany and it is true today.
As someone for who thinks the US (and Japan by extension of the US written constitution) gets the issue of religious freedom right, the problem is that this video does not actually say what POTUS Trump would do or what religious freedom means in this context.
Unfortunately the phrase gets used in a kind of partisan way that really doesn't have anything to do with 1st Amendment protections. The issue gets especially complicated when considering Constitutional protections vs federal/state/local legislation on issues such as health insurance.
Problem here is that the alphabet soup activist groups don't really have much in the way of Constitutional law to support this and certainly nothing that would override 1st Amendment protections.
Note I'm not saying that actual Constitutional rights should be denied to citizens of the US, just that the law isn't about fashionable causes and rights don't get invented out of thin air.
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Yeah, i actually agree. I think the opinion those extremist Christians have on gay people is disgusting, but why force someone who hates you to service you?I think the free market can solve this particular issue better than the government.
What do you like about it? It might be nice to actually post something of a real opinion instead of reactionary semi-trollish threads.
Yeah, i actually agree. I think the opinion those extremist Christians have on gay people is disgusting, but why force someone who hates you to service you?
If don't want customers? Good. Hopefully they'll feel it in their wallets!
Now, if its services like a hospital or something, i think it should be illegal for them to act on their religious believes. But a bakery? It must not be so hard to find another who will gladly make a beautiful wedding cake for you.
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Agreed. Stop letting other people think for you and write something of your own true value. Just like the idiots on FB that can't think for themselves and do that copy/paste bullshit from someone else's status. (no offense to anyone who does, but really, have some original thought)
I watched the video and found it devoid of meaningful content.
It basically amounted to "yay religious freedom" without explaining what the executive order would practically do, or how we didn't have religious freedom previously.
It was a little ambiguous, but in context of the events from the past four years and Trump's campaign promises to the religious-right wing of the Republican Party (Evangelicals), it is talking about allowing business owners the right to refuse service to gay customers based on religious beliefs.
There were a couple high profile court cases that involved a bakery shop refusing to bake a wedding cake for a gay wedding. There was another case that involved a florist refusing to deliver flower arrangements to a gay wedding.
It is basically only an issue that Southern Baptists care about.
Most gay folks I know wouldn't be patrons at a bible thumping bakery or flower shop in the first place.
However from the standpoint of LGBT activist groups, they are solidly against any legislation or executive order that would allow the denial of services to a gay person.
In other words, it is an "election season issue" that was whipped into a much bigger deal than it really was.
While I couldn't see the source of that video because it is embedded, my guess is that the video was produced by an evangelical group to in an attempt to get Trump to fulfill his campaign promise to push for a "religious freedom" act that allows business owners to deny service to gays based on their religious beliefs.
Trump over promised his ass off during the campaign and the group that made that video is trying to rally evangelicals to go to Whitehouse.org to pressure him into keeping his promise to them.
My guess is that Trump won't follow through on this.
It is a classic example of playing to the emotions of an extreme wing of a political party.
The evangelicals got played as chumps, which isn't surprising since they are gullible enough to believe the ridiculous shit in the Bible.
the video wasn't created by an evangelical group. It was created by Alliance Defending Freedom, which is made up of lawyers