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brooklynite

(94,595 posts)
Sun Aug 2, 2015, 08:40 PM Aug 2015

RNC set to vote on anti-gay resolutions at summer meeting

Washingotn Blade:

n the same week Republican presidential candidates are scheduled to slug it out in their first official debate, the Republican National Committee is set to vote during its summer meeting on resolutions against same-sex marriage and in favor of anti-gay sex education in schools, the Washington Blade has learned.

The Blade obtained text of two proposed anti-gay resolutions and a third relatively pro-gay counter-proposal on the table for discussion during the upcoming meeting in Cleveland, Ohio.

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One resolution, titled “Resolution for Balanced Sex-Ed in Schools,” was introduced by former Michigan State House lawmaker and RNC member Dave Agema. It encourages schools “teaching the homosexual lifestyle in their sexual education class” to “also include the harmful physical aspects of the lifestyle.”


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Another resolution, titled “To Reserve, Strip and Pursue,” was introduced by Republican National Committee member Ross Little of Louisiana directly. The proposal responds to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage by calling for action from Congress saying the ruling violates the U.S. Constitution.
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Hydra

(14,459 posts)
2. Look at all of those fossils, trying to go back to the way it was
Sun Aug 2, 2015, 08:46 PM
Aug 2015

I especially like the proposed rollback in Congress, trying to use freedom of religion to support eliminating other people's rights.

I think we need some more Church of Satan and Flying Spaghetti monster movements to show them how freedom of religion really looks.

RKP5637

(67,111 posts)
4. K&R! So fed up with these jerks, they really need to go get a life! They are obsolete and
Sun Aug 2, 2015, 08:54 PM
Aug 2015

also demonstrate their stupidity more and more each day.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
6. Sam Harris had a great thought experiment about the utter ridiculousness
Sun Aug 2, 2015, 09:25 PM
Aug 2015

of religion: Substitute "Zeus" or "Amon-Ra" for "god" anytime you hear/see the word and contemplate how incredibly fucking silly it sounds/looks.

 

YOHABLO

(7,358 posts)
3. If these people really cared about the fate of the U.S., they'd focus on other issues.
Sun Aug 2, 2015, 08:53 PM
Aug 2015

Homosexuality is their red meat issue. They have nothing else to throw out there.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
5. What in the hell motivates people to this level of
Sun Aug 2, 2015, 09:22 PM
Aug 2015

utter irrationality and hatred? Oh, that's right, religion.

"Frederick Douglass told in his Narrative how his condition as a slave became worse when his master underwent a religious conversion that allowed him to justify slavery as the punishment of the children of Ham. Mark Twain described his mother as a genuinely good person, whose soft heart pitied even Satan, but who had no doubt about the legitimacy of slavery, because in years of living in antebellum Missouri she had never heard any sermon opposing slavery, but only countless sermons preaching that slavery was God's will. With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil — that takes religion." Nobel Prize winning physicist Steven Weinberg

Fucking psychopaths.

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