Who dislikes a bunch of diaper wearing freak Republicans preaching to you about morality?

Man, I just hate it.

Don

Bleh!

my fundie in-laws have a bumper sticker that says "I'm not perfect, just forgiven".....:rofl:

All they have to do is say Jesus forgives them and they can do just about anything. (Except stand still during a Hindu prayer. Clearly God values loyalty over morality.)

:hi:

It is the governments place to insure that everyone's rights are protected. We each are free to determine our own sense of morality. Whether that comes from a book, heart, or brain.

Governments that represent their citizens do have to make choices that involve morality. It's just that the assclowns in charge for way too long choose to let what should be private moral/religious beliefs get in the way of looking at the bigger picture of what is best for the majority of the citizens - and determining "best" is itself a moral decision.

I hesitate to make it an absolute statement but I do not believe that the government has any place legislating morality. All things worthy of the governments control involve protecting rights. Perhaps you could suggest some law that legislates a moral position alone and is not built on the idea of supporting rights that is defensible. There are certainly laws on the books that do attempt to legislate morality. But that does not make them just in a supposedly free society.

But what are those rights? I have the "right" to not be murdered, but where does that right come from? What if I'm just a burden on my tribe, clan, neighborhood, state, nation or any other socially-contrived group? My right to not be murdered derives from my willingness to enter into the "social contract", but if I'm not fulfilling my end of that bargain, why should the other parties to the agreement continue to look out for my interests? I think the answer is that they don't have to, and thus, if they do, they are doing so out of a moral obligation.

While wearing their diapers. I could use the laugh.

get it straight, wouldja?

What's the deal? They have to blow them over here so they don't have to blow them over there. Or whatever....

have some skeletons in their closet.

:shrug:

I must have missed something. What's with that?

when it came to diapers.

ewe.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0707/11/sitroom.01.html

ARMEY: Well, you know, Armey's axiom is, you can't stand on principle with feet of clay.

And David Vitter has made it a matter of his principle in seeking the office, and while in office: I'm a righteous man, for the family.

I think this is a difficult time for him. I would be hard- pressed to expect him to survive politically. David Vitter cannot use a "So what?" defense, as Bill Clinton could, because, in fact, he pretended to be something quite different than Bill Clinton did.

And Armey's axiom is, the greater the pretension, the greater the hypocrisy. The next step is, the greater the hypocrisy, the greater the political...

(CROSSTALK)

BLITZER: But what does he say? That he asked his wife for forgiveness. They have gone to marriage counseling.

CARVILLE: Right.

BLITZER: He's now moved beyond that. He admits he -- he sinned.

CARVILLE: Look, to me, I forgive -- I mean, I completely forgive him, but he's -- it's the people of Louisiana he's got to go to. And people in Louisiana are going to say, that's great. I'm just saying, but -- but we don't need to be embarrassed anymore. We don't need to have $90,000 in the freezer. We don't need somebody like getting a prostitute to wear -- getting him to wear a diaper or whatever the story is.

And they feel like that their state -- or our state, I should say, my state -- that we have been tarnished by a lot of this. And people want to move on from that. But he did -- but he -- it's not -- the voters. He's got to ask the forgiveness of the voters at some point. It's not just his wife, or God (INAUDIBLE) forgives everybody.

or after he votes against women controlling their own reproductive choices.

I shit you not. :freak: