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finnbow 04-21-2015 07:18 AM

Conservatives: Gay Marriage Causes More Abortions
 
As the Supreme Court prepares to take up same-sex marriage next week, conservative scholars have produced a last-ditch argument to keep the scourge of homosexual unions from spreading across the land: Gay marriage kills. They’re saying that legalizing same-sex marriage will cause 900,000 abortions.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...afa_story.html

Who'da thunk it?

Tom Joad 04-21-2015 07:27 AM

I am convinced, and have been for some time, that what we are witnessing today in America, is mass insanity of those on the political right.

Ike Bana 04-21-2015 08:30 AM

Conservatives and Republican politicians will never be willing to keep their delusional religiously based agenda out of the government of this country and in church where it belongs. Unless and until they do, any American of good conscience will find it impossible to vote for any of them for any elected office. By the policy and platform of the party, by their pandering to, and universal support of the religious right and teabag nitwits, they make it impossible to consider a vote for a single one of them.

Don't approve of gay marriage? Don't marry anybody of your sex. Don't approve of current abortion law? Don't have an abortion. Don't approve of medical confidentiality statutes? Tough shit.

BlueStreak 04-21-2015 08:57 AM

Every step taken contrary to their beliefs, that has little or no negative impact is another slap in the face to their beliefs.

I don't really care about that.........until they finally wrest control of the government and begin implementing Christian Sharia.

Dave

donquixote99 04-21-2015 10:46 AM

What we are witnessing is reality creation by the RW propagandists, who have rediscovered that actual reality is not important to their purposes.

If people will believe in an invisible Big Father in the Sky, they will believe anything.

bobabode 04-21-2015 11:18 AM

"Conservative" + "scholars" are two words that should never appear in the same sentence.

nailer 04-21-2015 11:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by finnbow (Post 267727)
As the Supreme Court prepares to take up same-sex marriage next week, conservative scholars have produced a last-ditch argument to keep the scourge of homosexual unions from spreading across the land: Gay marriage kills. They’re saying that legalizing same-sex marriage will cause 900,000 abortions.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...afa_story.html

Who'da thunk it?

I am unable to rationally imagine how this can be so. IIRC when the Cadre of the Right came to power we were told that ketchup was a serving of fruit/vegetable, a tree polluted the air more than a new car, trickl...

Tom Joad 04-22-2015 05:43 PM

Wow. :rolleyes:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/0...usaolp00000592
Quote:

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments next week for and against bans on same-sex marriage, and many are hopeful that it will eventually rule in favor of expanding marriage equality.

So what are social conservatives to do to stop it? According to Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), they can block the Supreme Court from considering it at all.

King unveiled a bill on Wednesday that would bar federal courts from hearing any cases related to the definition of marriage.

"We could pass this bill before the Supreme Court could even hear the oral arguments, let alone bring a decision down in June," he said at a press conference. "That would stop it right then, there would be no decision coming out of the Supreme Court. This is a brake, and whether we can get the brake on or not between now and June, that we don't know."

bobabode 04-22-2015 05:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Tom Joad (Post 267962)

So much for respecting the constitution.

donquixote99 04-22-2015 06:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bobabode (Post 267964)
So much for respecting the constitution.

Unfortunately, this looks constitutional:

From Article III, Section 2, highlight added:

Quote:

In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.
If Congress passed an exception, Supreme Court jurisdiction would go away.

But such exception-making can be vetoed, so actually there's nothing to worry about here. This is just grandstanding as usual.


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