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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
If child molestation didn't, a little adultery doesn't stand a chance.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Dugger spent was the spokesperson for a half a nmillion dollar campaign here that called households andasked them to oppose gay marriage by force if needed and equated gays tonpedopholes.
This is the same woman who knew her son was abusing other children including her own children and not only didn't help her children get treatment, she didn't stop the activity either.
She beast is a very polite term for what that creature is.
And no, that isn't dehumanizing because the most frustrating thing is that isthe very human thing that happens especially here.
Case after case of child abuse here in Arkansas is almost word for word what happened in the Duggars and it keeps happening because everyone doesn't do shit about it. Including law enforcement and prosecutors.
This contributes to everything from higher suicide rates to teen pregnancy to rape culture, to a myriad of other social problems in a state that is regularly last in any progress measure.
Those people are the very abominations they like to claim gays are
"Psssh. Even if you could catch a miracle on a picture any person would probably delete it to make space for more porn." - AszurShe beast is a term associated with sexism and mens right activism types.
It's not that it's an inapt term, it's just that it's a term that you shouldn't use due to connotations attached to it.
It's like using swastikas due to their original religious significance. Sure, technically it may apply, but, uhhh, dude. It's a swastika.
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Things like that depend entirely on context. If it's being used in a place where basically everyone is going to be aware of the original meaning I don't think they should concern themselves about a few westerners or whoever misinterpreting their symbols usages.
edited 19th Aug '15 9:12:35 PM by LSBK
To play devil's advocate, an amendment that completely contradicts a lot of the rest of the constitution is arguably unconstitutional.
Leviticus 19:34Technically, it is not. That's the thing: the Constitution is, by definition, the highest law of the land. What it says supersedes all other laws. If it says that people born here are citizens, then that is literally constitutional. It doesn't matter whether the thing it says is in an amendment or the original text. The Constitution may only be changed by the vote of three quarters of the states and two thirds of Congress.
Trump's assertion would be laughable in its ignorance, except that he speaks to people for whom the matter is dead serious.
If two parts of the Constitution were to directly contradict each other, it would be up to the Supreme Court to render judgment, but there is nothing in the 14th that contradicts anything else.
edited 19th Aug '15 9:56:25 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"An amendment repealing part or all of the 14th would say so in its text. That's how Prohibition got repealed.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"On the crazy young Trump supporter front, there's a third possible group. Left wing nuts who want the world to burn. They feel that Democrat and Republican are just the same brand of right wing pain and that if we bounce between the two it will never end, so what we have to do is elect a crazy right wing nut who will go so far to the right that they will ruin the country and inspire a communist revolution/proper leftist electoral victory (the last bit varies depending on how violent the person is).
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranAn argument could be made that the sky is green, From a Certain Point of View. Unless it can be made in and acknowledged by the courts, it's just sour grapes.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

So this last nail in the coffin should shut up the Duggars and the hateful bile they spew, right?
Please?
edited 19th Aug '15 6:16:47 PM by Rationalinsanity
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