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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: California gay marriage foes set up for utter humiliation |
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Posted: 06 Jun 2008, 1:48 pm
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| No. You might find this surprising, but the Latin populace has very similar attitudes to the white, non-Hispanic populace. Their youths are just as thuggish as any, but teenage brats don't seem to vary much across cultural or ethnic lines. The only group that consistently shows greater opposition to... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: California gay marriage foes set up for utter humiliation |
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Posted: 06 Jun 2008, 11:33 am
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skafather84 wrote: Griff wrote: California, of all states, is least likely of all states to pass a ban against gay marriage. only if the mexicans don't show up to the polls and mexicans hate fags. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: California gay marriage foes set up for utter humiliation |
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Posted: 06 Jun 2008, 10:42 am
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| If passed, the amendment would override the ruling in "In re Marriage Cases" that struck down both the 1977 law and Proposition 22. The Constitution, as amended, would add a new section (Section 7.5) to Article I, placing it between the state Equal Protection clause and nondiscrimination in busines... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: religion: why get offended? |
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Posted: 05 Jun 2008, 4:27 pm
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| If I were looking Death square in the face, let me be quite frank: I do this on a daily basis, and I regularly restate that my life's goal is not to become a rotting, dead corpse or a pile of ashes. I am dying right now due to the slow, lethal cancer of aging that originates at every person's birth,... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: religion: why get offended? |
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Posted: 05 Jun 2008, 3:31 pm
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| Quoth the gryphon: "Umm...I have no intention of dying. Ever." Quoth the Christian: "Oh, is that so?" The man gives the gryphon the cocky smile of someone who thinks he knows better. "Well, I regret to inform you that not one of us can escape death. You will not live forever, and you will have to de... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: California gay marriage foes set up for utter humiliation |
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Posted: 05 Jun 2008, 1:27 pm
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| California, of all states, is least likely of all states to pass a ban against gay marriage. In fact, they have the strongest and most active liberal base of all states, and their supposedly conservative governor has not only failed to endorse the ban but has outright spoken against it. In fact, suc... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Too sexy for my Burka |
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Posted: 23 May 2008, 10:47 am
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| Men enforce it only in the KSA and Iran. Only these two countries. In countries with high illiteracy like Pakistan and India, many Muslim men force their women to wear the hijab, but they make up a minority. The hijab is basically very common in and around the Arabian peninsula, it gets rarer the f... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Too sexy for my Burka |
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Posted: 23 May 2008, 7:32 am
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| Men are psychologically vulnerable, and there are many "date rape" situations in which the male is as much a victim as his partner. It is nonsense to assume that you have to lay your hands on a person in order to violate him or her. It's a murky issue, but it is one that needs to be addressed. I am... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Third term for Bush? |
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Posted: 23 May 2008, 5:40 am
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| Liberals... Do you even know what Liberalism actually is??? :? Whatever Ragtime happens to disagree with at the time. Ragtime's just your typical bigot. One of these days, someone's going to smack him down for his bullhockey, and he's going to be sitting there wondering why. And he STILL won't real... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: I hate to keep beating up on Obama, but... |
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Posted: 22 May 2008, 6:45 pm
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| Anyone running for President, particularly if he is front-runner, will always become a target for some amount of joshing. As ridiculous as some of Obama's gaffes are, though, Ragtime, you are clearly cherry-picking. If I thought that you were doing this for the sake of political humor, which is a ti... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Too sexy for my Burka |
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Posted: 22 May 2008, 6:01 pm
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| The burka is ridiculous, though, and it's counter-productive. Social liberalization and egalitarian compassion is the only strategy that has consistently proven itself effective in reducing sexual mischeif and violent crime. Oppressive taboo is like gasoline on the fire. The hijab can only prevent ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Too sexy for my Burka |
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Posted: 22 May 2008, 4:42 pm
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| ... some men find it incredibly embarrassing to lose their capacity for coherent speech due to some ho's exploitation of their vulnerability. Sexist harassment is ugly (or as the Buddhists might say, "unskilful") no matter which gender is perpetrating it. It's drawing a long bow to call ^this^ "rap... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: California overturned gay-marriage ban today! |
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Posted: 22 May 2008, 4:14 pm
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| 1) How can you declare that which involves society is not part of my business? Do people marry and retreat to the forests? Gay marriage is just as much your business as it is your neighbor's. Yes, if gay marriage is offensive to your scruples, it is your place to feel out of sorts out of it. Howeve... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: California overturned gay-marriage ban today! |
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Posted: 20 May 2008, 7:29 pm
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| It's only a matter of time before "californiacation" effects us all. First it was Massachusetts, now them. In time, all fifty-two states will allow gay marriage. Sorry my fundalmentalist brethren. We now have fifty-seven states, Averick. Barrack Obama said so. See? I can josh the guy. Anyway, only ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Too sexy for my Burka |
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Posted: 20 May 2008, 7:16 pm
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| No one asks to get raped and even if they do, you have self control. More attention should be paid to sexual assault against men, though. It isn't well recognized because it's mostly psychological, but some men find it incredibly embarrassing to lose their capacity for coherent speech due to some h... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Too sexy for my Burka |
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Posted: 20 May 2008, 6:51 pm
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MissConstrue wrote: ^Just as men do and I don't know what you mean by sense of entitlement. I'd like to know why men regularly get raped in divorce settlements. The system's skewed. Unfortunately, it seems sexism is perfectly acceptable as long as the men get shafted. |
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