FROM 2012 INTO 2013 POLITICS THREAD

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

And boy, that's been done so much by those "reparative therapy" types.

 

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I'm talking one's choice to seek it. Big difference. Catch up, please.

 

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Centuries of slaves, along with blacks who couldn't sit where they pleased on city buses or eat at particular restaurants, would call the LGBT community the most overrated and exaggerated civil rights victims of all time.

If only those people had the per capita cash and lawyers of the overrated, the 1964 law would have been active in 1880.

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

I'm sure that no gay teen has ever been forced by his or her Christian parents to attend a gay conversion camp.

Oh no, wait. I mean a large number of gay teens are forced into 'reparative therapy' camps by their Christian parents.

gaylife.about.com/od/religion/i/ex_gay.htm

 

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Was pretty sure the implied blue font was obvious. Will try again:

And boy, that's been done so much by those "reparative therapy" types. [/bluefont]

 

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Parents have legal rights to do so. Oh wait, Hillary Clinton wanted a village.

 

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Oh, Ok ... you're right, that is the same thing as "gays grabbing Christians off the street" ... [/bluefont]*

*for DEDW

 

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They'll probably have that right under their "hate crimes" legislation, once it gets spun the right way. Because this, now that it is a political monster, will go way beyond marriage rights.

 

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Here. Because you're charming when you pretend to be opaque, I'll amend the sentence to read:

How would you feel if parents started grabbing their Christian teenagers out of the living room and shipping them off to be deprogrammed?

 

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So, Geithner cleaned up his signature before he put it on our currency:

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/economy/geithner-interviews/timothy-geithners-signature-not-fit-print

Some reports that Lew might as well, though it's gotten so much attention already. The President just joked about it during the announcement.

 

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If only Bernie Madoff had just gotten another $50 from each of his investors their investments all would have been saved. :

 

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Are there many Christian teens whose parents aren't the same?

I would not be supportive of a parent sending his gay child to this kind of therapy. (Though I don't think it should be illegal for an adult who seeks it.)

But, parents do try to "save" their kids from religious cults. And, I'd bet an atheistic couple would be horrified by their teen becoming a Christian.