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7 Republicans Flipped Their Vote on LGBT Amendment, Setting Them Up for Attack
Rollcall ^ | May 15, 2016

Posted on 05/19/2016 3:59:20 PM PDT by SMGFan

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To: SMGFan

Sodomy is not a civil right.....


21 posted on 05/19/2016 5:20:43 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: SMGFan

Does anyone really believe they’ll lose one vote over voting “against” the LBGT garbage?


22 posted on 05/19/2016 5:34:49 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (The day Trump is sworn in I'm changing my screen name.)
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To: SMGFan

election issue , that’s all the gay thing is to the democrats ,nothing else


23 posted on 05/19/2016 5:38:58 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: butlerweave

Imposing sexual dictates on everyone is the highest of all Democratic goals. The holy sacrament used to be abortion. Now it’s placing men in girls’ showers.


24 posted on 05/19/2016 5:44:07 PM PDT by heye2monn
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To: SMGFan

1. National Security and terrorism
2. The Economy
3. Employment and Jobs
4. Healthcare and the Affordable Care Act

These are all voter priorities. Social issues aren’t ranking up there for either party’s base. I can certainly understand why the Democrats might want social issues to dominate though, they are distracting. They also don’t disrupt on ANY level the nonsense that is causing so much misery to people of all persuasions, be they straight or LGBT.


25 posted on 05/19/2016 5:48:07 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen... -Emerson)
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To: SMGFan

Nice try Nancy, but the voters this year want a bit more than social issues and the politics of division.

We’d like an economy that works. We’d like a government that makes sense. We’d like elected officials who do their jobs.


26 posted on 05/19/2016 5:54:58 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen... -Emerson)
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To: SMGFan

The disgusting, unnatural things homosexuals do used to be a crime.
Then it morphed into a mental disorder, per the American Psychiatric Association.
Then it was just disgusting and shameful.
Then they said, “We just want to be tolerated.”
Then, “We need acceptance.”
Finally, “We want your approval and encouragement. And tax dollars.”
Make it a crime again.


27 posted on 05/19/2016 6:05:28 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: American in Israel

For a long time, the Left insisted the Right stay out of their bedrooms.
Now the Left is demanding we respect & facilitate what happens therein.


28 posted on 05/19/2016 6:07:15 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ("Get the he11 out of my way!" - John Galt)
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To: American in Israel

Personal experience, actual events.
I’m female, up until recently, worked at a defense contractor. These companies have gone far left because rewarding federal contracts went to companies with a high score by the Out and Equal Index, and it is cheaper to socially engineer the workforce than build a better jet or cheaper missile.
Since 2014, things went way far left. Examples include:
* a black man teaching a seminar on what white guys really think, demonizing white guys and included a white guy changing his Christian beliefs because his son came out as homosexual
* several company newsletters celebrating guys coming out and leaving spouses in the process. In one team meeting, they gushed on about how he left his wife and his kids were OK with it. I said I felt sorry for his wife and kids. What? I repeated. My kids are supportive, I was told. Your oldest is ten, and they may not even understand that Daddy is breaking up the family to go live with a man. They said he had no choice. I said he had enough choice to make four kids in ten years. Was reprimanded for that.
* Social engineering is company policy. All of this comes from http://cmsdr2.tcs.tulane.edu/equity/upload/UnconsciousBias.pdf
which is being taught in the HR seminars.
After yet another company newsletter on various sexual oddities as featured employees and diversity minutes in every team meeting, I asked why we weren’t celebrating contract wins or CMMI certification. I was told this is for diversity and inclusion. I stated that as a married woman, I wasn’t comfortable with the constant celebration of adultery, and if they want to live their lives, that is fine, but there is a point at which it is sexual harassment to everyone else. HR stated it COULD NOT BE sexual harassment, because the inclusion effort meant they had to be comfortable, everyone else’s comfort was irrelevant. I was told they just want love, peace, tolerance, and many people just state it is their beliefs in the name of hate. I brought up that my deeply held religious beliefs were the basis of my beliefs, shared by a church and school. And the private school had faced threats of being burned down kids inside because they declined accepting a lesbian’s child, which does not sound like love, but good branding. HR got involved. They said that I could just be saying it is my religious beliefs to oppose these seminars and statements. I stated that I could bring up financial statements that I was paying more in private tuition than my mortgage to send the kids to the school - and newspaper articles on the furor of the private school being threatened. HR said my views were unacceptably judgmental. And using the term adultery was deemed judgemental, another reprimand.
* A man sought advice on his teenaged under age son coming out. Boys didn’t like him, so now he wants to be transgender. The father asked for advice. I sent him Dr. Paul McHugh’s article in the Wall Street Journal on why surgery was not the answer. I was reported for violations of diversity policy. Had to go to diversity training.
* Dealt with sexual harassment by a transgender (man in dress) who considered it of the utmost importance to be one of the girls. He asked for a girls’ lunch, and I refused. He asked for my schedule, maybe drinks, I said I would not go to any such meal with him. He pressed as to why, I said it was because he wasn’t a woman. Then he went full catty. He criticized me hair, my clothing, my relative lack of makeup. He’d follow me into the bathroom, block the stall, lecture me. He tracked when I had my period and would comment on it. I reported the sexual harassment to my manager, who said have a coming to Jesus meeting. I reported it to HR, they said it was a dispute between two women, referred to manager. I referred it to ethics, they said it was HR’s role. When the guy actually interfered with my work and another IT manager diagnosed it, during an outage no less, THEN HR reprimanded him - because when 200 customers are shut out and they asked why, I told every single person who called me that X had altered my system permissions, so I cannot help you until that is fixed. I was able to get reassignment after that event, and he was reprimanded for the work interference.
* The president of the company bragged about leaning on the governor of Indiana about their proposed rules to say if you think it is religious blasphemy, you don’t have to do it. I submitted a question in a forum that if they were going to support LBGT rights, when would we lean in on Saudi Arabia, which executes homosexuals? I was told that’s not culturally appropriate.
* A woman asked for advice about her husband wanting to cheat with a man on the side while being married to her, so he could be “out” but not break up the family. I stated that some women tolerate adultery no matter with whom to keep the family together but others don’t. So if you want a good divorce attorney, I can get you a referral, if you want to stay together for the kids, get disease testing and put strict limits on how he uses your money.

I’ve changed to a small employer, but this is the bulk of the BS that a major defense contractor was doing. Deliberate social engineering with constant profiling and “education” of employees, non-stop, down to shaming those who don’t agree. When I left, they had even tied raises to completing extra diversity modules and being a diversity “leader”, taking action or agreeing you changed your views.
All because Obama tied it to the money.


29 posted on 05/19/2016 6:30:35 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: Salvation

See if even ONE of them gets diselected for going non-PC!


30 posted on 05/19/2016 6:36:12 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: tbw2

Thank you for your post and the truth you told. This insanity will be the rule for any institution receiving federal tax dollars - hospitals, schools, to name the low hanging fruit. Consequently, some very sick people will get no help, and people like us will be cast as the demons for resisting.


31 posted on 05/19/2016 7:52:46 PM PDT by Sioux-san
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To: Salvation

Hopefully they are getting a spine!


Hopefully they realized “Who” they ultimately answer to. It so amazes me the number of legislators we have these days who don’t even flinch at the mention of God’s wrath. Woe to our country if we don’t start turning things around.


32 posted on 05/19/2016 8:41:13 PM PDT by Maudeen (Sinner Saved by Grace)
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To: Maudeen

So true!


33 posted on 05/19/2016 9:16:52 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Gator113

viginas = vaginas

Maybe I spelled it wrong because I have a slightly different name for it.


34 posted on 05/19/2016 10:36:32 PM PDT by Gator113 (~~Vote Trump 2016~~ Just livin' life my way. Don't worry, everything's gonna be alright. 👍)
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To: Sasparilla
Republicans start to grow a spine? Or, just a fluke?

Neither - some saw their next election going down the tubes if they allowed it to pass as the Dims wanted....Trump is a game changer....

35 posted on 05/20/2016 3:24:34 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Gator113

Maybe I spelled it wrong because I have a slightly different name for it.

i thought you were just expressing a fondness for virgins...


36 posted on 05/20/2016 7:14:50 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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