Posted on 12/16/2006 11:22:33 AM PST by Blackirish
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney's pregnant lesbian daughter Mary will make a "fine mom," President George W. Bush said, sidestepping his past comment that a child ideally would be raised by a mother and father.
Mary Cheney, 37, and her longtime partner, Heather Poe, are expecting their first child, which would be the sixth grandchild for the vice president. Cheney was hired last year as an executive for America Online.
"I think Mary is going to be a loving soul to her child. And I'm happy for her," Bush said in an interview with People magazine.
The people voted to release Barabbas over Christ too.
"Think how great a portion of mankind consists of weak and ignorant men and women and of inexperienced, inconsiderate youth of both sexes who have need of the motives of religion to restrain them from vice, to support their virtue"
He also said...""When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself so that its professors are obliged to call for the help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.""
In other words...let's not attack the precepts because even if Paine was right...it would do little good to undermine a belief that prevents ignorant people from becoming criminals or drunkards...
Like Paine, I choose to ignore that advice. That is why I posted Biblical law that points out how absurd the proponents of literalism in the Bible are when they make the grand pronouncement "And God said." Man has written in the Bible that God has said much. By any reading of the Old Testament, much of what is attributed to God is, IMO, actually man trying to implement their own personal agenda, much of which is quite evil in its nature.
As Thomas Jefferson wrote in a letter to Horatio Spafford, March 17, 1814..."In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot.... they have perverted the purest religion ever preached to man into mystery and jargon, unintelligible to all mankind, and therefore the safer engine for their purpose."
And I agree with him when he wrote in a letter to Peter Carr, Aug. 10, 1787 ...""Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." -
"Social conservative" is an oxymoron.
You can't both adhere to the tenets of conservatism, the primary ones less government ad more individual freedoms, while simultaneously calling for bigger government and more government intrusion into people's lives.
What the heck. Y'all work for Democrats, or a reasonable facsimile thereof, every day. On a website devoted to conservatism, no less.
Like all liberals, you have no understanding of what true liberty entails.
Keep your gay friends out of the public arena, pushing it in people's faces, and you won't have any problem with the likes of me. If you want to go to hell in handbasket, that's your choice. Ain't nothing gonna stop you.
The Jerry Springer contingent has arrived.
You do understand, do you not, that none of the founders had a problem with sodomy laws. You might research your hero Jefferson's input on the subject in Virginia. What the founders didn't want was legislated religious beliefs/tenets. They had no problem with laws built around the moral principles of a religious people. So this irrational fear of the "religious right" is new mint, not old. The "religious right" as you call them are simply trying to maintain the standards handed down to all of us. If you believe in something you should at least not get away with lying about its origin. The "religious right" holds the historical position on gay issues. It is your position that is being imposed by the government's courts on the people against their will.
I don't particularly care for her but she's probably more fun at a party than you would be.
LOL, keep it up EV, you are a constant source of amusement.
Remember when I predicted that Keyes race would be a raging disaster and would have long term effects?
WWPKD?
(What would President Keyes do?)
Please explain the Spanish Inquisition and how it contributed to the enlightenment of the country? How did throwing out the Jews and the Moors (Arabs) benefit the country in any way? The history class I took in Spain in the 70s seemed to indicate that the repression of the Church (and Christianity and its domination of the government) kept Spain in a dark age much beyond that of the rest of Europe.
BTW, doesn't Alan Keyes have a gay daughter?
Hmm, maybe that wasn't a very good household to raise a child in?
And slavery was legal. Do you want to go back to that, too? Guess slavery is part of how you view conservatism - and, as we discussed before - how about the *place* of women. Do you want us to go back to the 1700's in the way we treat women?
What is he supposed to say? He is stuck in a diplomatic check mate here.
I have always suspected that Lynn Cheny and her daughter were the weak ones in the WH position on the Federal Marriage Amendment.
The Foley scandal has taughts us all well, we need to expose the homosexual staffers whereever they may be to ensure we know who and what we have in our midst.
See you showed up yesterday to take a cheap shot at me and show others how nasty and foul mouthed you are. Couple of posters slapped you around pretty good tho.
Good job knucklehead.
Have a good Sunday.
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