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No one got upset when Joe Biden, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and other liberals used the phrase “sexual preference.” But all of a sudden, now that conservative Amy Coney Barrett has used it, the left says it’s offensive, and Merriam-Webster has even,,,
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| October 14, 2020
| Dan from Squirrel Hill
Posted on 10/14/2020 3:56:57 PM PDT by grundle
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posted on
10/14/2020 3:56:57 PM PDT
by
grundle
To: grundle
The best thing to do is keep using language the same way we’ve always used it.
As though these leftists didn’t exist.
Don’t acknowledge their games.
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posted on
10/14/2020 3:59:40 PM PDT
by
reasonisfaith
(What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
To: grundle
There are TWO GENDERS, not 58.
Look in your pants:
If you have junk, you’re a guy.
No junk? You’re a gal.
Wake-up America.
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posted on
10/14/2020 4:00:50 PM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: grundle
Liberal leftists look at the phrase just as black people look at the “N” word...They can use it, but white people better not...
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posted on
10/14/2020 4:03:18 PM PDT
by
JBW1949
(I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
To: grundle
Boomers and older tend to say preference. Millennials and younger usually say orientation. Gen X is a mixed bag. But of course the Left acts like she used a slur that no uses.
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posted on
10/14/2020 4:04:54 PM PDT
by
Stravinsky
(Politeness will not defeat the Marxist revolutionaries)
To: grundle
The issue is never the issue, the language is never the language, the issue and the language is ALWAYS the revolution.
In the beginning was the Word. The Word never changes. NEVER.
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posted on
10/14/2020 4:05:08 PM PDT
by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: grundle
Nothing-burger.
To: reasonisfaith
Or use their stupid language and watch them get upset and throw it away!
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posted on
10/14/2020 4:09:56 PM PDT
by
JudgemAll
(Democrats Fed. job-security in hates:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
To: carriage_hill
These are the Crotch Culture Years.
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posted on
10/14/2020 4:10:40 PM PDT
by
abclily
To: reasonisfaith
But yeah, at this point it is abusive rapist gaslighting language. This is prison guard bull sht talk by rapists like Clinton or Biden.
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posted on
10/14/2020 4:10:54 PM PDT
by
JudgemAll
(Democrats Fed. job-security in hates:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
To: grundle
Sexual preference.... maybe she should have dropped the pretense and just called them deviants and perverts.
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posted on
10/14/2020 4:11:34 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
To: grundle
Lemme know when the “believe the science” crowd can point to a queer gene
Any such gene if it existed would be disgenic and disappear within a generation since it would fail to reproduce
You know, that Evolution thingy
To: Stravinsky
“””Boomers and older tend to say preference. Millennials and younger usually say orientation””””””
I’m old. I still just call them fags, Jim.
To: grundle
Amy Coney Barrett: uses inartful term for sexual orientation.
Woke Offendinistas:
To: chajin
Chajin- In the beginning was the Word. The Word never changes. NEVER.
So true! What you said is what Ive been thinking for the past 3 years since I became a Christian.
To: grundle
Dictionary.com doesn't give opinions it just provides definitions. Dump MW.
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posted on
10/14/2020 4:18:48 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(In all things ... trigger discipline.)
To: grundle
I call it “queerdom”!!
Any questions?
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posted on
10/14/2020 4:19:16 PM PDT
by
Honorary Serb
(Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
To: grundle
Grasping at straws - which now probably means something other than what I think it means.
Wink-Wink. Nudge-Nudge.
Leftists are insane. Mentally unstable. Dangerous and did I say, Insane?
I ignore them!
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posted on
10/14/2020 4:20:18 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
To: grundle
It’s a preference based off mental illness. I’ve never met a homosexual, male or female, that wasn’t sexually abused as a child.
To: grundle
History began last week, so in their own insane sense, they are correct.
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posted on
10/14/2020 4:27:36 PM PDT
by
fwdude
(Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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