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The Religious Right’s Slow-Motion Suicide
The Daily Beast ^ | September 29, 2014 | Michael Tomasky

Posted on 09/29/2014 4:08:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Pelham; Black Agnes

Jewish ultra liberal Christianity hater lectures on viability of Christian fundamental values and political power

He sure has Chutz Paw

Next time I need an authority on Talmudic relevance I’ll consult Pete Peters

Or Calypso Louie....

Same impartial perspective....


21 posted on 09/29/2014 4:45:20 PM PDT by wardaddy (Ferguson MO...but i thought blacks went north to escape the racism of mean ol southerners)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
There are far fewer Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers than there were 25 years ago. You mean like that?

There's far fewer adult theaters than there were 25 years ago. Do you think Americans are watching less porn?

Anybody who wants an abortion can get one. At any rate, greater access to contraception you only have to take 2-4 times a year as well as "morning after" type pills are increasingly reducing the necessity of surgical abortion.

Sure, there have been some legislative strides at the state level against abortion clinics but I'm certainly not ready to credit this to some sort of conservative revival. Not when looking at the dismal state of other social conservative issues. In fact, the only victory that social conservatives have enjoyed over the years has been a strengthening of RKBA issues, in part because they were able to unite with libertarians.

22 posted on 09/29/2014 4:57:21 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: kaehurowing
The writer obviously hasn’t been looking at the latest polls, which are swinging strongly the other way.

The only polls that matter are those that take place in a voting booth.

23 posted on 09/29/2014 4:59:36 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Drew68

After the civil war/national divorce, things will be much different.


24 posted on 09/29/2014 5:00:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Christian Right isn’t committing suicide. We just answer to “I Am” instead of “I won”. Most of us think that America deserves the politicians it’s been getting for the past 20 years and we know that it will get a lot worse.


25 posted on 09/29/2014 5:01:00 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyranni)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The source I see is this: 1) Someone who believes that somehow there is an unlimited supply of money to spend by government. 2) Someone who believes that it is death because there is some person out there who doesn’t approve or agree. 3) Someone who believes him/herself so superior that they can’t tell where his/her head is located (not where it should be, and kind of stuck).

Besides, anyone not Democrat is automatically religious right, creationist, homophobic, and terrorist, without any need for investigation. That’s the mind of what appears to be most libs.


26 posted on 09/29/2014 5:05:03 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The author dismisses Ted Cruz, because he (and other libs) are afraid of President Cruz.


27 posted on 09/29/2014 5:09:32 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: wardaddy

Tomasky is Ukranian and Italian, actually.


28 posted on 09/29/2014 5:12:03 PM PDT by Clemenza (Lurking)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
More Leftist Spew (describing his dreamworld) from Michael Tomasky via The Daily Beast:

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29 posted on 09/29/2014 5:29:36 PM PDT by Col Freeper (FR: A smorgasbord of Conservative Mindfood - dig in and enjoy it!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I found the trashing of Ted Cruz to be the most disturbing part of the read.


30 posted on 09/29/2014 5:37:27 PM PDT by Nextrush (OBAMACARE IS A BAILOUT FOR THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Then they will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.

At that time many will fall away and will betray one another and hate one another. “Many false prophets will arise and will mislead many.

Because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will grow cold. “But the one who endures to the end, he will be saved. - Matthew 24:9-12

Look how many have already fallen away just over accepting the homosexual agenda.

We are fast approaching the point where we will be hated, even in this country - and must endure to the end because they will kill us and think they are doing morality service.

31 posted on 09/29/2014 5:37:48 PM PDT by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: GeronL

You got that right. Who do you want to answer to, a bunch of liberals or God?


32 posted on 09/29/2014 5:52:01 PM PDT by stevio (God, guns, guts.)
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To: Nextrush

I found it the most hopeful and enlightening. You don’t attack non-entities.


33 posted on 09/29/2014 6:15:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is more What’s the Matter with Kansas crap, where the left imagines social conservatives as dupes of the other wings of the Republican party with no overlapping interests. What Tomasky would prefer not to understand is that there’s a unifying ideology behind all three that is expressed in all three, just with different emphases. He wants to reduce the Republican party to a cartoon collection of greedsters, schemers, and hayseeds. He is blind to the heart of philosophical conservatism that exists in a whole bunch of real people out here. The gloating cynicism of the Tomasky types is annoying but also represents a Lao Tzu style failure to properly understand what they’re up against.

I also note that he has done some sleight of hand here by replacing national defense conservatism with neoconservatism, and free market conservatism with the “ultra rich”.


34 posted on 09/29/2014 6:17:17 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They hate him, obviously, and that’s good to know.


35 posted on 09/29/2014 7:12:46 PM PDT by Nextrush (OBAMACARE IS A BAILOUT FOR THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What does politics have to do with what’s right and what’s wrong?


36 posted on 09/29/2014 7:43:31 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.

Ask Michael.


37 posted on 09/29/2014 7:43:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Posting a left leaning piece from a typical MSM source is bad but expected and shows what the average uninformed voter is reading and is an ‘outing’ of the so called legitimate news source.

Posting from a admitted Marxist source that does not pretend to be a fair news source has its place at times but any radical BS spewed in the text is expected and nothing new or revealing.


38 posted on 09/30/2014 3:39:50 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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