Posted on 04/03/2005 6:42:45 PM PDT by Gondring
I am tired of the Religious Right trying to high-jack the party of Lincoln.
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It's the Religious Right, as you call it, that is the backbone of the party. If anybody's trying to hijack it, it;s the RINOS and Liberaltarians. It's our party, get with the program or get lost.
I posted this earlier in the thread- but here it is again:
Fascinating.
They may be valid questions, but not directed at me. I don't believe in gay marriage, extraordinary gay rights, or mattress rights. On the other hand, if some state thinks it's ok to marry a mattress, and can somehow get that past it's people, good for that state. No other state should be required to honor that, however.
You folks are attempting to redirect the thrust of the thread, which has nothing to do with mattresses.
Hey, balch. It isn't I that said that. Before you begin your ad hominem attacks, would you please verify who said that. The person is called annyokie. I was simply responding to her statement. So please, by all means, get your facts straight.
And I am the backbone of the party. I am tomorrow's party. If you had any time to check my homepage, you might find that out, balch.
Aha. The usual bait and switch.
It is one thing to be on a respirator. It is another matter entirely to eat food.
Karen Ann Quinlan was being kept alive by extraordinary means - a respiration machine, and it is quite legitimate and common for a person to request that no extraordinary measures be taken.
Mrs. Schindler's testimony has been that Terri would not have wanted to starve to death, and her testimony here is completely consistent with what she has always said.
Your right, I could have named a lot more things but I just wanted to make the point without anyone over reacting to what I am trying to say. I hope you understand.
And also write down: "Matters both immediate and spontaneous should not dictate similar laws."
They have been hearing from their constituents for many years about this topic. By the millions.
And in the future if the Dems have the people, the law and the Constitution on their side they would be right to fight for a change.
But what you are afraid of has already happened-BUT they went in the backdoor and got the Judaical branch. This kind of garbage has been going on for years- it has hit a crescendo over the internet- that is why it is in your face.
OK, the trial takes place in 2000 - 25 years after the newspaper articles about Karen Quinlan. Mrs, Schindler's testimony is discredited because she mistook her daughter's age? Looks like a stretch to me. Is it unlikely for an 11 or twelve year old to formulate such an opinion? I don't think so.
You're the bait and switcher. Mary Schindler said that Terri made her comments at the time of the debate on whether to remove the life support. Terri was 11 or 12 not 17 - 20. Schindler lied and was deemed not credible.
I asked you once, where?
What happens when someone wants to marry their goldfish-couldn't someone say they deserve the same rights as anyone else? Should we have a law that they can so they can get the special tax breaks which come with marriage?
Diva, with all due respect, I haven't a clue why you are asking me these inane questions. They have nothing to do either with the original thrust of the thread or of my agreement that a dichotomy does exist. As I pointed out to another poster, I am firmly against gay marriage period. If a state wants gay marriage, or mattress or goldfish marriages, then if the people of that state agree, fine with me. But from a federal perspective, no other state should honor it.
But that's what they want. They prefer sniping ineffectually than governing according to principles.
That way everything is bad, but none of it is their fault, so they can blame everyone but themselves.
Wow ...
This has been quite the coming-out party for a couple weeks now.
Fascinating, indeed.
When you recall a conversation with the amount of detail that Mrs. Schindler presented it is ridiculous to believe that she could innocently be that far off on the age.
I doubt anybody here would cut Schiavo that much slack.
Sorry, I pulled the quote out of your post. I didn't mean to imply that you said it.
I'm not hostile. I know God is a little sharper than you and me and He doesn't tell us every little bit of his plans.
Everyone who ever drafted a law believes that. Anyway, federal interference was only one of the absurdities of this little circus.
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