It's so... pastoral... so lyric. Autumn meets Spring.
Posted on 07/10/2003 2:47:43 AM PDT by kattracks
You need to brush up on your history of England, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, France, etc. Not just burning, but drawing and quartering, hanging, etc.
Some of my relatives were chased out of Protestant Cantons in Switzerland for being Anabaptists. Exile or death.
Hate to say it but you're right on that.
"Given that homosexual advocates are in a full court press to lower the age of consent as low as it can go, and pro-pedophile sitting Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg 's documented advocacy of lowering the age of consent to 12 years old, parents should be horrified that there are so few politicians, like Sen. Santorum, actually defending the family," Timothy Chichester, CFAA president, said April 23.
Chichester was referring to a paper authored by Ginsburg entitled "Sex Bias in the U.S. Code," which was prepared for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in April 1977
The allegation was further substantiated by Robert Knight, director of CWA's Culture Institute, in "Homosexual Behavior and Pedophilia," an article he co-authored with the Family Research Council's Frank York.
"When U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an attorney for the ACLU, she co-authored a report recommending that the age of consent for sexual acts be lowered to 12 years of age," the article points out.
Cool, our CFAA gets a fleeting mention. Here's a link to the FR thread regarding the press release linked above: Senator Santorum , Pro-pedophile Justice Ginsburg and Texas Sodomy
Boy, what a bunch of uptight moralistic right-wingers all you guys are. Don't you know that children have the fundamental human right to their sexuality? And to prevent your children from looking at porn is to deny them their intellectual right to information??? (/sarcasm)
It's so... pastoral... so lyric. Autumn meets Spring.
Knight and York's footnoted documentation on this is as follows: "Sex Bias in the U.S. Code," Report for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, April 1977, p. 102, quoted in "Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Feminist World View," The Phyllis Schlafly Report, Vol. 26, No. 12, Section 1, p. 3. The paragraph (from the Ginsburg report) reads as follows: "'Eliminate the phrase "carnal knowledge of any female, not his wife, who has not attained the age of 16 years" and substitute a federal, sex-neutral definition of the offense. ... A person is guilty of an offense if he engages in a sexual act with another person. ... [and] the other person is, in fact, less than 12 years old.'"
If this isn't out of context that witch should be impeached post haste.
As should be every Senator who voted to confirm her, given the date.
More witches were burned at the stake by protestants. Many "heretics" (Catholics) were also tortured, killed, sometimes burned at the stake, by protestant countries. You're a good guy, but your ignorance of history and your bigotries are showing here, GW.
God bless you, my poor, empty-headed brother in Christ, but that is the most flat-out stupid thing I have ever read on FR. Pray, does the name Michael Servetus ring a bell?
Michael Servetus, 1511-53, Spanish theologian and physician. His name in Spanish was Miguel Serveto. In his early years he came in contact with some of the leading reformers in Germany and Switzerland—Johannes Oecolampadius , Martin Bucer , Wolfgang Fabricius Capito , and probably Martin Luther . But he held views, concerning the Trinity in particular, that brought condemnation from the theologians of the Reformation as well as from those of the Roman Catholic Church. When he published De trinitatis erroribus (1531) and De trinitate (1532), the feeling of opposition was so strong that he assumed the name of Michel de Villeneuve, from the family home, Villanueva, and spent some time in Lyons, working on an edition of Ptolemy's geography and other scientific works, then in Paris studying medicine. There he is said to have seen John Calvin . He became well-known for his ability in dissection and had unusual success as a physician; he discovered that some of the blood circulates through the lungs. From 1541 to 1553 he lived in the palace of the archbishop of Vienne as his confidential physician. When (1553) he had a work setting forth his ideas of Christianity secretly printed, investigation was begun by the Inquisition. Servetus, arrested, tried, and condemned, escaped from prison. Several months later, while making his way to Italy, he was seized in Geneva by Calvin's order. There, after a long trial, in which Calvin's condemnation was a stern factor, he was burned on Oct. 27, 1553. [Source]
And that's only one out of a zillion similar cases I didn't mention due to space and time limitations. I also left outI those cases in which Protestants hanged, beheaded, and drowned their victims; for example, I didn't even mention Matthew Hopkins, the Puritans' official "Witchfinder General" during the English Civil War (remember the movie Witchfinder General starring Vincent Price as Hopkins? Best of the Hammer Horror pics, in my opinion!). And let's not forget the "saintly" Elizabeth I, daughter of arch-Protestant Henry VIII Tudor. The Virgin Queen's favorite pastime was killing Catholics and stealing their stuff, just like Dad did.
I have no beef with Protestants; I'm a former Protestant myself. But in the end there's plenty of error to go around. Please don't further its spread by talking about the thoroughly-disproved "black legend" as if it were fact.
I am regularly astounded at the intelligence and erudition of Freepers. Today, I am astounded at your profound lack of knowledge and your not-so-hidden anti-Catholic bias.
Here's a hint, GWB: The Salem Witches weren't killed by Catholics. Read a book or two, would you?
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