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All Beliefs Welcome, Unless They are Forced on Others [Lefty Prof says Palin not a Woman]
Washington Post Blog ^ | 9/9/2008 | Wendy Doniger

Posted on 09/11/2008 1:28:05 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam

Belief in god, like getting pregnant, is a private matter between consenting adults (or one consenting adult and one or more deities) and is no one else's business. I am on record in this blog (and have not budged an inch) as not objecting to any candidate's religious views.

But I object strongly when anyone (and especially anyone with political power) tries to take their theology out in public, to inflict those private religious (or sexual) views on other people. In both sex and religion (which combine in the debates about abortion), Sarah Palin's views make me fear that the Republican party has finally lost its mind.

As for sex, the hypocrisy of her outing her pregnant daughter in front of millions of people, hard on the heels of her concealing her own pregnancy (her faith in abstinence applying, apparently, only to non-Palins), is nicely balanced by her hypocrisy in gushing with loving support of her teenage daughter after using a line-item veto to cut funding for a transitional home for teenage mothers in Alaska.

Her greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman. The Republican party's cynical calculation that because she has a womb and makes lots and lots of babies (and drives them to school! wow!) she speaks for the women of America, and will capture their hearts and their votes, has driven thousands of real women to take to their computers in outrage. She does not speak for women; she has no sympathy for the problems of other women, particularly working class women.

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Her greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman.

Truly unhinged.

1 posted on 09/11/2008 1:28:07 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: Unam Sanctam
Truly unhinged.

Truly Anal!

2 posted on 09/11/2008 1:29:37 PM PDT by rocksblues (Folks we are in trouble, "Mark Levin" 03/26/08)
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To: Unam Sanctam
Windy is glamorized by her self-perception that her opinion means something (google this kook!).
3 posted on 09/11/2008 1:33:34 PM PDT by Edgerunner (At the heart of every absurdity, lies a liberal lie)
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To: Unam Sanctam
So, when John Jay, first Supreme Court Justice, said that Americans should prefer Christians for there leaders, he really meant that there was a wall between religion and government?

Please, have this lady trot over to the Representative from Tennessee (I think it was) who compared Pilate to "governers" and Obama to Jesus, and express her rage at him for bringing religion, a private matter, onto the House floor!

4 posted on 09/11/2008 1:38:02 PM PDT by 50sDad (OBAMA: In your heart you know he's Wright.)
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To: Unam Sanctam

No one can impose their religion on another - unless it’s Radical Islam. The funny thing is that this “intellectual” doesn’t see any hypocrisy.

And if you don’t subscribe to MY idea of what a woman should be, YOU are not a woman.

Nope, no hypocrisy here.


5 posted on 09/11/2008 1:39:09 PM PDT by 230FMJ (...from my cold, dead, fingers.)
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To: Unam Sanctam
Her greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman

Yeah, now Sarah Palin isn't even a woman.

Sarah Palin has inspired more male ardor in a week and a half than a hundred Wendy Donigers. Maybe that's the real issue: Wendy and her ilk are just plain jealous.

6 posted on 09/11/2008 1:40:10 PM PDT by T. Buzzard Trueblood ("Spare me all the phony talk about change." Senator Barack Obama)
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To: Unam Sanctam

But, of course, abortion isn’t “imposing” on a baby....


7 posted on 09/11/2008 1:40:44 PM PDT by Politicalmom (President McCain: "Ok, Ted, I want your list of supreme court nominees on my desk by Monday.")
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To: Unam Sanctam

Wendy today.

I note that the NYT's uses the 1959 photo.

8 posted on 09/11/2008 1:40:51 PM PDT by razorback-bert (Save the planet...it is the only known one with beer!)
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To: Unam Sanctam
I am so tired of hearing this lame argument.

The only "religion" that is forced on people is that of leftwing secularists, in the form of climate worship, mandatory sex "education" in schools, taxpayer funded abortion, the wholesale removal of any and all Christian expression from public view, banning self-defense.... Remind me again -- who is forcing whose beliefs on whom?!?!

9 posted on 09/11/2008 1:40:54 PM PDT by workerbee (Sarah Palin's very existence is a threat to the Left.)
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To: razorback-bert
All Beliefs Welcome, Unless They are Forced on Others [Lefty Prof says Palin not a Woman]

Reminds me of what I've seen again and again and again, "All ways are ways to God...except for traditional Christianity."
10 posted on 09/11/2008 1:42:36 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: Unam Sanctam

I agree.

So let’s get the atheist religion out of politics please....


12 posted on 09/11/2008 1:46:20 PM PDT by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Obama for President!)
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To: Unam Sanctam
"Joe Biden's views are most relevant to the question at hand, since, as a Catholic, he shares much of Palin's embryological theology: he believes life begins at conception. But he has gone out of his way to insist that he would not impose his personal views on others, and has indeed voted against curtailing abortion rights and against criminalizing abortion. That is the right answer. It's in the Constitution. It's not in the Bible, or the Qu'ran, or the Bhagavad Gita. It's in the mother-lovin' Constitution."

Abortion is enshrined in the Constitution? I must have missed that part.

13 posted on 09/11/2008 1:49:54 PM PDT by Godebert
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To: Unam Sanctam

If my religion says that women who cavalierly condemn unborn children to death are non-persons without rights who should be stoned will she defend my right to believe and act on my personal convictions?

Didn’t think so...


14 posted on 09/11/2008 1:53:26 PM PDT by Philo-Junius (One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law.)
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To: Unam Sanctam

Sarah Palin is a woman with conviction. She has family values that the left, left behind for power.. The country has fallen in LOVE with Sarah and the left can not comprehend that most American’s don’t want to be a socialist Nation.


15 posted on 09/11/2008 1:54:50 PM PDT by just me (Liberals do not like children, and children are one of the reasons I like Sarah Palin.....)
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To: Unam Sanctam

Why suddenly are we overwhelmed by all these opinion page articles that read as though they were lifted straight from the pages of The Village Voice, only now they “grace” the covers and front pages of our traditionally respected publications?

Is it because it is the media itself that has gone mad and not one political party?


16 posted on 09/11/2008 2:00:11 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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“people who write evil things such as this should be stoned.”

There’s a good possibility that she has spend a significant portion of her life “stoned”.


17 posted on 09/11/2008 2:02:19 PM PDT by 230FMJ (...from my cold, dead, fingers.)
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“people who write evil things such as this should be stoned.”

There’s a good possibility that she has spend a significant portion of her life “stoned”.


18 posted on 09/11/2008 2:02:35 PM PDT by 230FMJ (...from my cold, dead, fingers.)
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To: 230FMJ

somehow I knew that I would get that very comment. :)


19 posted on 09/11/2008 2:03:47 PM PDT by palomonte (see the light or feel the heat)
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To: Unam Sanctam
"But I object strongly when anyone (and especially anyone with political power) tries to take their theology out in public, to inflict those private religious (or sexual) views on other people."

This person displays great ignorance of America's history and its leaders' religious beliefs and practices.

Perhaps she might visit here to hear and read the Dem's FDR, as he led Americans in prayer on that historic day in 1944.

Then, if she wished to expand the boundaries of her provincial thinking a bit further, perhaps these words might help:

"In this situation of this Assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings? In the beginning of the Contest with G. Britain, when we were sensible of danger we had daily prayer in this room for the divine protection.- Our prayers, Sir, were heard, & they were graciously answered. All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of a superintending providence in our favor. To that kind providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? or do we imagine that we no longer need his assistance? I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth- that God Governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings, that “except the Lord build the House they labour in vain that build it.” I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the Builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing Governments by Human wisdom and leave it to chance, war and conquest." -----------Benjamin Franklin, at the Constitutional Convention, 1787

And, then, from that favorite of the Far Left and their minions (when they quote his "separation of church and state" phrase), Thomas Jefferson:

"I shall need the favor of the Being in whose hands we are, Who led our forefathers . . . from their native land, and planted them in a country flowing with all the necessaries and comforts of life; Who has covered our infancy with His providence, and our riper years with His wisdom and power . . . I ask you to join with me in supplication, that He will so enlighten the minds of your servants, guide their councils, and prosper their measure, that whatsoever they do shall result in your good, and shall secure to you peace, friendship, and approbation of all nations." ---Thomas Jefferson, Second Inaugural as President of the United States of America

20 posted on 09/11/2008 2:05:10 PM PDT by loveliberty2
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