Posted on 05/12/2010 6:47:05 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Former first lady Laura Bush has broken with her husband on the premier social issues of his administration and said she backs gay marriage and abortion.
After more than eight years of silence on the controversial issues, Mrs. Bush said in an interview with CNN's Larry KingTuesday, that gay marriage and abortion were points of contention with her husband, former President George W. Bush.
Mrs. Bush in recent weeks has been promoting her memoir "Spoken from the Heart," in which she writes about her life both before and after becoming first lady.
In response to a question about gay marriage, she said, "There are a lot of people who have trouble coming to terms with that because they see marriage as traditionally between a man and a woman. But I also know that, you know, when couples are committed to each other and love each other, that they ought to have, I think, the same sort of rights that everyone has."
Mrs. Bush said she and the ex-president "disagree" on legalizing same-sex marriage.
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Please see my tagline.
Yes, I’m upset.
Why do you think an apparently decent woman with two kids would support this stuff?
Mindboggling.
“(btw, your troll friend Favor Center has been banned because he revealed the ohioWfan truth file You should be mad at him, not me)
By the way, this is a lie too. Favor Center was an idiot, and not my friend. This was a veiled(though utterly transparent) threat.
“I’d like to know if you are allowed to continue to post about me without pinging me, as you’ve done in the past.”
Another lie. I am not interested in anything you have to say, so I don’t write ABOUT you either.
“you didn’t include the post where I told you I didn’t have to abide by your arbitrary censorchip. “
Go ahead and post it. It just proves that your word in any MUTUAL agreement is worthless.
I suggest you live up to yours
We have no way of knowing but she's been out there and yes, like it or not, has been a role model for all that's decent and good and honorable. You don't think her work in third world countries had any affect what-so-ever on young women in this nation?
I remember seeing an interview on Oprah Winfrey whose guest was Condelezza Rice and one young woman from the audience could hardly contain her emotions while meeting Ms. Rice...actually sobbing so hard that she could barely speak. You don't believe there are others out there that feel the same way about Laura Bush?
Our young women have very few, true and honarable women to look up to as a role model. Unless you wish to count Lady Gaga, Madonna, Whoopie, Barbara Walters, Hillary Clinton etc.
Now it comes to light that Laura Bush is no better than those baby butchers and advocates of depravity. If you don't think our lives do not touch others than you may be too sheltered. And even if it was only one young woman, one is too many. So my question to you is: How do you know that a woman didn't or hasn't looked at Laura Bush as a role model and may very well base her decision to kill her baby based on this information?
awesome pic, stolen for my stash...
He told me that I should just stay away from you.
It was good advice and I should have taken it a long time ago.
Now stop talking about me behind my back, as you do so often, and I will honor this "agreement" you hold so dear. But if I see you talking about me without pinging me as you just did here, I will remind you, or report you to the mods.
Be well.
I think it's part of the general "tolerance is god" movement in our society that affects a lot of people. They know it's wrong, but they don't want to be "judgemental."
It's dead wrong thinking, but it's really, really common. And sad.
Indeed!
“When I first was gang attacked by you and your friends a number of months back, I freepmailed JimRob and asked for his advice.”
Nobody “gang attacked” you, and Jim Rob surely knows this.
“He told me that I should just stay away from you.”
The advice was excellent, especially since you and I IN A FRIENDLY MANNER agreed not to post to one another. I kept my end religiously. You did not.
“Now stop talking about me behind my back, as you do so often, “
Preposterous! I never did any such thing, and if you think I did, post proof , like I just did.
“I will honor this “agreement” you hold so dear. “
I hold all agreements dear. Let’s see if you mean it this time.
It shakes the good faith of conservatives, and gives so much ammunition to liberals in a time where they need to be totally neutered. What was she thinking?
Hey, how about taking your personal feud to freepmail. It would make a lot more sense, so would that be okay?
I now have a committment in front of Jim Rob. I’m done.
as an alcoholic, whether or not i was 'born' that way doesnt really concern me...the fact is that my lack of recognition of the Holiness of the Lord resulted in my taking a drink, which was essential to discover the full effects of my sinfulness...
born a sinner, will die a sinner, and the only remedy is to accept the work of the Lord in cleansing me everyday...
if someone is 'hardwired' queer, they still have a choice of abstinance, just the same as the unmarried hetero is commanded to do...
easier said than done ??? well duh, but it is commanded, therefore no amount of sugarcoating or legislating will change the Truth...
even in my hetero marriage to a truly beautiful woman, I still fail everyday to live up to my marriage as the reflection of Christ and His Church, but I grow better at it everyday by seeking that Truth and practicing it with repentence...
my .02
Now, as for Laura Bush. Why couldn’t she keep her big mouth shut?
She sure doesn’t need the money, and no good will come as a result of her personal views being published.
Your take?
Shlepping her book.
Gilbo, your candor is a lesson for all of us. I have a list of people I pray for, and you are now on it. I could use some prayers myself.
I’m disgusted, I just posted that several times earlier in the thread conversing with Ohiowfan.
But, as I said, if you continue to break your own part of the "agreement" as you have done so often in the past (and right here on this thread), I will report you, as I have said.
I don't have time to waste following you around and checking to see if you begin behaving honorably, but if I should see your posts and they violate ethical standards (as you have done), then I won't let it go by.
Because I always tell the truth. I'm not always right, and I obviously make mistakes and lose control on occasion (when I am not depending on the Lord for strength), but I'm always, always HONEST.
And you really can't take that away from me no matter how desperately you try, nor how many times you call me names and curse me.
(Perhaps sometime I'll find out why Favor Center chose you alone to ping to come to his aid in attacking me, and not others......)
She didn't say this much in her book.
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