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PeaceNikki

(27,985 posts)
18. I care about more than myself.
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 03:41 PM
Sep 2015

The things he says have an impact on the reproductive choices of millions. And right here, right now in this country, those choices are being viciously attacked. His opinions and his church are responsible for and/or contribute immensely to that.

Still not funny.

Yuck it up about the Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurn on the GOP, but please don't expect I or other will. It's horrific.

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I don't find that cute or charming or funny. PeaceNikki Sep 2015 #1
+infinity (nt) LostOne4Ever Sep 2015 #2
Huh malaise Sep 2015 #3
Also against a woman's right to choose. And FOR personhood laws. FUCK him. PeaceNikki Sep 2015 #4
Nothing he says influences my life malaise Sep 2015 #8
Really? So the church's position doesn't affect non-members? Humanist_Activist Sep 2015 #10
I'm atheist too madokie Sep 2015 #12
+1.000 malaise Sep 2015 #14
You have privilege and affluence and your royal straightness to protect you. Bluenorthwest Sep 2015 #17
I care about more than myself. PeaceNikki Sep 2015 #18
He was talking about protecting life from conception to natural grave. Its an... Humanist_Activist Sep 2015 #5
You're saying that as if you expected something malaise Sep 2015 #15
That is a well reasoned analysis ryan_cats Sep 2015 #47
+1 demmiblue Sep 2015 #7
Me neither. Maven Sep 2015 #26
Your cause suffers from you, Darb Sep 2015 #31
Your concern has been noted. PeaceNikki Sep 2015 #32
+1 REP Sep 2015 #55
Oh, it's so funny when men who wear giant penis hats joke about further taking Arugula Latte Sep 2015 #6
Dr Freud, clean-up on aisle seven! LanternWaste Sep 2015 #11
Those hats fit the patriarchal misogyny of the RCC to a T ... or a P. Arugula Latte Sep 2015 #13
He was talking about both. eom MohRokTah Sep 2015 #9
Yes, he was . . . markpkessinger Sep 2015 #19
And the religious think he "brilliantly pointed up the hypocrisy of those on the left" PeaceNikki Sep 2015 #20
I think, after listening to the entire speech. . . markpkessinger Sep 2015 #22
Apparently the folks at Fox are skewering him because they think he "ignored" abortion markpkessinger Sep 2015 #25
Then they are stupider than I thought - very impressive. LiberalElite Sep 2015 #50
He was talking about abortion. Then the death penalty. Bluenorthwest Sep 2015 #16
No, I am not . . . markpkessinger Sep 2015 #21
Only women have discomfort during abortions, though I assume they receive some AllFieldsRequired Sep 2015 #27
I don't disagree with you at all . . . markpkessinger Sep 2015 #28
What does this mean? AllFieldsRequired Sep 2015 #30
You omitted a critical comma in your quote of my post . . . markpkessinger Sep 2015 #35
no i copy posted it in two movements, i dont see what difference it makes AllFieldsRequired Sep 2015 #36
My moral reservations about abortion are my business . . . markpkessinger Sep 2015 #37
So we are back to my question, you dont want to answer, fine. AllFieldsRequired Sep 2015 #38
My position about a woman's right to choose has been clear from the outset . . . markpkessinger Sep 2015 #39
Didnt say they werent good enough for me, I am attempting to make a point AllFieldsRequired Sep 2015 #41
People hold positions on many things . . . markpkessinger Sep 2015 #42
Thank you, and I like to make the point that men having a position on something they AllFieldsRequired Sep 2015 #44
As a woman I have "moral reservations" about men getting vasectomies. AllFieldsRequired Sep 2015 #40
Fine -- call my opinion stupid if you wish (I really don't care) markpkessinger Sep 2015 #43
Didnt mean to do that, i really didnt. i take that back AllFieldsRequired Sep 2015 #45
Thank you . . . markpkessinger Sep 2015 #46
1,000 malaise Sep 2015 #54
I thought he was messing with their heads too. bklyncowgirl Sep 2015 #23
Shhhhhhhhhh! malaise Sep 2015 #24
I get it too. Darb Sep 2015 #33
+1 n/t markpkessinger Sep 2015 #48
K&R... spanone Sep 2015 #29
That was nice LittleBlue Sep 2015 #34
I think he is talking about abortion nt LiberalElite Sep 2015 #49
It's ok to laud a deep dig at reproductive autonomy if temptered with a HILARIOUS jab at the GOP PeaceNikki Sep 2015 #52
?? I just LiberalElite Sep 2015 #53
He channelled Lucy. rug Sep 2015 #51
Charlie Pierce notiecd it as well malaise Sep 2015 #56
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