You remember Kim Davis? The woman who refused marriages to gays? She lost.

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Sea Ray

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Which is a pretty big indicator of who wants what in this country

So you just accept what you read on the internet is Gospel? Here you are making a conclusion based upon a false statement.

Let's see if she runs and then if the Republicans nominate her.
 

IronWing

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So you just accept what you read on the internet is Gospel? Here you are making a conclusion based upon a false statement.

Let's see if she runs and then if the Republicans nominate her.
The Republicans spent a lot of tax dollars defending her bigotry and used her bigotry as a cause célèbre in the last election. But, maybe they'll dump her. Republicans eat their own.
 

ch33zw1z

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So you just accept what you read on the internet is Gospel? Here you are making a conclusion based upon a false statement.

Let's see if she runs and then if the Republicans nominate her.
Oh? You're stance now is Republicans are supportive of LGBT rights? Lol....
 

GagHalfrunt

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"When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.” - Mark Twain

Okay, a short history of Kentucky politics. Prior to the mid 1980s, Kentucky was a one party state and that party was the Democrats. There were liberal Democrats, conservative Democrats, cross-burning Democrats, probably a handful of Maoist Democrats in the mix but they were all Democrats. Republicans were those weird goofy folks handing out pamphlets at the county fair. Region, county, family, and political clans were far more important than party, since they were all Democrats. But times changed. The Reagan revolution came to Kentucky right on schedule, twenty years later than anywhere else. The Democratic Party's hold on power was broken and the right wing Dems (and there were a lot of them in Kentucky) became Republicans while the liberals flocked to Gatewood Galbraith and then sort of wandered off. Kim Davis was a bit slower than most to jump parties, that's all.

And yet the state almost always goes GOP in Presidential elections unless a southern Democrat is running and both Senators from Kentucky are usually Republican too. So are the Kentucky members of the House of Representatives, 5 of 6 are Republicans. Most of that goes back to long before the days of Reagan. Kentucky is now, and always has been, a DINO state. They can call themselves any variety of Democrat they want, but they're Republicans. Given the school system in Kentucky they might not understand the difference.
 
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dank69

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Why do you say that? All I've stated here are facts.
The great thing about being a conservative is that you can pretend it is the letter of the law that matters when it is convenient and then pretend it is the spirit of the law that matters when that is convenient and you never have to care about consistency.
 
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interchange

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I don't think we should judge a religion (etc.) based on its hypocrites. An external moral shield is like flame to the moths whose weak self esteem depends upon reaction formation.
 

SMOGZINN

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I don't think we should judge a religion (etc.) based on its hypocrites. An external moral shield is like flame to the moths whose weak self esteem depends upon reaction formation.

I try not to judge a religion (or any institution) by it's hypocrites, but I think it is fair to judge it by how it's leaders and followers react to those hypocrites. For the large part the Christian leaders praised and supported her, and still do.
 
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I try not to judge a religion (or any institution) by it's hypocrites, but I think it is fair to judge it by how it's leaders and followers react to those hypocrites. For the large part the Christian leaders praised and supported her, and still do.

Yeah, I think its fair. Like when the good Christians in Alabama decide that Moore is a fine upstanding Christian. When the average member of a religion is a hypocrite, I think its fair to levy those criticisms on the group.

When she loses, I'm sure Fox News will welcome her with a new show.

Wasn't she already being prepped to be like an ambassador or something? For some religious organization (which wouldn't surprise me for Turmp to nominate her...). Or maybe it was just she did a speech or something. She'll be fine because the right will parade her around as evidence of their persecution complex.
 
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Engineer

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When she loses, I'm sure Fox News will welcome her with a new show.

Not sure you know what state you're talking about. Throw in this nut case and a gay man and it wouldn't matter if this guy was a Nobel prize winner, she would win. Outside of Lexington and Louisville, very little to no chance of her losing.....sadly.
 

jackstar7

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Not sure you know what state you're talking about. Throw in this nut case and a gay man and it wouldn't matter if this guy was a Nobel prize winner, she would win. Outside of Lexington and Louisville, very little to no chance of her losing.....sadly.
I get it. I'm going to stay positive.
 

BonzaiDuck

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You could see this coming from the "I-only-need-to-read-one-book" crowd. The hypocrisy of it . . . You want to say "If you love Jesus so much, why did you elect the Anti-Christ to the highest office in the land? Why did you elect the Prince of Lies? Why did you elect the Traitor from the 9th Circle of Hell?"

Oh! My poor soul is gonna get contaminated by sin for giving two three-dollar Bills a piece of paper saying the state authorizes their marriage!

Bull . . . . S***! . . . . She's nothing but a bigot sandwich. Why does it matter to me whether someone prefers to dip their wick into the chocolate honey-pot, or chow down on the real Angora?

Evangelicals of this caliber are sex-obsessed. It's like the cowboy's script-line in Lennie Bruce's "Thank you Mask Man" about the Ranger and Tonto: "uhhhh . . . uhhhh . . . . Mask man F*g man!"

Sickos.
 
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