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What evidence is there of anyone being triggered? I'm not seeing it. If anything, the reaction to the "triggering" is more pronounced.
 
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Everybody's hung up on the grammar (which is dumb on VN, but funny as hell in congress) but the other **** MJT said is absolutely disgraceful. She lied about her, called her trash, and "jihad squad" is indefensible.
 
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Aside: is it actually part of conservative ideology to oppose abortion? I know basically all conservatives oppose abortion, but I'm just wondering has that always philosophically been part of the platform, or did it just happen because religious people were drawn to conservatism?
 
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n_huffhines said:
Aside: is it actually part of conservative ideology to oppose abortion? I know basically all conservatives oppose abortion, but I'm just wondering has that always philosophically been part of the platform, or did it just happen because religious people were drawn to conservatism?
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1980s, Bob Jones College, and The Moral Majority.

Once racism was no longer a viable rallying cry, abortion became the unifying factor.
 
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AshG said:
Obviously you do, or you wouldn't have taken the time to post that. ;)
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Blah blah blah .... you're boring. :cool: Actually, those political people can argue & fight until the cows come home. I don't care. It's just always on the daily wire & becomes boring day after day.
 
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Orangeburst said:
You really think the right are Nazis...dont ya?
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No.

I think the vast, vast majority of people on the right, Republicans or otherwise,are well meaning people who want what is best for their families and their communities.

There is a small contingent that wishes to impose their very narrow view of morality and religion on everyone else because they are convinced that it's best. And there is an even narrower range that takes delight in antagonizing people who are not like them and don't share their views.

She is one of those people.

I wish voters in all communities would stop voting out of spite or just to embrace the extreme trying to offset the other. It's going poorly.
 
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lawgator1 said:
No.

I think the vast, vast majority of people on the right, Republicans or otherwise,are well meaning people who want what is best for their families and their communities.

There is a small contingent that wishes to impose their very narrow view of morality and religion on everyone else because they are convinced that it's best. And there is an even narrower range that takes delight in antagonizing people who are not like them and don't share their views.

She is one of those people.

I wish voters in all communities would stop voting out of spite or just to embrace the extreme trying to offset the other. It's going poorly.
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Boy that's rich coming from you.
 
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Found this googling history of abortion and conservatism. Article has some biased conclusions, but the facts presented are interesting:

Today, evangelicals make up the backbone of the pro-life movement, but it hasn’t always been so. Both before and for several years after Roe, evangelicals were overwhelmingly indifferent to the subject, which they considered a “Catholic issue.” In 1968, for instance, a symposium sponsored by the Christian Medical Society and Christianity Today, the flagship magazine of evangelicalism, refused to characterize abortion as sinful, citing “individual health, family welfare, and social responsibility” as justifications for ending a pregnancy. In 1971, delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention in St. Louis, Missouri, passed a resolution encouraging “Southern Baptists to work for legislation that will allow the possibility of abortion under such conditions as rape, incest, clear evidence of severe fetal deformity, and carefully ascertained evidence of the likelihood of damage to the emotional, mental, and physical health of the mother.” The convention, hardly a redoubt of liberal values, reaffirmed that position in 1974, one year after Roe, and again in 1976.

When the Roe decision was handed down, W. A. Criswell, the Southern Baptist Convention’s former president and pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas—also one of the most famous fundamentalists of the 20th century—was pleased: “I have always felt that it was only after a child was born and had a life separate from its mother that it became an individual person,” he said, “and it has always, therefore, seemed to me that what is best for the mother and for the future should be allowed.”

Although a few evangelical voices, including Christianity Today magazine, mildly criticized the ruling, the overwhelming response was silence, even approval. Baptists, in particular, applauded the decision as an appropriate articulation of the division between church and state, between personal morality and state regulation of individual behavior. “Religious liberty, human equality and justice are advanced by the Supreme Court abortion decision,” wrote W. Barry Garrett of Baptist Press.

The Real Origins of the Religious Right
 
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