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#1 JoeRatz16
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[QUOTE="XilePrincess"]Truly these people can't be dumb enough not to understand the difference between ABORTION and something that has already died.nocoolnamejim

They understand the difference, they just didn't know that the woman's baby had already died.

I think you're missing the broader point that bringing in a Children's Choir to sing "Happy Birthday Dead Baby" is kind of tasteless regardless of circumstances.

I did refer to it as "tasteless" and as something that 40 Days for Life wouldn't do, David Bereit and Shawn Carney run a pretty clean operation and seem like nice fellas.

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[QUOTE="nocoolnamejim"]And now, some news from down in Alabama. (Or, as some people prefer to refer to it, "Hell has a really good college football team!") [quote="Alabama News"] This week, pro-life protestor Joyce Fecteau, 70, was arrested for assault based on an incident alleged to have happened the week of Christmas. A pro-choice protestor told police that Fecteau sprayed her in the face with what Fecteau says is holy water. Fecteau told The Huntsville Times that she was spritzing holy water to cleanse the air of smoke from a pro-choicers sage smudge, and that the pro-choice protestor walked into the spray. ... Pro-choice marchers recalled a particularly painful event last month when a woman whose baby had died en utero was coming to the clinic to have it removed. In an awful coincidence, that was the day, Watters said, when the pro-life demonstrators collected a childrens choir on the sidewalk to sing "Happy Birthday Dead Baby" to anyone driving in. Will had to physically restrain the father, Watters said, nodding to one of the men marching in a pro-choice jacket. "And by the time she walked through them, she was an emotional wreck." nocoolnamejim

Um...really? Spritzing people with holy water? Getting a damned CHILDREN'S CHOIR to sing "Happy Birthday Dead Baby"? Speechless. I understand that some people find abortion to be murder and/or morally repugnant. I respect that viewpoint. But...dragging in a bunch of children to sing "Happy Birthday Dead Baby" to people going to an abortion clinic? Wow.

We don't know if Fecteau "spritzed" anyone with holy water, she said it was an accident that she was spraying the air to get rid of smoke from a pro-choicer's "sage smudge" whatever that is (is it like an incense that is burned)?

As for the Children's choir, it does seem somewhat of a tasteless thing, though the article doesn't give much information about the incident and what information they do give is only from one source: what Watters and the other unnamed "pro-choicers" said, so we don't have the perspective of the pro-lifers. It is a quite unfortunate coincidence though with baby that diedin utero (I am sure that the pro-lifers would sympathize with that family if they found that out), though maybe that is one reason why it is best for people in that situation to go to somewhere other than an abortion clinic to have the dead baby removed.

Anyway my guess is that the "children's choir" people were small-time, local groups. It does not strike me as sometime that a group such as 40 Days for Life would do.

It's cute how when you know something is utterly indefensible but you feel you kind of have to defend it anyway you switch usernames. You know you don't HAVE to defend every single thing that your "side" does right? It's okay to just say, "That's some bullsh1t" on your own tribe once in a while.

I didn't defend anything, I disagreed with the children's choir thing if everything did go down that way. As for Fecteau maybe she sprayed the other person on purpose, maybe it was an accident, but the charitable thing to do is presume innocence unless their is sufficient evidence of guilt.

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Truly these people can't be dumb enough not to understand the difference between ABORTION and something that has already died.XilePrincess
They understand the difference, they just didn't know that the woman's baby had already died.

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And now, some news from down in Alabama. (Or, as some people prefer to refer to it, "Hell has a really good college football team!") [quote="Alabama News"] This week, pro-life protestor Joyce Fecteau, 70, was arrested for assault based on an incident alleged to have happened the week of Christmas. A pro-choice protestor told police that Fecteau sprayed her in the face with what Fecteau says is holy water. Fecteau told The Huntsville Times that she was spritzing holy water to cleanse the air of smoke from a pro-choicers sage smudge, and that the pro-choice protestor walked into the spray. ... Pro-choice marchers recalled a particularly painful event last month when a woman whose baby had died en utero was coming to the clinic to have it removed. In an awful coincidence, that was the day, Watters said, when the pro-life demonstrators collected a childrens choir on the sidewalk to sing "Happy Birthday Dead Baby" to anyone driving in. Will had to physically restrain the father, Watters said, nodding to one of the men marching in a pro-choice jacket. "And by the time she walked through them, she was an emotional wreck." nocoolnamejim
Um...really? Spritzing people with holy water? Getting a damned CHILDREN'S CHOIR to sing "Happy Birthday Dead Baby"? Speechless. I understand that some people find abortion to be murder and/or morally repugnant. I respect that viewpoint. But...dragging in a bunch of children to sing "Happy Birthday Dead Baby" to people going to an abortion clinic? Wow.

We don't know if Fecteau "spritzed" anyone with holy water, she said it was an accident that she was spraying the air to get rid of smoke from a pro-choicer's "sage smudge" whatever that is (is it like an incense that is burned)?

As for the Children's choir, it does seem somewhat of a tasteless thing, though the article doesn't give much information about the incident and what information they do give is only from one source: what Watters and the other unnamed "pro-choicers" said, so we don't have the perspective of the pro-lifers. It is a quite unfortunate coincidence though with baby that diedin utero (I am sure that the pro-lifers would sympathize with that family if they found that out), though maybe that is one reason why it is best for people in that situation to go to somewhere other than an abortion clinic to have the dead baby removed.

Anyway my guess is that the "children's choir" people were small-time, local groups. It does not strike me as sometime that a group such as 40 Days for Life would do.

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Dude...his entire customer base is filled with liberals. He calls a liberal president a fascist and denies climate change exists. If he goes out of business, it's the invisible hand at work slapping him across the face for being too damned stupid to know to just keep his mouth shut and let his customer base keep paying exorbitant fees for overpriced commodity items. nocoolnamejim
Yeah I was kind of surprised that he said this, considering that I viewed WholeFoods as being a business with a predominately liberal clientele. Though I think boycotting the place over this is kind of overreacting, though i've heard of other silly boycotts (such as some people boycotting Divine Mercy pharmacies because they don't carry contraceptives, It doesn't make sense to boycott over that because if the boycott causes the pharmacy to close down now they won't be selling anything).

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The Honorable Joseph Biden

Hell no

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lol. It sounds kind of funny to refer to Joe Biden as "the Honorable Joseph Biden", though I think that is his official title.

Anyways I do think he is influential, though he wasn't able to dissuade Obama against pushing the HHS mandate.

What has he done that is influenctial..besides going against Catholic beliefs.

Well, influential doesn't necessarily mean that he is a good influence. I have previously mentioned him negotiating the fiscal cliff deal and I think he has influenced Obama in other ways. Of the four picks I think Biden was the weakest in terms of influence though since most of his influence is indirect (i.e. most of the influence he exerts is done through Obama).

At least Biden did, in his debate with Paul Ryan, acknowledge that he accepts the Church's belief that human life starts at conception, though with rather weak logic he unfortunately went on to support legalized abortion. The odd thing though is that Biden essentially said he believes abortion ends a human life but doesn't want to "impose" that belief on others, yet if he is so opposed to "imposing" beliefs on others he should be outspokenly critical of the Individual Mandate in Obamacare and he should especially be very outspoken agains the HHS mandate which not only imposes on others, but it actually requires them to cover things that not only go against their beliefs, but that also go against Biden's beliefs (since Biden believes life starts at conception, than the logical extension of that belief is that he would morally oppose abortifacient drugs and devices such as the Morning After Pill and Intra-uterine devices that can end a life after conception, and thus he should oppose any policy that would require employers to provide cover of those things in their health-care plans or that would generally promote those pills/devices and/or make them more widely available or easily obtainable).

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[QUOTE="JoeRatz16"] 16 seems a bit young though, 18 seems better for a law.

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Apparently it was raised from 13 to 16 in 1875 due to concerns of young girls being forced into prostitution.

I don't see why 18 is a better age than 16. Below 16 there are concerns but the ages between 16 and 18 don't matter much.

Between 16 and 18 the girl may still be in high school and having a baby while still in school doesn't really work out too well for some people. Of course, we were all teens at one time (a lot of posters still are) and we know that the law isn't going to stop kids who want to get laid, although you would hope it would stop an adult who cares about their freedom.

I think it is easier now though than it once was. Schools are doing a lot to help make things easier for pregnant students.

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[QUOTE="toast_burner"]It used to be 21 but they changed it to 16 13 years ago.

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16 seems a bit young though, 18 seems better for a law.

Apparently it was raised from 13 to 16 in 1875 due to concerns of young girls being forced into prostitution.

I don't see why 18 is a better age than 16. Below 16 there are concerns but the ages between 16 and 18 don't matter much.

My problem, as far as legality is concerned isn't 16 year olds consenting with other 16 year olds or 17 year olds, it is them consenting with older peopler (say about age 20 and up). I

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The Honorable Joseph Biden

Hell no

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You think he's not influential, or at least not influential enough to merit being picked? or do you just not like his policies?

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One criticism I might have is that some of these picks, particularly Ryan and Biden may be influential only in America and not so much in the wider world, though that is debatable.