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Whereas currently the horseshit is confined to the hospital bills.

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HEIGH! From your avatar, it appears you have a rider.

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I'll stop brushing right away. (I hope it's not too late.)

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Yes yes, letting people do what they want in private with consenting partners is slavery, while jailing them for their immutable orientation is liberty!

Also, recognizing that women are humans with rights is the true slavery, while arbitrarily assigning a sweeping set of rights to a microscopic ball of formless cells and using that blastocyst to rob uterus-Americans of self-determination is freedom.

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Also, women, but you knew that already.

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That sad, sad man. He lost you. <i>(See how I made him the victim.)</i>

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They are thin, eat good food, read a huge number of books, speak perfect French, have national health care, and get 6 weeks of paid vacation every year. Who wouldn't hate them?

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Black people. This country will lead the world in providing full citizenship rights and cultural acceptance to gays, just as it did for women; it will open its arms to immigrants of every sort, just as it has periodically done, earning the admiration and respect of the world (cf. Lift Lamp Golden Door etc.). It will do these things--it will do <i>anything, anything</i> to avoid giving up hatred and fear of the people with the slavery gene.

Case in point: today's GOP rushing to embrace the Latino vote even if it means giving up some core planks in its platform (borders, public education). Anything to avoid mentioning black people--sorry, I mean "cities"--or, youknow, having any blahs in the party.

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Neigh!

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You forgot the bit about using an ironing board as a table.

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Ahmadinejad?

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Doktor Zoom libel?

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<i>"I can’t tell you how many sad tales I’ve heard from people who’ve seen the destructive effects of homosexual behavior in the life of a son, a daughter, a brother or a sister."</i>

I assume she's referring to people who lost their jobs, or got discharged from the military, or got gay-bashed, or were disowned by their parents or siblings. And -- do I have to say it? -- heterosexual behavior isn't always a bed of roses. I can't tell you how many sad tales I've heard from people about divorce, abuse, problems with kids, in-laws, money. And that's just in the Christmas newsletters.

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It's because they really want the strapping buck Mandingo and/or the uppity Amazon Negress to spank them for being a dirty, dirty wingnut.

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Girl, you should see my Tuesdays!

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"Even though she is right, kind of, because the anti-slavery movement was driven by Christians with a firm moral conviction against something. Those Christians just happened to be right, but there were just as many pious church-going Christian slave-owners who were wrong wrong wrong"

Why, it's almost as if Christianity can be bent to defend the most heinous positions, regardless of the "true" (scarequotes because I'm a godless heathen sodomite, and thus also a dreaded "relativist") morality of a situation!

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