Comments on: Jihad For Jesus

By: The Reverend

The Reverend — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 12:15:53 +0000

Even democratic governments move slowly. Prostitution and narcotics will be legalized and regulated sometime in the future in America. That's not only the pragmatic thing to do, but the right thing to do.

America is still experiencing the hangover from it's Puritan days.

By: Bubba

Bubba — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:28:25 +0000

Then it should be OK if abortion is illegal only in certain areas? If people truly have the right to do whatever they want with their bodies then why haven't any of these other laws prohibiting these behaviors been overturned?

By: G-Mann

G-Mann — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:54:31 +0000

Bubba, two other fights that should be fought. People who are laissez-faire should be asking those questions. Along with why does the government get to dictate when I can use my cell phone and that if I can successfully drive home after 2 beers why I should get a DUI for getting pulled over for a blinker being out. (Think of the tax revenue from federally regulated drugs and licensing for prostitution)

Both are illegal because they were illegal in England (where most of our rule of law comes from), and the English Rule of Law strictly adhered to laws of the bible.

(By the way Bubba, drug usage and prostitution are only illegal in certain areas)

By: Bubba

Bubba — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:45:31 +0000

If a woman has the right to decide what she does with her body why is prostitution illegal? Why is it illegal to use drugs?

By: G-Mann

G-Mann — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:39:09 +0000

My favorite thing about pro-lifers and the anti-abortion people is that they are the same people who are anti-welfare, anti-tax, anti-public education. So this young mom who doesn't have a dad to help her decides hey, I don't want to ruin my life or give a kid a horrible life so I'll get an abortion.

Now you say she can't get one. So that means she can give it to CSB. Oh wait you are anti-tax and welfare so CSB is to underfunded to take on new kids. The child has a crappy life. Suppose then her family is willing to support her, well now she has to stay low class, and most likely won't graduate high school let alone college, so she will send her kid to poorly funded public school (that the right refuses to fund) and the kid becomes a thug. She needs help supporting her kid because she can't good a good job. Well she is a drag on society because she collects welfare.

It is quite ironic to me (and less I really over generalized this) that you say, no you have to keep the baby. But then all of you are completely against the services needed to help a mother be successful if she decides to keep it.

Well you will say she shouldn't have gotten pregnant. Well I say, LIVE IN REALITY!!! People have sex, they get pregnant, on purpose and by mistake. People have a right choose if they are going to live with that mistake or not. Hell if you are all so gung-ho with "you can't make mistakes" then Laura Bush should be in jail (she killed a person) Cheney should be in jail (he shot a dude in the face) Bush was a deserter.

All I'm saying is stop being a bunch of hypocrites. You don't want girls having abortions then give them the programs they need to succeed and keep their child otherwise stop complaining.

By: The Reverend

The Reverend — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:18:16 +0000

average….you're my blog buddy…but have you ever considered the woman's point of view?

King waxes unusally spiteful and ugly with his comment. Placing the "rights" of embryoes over the rights of women is not oly misplaced….but ignorant as well.

Does a man have the right to decide what happens to his body? So, too, a woman.

By: averagejoe5

averagejoe5 — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:18:05 +0000

King, I believe it is the left's way of justifying murder. By combining abortion and religion they can use the church/state separation argument. Otherwise it just becomes a mom wanting to kill her unborn baby out of convenience.

By: Da King

Da King — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:15:44 +0000

Why is abortion, and specifically late term abortion, strictly a religious issue ? It shouldn't be. I view late term abortion as a human rights issue. Viable babies should not be murdered. What freedom is the Reverend granting to them, other than the right to be slaughtered ? The right to life is the most important right of all, because without it, the rest of them don't mean diddly.

On the bright side, the Reverend can comfort himself in the knowledge that dead babies don't buy guns.

By: larry d.

larry d. — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:26:06 +0000

I'm not sure what you'd believe in in the 1850s as what you believe in now is primarily baloney. Maybe phrenology?

In any case, please stick to your usual inflammatory tone, Reverend.

By: The Reverend

The Reverend — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:50:10 +0000

No one is arguing that anyone has to blindly accept anything. I'm simply suggesting that in lieu of blindly accepting everything, assassination's ain't the alternative.

larry..

Now why would I be demonizing abolitionists in the 1850's? You, maybe…but not me. I believe in freedom. I believe that men should be free from being enslaved, like animals…..and I believe that women should be free to control their own reproductive lives.

You hurt my feelings, larry, when you call me a dem lemming, although the word combination pronounces easily, so you have that going for you.

A religious bigot would be someone who was intolerant of faith-based people. I want all people to be free to follow their religious beliefs, or not. It is religion, itself, that poisons everything. It is a cancer.

It seems odd to me….people who believe strongly in invisible, imaginary stuff are held in high esteem, often deferred to, inside America. Doesn't anyone else find this odd? Odder still is the obvious fact that anyone who didn't believe in invisible, imaginary stuff, could never be elected president. Doesn't that seem, I don't know,…..wrong, somehow?