That's a ridiculous statement. The Dems were right to attempt to secure equal rights for those groups as well as blacks, and more conservatives have been on the wrong side of those efforts than have been on the right, appropriate, side.
No one defends Muslim anti gay or anti-woman behavior. But How you miss the following distinction is astounding.
NO religious or gender bigotry, by or towards Muslims, Jews and Christians has the force of U.S. law behind it. Got it?
You have no idea how many Muslim American women are being treated as second class citizens. Legally they cannot be so treated.
And the stats on spousal abuse by Christians in this country make your lack of concern about same look like obvious bigotry, hypocrisy AND ignorance.
So in sum, I defend no abuse of anyone based upon religious beliefs.
But considering how often so called religious people honor their faith more in the breach rather than in the observance, I don't lose my shit over it.
As for a 'handful', you've got to be kidding yourself if you don't think that's the tip of an iceberg of GOP hypocrisy.
No one defends Muslim anti gay or anti-woman behavior. But How you miss the following distinction is astounding.
NO religious or gender bigotry, by or towards Muslims, Jews and Christians has the force of U.S. law behind it. Got it?
You have no idea how many Muslim American women are being treated as second class citizens. Legally they cannot be so treated.
And the stats on spousal abuse by Christians in this country make your lack of concern about same look like obvious bigotry, hypocrisy AND ignorance.
So in sum, I defend no abuse of anyone based upon religious beliefs.
But considering how often so called religious people honor their faith more in the breach rather than in the observance, I don't lose my shit over it.
As for a 'handful', you've got to be kidding yourself if you don't think that's the tip of an iceberg of GOP hypocrisy.
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https://thinkprogress.org/why-this-lawmaker-o...bed7ee304/
On an anecdotal level, there are plenty of personal stories about people who, after spending their lives publicly opposing abortion, find themselves in a clinic to terminate their own unwanted pregnancy. One researcher who studies the pro-life movement says that an interview subject once told him: “Most pro-life women oppose abortion with four exceptions: rape, incest, the life of the mother, and me.”
That’s perhaps due to the fact that being confronted with pregnancy decisions on an individual level is very different than engaging in more abstract conversations about politics and legality. “I had always said — always ‘known’ — that if I ever had an unplanned pregnancy I would have to keep it,” one woman who had an abortion after previously identifying as pro-life wrote in xoJane. “It turns out that I didn’t really know anything about what I would do if I got pregnant.”
Researchers and pollsters are well aware of this dynamic. Polls that ask Americans whether abortion should be legal typically find that the country is sharply divided on the issue, whereas polls that approach the issue from a more personal standpoint — and ask Americans under which circumstances women should be denied an abortion — tend to return higher levels of support for access to the procedure. Personal experience with abortion has been proven to shift views in favor of legality.
Nonetheless, the people who oppose abortion may not realize that some individuals in their circles are having abortions. Recent research has found that anti-abortion Americans underestimate the number of people they know who have ended a pregnancy, largely because women choose to keep that decision a secret from others who might pass judgment on it.
When it comes to DesJarlais specifically, his office continues to maintain that he has a “100 percent pro-life voting record” and has “always advocated for pro-life values.” He narrowly won re-election in 2014 despite the controversy over his potentially contradictory stance on abortion.
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