Comments on: ‘Religious Freedom’ Measure Targeting Women’s Reproductive Rights Goes Down in Flames

By: adownriverdiva

adownriverdiva — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 09:30:14 +0000

You help get the word out by sharing your comments or things you like and support on places like Facebook. I do it all the time. You post it and watch and see how many of your friends pick it up and share it with their list of friends.
I know how your feel, I get frustrated too about Obama’s hesitation to punch out the GOP. But I think he’s saving the best for last, till he gets closer to Nov.
Besides Ron Paul is busy underimining Romney’s chance of even winning the nomination, he’s a determined old coot.
And it looks like there is a uprising of moderate repubs to take back their party before it implodes.
There is hope out there still.

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By: GailP

GailP — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:48:04 +0000

I am proud of my state for voting this down. There were enough sensible Lutherans, Methodists, atheists, agnostics to see through the BS in Measure 3. Thank God (pun intended)! The Catholic church should lose their tax-exempt status the way they wanted their flock to follow.
Also voted down was Measure 2, which would have abolished property taxes. It was an 80% vote against abolishing the taxes. Guess we all still want the local control this allows our communities. We pay piddly amounts in state income tax and are one of the few “in the black” but unfortunately red states.
Our hope is on Heidi Heitkamp for Senate. While we are a red state, we vote for who’s the best candidate and have been transitioning out of 3 great federal reps. Heidi vs. Rick Berg (the 14th wealthiest congressman @ present time)is a toss up. Unfortunately seeing outside money flood the contest

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By: David29073

David29073 — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:00:03 +0000

Evoking “God” and hiding behind some sort of conservative religious belief in order to control a certain portion of the population is a tactic as old as when we first walked upright on this planet.
We are hearing both sides of the story about this “attack” on religious freedom but the conservatives are louder and more effective in their screams then the liberals are.
Because of this site, I read WND (www.wnd.com/), the Daily Caller (dailycaller.com/), the old standby, Faux, opps, I mean Fox news(sic) and a wonderful site that finds all sorts of far right bullshit called “Right Wing Watch” (www.rightwingwatch.org/).
With these sites in mind, I get a better picture of how the lies and religious manipulations of the truth are spewed forth into the blogosphere and the main stream media.
I fear the worst this coming election. I don’t see any democratic response that is as loud as the GOP and fundamentalist christen screaming (sic…very sic). I only hear the GOP attacks on President Obama without any real effective answer’s from the opposition.
I have been very disappointed by President Obama and his tepid responses and compromises with an entrenched GOP and an unrelenting far right Christen attack of his presidency bent on destroying the very financial foundations that fuel our government (no taxes…EVER…Grover Norquest can go perform an unnatural sexual act upon himself and the GOP).
I have been reading this blog for about a year now, and see some wonderful attacks and fruitful information to refute the GOP and Christen lies, yet I don’t see that message being picked up by any mainstream media outlets…NONE!!! I see quotes from the Daily Caller, Matt Drudge, Politico, and Fox news, but where is this blog and its responses to the vomit being spewed forth by a bunch of Christen Nazi and goons bent on destroying the very foundations of this democracy?? Where???
Unless we get the massage out about how distorted these lies by a Christen right bent on destroying the very freedom foundations of the Constitutions First Amendment, then this coming election will be the beginning of the end of the United States as a free country.
The Right is winning this war so far; They have been able to successfully steer the conversation about women’s rights into the lie of “attacking religious freedoms”; they have been successful in limiting abortion to the point that if a women wants to get an abortion, they have to be raped by the medical profession in order to prove they need an abortion; the extreme wing of the GOP has been successful in shutting down the government, dismantling safety net programs, attacking the Health Care Law, and making routine legislative issues monumental fights between the GOP and the rest of the country, and the GOP is WINNING!!; and the most insidious of all attacks on our freedom, our freedom to vote! Florida, Nevada, South Carolina, North Carolina and a host of other GOP controlled states have either enacted or will enact very restrictive voter ID laws or other restrictions, like purging the voter rolls of unqualified voters to disenfranchise the democratic vote. This is done in the name of preventing voter fraud, but the problem is, THERE IS NO VOTER FRAUD TO PROTECT AGAINST!!!!!
I have asked this question before; How do we take back our country and get the truth out…HOW???

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By: Shiva (Moderator)

Shiva (Moderator) — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:25:27 +0000

expanding the definition of religious freedom simply means they are trying to be good stiff baptists and make sure women know their place. A way must be found to make their efforts be used against them.

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By: Tina

Tina — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:58:07 +0000

If President Obama came out in support of oxygen,the R’s would suffocate themselves.
So get with it Mr.President.

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