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Things getting strange in Alabama

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Carl Herrera, Sep 22, 2017.

  1. rocketsjudoka

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    Pretty much what I said earlier. Moore support isn't abandoning him and if anything might be hardening. The party of values is just willing to forgive and forget, unless you have "D" for your party affiliation. This is truly a troll party more interested in being politically incorrect and sticking it to those they think are against them than even the principles they claim to stand for.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...ters-stand-by-roy-moore/ar-BBEQyPU?li=BBnb7Kz

     
  2. B-Bob

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    Yes that's true, as far as I know. Can see a shaved-headed Fassbender play the judge. Maybe Michael Shannon? Please not Tom Hardy in this case. The Judge is no mush mouth.
     
  3. KingCheetah

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    Roy Moore's alleged pursuit of a young girl is the symptom of a larger problem in evangelical circles

    We need to talk about the segment of American culture that probably doesn't think the allegations against Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore are particularly damning, the segment that will blanch at only two accusations in the Washington Post expose: He pursued a 14-year-old-girl without first getting her parents' permission, and he initiated sexual contact outside of marriage. That segment is evangelicalism. In that world, which Moore travels in and I grew up in, 14-year-old girls courting adult men isn't uncommon.

    I use the phrase "14-year-old girls courting adult men," rather than "adult men courting 14-year-old girls," for a reason: Evangelicals routinely frame these relationships in those terms. That's how I was introduced to these relationships as a home-schooled teenager in the 1990s, and it's the language that my friends and I would use to discuss girls we knew who were in parent-sanctioned relationships with older men.

    http://beta.latimes.com/opinion/op-...moore-evangelical-culture-20171110-story.html
     
  4. Invisible Fan

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    He's more aligned with Trump values.

    You can't buy that kind of street cred. You have to grab it.
     
  5. rocketsjudoka

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    That reads like something you hear about in the Middle East or Pakistan.
     
  6. B-Bob

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    I don't necessarily mean any offense to anyone in particular, but... this country is so completely ****ed in the head. I guess I've always romanticized a nation of immigrants, but the truth is the refuge of this country has, over 400 years, attracted some of the craziest strands of DNA in the history of our species. At least the Africans had no choice in the matter, but the white DNA here, as evidenced by most of us on this BBS, and evangelicals, and radical liberals, and self-righteous professors, and angry wingers, is completely and totally unredeemable. :-D
     
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    At least there some Republicans who are not just thinking of R at every turn. I think it is time self respecting conservatives ditch the GOP.
     
  9. GladiatoRowdy

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    Well, without any proof except for four victims and 30 other sources, corroborated to include dates that they were in court.

    Your willful ignorance is showing.
     
  10. Rocket River

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    Very sad . . . because there seem ok with someone being all of those

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    Anyone who still chooses to support or vote for Moore so as not to have a Democrat win is participating in the ultimate party over country. In fact, it's putting party over morality. It's a very sad state of affairs.
     
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    Apparently, there is some consideration among some evangelical churches to stop calling themselves evangelical because other evangelical churches are hurting their reputations with their social and political assertiveness. It is probably a gross generalization to say the described cultural experience of courting is common to all evangelicalism.
     
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    It would be better for them to intervene and "police" their own. Too many moderate Christians seem to tolerate the radical reactionaries in their congregations in order "get along" rather than challenge and counter their beliefs.
     
  15. pirc1

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    Can we just request Alabama to leave and put Puerto Rico in its place? :)
     
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    ... meanwhile, good conservative supporters of Hannity and Judge Moore are destroying their Kuerig coffee makers after the company withdrew its advertising support of Hannity's show after Hannity continued to support Judge Moore. Can conservatives make themselves look any worse?

    Conservatives are posting videos of themselves smashing their Keurig coffee makers to smithereens amid the Sean Hannity controversy
    http://www.businessinsider.com/keur...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
     
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    If it was good in 1812 . .. it should be good now!! - Roy Moore

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    MAPA, Make America Pedo Again
     

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