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The state of the republican party

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  1. rocketsjudoka

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    I was also born two months premature and the doctors also said that it would've been impossible for her to carry me to full term.

    Since this might come up just to answer the question, aren't you glad your mother didn't abort you? The truth is I am neither glad or sad that she didn't abort me. I have no memory of being born or being in the uterus. If I had died in childbirth or been aborted to save my mother I would have no context at all to judge life.
     
  2. deb4rockets

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    I doubt it. Its a feature, not a bug for a decent chunk of voters.
     
  4. TheJuice

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    Youre asking the wrong person that question lol. Roc Paint can tell you why.

    My point was that pregnancy is a bigger strain on women's bodies than lawmakers believe.
     
  5. deb4rockets

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    I'm sure a big chunk of the hundreds of thousands dead from Covid we're no mask no vax Trump people. There's a few more gone. Add in the LGBQT Trump people who now have their rights being taken away and they will leave too.
     
  6. TheJuice

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    I know a few LGB Trump supporters. Many love the guy because he was the only one in 16 to not oppose gay marriage.

    Dont forget theres a decent chunk of lesbian and gay people who make a lot of money and dont like trans people.
     
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    They won't like it when gay marriage becomes illegal. There will always be a few willing to live in a closet to make more money, but I doubt the majority of them feels that way. Next they will be weeding them out of the military.
     
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    the sad thing is you probably think this is likely
     
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    Yes, but by that point it will be too late. Most of the LGB Republicans I know are younger people who came from accepting, rich families in the Northeast. Their states will never ban gay marriage. They also grew up in schools where being gay wasn't necessarily seen as bad.
     
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    Yikes.

    That looks like a poster from a new J Peele movie.
     
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    Nope, they all dry as hell and need tons of lube.
     
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    supposedly @Sweet Lou 4 2 likes wrinkly ladies
     
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    Lol why would they care about children outside of the womb?
     
  14. deb4rockets

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    That's not most of America. Most red states have a lot of anti-gay bigotry going on from their leaders and followers. There are plenty of those haters in here who vote GOP. As for states never banning gay marriage, well never say never.
     
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    My senator only thinks that same sex marriage should be illegal in some states.

    "Obergefell, like Roe v. Wade, ignored two centuries of our nation’s history. Marriage was always an issue that was left to the states. We saw states before Obergefell, some states were moving to allow gay marriage, other states were moving to allow civil partnerships. There were different standards that the states were adopting."


    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...eme-court-2015-same-sex-marriage/10084609002/
     
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    I think it is less than 50%, but it really isn’t all that far fetched.

    Kennedy was the swing vote in a 5-4 decision.

    Alito, Thomas and Roberts all dissented back in 2015 (or 2016, I don’t remember for sure).

    Alito and Thomas have both repeatedly taken the position that the ruling in Obergfell was wrong.

    Sotomayor, Kagen and Jackson would vote against it.

    Thomas and Alito for sure would vote to over the finding. Barrett is likely to support over turning the ruling and is known to have no respect for staredecisis.

    That leaves it 3-3 with Kavanaugh, Gorsuch and Roberts left.

    Kavanaugh didn’t answer questions on same sex marriage at his confirmation hearings. However he also has distanced himself at times from Alito on the issue.

    Gorsuch has supported trans rights in a couple decisions, or at least the basis of them being protected as a gender class.

    So it could easily be a 5-4 vote going either way. I suspect that the Nazi duo of Thomas and Alito are a vote short, but it isn’t as absurd a question as it was a year or two ago.
     
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    He's living proof you can really be anything today...
     
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    Not wrinkled enough
     
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    The sad thing is that in 13 states, gay marriage is already illegal.

    I doubt the Supreme Court is going to overturn these bans.
     
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