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发帖数: 657 | 1 Ooops... I forgot I entitled it DOMA while in actuality I was talking about
the case against PROP 8...
Regarding DOMA, I think Justice Kennedy might not extend his support on gay
rights to realms like the definition of marriage. Because it means federal r
ecognition of the word "marriage" redefined, which is unacceptable to most o
f the conservatives in this country. At least up till now I did not see any
solid logical argument for or against redefinition of the word marriage,
because it is not ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 2 N.Y. Archbishop Compares Gay Marriage to Communist Regimes
By Julie Bolcer
TimothyDolanx180 (Arch NY) | Advocate.com
As momentum continued to build toward the passage of a marriage equality
bill on Tuesday, New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan took to his website to
compare the legislation to the sort of social control more identified with
Communist regimes like China and North Korea.
Dolan wrote his piece the morning after three undecided Democrats and one
Republican who voted against the bill in ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 3 加拿大已经无政府状态了，荷兰已经无政府状态了！！！
拿什么拯救你啊，我的脑残?
Former N.Y. Giant Warns of “Anarchy” if Marriage Passes
By Lucas Grindley
David Tyree X390 (GETTY) | ADVOCATE.COM
A New York Giants Super Bowl hero is warning of “anarchy” should state
lawmakers approve gay marriage this week.
Former wide receiver David Tyree was interviewed for a video posted on the
website for the National Organization for Marriage, which notoriously
opposes marriage equality anywhere it’s proposed nationwide.
"If they pass this gay marr... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 4 NOM, the National Organization for Marriage, Tuesday issued results of a
poll that claims, “57% of New Yorkers Reject Same-Sex Marriage, Just
One in Four Want the Legislature to Decide the Issue,” but an examination
of the published results indicate the poll methodology is severely flawed,
heavily weighted with older, conservative respondents, and the pollster, QEV
, is an organization whose marketing brags of its president’s affiliation
with the Republican Party.
NOM, identified as an “a... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 5 Posted on Advocate.com June 25, 2011 07:45:00 PM ET
Marriage Equality Foes Speak Out
By Winston Gieseke
As expected, not all of the responses to Friday’s Marriage Equality victory
in New York were positive. In addition to the National Organization for
Marriage’s outspoken reactions, other opponents of LGBT rights were equally
troubled by the state’s late night vote.
Archbishop Timothy Dolan (pictured) and the Catholic Church in New York were
among the most vocal locals in opposition. Dolan, who ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 6 Fight Not Over
By Jeffrey Hartinger
Rev. Jason J. McGuire BRIAN BROWN X390 (FAIR) | ADVOCATE.COM
Rev. Jason J. McGuire (left) and NOM's Brian Brown
July 24 marks the first day that gay and lesbian couples can wed in New York
State, but many political groups and religious institutions are claiming
that the fight regarding opposition to same-sex marriage is far from over,
according to The New York Times.
Influential opponents, such as Brian S. Brown, the president of the National
Organization for ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 7 Posted on Advocate.com July 26, 2011 12:25:00 PM ET
NY Attorney General Files Brief in DOMA Case
By Julie Bolcer
EricSchneidermanx390 (Campaign) | Advocate.com
Eric Schneiderman
New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman filed a brief Tuesday in the
case of Windsor v. United States to challenge the constitutionality of the
Defense of Marriage Act, arguing that DOMA violates same-sex couples’ right
to equal protection under the law and must be invalidated.
The friend-of-the-court brief, filed in... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2153 | 8 http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/candacechellew-hod
According to new census figures, the number of people reporting that they
are living with a same-sex partner has risen 52 percent in the last decade.
That’s almost 902,000 people who are living all across the United States.
Even here in my own incredibly conservative state of South Carolina, the
number of same-sex couples increased and a quarter of them are raising
children.
It’s those kinds of facts that have right-wing media like ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 9 Posted on Advocate.com October 06, 2011 04:53:01 PM ET
U.K. Prime Minister: "I Support Gay Marriage"
By Ivan Villanueva
DAVID CAMERON X390 (GETTY) | ADVOCATE.COM
David Cameron
In what might be viewed as a contradictory statement here in the United
States, U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron said he supports same-sex marriage
precisely because he is a conservative.
His comments were made while speaking to the Conservative Party in
Manchester, England on Wednesday.
"I stood before a conservative con... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 657 | 10 MR对于CU的看法：
They say Romney changed his position on civil unions. In truth, Romney said
he opposed civil unions but "would look to protect already established
rights and extend basic civil rights to domestic partnerships"(24). Critics
who fail to distinguish legally between a "domestic partnership" and a "
civil union" have falsely characterized Romney's statement as a support of
civil unions while neglecting his answer about civil unions in that same
questionnaire.
The only instance in which Rom... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2153 | 11 State-by-State Laws on Gay Marriage Produce Patchwork Quilt
同志婚姻权本质是基本人权和公民权,超出了州政府的拥有的民事权管辖范围.联邦政府
必须枪毙DOMA,把同婚权和反性倾向歧视纳入宪法中!
Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The patchwork quilt of U.S. state laws on same-sex
marriage, which Washington is now poised to legalize, leaves gay and lesbian
Americans with different rights depending on geography. To opponents, that
’s just the way things work in a union of self-governing states.
If Washington Governor Christine Gregoire signs the bill passed by lawmakers
yester... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 12 http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/19/politics/virginia-personhood-bill
Richmond, Virginia (CNN) -- In the Virginia House of Delegates, Republican
Robert Marshall is a longtime abortion opponent who has tried repeatedly to
pass legislation in his state that would give rights to the unborn.
This year, on his third try, Marshall just might get his wish, and that has
advocates for women's reproductive rights concerned.
The House of Delegates passed a so-called "personhood" bill Tuesday
sponsored by Marshal... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 13 LOS ANGELES — Bill Delaney’s two little girls spend three nights a week
with their fathers, at the home Mr. Delaney shares with his husband in San
Francisco. The other nights, they stay with their mothers, a lesbian couple
who live nearby.
Enlarge This Image
Sean Kane of Portland, Ore., adopted his wife’s children from her first
marriage but did not want their biological father’s legal relationship to
be severed. So he pursued a third-parent adoption.
National Twitter Logo.
Connect With Us on Tw... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 14 Just in time for Valentine's Day, Washington Governor Christine Gregoire
signed into law a marriage equality bill that was introduced in the
legislature just weeks before. Gregoire told supporters that February 13
would be "a day that historians will mark as a milestone for equal rights,"
when Washington "finally said yes to marriage equality. The sky-will-fall
rhetoric is simply not true."
But equality opponents begged to differ, and within days of the bill's
passage began to gather signatures ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 24887 | 15 消息还是振奋人心的．估计代表了未来一段时间的态势．
在宾州这种州立法机构到州长都被共和党把持的地方，走这种渠道，恐怕是眼下唯一现
实的选项了．虽然地理上紧相邻，宾州却和新泽西情况那般不同：后者现在完全是被一
个充满了个人政治考量的肥胖州长阻挡，前者却是更大面积的反同势力．有人这样描述
宾州之于LGBT议题：
PA is Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and ALABAMA.
关键词：Alabama.
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A.C.L.U. Lawsuit Aims to Overturn Pennsylvania’s Ban on Gay Marriage
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/10/us/aclu-lawsuit-aims-to-overt
By TRIP GABRIEL
Published: July 9, 2013
The Supreme Court returned the battle over same-sex marriage to the states
last month, and Deb an... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1235 | 16 Republican Gay Rights Groups Denied Booths At Texas GOP Convention
WASHINGTON -- Two Republican gay rights groups are calling out the Texas
Republican Party for denying them the chance to put up booths at the
upcoming state GOP convention in Fort Worth.
The Log Cabin Republicans and Metroplex Republicans held a joint press
conference Thursday afternoon denouncing the party's decision.
"Overall, Log Cabin Republicans of Texas has found incredible support within
the Republican party -- Texans, lik... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 24887 | 17 http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/02/12/385835809/federa
A battle between Alabama and the federal judiciary just turned another page,
when a federal judge on Thursday ordered a state official to issue marriage
licenses to same-sex couples.
Reuters reports:
"U.S. District Court Judge Callie Granade's order sought to clarify that
Mobile County Probate Court Judge Don Davis should follow her directive,
and not a contravening order from Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore
that has led... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 434 | 18 Well-said. This is what I think too:
Really? If it's just between two of you, then why are you trying to change
the definition of marriage for EVERYONE? Do what you want in your own
bedroom, but don't expect to redefine something that most people feel is the
most important union in our society, without having a vote. |
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发帖数: 2416 | 19
Well you may be right in principle. The problem is that
some people keep trying to redefine what "基本权利" covers. |
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发帖数: 29846 | 20 By Peter Wilson
President Obama has suggested in his last 147 television appearances that he
inherited the national debt from President Bush, who squandered the Clinton
surplus with his "tax cuts for the rich" and his unnecessary wars.
Now someone at whitehouse.gov, apparently not an accountant or an economist,
has put together an "infographic" that assigns hard numbers to these vague
assertions, explaining in detail how "$12.7 Trillion [was] Added to the Debt
Over the Last Decade." The graphi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 21 The Church of Obama
The president his issued his own Act of Supremacy.
By Mark Steyn
Announcing his support for Commissar Sebelius’s edicts on contraception,
sterilization, and pharmacological abortion, that noted theologian the Most
Reverend Al Sharpton explained: “If we are going to have a separation of
church and state, we’re going to have a separation of church and state.”
Thanks for clarifying that. The church model the young American state wished
to separate from was that of the British mo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 137 | 22 【 以下文字转载自 QueerNews 讨论区 】
发信人: miami128 (LOVE), 信区: QueerNews
标 题: 我们不要这满是布丁的美国同婚权法--剑指DOMA
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Feb 9 23:12:09 2012, 美东)
State-by-State Laws on Gay Marriage Produce Patchwork Quilt
同志婚姻权本质是基本人权和公民权,超出了州政府的拥有的民事权管辖范围.联邦政府
必须枪毙DOMA,把同婚权和反性倾向歧视纳入宪法中!
Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The patchwork quilt of U.S. state laws on same-sex
marriage, which Washington is now poised to legalize, leaves gay and lesbian
Americans with different rights depending on geography. To opponents, that
’s just t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 23 Left-Leaning Cable Network Ousts Keith Olbermann--Replaces Him With Elliot
Spitzer
By FRAZIER MOORE, Associated Press
March 31, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) — Keith Olbermann is looking for a new job after less than a
year as a talk show host at Current TV.
The left-leaning cable network announced just hours before airtime on Friday
that Olbermann's show "Countdown" would be replaced with a new program
called "Viewpoint" hosted by former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, beginning
that night.
The sometimes vol... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 24 by Rick aka Mr. Brutally Honest
Kevin O'Brien over at the Theatre of the World Incorporated is making an
excellent point geared particularly toward sympathizers of the Occupy
movement:
tOccupy Wall Street and related groups were indignant, and rightly so,
that the wealthiest one percent of the population seems to control the
government.
We would all agree that in a democratic republic, policy that affects
every American should not be set by an elite, particularly if that elite is
only on... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 25 By Trevor Thomas
The NAACP recently decided to (surprise!) side with President Obama and
liberals across the U.S. and endorse same-sex marriage. The board of
directors for the organization released a statement declaring that "civil
marriage is a civil right and a matter of civil law." Roslyn Brock,
chairman of the NAACP's board of directors, declared, "We have and will
oppose efforts to codify discrimination into law."
Of course, one of the most frequent and favorite cries of the left is the
d... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 26 By: Patrick J. Buchanan
7/3/2012 06:57 AM
For John Roberts, it is Palm Sunday.
Out of relief and gratitude for his having saved Obamacare, he is being
compared to John Marshall and Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Liberal commentators are burbling that his act of statesmanship has shown us
the way to the sunny uplands of a new consensus.
If only Republicans will follow Roberts’ bold and brave example, and agree
to new revenues, the dark days of partisan acrimony and tea party
intransigence could be beh... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 27 by Alli Bachmann
Let’s talk about some facts and history. The Cathys began their journey
towards the “American Dream” in the 1940′s by opening up a small grill in
Georgia. After years of experimenting with cooking techniques, the infamous
chicken sandwich was born. Nearly two decades later, Chick-Fil-A as we know
it, opened in an Atlanta mall. Truett Cathy, the founder, expanded their
restaurant from mall to mall until their first free-standing restaurant
opened in 1986. To date, there are 1,ooo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 28 by Rick aka Mr. Brutally Honest
Jeff Goldstein at Protein Wisdom is ranting about the untruths being told
about Paul Ryan by Obama minions:
I was all set to point to the litany of flat-out falsehoods and
misinformation DNC Chair Ms Wasserman Schultz and her unfortunate hair
dished out to CNN’s Soledad O’Brien, but the truth is, why go further than
simply highlighting this? When prompted to respond to what GOP voters
supposedly like about VP choice Paul Ryan, Schultz unpacked her adjectives:... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 29 By Patrick J. Buchanan
September 7, 2012
The authors of the Democratic platform have inadvertently revealed to the
world the sea change that has taken place in that party we once knew.
For the first time — and in the longest Democratic platform in history, 26,
000 words — there was not a single mention of God, the Creator, whom Thomas
Jefferson himself, father of the party, proclaimed to be the author of our
right to life and liberty.
The convention had approved the new platform, but when a fire... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 30 Christians frightened for America’s future face a conundrum this electoral
season. Biblical precepts must steer our politics; loving God with all our
hearts, souls and minds obviously includes discernment at the polls. “When
you enter the voting booth,” says R.C. Sproul, “don’t leave your
Christianity in the parking lot.”
How should Christians vote their beliefs?
Only God knows either candidate’s heart, but Mitt Romney professes
Mormonism. Culturally, Mormons make for great neighbors and busines... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 35 一个人生了病并不代表他就失去理智了.
"Pure sophistry is pitted against reason. Reason is losing."
by Rick aka Mr. Brutally Honest
A gay guy speaks out against... gay marriage:
http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2013/03/9622/
In our sometimes misguided efforts to expand our freedom, selfish adults
have systematically dismantled that which is most precious to children as
they grow and develop. That’s why I am now speaking out against same-sex
marriage.
By the way, I am gay.
A few days ago I testified aga... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 36 By: Ulysses Arn (Diary) | March 28th, 2013 at 05:52 PM |
It has been interesting to hear the arguments being made in support of same
sex marriage these last few days as the Supreme Court heard oral arguments
concerning California’s proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage
Act(DOMA). There has been a social media campaign on this subject with
supporters of redefining the word marriage changing their profile pictures
to an equal sign or the words “marriage equality”. Protest have tak... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1041 | 38 The long-running patent war between smartphone giants Apple Inc. AAPL -0.20%
and Samsung Electronics Co. 005930.SE +0.74% will be back in the spotlight
on Friday with two legal developments that could help tip the balance.
The companies will argue before a federal appeals court in Washington over
whether a lower court erred last year when it allowed Samsung to continue
selling more than two dozen products after a jury found they infringed
several Apple patents.
Also on Friday, the International ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 39 WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court put a stop to same-sex marriages in
conservative Utah on Monday pending the state's appeal of a federal district
court's order that had legalized the unions.
The high court, acting on a petition sent to Justice Sonia Sotomayor, ruled
that gay marriages cannot continue during the appeals process. The case is
pending before the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.
U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby ruled Dec. 20 that the state's ban on same
-sex marriage violates gay and le... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 40 Federal Judge Upholds Right of Louisiana Citizens to Preserve One Man-One
Woman Marriage
via Breitbart Feed
For the first time since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last year
overturning the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a federal judge has
upheld the rights of citizens of a state to preserve its law defining
marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
As ABC News reports, Judge Martin Feldman of the U.S. District Court for the
Eastern District of Louisiana upheld the wishes of L... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 41 Ministers Who Refuse to Perform Same-Sex Marriage Could Face Jail Time and
Exorbitant Fines
October 21, 2014 - 11:21 AM
By Ryan T. Anderson
For years, those in favor of same-sex marriage have argued that all
Americans should be free to live as they choose. And yet in countless cases,
the government has coerced those who simply wish to be free to live in
accordance with their belief that marriage is the union of a man and a woman.
Ministers face a 180-day jail term and $1,000 fine for each day th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 42 Incest: The Next Frontier in ‘Reproductive Freedom’
January 19, 2015 - 1:03 PM
By J. Matt Barber
Like a plastic Piggly Wiggly bag fluttering about in the alley, those
untethered from God’s natural law are violently tossed to and fro by the
gusting winds of moral relativism. Jenny Kutner is one such Piggly Wiggly
bag. A 20-something assistant editor at Salon.com, she describes herself as
“focusing on sex, gender and feminism.”
By “focusing on sex, gender and feminism,” and as you will soon see, t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 43 Woman Raised by Lesbian Couple: 'I Ached Every Day For a Dad'
March 20, 2015 - 12:48 PM
By Michael W. Chapman
Heather Barwick, who was raised by her mother and her mother's lesbian
partner, wrote in an essay this week that same-sex "marriage" is not the
same as normal marriage between a man and a woman, that the traditional
family is best, and that while growing up she "ached every day for a dad."
Barwick, who is 31 now, married, and has four children, said that "same-sex
marriage and parenting ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 44 Josh Duggar: ‘Being the Oldest of 19 Kids and Counting’ I Believe ‘Every
Single Child Deserves a Mother and Father’
April 27, 2015 - 1:13 PM
By Lauretta Brown
(CNSNews.com) – Josh Duggar, eldest son of the Duggar family in the popular
reality-TV show19 Kids and Counting, told CNSNews.com that he believes “
marriage is central to the family and every single child deserves a mother
and father” in an interview at the March for Marriage on Saturday in
Washington, D.C.
Duggar also said he believed th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6971 | 45 On food stamp的人也不愿意再来很多人跟他们抢food stamps。
On food stamp的人也不愿意被恐怖分子炸死。
再说Trump也没说过要取消food stamp。
我觉得Trump有希望redefine左右。 |
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发帖数: 10034 | 47 then u can say anything, you just need to redefine it afterwards. this is
called wudi. |
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发帖数: 1 | 48 巴马真是穆斯林啊。
用联合国的law压制美国的law， 用联合国的纲领压制美国的主权。 就象欧共体的政法
体系压制英国的主权，英国想遣返一个恐怖分子欧共体法庭都不让。
联合国包容甚至保护伊斯兰教法，奥巴马又壮大了自己的力量。
The United Nations is a sharia-compliant world body, and Obama, speaking
there just days ago, insisted that “violent extremism” is not exclusive to
Islam (which it is). Obama is redefining jihad terror to include everyone
but the jihadists. So will the UN, driven largely by the sharia-enforcing
Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the pro-Islamic post-American
President Obama... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 494 | 49 好文，非常赞同
After Trump Loses, We Can Build a Sane Republican Party
This week, as we witness the horrifying spectacle of the GOP crowning Donald
Trump as its presidential nominee, we may find solace by anticipating the
positive change that his ill-fated candidacy might actually bring about.
Ever since Trump secured the nomination, influential leaders and
intellectuals on the right who reject him have been working to reimagine the
right as it should be. Under normal circumstances, envisioning a more
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发帖数: 2284 | 50 Donald never loses he simply moves the finish line or redefines victory. |
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