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Did the people screaming religious bigotry actually watch the video? Maher is using his imaginary wifer controversy to comment on the absurdity of what is, in fact, the imaginary birther controversy. He is also critiquing the media for the continued attention it gives the birthers. It's just as absurd to assert that Romney has a harem of wives, just because he is Mormon, as it is to assert that Obama is really from Kenya, just because his father was born there.
I have a feeling that even if they did watch it, it flew right over their little pointed heads.
Amazing how stating a fact about a religion has magically become intolerant bigotry. I wonder if those that claim Maher is intolerant in this case would say the same about Muslim religious law that allows grown men to marry 5 year olds.
Well, I'll tell you where it didn't come from -- reality.
Ah... "Big Love"... my favorite show. Too bad it finally ended. I don't know if you watched it or not, but the polygamist family depicted were not members of the same church Mitt Romney belongs to, and that was made quite clear from the outset. Ditto with "Sister Wives" (it's not "Sister Love," by the way). The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints banned polygamy 122 years ago. Today, there is no faster way for a member of the LDS Church to get himself excommunicated than to be found in a polygamous relationship. There are no extenuating circumstances.
The only reason that bigamy laws are not more strictly enforced in Utah (or anywhere else, for that matter) than they are is that it's a very difficult thing to prove. How do you prove that a man is "married" to three different women in three separate households or just taking turns co-habitating with them? Only the first marriage would have been legally performed in most cases, so technically you have a man married to one woman and living with two or three women, sleeping with them, having children with them and (sometimes but not always) supporting all of them without relying on government welfare.
You seem to be implying that there isn't thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of Utah multi wife "families" hiding in plan sight. Sister wives is a real MORMAN family living in Utah. Only one??? Doubt it.
Religious bigotry from the "tolerant" left. How fitting.
Maybe you should actually watch the video. It's satire, mimicking the inane "arguments" of the birther movement. It has nothing to do with religion per se. Perhaps if you weren't always so certain of seeing religious intolerance anytime anyone criticizes Romney you would have gotten that.
That skit was horrible and his comedy writers should be fired!
But i understand were he was going with it.
The birthers are one of the the sole reasons I'm an independent.
If you think that skit was stupid,that's how you birthers look an act.
Stupid!
That skit was horrible and his comedy writers should be fired!
But i understand were he was going with it.
The birthers are one of the the sole reasons I'm an independent.
If you think that skit was stupid,that's how you birthers look an act.
Stupid!
I agree, it wasn't a funny or particularly well written piece. But as anyone who has watched the birthers over the last three years will attest, they truly are as idiotic as Mahr's satire shows them to be.
And how has Romney responded to birthers? He gives a typical milquetoast reply about not giving the controversy any credence, but his actions tell a different story.
Instead of condemning birthers, he schedules a fundraiser with Donald Trump, birther extraordinaire. In response to Trump's continuing birthing, we get nothing but silence from Romney.
And he does or says nothing when Ken Bennett, the co-chair of the Romney campaign in Arizona, who also happens to be the Arizona Secretary of State, goes birthing and attempts to have Obama removed from the state ballot. Just let that sink in for a moment--an elected state official who is Romney's campaign co-chair in the state tried to get Romney's opponent removed from the ballot. Is Bennett going to demand the same documentation from Romney? I think we all know the answer to that.
Romney is playing footsies with the birthers. He deserves whatever fallout he gets. I hope it's swift and harsh.
Last edited by HeyJude514; 05-28-2012 at 11:02 AM..
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