Gov. Perry signs Sonogram (prior to abortion) Law (Heath, Howe: schools, quality of life)

[kenshi]

Originally Posted by TexasHorseLady

Venereal disease, AIDS, etc. You have heard of AIDS, right? Perhaps you're too young to remember the panic and scare tactics that were used to fuel that panic in order to try to gain support for legislation against certain activities in the privacy of their own bedrooms. But it did, indeed, exist.

Well yeah, but that reason is invalid. Heterosexual people can get diseases just the same as homosexuals. There's nothing invalid about texting while driving causing someone to be more likely to crash and there's nothing stopping them from pulling over and doing it if they really need to.

[TexasHorseLady]

Originally Posted by kenshi

Well yeah, but that reason is invalid. Heterosexual people can get diseases just the same as homosexuals. There's nothing invalid about texting while driving causing someone to be more likely to crash and there's nothing stopping them from pulling over and doing it if they really need to.

We aren't talking about valid or invalid excuses.

The point is, there are already laws on the books that, if enforced, are quite capable of dealing with the problem of texting while driving. We don't need more laws micromanaging, whether it be texting while driving or unprotected sex (someone who deliberately infects others with HIV, for example, can be brought to trial on assault or attempted murder charges even though there is no specific law against having unprotected sex if you are HIV positive; the laws already on the books deal with that).

We need good enforcement of the existing laws. And that's all we need.

[verybadgnome]

I say the vegetarians of Texas should promote a bill that requires anyone buying say, poultry at the supermarket, to view a video that shows how that chicken was raised, how it was slaughtered, and then packaged up. Not to mention showing scenes of all of the growth hormones and antibiotics that were injected into its body. That way consumers can know more about what they are eating.

Seriously this bill is an insult to women's intelligence, a denigration from a bunch of old, conservative, WASPs who don't have a clue as to what is like in the real world.

[britishbird]

Originally Posted by TxStorm72

However, if a woman wishes to murder her unborn child because of her own irresponsibility or her lack of regard for human life..

And why is this any of your business? Why do you think you have a right to govern what a woman does, or does not do, with her own body?

[hamjeepr]

Originally Posted by britishbird

And why is this any of your business? Why do you think you have a right to govern what a woman does, or does not do, with her own body?

Because in America, our first and foremost right is the right to life! The selfish act of abortion denies that right to a child. The baby in a woman's womb is a genetically unique person, not a part of the woman's body. Therefore, a woman has no more right to kill the child in her womb than a husband has a right to kill his wife because he didn't realize marrying her would get in the way of future plans.

[TexasHorseLady]

Originally Posted by hamjeepr

Because in America, our first and foremost right is the right to life! The selfish act of abortion denies that right to a child. The baby in a woman's womb is a genetically unique person, not a part of the woman's body. Therefore, a woman has no more right to kill the child in her womb than a husband has a right to kill his wife because he didn't realize marrying her would get in the way of future plans.

This is you imposing your personal and religious beliefs on another person without that person's consent. That's not something that we do here - in fact, it's something that the creators of this country went to a great deal of trouble to protect against, because they were more than aware of the human proclivity to try to do that. (The Inquisition, the Crusades, and the Taliban are all the results of similar impulses on a grander scale.)

[TexasHorseLady]

Something everyone with the attitude above should read - and Governor Good Hair and each and every legislator should be required to read before even taking office, never mind voting on issues like this.

[hamjeepr]

No one has the right not to know. Whether you believe in God or not is not the issue. God and His laws are absolute Truth and He will judge your sins that you do not repent for. You will stand in front of him and say, "I didn't know". He will show you everyone and everytime he tried to show you the Truth and you rejected it. He will say "You have made your choice" and you will be cast into everlasting hell, " the furnace of fire; there men will weep and gnash their teeth."

[TexasHorseLady]

In other words, you ARE trying to foist your personal and religious views on others. By the way, I grew up a preacher's kid, was taught to read the Bible first word to last (no picking out verses to prove what I wanted it to say rather than what it really did say, which so many do).

I do have one verse that you should, perhaps, go read a few hundred times, though, before trying to legislate your own personal religion for all Texans. That is Matthew 7:1-5. Take it to heart.

Did you actually read the article linked to?

[hamjeepr]

it is spiritual act of mercy to educate the ignorant, not judging.
Admonishing the sinner vs. judging


jn 5:42