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Old 01-28-2008, 07:28 PM
 
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The difference is that I'll defend your right to have your billboard, even if I disagree with it.
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Old 01-28-2008, 07:28 PM
 
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Katzenfreund,would you like to restrict these billboards in some way?

I don't know about restricting them... guess if they want to waste the money on them, let them.

But they will only harden my resolve to fight the religious nuts from controlling my life - in any way.
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Old 01-28-2008, 07:30 PM
 
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I don't know about restricting them... guess if they want to waste the money on them, let them.

But they will only harden my resolve to fight the religious nuts from controlling my life - in any way.
Is it enough to prevent them controlling your life (which I seriously doubt they are doing much of these days), or do you have to try force your own views on them, as well?
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Old 01-28-2008, 07:31 PM
 
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I just want to afford your unborn child the same rights, that's all.
That seems a little odd, since you have enthusiastically claimed the personal right to shoot to death on the spot any adult who might enter into your home unwanted.
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Old 01-28-2008, 07:35 PM
 
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That seems a little odd, since you have enthusiastically claimed the personal right to shoot to death on the spot any adult who might enter into your home unwanted.
lol, well, yeah. I didn't say I wanted every human being to have the unrestricted right to life. I said that I wanted an unborn child to the right not to be murdered...the same right I am defending when I shoot someone who breaks into my house, btw.

Or are you suggesting that there is some sort of moral equivilence between a criminal invading my home for God knows what purpose and an unborn child, guilty of nothing more than a possible inconvenience?

And you wonder why I think liberalism is a mental disorder...
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Old 01-28-2008, 07:36 PM
 
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The difference is that I'll defend your right to have your billboard, even if I disagree with it.
Where do you see that making you any different? Anybody claimed that right-to-life billboards should be outlawed?
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Old 01-28-2008, 07:36 PM
 
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Is it enough to prevent them controlling your life (which I seriously doubt they are doing much of these days), or do you have to try force your own views on them, as well?

Give me a break, nice spin! Am I putting up billboards, or are they? Am I trying to make something illegal or are they? I am not forcing my views on anyone. Same thing can't be said for religious nuts.

Save your concerns for your own offspring.
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Old 01-28-2008, 07:38 PM
 
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Give me a break, nice spin! Am I putting up billboards, or are they? Am I trying to make something illegal or are they? I am not forcing my views on anyone. Same thing can't be said for religious nuts.

Save your concerns for your own offspring.
So a billboard is controlling your life? Do you feel the same way about McDonald's billboards? Do they force you to eat Big Macs? Or do you have still have the choice to drive on until you see a Wendy's?
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Old 01-28-2008, 07:41 PM
 
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Is that all you can come up with, twisting words around? A billboard isn't controlling my life, but religious nutcases are trying to control my life, by taking choices away from me and other women. I will make the decisions about my body, not some religious nuts.
Save your breath.
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Old 01-28-2008, 07:46 PM
 
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I don't appreciate those billboards either, but I consider them protected under the First Amendment. Things that offend me are protected under the First Amendment as well as things I like to hear, and I don't intend to argue with that. It's not the equivalent of actually overturning Roe v. Wade. It's a billboard with someone's opinion on it. I have quite a list of problems with this country, but I don't really understand nations which censor speech because it is offensive to people.
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