A House Democrat to sponsor personhood amendment

Pretty sad that House leadership isn’t conservative. Not just on the abortion issue but on just about everything.

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@ honested

“An early start to regain our well earned position as National Laughingstock! ”

We never lost it !!

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Now if they’d only allow the fertilized egg to be considered a corporation, we could have deductions that didn’t pay taxes.

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I have been honored to meet both Mr. Loudermilk and conservative Democrat Mr. Crawford. Even though he’s misguided on his party affiliation, Mr. Crawford is more than right about promoting the rightful personhood amendment. I’m working and praying with good folk in all Southern states to get this on the fall 2012 ballot. With the Hussein Obama backlash that WILL happen, I’m confident that this important amendment WILL PASS!
Amen,
Bill

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Christ. Okay, HEAD’S UP, PEOPLE! The time to start watching the fetid clown car under the Gold Dome is NOW, so you can contact your representatives, let your feelings be known, and complain bitterly about their absurd behavior. Waiting five or six months to read the summary of what they friggin’ did THIS time around (**insert eye rollie icon**), and then whining about it, is pointless. It’s too late once the damage is done.

They behave like greed monkeys on crack because they think no one is watching. This year: let’s follow along and smack some hairy little hands and feet before they eat ALL the bananas, and stuff the leftover ones in our tailpipes.

Are you ready?

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Nothing like Ga. elected officials to make those in Mississippi seem like a beacon of common sense and reasonableness.

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How many people are identical twins?

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Bill Heath, a CAR TAG is a secular instrument issued by a secular government. As it is, Georgia drivers currently have the OPTION to change it into a billboard for their faith if they wish.

REQUIRING drivers to use it as a billboard for YOUR faith (and having to ‘opt out’ by purchasing an additional sticker) is unconstitutional.

Idiot.

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Once again, an attempt to make the unborn first-class citizens and the women bearing them second-class.

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God aborts embryos all day, every day. When are we going to bring Him/Her/It up on charges?

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I do not know all that much about personhood, I prefer researching deep water harbors

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Great to see our leaders so concerned with things that will really make a difference in the lives of everyday Georgians. It is SO IMPORTANT to me that my car tag says “In God We Trust” and that girls and women have absolutely no say as to what goes on inside their bodies. Will Georgia ever wake up? When we will ever be able to focus on the real problems in this state. These people make me so angry with the fight for right to life, but once that child is born to a mother who can’t support it, no help whatsoever because she made her choice. The people who fight so hard to limit the freedoms of women, offer absolutely NO HELP to those families after the child is born. So now you have a miserable mother, and a child with absolutely no hope of ever breaking the cycle.

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docsbro, your supposition is in error. There are, in fact, many people who feel the same way you do…and therefore are both anti-abortion (”Pro-Life” is a calculated misnomer) and pro-choice.

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OK, so when does life start for all you pro choice people. Annswer that and then we can debate. Until then you are just wind in the air.

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That Guy???? Where does it talk about invitro? Did I miss that?

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Second paragraph, last sentence.

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Bob, read the article.

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Bob, both the sperm and the ovum are living specialized cells before fertilization. Sperm are produced (and die) continuously during most of a human male’s lifetime. Ova develop from primitive germ cells in the ovaries of all viviparous species. They are living cells prior to fertilization.

Guess we should criminalize menstruation and masturbation.

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The economy is in the toilet, revenues don’t meet spending budgets, and unemployment in Georgia is still at its highest in years.

Better ban abortion!

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If this didn’t pass in Mississippi, it won’t pass here in GA. If they were smart enough to recognize the pandora’s box of issues that this kind of “personhood” law would open, I have no doubt the voters and constituents in GA will vehemently oppose it for the same reasons.

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burning

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hiram bronson granbury

The CDC should investigate the cause of the reverse evolution taking place in Georgia. Particularly, in the vicinity of the state capitol. It may be the water supply, or something in the air, but it’s shrinking the brains of our legislators, and if not addressed, we could be buring witches next…

Reactionary politicians are only the symptom. The citizens of Georgia are the disease.

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Sponsoring legislation like this one and like the one that wants to put In God We Trust on our car tags doesn’t make you a christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car. Nor does supporting such legislation.

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This is all just proof that everyone’s a liberal. Hicks in Georgia (and other red states) are just liberals with a different outlook. They talk a good game about the importance of small government, but when it comes to gays and abortions, they will do whatever it takes to put a stop to it–regardless of the intrusion into peoples’ personal lives. Same story with handouts to corporations. There’s no such thing as a conservative in this country.

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I knew if it was nutty and untenable that Georgia legislators would rush to try to implement it.

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I’m waiting to see when the first woman deported from the US claims citizenship from their child born in another country seven months later, because it was conceived in America. And that citizenship goes hand in hand with personhood.

I think these people are talking themselves into a corner.

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@No Longer Republican November 15th, 2011 6:32 pm – YOU SAY – The people who fight so hard to limit the freedoms of women, offer absolutely NO HELP to those families after the child is born.

I AGREE WITH YOU.

Is Mr. Crawford concerned about the children who go to bed hungry?

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Well I prefer to think of Georgians as a plague but that works too

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liberals are just so immoral & intolerant. Plus a good dose of infantility.

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Lee – you an expert at making strawman arguments? Or just an imbecile?

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as opposed to your ivory tower? you another expert similiar to Lee? straw man?

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that is an excellent example of liberal asinine idealism. try saying that with a straight face.

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Tom – more straw man arguments? Do you liberals think cognitively as all? Or just have elitest temper tantrums?

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Paddy O

Tom – more straw man arguments? Do you liberals think cognitively as all? Or just have elitest temper tantrums?

For someone so concerned about ethical arguments you sure do throw around a lot of ad hominem attacks.

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Paddy O, Will you agree to raise all those petri dish babies? Can’t let a living cell die. Now those out of the womb..well no health care for you. Get a job…

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So, if personhood begins at fertilization and corporations are people, too, then when and how do corporations get fertilized?

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BILLY MAYS HERE

November 15th, 2011
7:47 pm
“Well I prefer to think of Georgians as a plague but that works too.”

It’s not specific to Georgia; Rick Perry makes Sonny Purdue look like Albert Einstein. And don’t forget that Minnesotans elected Michelle Bachmann, and Jesse “The Body” Ventura before that, and Sarah Palin is a multi millionaire.

The entire country is in a free fall. It just seems like it’s Georgia, because that is where you are.

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Does that mean that I can claim a fertilized embryo as a dependent on my tax returns?

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Mississippi voters were smart enough to defeat this crap. I’m very afraid that Georgia voters aren’t that smart.

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Tom

Were you able to follow that or did I type too quickly?

Or better yet they could buy one of those stupid fish decals themselves

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Tom – what mythology? That abortion is a privacy right? That is some excellent mythology. That women are so intelligent & responsible that they won’t use abortion as birth control? The numbers indicate that is not so. From your comments, I doubt your conservativism.

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Billy Mays – poster boy for insulate thought & the intolerant (hypocritical?) liberal.

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the drug test, if required to be paid for by the applicant, is an excellent law. FL data indicates it cuts down on welfare applications quite a bit.

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rudi – the arrogance is typical liberal. do you live in GA?

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hil – Does that include all the bankrupt nations in Europe who embraced liberalism?

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Tom

November 15th, 2011
8:09 pm

“In God we Trust” is on the back of every dollar you spend. It is on the walls above the Supreme court, so I am sure it is not a separation of church and state issue.

Next thing I am going to hear is this nation was not founded on Judeo/ Christian values.

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Okay, U wont listen. So what? I’ll tell U all anyway. I was a victim of abortion. I’m not even here. I was coat-hangered in the same barbaric way that the defensive end was clothes-hangared in the movie “Longest Yard”, with Burt Reynolds.

They threw my carcass into the nearest garbage bin. I stayed there in freezing cold for daze.

But, because there is a GOD, I survived. Some total alchoholic waste disposal engineer managed to see me, and his 911 call was one4the ages.

So let me expound upon the liberal platform about abortion rights, and the right to choose, and the entire pro-choice agenda……let’s see, how can I best express this sentiment…….

U can all kiss my totally smooth baby’s behind, okay?

Remember: eventually, we will all have to explain our positions on abortion to the ALMIGHTY.

eventually.

So Midori can do whatever she wants. She’s finished. The Virgin told me so.

Jklol.

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separation of Church & state is a judicial creation. That is NOT what the text of the US Constitution states. Nor does it guarantee the right to experssion. Just written & spoken.

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rudi – is the zombie Billy Mays making any better sense to you than the rest of us still breathing?

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rudikkingme

November 15th, 2011
8:17 pm

Maybe you can understand this my misguided/unintelligent friend, I will continue to post on these blogs until the day Jim or the AJC decides they do not want to read my views any longer. If you do not like it then you can just keep in your small minded world and not read them.

Do you understand?

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…and I said, “get lost”…

now

moron

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and “In God We Trust” as a national motto is not the product of our founders…it was a reactionary act of defiance during the McCarthy era of anti-communist fervor, just as the addition of the St Andrew’s Cross on the Georgia state flag was a thumb-of-the-nose to federal civil rights legislation.

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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
-Thomas Jefferson to Alexander von Humboldt, Dec. 6, 1813.

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define priest ridden.

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To “No Longer Republican” at 6:32 p.m.:

You are completely overmatched and obviously lacking in critical thinking, because you miss even obvious points about life. You said, and I quote, “girls and women have absolutely no say as to what goes on inside their bodies.”

Ummm, yes they do, my friend… now, I’ll talk slow, so listen close: THEY CAN CHOOSE NOT TO HAVE SEX! I will repeat that… THEY CAN CHOOSE NOT TO HAVE SEX!!!!! Why is this concept SO FREAKING HARD for liberals/progressives/pro-abortion people to grasp??? You want control? You want women to have the say-so over their reproductive systems? Fine… then CLAIM IT! Refuse to give it up to ANY man until you are in a committed, stable, financially secure MARRIAGE that you plan to be in for life! Don’t eff around in high school, don’t eff around in college, don’t eff around in your roaring “have fun” 20s, and don’t eff around in some “long term dating arrangement” when you are 30…. WAIT UNTIL YOU HAVE A SOLID MARRIAGE! What is the harm in people getting married, building their married life together for a few years, saving up some money, becoming debt-free, and THEN HAVING CHILDREN????? Why do people have this overwhelming urge to get knocked up at 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 years old, when they can’t even afford to take care of themselves, much LESS provide for another human being???

All I see from “progressives” is a stubborn addiction to the “have fun at all costs” brand of morality. Nobody has patience, nobody has self control, nobody has the wisdom to think more than five minutes ahead. The motto of these people is “If it feels good, do it!” You know who thinks like that? Five year olds! You know how you get ahead in life? Self control, delaying pleasure, making tough decisions, sacrificing, and careful, conservative planning for your future.

It’s not the taxpayers fault that so many of these mothers of unwanted children can’t support themselves. It’s not our fault that, by utter lack of self control or forsight, these people get into unplanned pregnancies. And the answer is NOT to just kill off a fetus that, left to its own, would become a living, breathing human being. The answer is to slap our collective society across its face and say “WAKE UP!” If you are not in a situation where you can afford to have children, then DO NOT engage in behavior that will LEAD to children! It’s just like lung cancer — I know if I smoke, I’ll likely get lung cancer, so to prevent it, I DON’T SMOKE! Why can nobody else SEE THIS????

I am all for helping the people in our society who REALLY need it, and there are some poor single mothers out there who fall into this category. But there are ALSO a TON of people out there who get into the “poor single mother” or “unwed pregnant girl” boat because of BAD CHOICES and RISKY SEXUAL BEHAVIOR. We cannot and SHOULD NOT reward their behavior and validate their poor choices by just letting people get abortions any time they want. We are ENABLING people to engage in irresponsible sexual behavior. And NOBODY, from the left or the right, can argue with me about that point… that is a proven FACT in our society over the last 50 years.

God is going to judge us all, whether we like it or not… I prefer to stand with those who at least TRY to respect and honor his law instead of the bleeding-heart liberals to excuse every type of behavior under the sun just so they don’t come across as “judging” anybody.

Kudos to Crawford and Loudermilk for standing up for family values and solid Christian principles… but judging by the people on this blog, we will never get back to the moral nation we once were. We are a depraved society these days and we are in great moral decay… may God have mercy on our souls.

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My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on the purest of all moral systems, for the purpose of deriving from it pence and power, revolts those who think for themselves, and who read in that system only what is really there.

-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Mrs. Samuel H. Smith, August, 6, 1816

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And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerve in the brain of Jupiter. But may we hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated reformer of human errors.
-Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823

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This is why I refuse to consider myself a Republican or a Democrat. They both disgust me. Nobody can provide scientific proof as to the moment when life begins. Essentially they are trying to force their opinion on when life begins down the throats of everyone else. I don’t think abortion should be used as a method of birth control. Then again, as a male, that is a choice I will never have to make. But again that should be a choice.
I’m tired of Democrats trying to control what I do with my money and Republicans trying to control what I do in my bedroom.

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Believing that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their Legislature should “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.
- Thomas Jefferson, to the Danbury Baptists 1802

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Do you mind if we use the Jefferson Bible td?

Jefferson’s Bible excluded all of Jesus’ miracles. You could say that Jefferson started the war on Christmas, and of course the war on Easter. Bill O’Reilly must hate Jefferson.

Allah Akbar!

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James Madison
4th U.S. President

“Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.”
–America’s Providential History, p. 93.

“When we view the blessings with which our country has been favored, those which we now enjoy, and the means which we possess of handing them down unimpaired to our latest posterity, our attention is irresistibly drawn to the source from whence they flow. Let us then, unite in offering our most grateful acknowledgments for these blessings to the Divine Author of All Good.”
–Monroe made this statement in his 2nd Annual Message to Congress, November

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The Jefferson Bible did include Matthew 6:5, Don’t pray in public.

We should have a constitutional amendment that bans public prayer, its what our forefathers wanted.

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The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.
- Thomas Jefferson (letter to John Adams) 1823

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Tom

November 15th, 2011
9:00 pm

You, DannyX and others only quote Jefferson (Who BTW was our ambassador to France and did not take part in the writing of the Constitution) as your only source that we are a secular nation. I have provided quotes from the actual writers and delegates to the Constitutional convention.

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Alexander Hamilton
Signer of the Declaration of Independence and Ratifier of the U.S. Constitution

“I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor. I can prove its truth as clearly as any proposition ever submitted to the mind of man.”
–Famous American Statesmen, p. 126.

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Tom and DannyX Please pay close attention to the below quote as proof positive of what our founders intended:

Patrick Henry
Ratifier of the U.S. Constitution

“It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.”
–The Trumpet Voice of Freedom: Patrick Henry of Virginia, p. iii.

“The Bible … is a book worth more than all the other books that were ever printed.”
–Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry, p. 402.

John Jay
1st Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

“In forming and settling my belief relative to the doctrines of Christianity, I adopted no articles from creeds but such only as, on careful examination, I found to be confirmed by the Bible.”
–American Statesman Series, p. 360

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td you want me to post all the George Washington quotes on religion???? You won’t like them.

“If they are good workmen, they may be from Asia, Africa or Europe; they may be Mahometans, Jews, Christians of any sect, or they may be Atheists.”

Bring on the Mexicans, George approved! George liked atheists too. George didn’t think we are a Christian nation did he td?

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DannyX and Tom, Why is it so hard for you to believe that this nation was founded on religious principals? I think there is ample proof that the founders wanted to not create a nation based on one form of Christianity (Quakers, Calvinist, Puritans, Baptist”’) and they surely did not want the state controlling Religion (Church of England). They did have every intention of this nation being created on fundamental Christian philosophy. The evidence is overwhelming to that fact.

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BILLY MAYS HERE

November 15th, 2011
9:23 pm

You my friend are an incompetent boob, incapable of tolerating any other views then your own narrow minded view of the world.

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Well there you have it. TD has just proved the founders were all for feeding and housing the poor, healing the sick, etc etc etc. He is a dang liberal!

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I am not very smart and do not believe in freedom of speech. Td scares me because he makes me think how horribly I have been living my own life. If he stays on this board much longer then I may have to put down my crack pipe, stop drinking and actually take responsibility for my own life.

Please, please get td off these boards before I have to become a responsible citizen.

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The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature; and if men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, imposture, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history. Although the detail of the formation of the American governments is at present little known or regarded either in Europe or in America, it may hereafter become an object of curiosity. It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses.
– John Adams, “A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America” (1787-88)

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Indeed, Mr. Jefferson, what could be invented to debase the ancient Christianism which Greeks, Romans, Hebrews and Christian factions, above all the Catholics, have not fraudulently imposed upon the public? Miracles after miracles have rolled down in torrents.
– John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson, December 3, 1813

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[...] you read that right. Not sure what else to say about this, other than it feels like a punch in the gut. “I’m from rural Georgia,” he said. “I have to [...]

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“As the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen [Muslims] … it is declared … that no pretext arising from religious opinion shall ever product an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries….
“The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation.”
— Treaty of Tripoli (1797), carried unanimously by the Senate and signed into law by John Adams

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The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.
– Benjamin Franklin, the incompatibility of faith and reason, Poor Richard’s Almanack (1758)

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The civil government … functions with complete success … by the total separation of the Church from the State.
– James Madison, 1819, Writings, 8:432, quoted from Gene Garman

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Tom,

Thanks!

Those who are most confused seem to trace their confusion to our ‘founders’ while having no idea what the founders said or thought.

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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprize, every expanded prospect.
– James Madison, letter to William Bradford, Jr., April 1, 1774

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Experience witnesseth that eccelsiastical establishments, instead of maintaining the purity and efficacy of Religion, have had a contrary operation. During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.
– James Madison, A Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments, addressed to the Virginia General Assembly, June 20, 1785

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“We have no government armed in power capable of contending in human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.”

1798, Address to the militia of Massachusetts John Adams

“The experiment is made, and has completely succeeded: it can no longer be called in question, whether authority in magistrates, and obedience of citizens, can be grounded on reason, morality, and the Christian religion, without the monkery of priests, or the knavery of politicians.”

1788, “A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, John Adams

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When will it end? Why is it always MEN who want to dictate to we women what we can and cannot do with our bodies? I’m not Pro-Life, I’m Pro-Choice. I do not condone abortion but who am I to say who can and cannot have one? To say I’m Pro-Life is to say I’m Anti-Choice. The Good Lord gives us, as individuals, the right to choose. Why can’t they?

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“I have lived, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God Governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?”

July 28, 1787, Address at the Constitutional Convention, Ben Franklin

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It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.
– Thomas Paine, as quoted by Joseph Lewis in Inspiration and Wisdom from the Writings of Thomas Paine

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“In my opinion, the present constitution is the standard to which we are to cling…. Let an association be formed to be denominated ‘The Christian Constitutional Society,’ its object to be first: The support of the Christian religion. Second: The support of the United States.”

Apr. 16-21, 1802, Letter to James Bayard, Alexander Hamilton

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Everything wonderful in appearance has been ascribed to angels, to devils, or to saints. Everything ancient has some legendary tale annexed to it. The common operations of nature have not escaped their practice of corrupting everything.
– Thomas Paine, as quoted by Joseph Lewis in Inspiration and Wisdom from the Writings of Thomas Paine

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“The great pillars of all government…[are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.”

Jan. 8, 1799, Letter to Archibald Blair, Patrick Henry

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The Christian system of religion is an outrage on common sense.
– Thomas Paine, as quoted by Joseph Lewis in Inspiration and Wisdom from the Writings of Thomas Paine

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“Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.”

Feb. 28, 1797, Letter to clergyman Jedidiah Morse, John Jay

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The story of the redemption will not stand examination. That man should redeem himself from the sin of eating an apple by committing a murder on Jesus Christ, is the strangest system of religion ever set up.
– Thomas Paine, as quoted by Joseph Lewis in Inspiration and Wisdom from the Writings of Thomas Paine

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“The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Where, say some, is the king of America? I’ll tell you, friend, He reigns above.”

1776, Common Sense, Thomas Paine

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As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of atheism — a sort of religious denial of God. It professed to believe in man rather than in God. It is as near to atheism as twilight to darkness. It introduces between man and his Maker an opaque body, which it calls a Redeemer, as the moon introduces her opaque self between the earth and the sun, and it produces by this means a religious or irreligious eclipse of the light. It has put the whole orbit of reason into shade.
– Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason (1794)

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“I know that Gouverneur Morris, who claimed to be in his secrets, and believed himself to be so, has often told me that General Washington believed no more in that system [Christianity] than he did.”
– Thomas Jefferson, in his private journal, February, 1800, quoted from Jefferson’s Works, Vol. iv., p. 572 (”Gouverneur Morris was the principal drafter of the Constitution of the United States; he was a member of the Continental Congress, a United States senator from New York, and minister to France. He accepted, to a considerable extent, the skeptical views of French Freethinkers.” — John E Remsberg, Six Historic Americans.)

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“I have diligently perused every line that Washington ever gave to the public, and I do not find one expression in which he pledges, himself as a believer in Christianity. I think anyone who will candidly do as I have done, will come to the conclusion that he was a Deist and nothing more.”
– The Reverend Bird Wilson, an Episcopal minister in Albany, New York, in an interview with Mr. Robert Dale Owen written on November 13, 1831, which was publlshed in New York two weeks later, quoted from Franklin Steiner, The Religious Beliefs of Our Presidents, pp. 27

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“In regard to the subject of your inquiry, truth requires me to say that General Washington never received the communion in the churches of which I am the parochial minister. Mrs. Washington was an habitual communicant. I have been written to by many on that point, and have been obliged to answer them am as I now do you.”
– The Right Reverend William White, the first bishop of Pennsylvania, friend of Washington and bishop of Christ’s Church in Philadelphia, which Washington attend for about 25 years when he happened to be in that city, in a letter to Colonel Mercer of Fredericksberg, Virginia, on August 15, 1835, quoted from Franklin Steiner, The Religious Beliefs of Our Presidents, pp. 27

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In short, the results of miscegenation are always the following: (a) The level of the superior race becomes lowered; (b) physical and mental degeneration sets in, thus leading slowly but steadily towards a progressive drying up of the vital sap. The act which brings about such a development is a sin against the will of the Eternal Creator. And as a sin this act will be avenged.

- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Vol. 1 Chapter 11

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THERE ARE A LOT OF HYPOCRITES ON THIS BLOG. You want to preach pro-life on one hand and on the other you want to throw rocks.

I am for PRO-LIVING! I am for taking care of the babies and children who go to bed hungry at night.

Why are you all so worried about a child that has not been born! TAKE CARE OF THE CHILD THAT IS ALREADY BORN!

IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK?

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Kudos to Married for Life and Pro=Life?

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Enough already, because I am smarter than you

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Insane.

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Come on morons, exactly how hard is it to understand a fertilized human egg is a human being and as such has the same human rights given by God as everyone else. Good grief what a bunch of morons are those that can’t even understand that simple fact of life. All they can do it seems here is to call folks that are honest with reality hicks and such as usual. The typical attack the messenger brain dead liberal response to everything. Read history you dummies, once you stop valuing all human life you are on the road to ruin as a society every time.

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common sense,

Sense questionable. Common definitely.

Maybe if there was serious interest shown by those of your persuasion to caring for the unwanted children we have, such flamboyant displays for facilitating more might be viewed as other than irresponsible and intrusive religiosity.

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Lib in Cobb

November 16th, 2011
6:52 am

Georgia hasn’t cornered the market on stupidity. Look at Minnesota, Iowa, Texas, Kentucky. Stupidity is pandemic.

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Moron…and really nothing else need be said.

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@Ol’ Timer: Thank you, well stated.

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@Tom November 15th, 2011 10:07 pm

ENOUGH WITH THE QUOTES. DO YOU NOT HAVE A THOUGHT OF YOUR OWN. ANYONE CAN CUT AND PASTE!

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Lib in Cobb,

The only way to make sure there are not enough morons in the General Assembly to pass this time and money wasting, rights stripping nonsense is to CALL YOUR LEGISLATOR TODAY. If their phones don’t stop ringing and they don’t get the message NO, then they should be replaced before the court has the opportunity to set it aside.

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The question is,” at what point should the state step in to protect life”? There is life in some form all along the process.
In the end it is a moral question that government is not equipped to answer. So make government sponsored abortion illegal and let everyone else sort it out with God.

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no matter what the topic for the blog, i reiterate cain is a dolt.

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Buckhead Boy

November 16th, 2011
6:20 am
common sense,

Sense questionable. Common definitely.

Maybe if there was serious interest shown by those of your persuasion to caring for the unwanted children we have, such flamboyant displays for facilitating more might be viewed as other than irresponsible and intrusive religiosity.

You my friend sound like children are some kind of toy or furniture. Children are a responsibility for the two people created the life. We have cheapen life so much and taken out the responsibility part of raisin children it is no wonder our jails are filled today. If two people make the choice to sleep together then they must take the responsibility of what comes out of their actions.

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“You my friend sound like children are some kind of toy or furniture. Children are a responsibility for the two people created the life. We have cheapen life so much and taken out the responsibility part of raisin children it is no wonder our jails are filled today. If two people make the choice to sleep together then they must take the responsibility of what comes out of their actions.”

And what happens to the child when they don’t, as is often the case. Eff ‘em, right? I mean once they’re born they’re reduced to “welfare queens, slackers, unAmerican deadbeats”, right? No Tanf for them, no welfare… no assistance at all, period. After all they’re in the spot they’re in because of their own choices, right?

Hypocritical ideological infantile thinking. Reality is a bitch, but most of us live with it

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@ BILLY MAYS HERE:

Billy old boy I’ve read through the comments here and they’re in general, typical for Galloway’s blog. Your’s however stand out, I can’t decide where you might be from, or for that matter, I can’t even decide what you are. For sure you can’t have roots in Georgia, we’re much to ignorant, as a matter of fact, I doubt you’re from anywhere in the South, the land of the unwashed masses. So, give me a hint old boy, just where were you hatched??

I’m really not an avid antiabortionist, I tend to believe that if a child is not wanted it might be better off not born. But Billy in your case I think, ah, well lets just say that their are individuals that should have been aborted.

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Mudfoot:

Reality, no. Stereotypes, yes. It appears in your way of thinking (?), stereotypes should dictate policy.

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Mudfoot

November 16th, 2011
9:22 am

If a parent does not want to raise a child then you the state is forced to take that child into custody to raise it. This should not relieve those parents of their responsibility to pay for said child. This is the problem with the current system. We (the people) do not demand our the responsibility. The people should not have any luxury in life(cell phone, cable tv, expensive clothes…) until the bills are paid for the care of the child. Those parents should not be able to reproduce any longer if they can not pay care for the children they produce. Let me be crude for a moment: If you are a man you should be told early in life that if you produce a child and do not take care of the child then you will have it cut off.

It is not conservatives that are unwilling to take the necessary steps to make sure parents take the responsibility for their actions it is you libs that will not allow conservatives to take the necessary steps.

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td

Thanks for illustrating “living in denial”. Great job

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Mudfoot

November 16th, 2011
9:49 am
td

Thanks for illustrating “living in denial”. Great job

Please tell me how I am living in denial? Denial of what? I really want to be educated on what we should be doing?

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For those who so support the murder of the innocent unborn: When does the simple cell division lead to an independent human heart beating?

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yellowdog – you seem quite good at parroting feministic dogma. Why do you think women should murder the innocent for convenience?

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kp – what would you have the pols do? Raise taxes & give more money to those unemployed? This is a standard recession after and easy money era. What do you wish them to do?

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Liberals look at problems in the macro, and thus rationalize spending huge sums of $$ to improve those macro statistics minutely. They also REFUSE to assign to an individual accountability for their decisions (thus LBJ’s Great Society blamed society for disenfranchisement & exploitation of the poor, thus resulting in their condition – this is a grossly false premise, as 4 decades of “assistance” has woefully proven). Most of poverty today is self induced.

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Mudfoot–I’m a liberal but I’m glad when liberals and conservatives both agree that government intrusion in personal decisions should be kept from happening. Education and choice should always be paramount in government policymaking idealogies.

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MFL

I’m a mongrel regarding political views and I agree with your posted statement

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Mudfoot

November 16th, 2011
10:16 am
Denial of the fact that some humans just aren’t as responsible as others

Responsibility will not happen without expectations and consequences for failure to comply. What expectations do we set for the poor? What are the consequences for making poor decisions and what do we do for failure to comply with the rules? My children are not motivated to make good grades in school but they know that is my expectation and there are consequences for failure to comply with my expectation.

I too have worked with the poor. I know what is allowed and what is not allowed and I can tell you setting expectations is not allowed. Enforcing conseuences is not allowed.

“Denial of the fact that we can’t cut off the penis’ of other humans for being deadbeats”

This is probably a little harsh but we could do it if we (the people) had the will too. Vasectomy and tube tying is surely not impossible for parents who choose not to take care of children they create. I have talked to and heard the most liberal people in the world that agree with this one.

“The fact that outlawing abortion will create many, many more children who suffer the horrible life you describe.”

Not if there was the expectation set that children would be cared for and there were consequences for not caring for your children. Only when we do not have expectations is when your statement is true.

“Denial of the fact that the “family values” party cares nought for families or children”

I will submit that setting expectations and having consequences is a purer form of love and caring then to just provide for the poor. A loving parent will not just provide for a child without setting the expectations for them to be a better human being.

“The fact that this is not your body, your family or your life you speak of and subsequently you have no right to interfere”

If you come into a government office and have an expectation of the government taking care of you then you do have to follow the rules the government sets. This is the liberal ideal that has forced all these millions of fellow Americans to live in hopelessness for more than 50 years now.

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td

On most points I will agree to disagree, but I have to ask who decides who gets castrated?

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And Obama was intentionally, desperately, baggage free. How is that possible? Supreme manipulation of the press?

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mum – progressive women push for the murder of the innocent for convenience (and to cover immorality). Why would I NOT have a negative view of someone so utterly evil?

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@PaddyO, a progressive women to me is any woman who is willing to speak-up and defend herself. We’ve come a long way from barefoot and pregnant because the man had all the “rights”.

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@Paddy O, The fact you think women get abortions merely as a convenience shows a level of ignorance beyond reasoning. Might I recommend finding some post-abortion support sites (since “abortion” and “support” are so close together and I don’t want you thinking these sites are pro-abortion, so I’ll clarify it as meaning neutral sites that allow women to discuss their decision, action, and help them cope) and reading their stories? I guarantee you won’t find a single one who saw the positive result on her pregnancy test and decided on a whim, “Well, I’m going out for errands today anyway, might as well swing by the local abortion clinic while I’m waiting to pick up the dry cleaning.”

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Folks, even Mississippi rejected this silly personhood amendment. What a waste of time!

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“womb” not “wound” ^^^^

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I guess life begins at erection.

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How did we ever get ourselves in this pro life/pro choice situation? I’m confused. Who started this?

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So would masturbation be considered reckless abandonment under the law?

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Another thing – if they deem a fertilized egg a person, are they going to prosecute women for all those that do not attach to the uterine wall and “die”?

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