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âWeâve got to stop paying attention to the PC police who say every lifestyle is exactly of the same value,â Carson responded. âNo, itâs not of the same value. It is very clear that intact, traditional families with traditional, intact values do much better in terms of raising children. So letâs stop pretending that everything is of equal value.â
How about, as a matter of social policy, we begin with assigning value not to âlifestylesâ but to people.
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I think what heâs saying is that some lifestyles only hold 3/5ths the value of others, amirite?
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Something like that, yes. And this from a guy who, as his remarks make clear, is not a fan of relativism.
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This guy is a seething clarence with religious zealotry as his guide. No wonder his âpeer reviewsâ got muddy and he had to retire early!
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âIt is very clear that intact, traditional families with traditional, intact values do much better in terms of raising children.â
Well, no, Ben. Actually, study after study has shown that children growing up in non-traditional, loving family settings do just as well as children who grow up in traditional loving families.
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Probably the most dangerous candidate on the GOP sideâŚbecause he actually has traction in the GOP and he is a true Nazi
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Who said that? Heâs confused. I think the sentiment is every personâs life has equal value, authority and responsibility.
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âCarson told Webb that young single mothers need the opportunity to finish their education.â Which is why you donât defund planned parenthood.
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We can all agree that not every lifestyle is of the same value. Thatâs not the question. The question is whether I can decide for someone else whether their lifestyle is as valuable as mine. The answer to that question is no.
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A nice addition to this article would be to note that there is not an epidemic of unmarried births. While four in ten births are to unwed women, that is seven percent below what it was in 2007 when we hit the peak of unwed motherhood.
Thatâs right. At the end of the GOPs two Presidential terms when they controlled Congress more than the Democrats and controlled the Supreme Court completely, unwed motherhood hit its peak.
Then Barack Obama â a Democrat â was elected, and every year it has fallen.
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So if you actually believe this crap, whatâs your solution? Fight tooth and nail to strip out the birth control mandate in the ACA and close down every Planned Parenthood in the country? Howâs that helping lower the unwanted teen pregnancy rate and keep girls in school?
And you do realize that for every teen girl that gets pregnant thereâs an a-hole man who promised her the freakin moon to get into her pants and then abandoned her and the baby when they got to be too much of a hassle right? Whatâs the plan for them? A slap on the back and a high five for the next notch in their bedpost? What a stud huh?
The only way to fight this is to give the power and the choices to the ones who need it most - the teen girls.
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And also, if one considers the divorce rate, which is greater than 50%, you can make the argument that it is now âtraditionalâ to be a single parent.
Seriously, this guy is just oily.
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Couldnât agree more. The lifestyle of a self-rigtheous gay-hating right wing Christo-fascist ammosexual buffoon isnât worth a damn.
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Actually, a recent study found that children of lesbians are better adjusted as teens than kids than children of heterosexual couples.
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Right on. +10.
Please make this man the Rep nominee. I bet he couldnât win one state.
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âWe need to face the fact that when young girls have babies out of wedlock, most of the time their education ends with that first baby,â the retired neurosurgeon continued. âAnd those babies are four times as likely to grow up in poverty, end up in the penal system or the welfare system.â
I completely agree with him on this point.
Which is why abortion should be the default outcome for pregnant girls who havenât, say, finished high school yet.
At government expense. And with a big bowl of ice cream afterwards.
And I donât want to hear a goddamn thing about how spending taxes that way is against some peopleâs beliefs.
The people making that argument are currently stealing millions of tax dollars paid by American Democrats to slander a woman purely because sheâs the Dsâ leading candidate for president,
They did the same 20 years ago because her husband was a Democratic president.
In between, they stole $6 ***tr***illion from the American people to destroy a country, destabilize a region, kill hundreds of thousands of people, torture and maim others, and displace millions moreâover the moral [1] opposition of at least half of the American people.
Not using a few taxpayersâ dollars to invest in these young girlsâ futures and make it more likely that they will finish school and have productive lives is against my beliefs.
[1] Republicans and self-described âconservativesâ commonly feel that morality is entirely about sexual behavior, and donât tend to apply the concept to, e.g., violence, lying, cruelty, theft, etc. Thatâs not morality, itâs a morality substitute.
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Why look for solutions when you can shame and blame? What better way to look republican presidential than to spit on the people beneath you?
This man is their anti Trump? He is who they think we want to elect instead of Trump?
They thought that Herman Cain was a good choice. Now they think Ben Carson is the best choice? Please GOP skin color and gender arenât the only criteria we have for voting. We like intelligence and common sense and common decency, which none of your candidates have.
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Well, itâs about time we had a black Doctor⌠Evil.
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