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Teatroll Rosetta Stone: “If you take the gays away from us, we’ll just find someone else to abuse, oppress and discriminate against.”
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Ohhhh scary. When you see a sizable number of people are advocated for something, it deserves a look. If nobody is even talking about it–save for the anti marriage equality crowd–why even give it a moment’s thought?
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This man has serious issues, and they revolve around his completely unhinged thought process. I realize he’s book-smart … but other than that, he makes Bachmann sound like Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Just think, maybe even slaves will want to marry. Ben, how would you feel about giving African Americans that opportunity? Oh wait, never mind.
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Carson was dumb-struck at being asked the question about what other groups he had in mind.
Unfortunately the interviewer provided him with an escape hatch to which he readily agreed by suggesting bigamy. It would have been far more illuminating had he let the candidate answer the question, but good on him for asking it.
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Yeah. The next thing you know those interracial couples will want to get married.
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Seriously intense dense.
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It all started with the Bill of Rights and kept rolling right through the 15th Amendment… then you had to include women when they got all uppity… then the Civil Rights Movement… then the Equality in Housing… sweet Jesus, where does it end?! How will we reward the best in our society when all our avenues of discimination get narrower and narrower? Oh yea, there’s always money. Don’t worry Ben, you’re still covered.
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Ugh - not this sh*t again! I’m actually surprised at Harwood who is normally a total DC Beltway toady pushed back against the abject stupidity that is Carson.
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Guess Carson doesn’t realize that, according to the Bible, there are many types of marriage:
Polygynous Marriage
Probably the most common form of marriage in the bible, it is where a man has more than one wife.
Levirate Marriage
When a woman was widowed without a son, it became the responsibility of the brother-in-law or a close male relative to take her in and impregnate her. If the resulting child was a son, he would be considered the heir of her late husband. See Ruth, and the story of Onan (Gen. 38:6-10).
A man, a woman and her property — a female slave
The famous “handmaiden” sketch, as preformed by Abraham (Gen. 16:1-6) and Jacob (Gen. 30:4-5).
A man, one or more wives, and some concubines
The definition of a concubine varies from culture to culture, but they tended to be live-in mistresses. Concubines were tied to their “husband,” but had a lower status than a wife. Their children were not usually heirs, so they were safe outlets for sex without risking the line of succession. To see how badly a concubine could be treated, see the famous story of the Levite and his concubine (Judges 19:1-30).
A male soldier and a female prisoner of war
Women could be taken as booty from a successful campaign and forced to become wives or concubines. Deuteronomy 21:11-14 describes the process.
A male rapist and his victim
Deuteronomy 22:28-29 describes how an unmarried woman who had been raped must marry her attacker.
A male and female slave
A female slave could be married to a male slave without consent, presumably to produce more slaves.
and of course …
Monogamous, heterosexual marriage
What you might think of as the standard form of marriage, provided you think of arranged marriages as the standard. Also remember that inter-faith or cross-ethnic marriage were forbidden for large chunks of biblical history.
Definitions change, Ben.
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He doesn’t realize how fucking stupid he is.
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You know, one of the things that really fries my potatoes with these anti-equality fools is this ABSOLUTE belief that by allowing gays to get legally married as acknowledged by their state and their country is somehow redefining marriage.
So for them, gays being allowed to legally get married means that, by default, farmers will be allowed to marry their horses thereby producing Centaurs thereby creating a protected class of man-animal hybrids.
The stupid just won’t stop burning.
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Generic slippery slope! YOU fill in the blank.
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With everything he says we are witnessing the flame out of his candidacy, plain and simple. Unfit + unqualified + unhinged.
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Concern Troll is Concerned.
This is how he intends to President: another right-wing concern trolling administration.
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Awww Ben, just when we thought you got bit by the sanity bug, you turn around and confirm what we already knew…You’re a fucking lunatic! Thank-you. I just needed that reaffirmation here after the last article on you was posted. Whew…that scared me for a moment.
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Denser and nuttier than Aunt Emma’s fruitcake.
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You can always tell when the demon takes over. Ben’s eyes turn into black slits.
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Ben - all those nurses, interns and patients that nodded in agreement every time you pontificated throughout your professional career? They were humoring you.
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