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Keep those cancellations coming!
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Now those are the Christians I’ve always heard about. Well done.
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Damned CINOs! BURN THEM ALL!
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One more point worth mentioning that the article didn’t: The Disciples of Christ are headquartered in Indianapolis, and have been for 100 years.
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“Officials expected (it) to bring in about $5.9 million.”
Ahhhh money, the official language of the Republican Party.
Now that their language is being spoken expect them understand and make changes to things so that, that sweet all-important money keeps coming.
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DoC is pretty liberal, but hay.
I’m going to cross post a little from a Bill Black article on Naked Capitalism, then post the link. It’s a great analysis of how toxic this really is.
"The Indiana Act does not mention people who are LGBT. It is far broader than that. Any person in Indiana can invent a “religious” “belief.” That “belief” could be that one should not associate with, touch, speak to, see, or serve any characteristic one can imagine – race, color, gender, nationality, age, eye-color, progressives, or the left-handed. The focus on LGBT is because the purpose of the law is to encourage discrimination against LGBT and because Indiana has no law barring discrimination against LGBT. "
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Doubt it. The whole point of this now is for the furor to die down by October 2016 where it will be forgotten by damned near every voter.
And $5.9M is chump change compared to Gen Con’s $50M. That didn’t stop it.
Stand back for the cognitive dissonance fallout from the religious freedumb nuts.
“where it will be forgotten”
Oh-ho-ho, you underestimate the American Taliban and their obsession with where male organs go when the lights are off (they don’t care about lesbians, because lesbians are HOT).
I fully expect this issue will dog them for the next 18 months as the clown-car will have to profess undying love for turning male homosexuals into eunuchs (but no punishment for lesbians, because lesbians are HOT). I exaggerate only slightly here.
In all seriousness I do expect that the gay rights issue will be a campaign issue this time around, much to the chagrin of all the non-crazy Republicans (yes there are some). Simply because -THEY- just can’t seem to leave the issue alone…
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Didn’t see that coming. Good for them.
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I think that’s important. The Disciples aren’t just taking away 5 days’ convention business.
They’re standing in there with this, everyday, among neighbors who voted overwhelmingly for Pence. Sort of unpatriotic in Hoosierland, to a lot of the people they live among.
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Umm where’s the exaggeration? I don’t see even a slight one.
Agreed. Look what’s already happening. Several of the GOP candidates are giving the law the thumbs up and praising Pence. A couple of months from now, if SCOTUS rules that marriage equality is the law of the land, LGBT civil rights will almost certainly become yet another purity test. GOP candidates will be in a race to see who can be the most anti-LGBT and the most pro-religious “rights”.
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In this case, it’s more than money. Disciples are very Hoosier, and are a continuing rebuke among neighbors.
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They will be quiet close enough to the election that it won’t have much of an effect.
Remember the government shutdown? Remember the huge dive their poll numbers took? Remember how they were completely recovered by election time?
The timing on this stuff is well planned.
I think “Plucky​InKY” said it best, this issue will be a “purity test”.
The divinly-inspired nut jobs that the clown-car is beholden to will insist that all swear an oath to work for the passage of a Constitutional amendment prohibiting homosexual marriage. And turning all male homosexuals into eunuchs, the females can keep their genitals as long as they get to watch what they do with their naughty-bits.
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aka
Chri$harians.
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Just hope the awakening carries over into 2016 for the lying GOP.
I disagree. They also know that, while their politicians need to sign in blood (see also Grover’s buying their souls), but they also know that their politicians need to keep that crap quiet near the election.
Seriously, how often do you hear about Grover’s cabal near an election? Why not? You think the Christofascists will insist on their politicians making public observances where it will wreck their election chances?
The SCOTUS decision on marriage equality is expected to come down on or about June 30th. The first GOP presidential debate is scheduled for August 15th, just six weeks later. I’d bet my last dime that Ted Cruz or Santorum or someone equally as frothy will take the opportunity to mention how much they hate, hate, hate the SCOTUS decision and how they stood firm behind Gov. Pence when the liberal media was attacking him for standing up for religious liberty. I also think it’s a pretty damn safe bet that the rest of the field will fall all over themselves to affirm how deeply they agree with Cruz and Pence and that they’ll never back down against those who want to undo America’s Christian values.
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