On 6/13/15 11:44 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 6/13/2015 8:28 PM, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 6/13/15 7:06 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 6/13/2015 6:52 PM, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 6/13/15 6:37 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 6/13/2015 2:00 PM, Keyser Söze wrote:

A California state Republican has a novel new solution to the state’s
crippling drought: Ban abortions and God will let it rain.

State Assemblywoman Shannon Grove is under fire for suggesting that
abortion was to blame for California’s water woes in comments before
advocates and religious leaders at the California ProLife Legislative
Banquet last week. In her remarks, first reported by RH Reality
Check,
Grove tipped her hat to Texas for passing an omnibus anti-abortion
bill
in 2013 – a move she suggests prompted God to pay it forward.

“Texas was in a long period of drought until Governor Perry signed
the
fetal pain bill,” Grove said, according to RH Reality Check. “It
rained
that night. Now God has His hold on California.”

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Why are so many Republicans just plain bat**** crazy in their
religious
beliefs? I'm not talking about belief in a creator or being a
christian...I'm talking about being nuts about it.


You know she's nuts because ????



Because she is blaming abortion for California's drought. That would
make her...nuts.


Can you definitively prove that she's wrong?



Much of what is involved in "weather" can be explained scientifically
and rationally. There is nothing scientific or rational underpinning the
belief that a supreme being is punishing California for allowing
abortions, or even that there is a supreme being.


Point is, over 74 percent of Americans and 84 percent of the world's
population believe in a supreme being. They
have a right to believe what they want to believe.



Do they have a right to try to force those religious beliefs on others?
Those who believe(d) in slavery and segregation use(d) the bible to
support their views and used their religious beliefs to extend slavery
and segregation. Did they have a "right" to do that? ISIS is based upon
religious beliefs. Do the ISIS folks have a *right* to force those
beliefs on others?