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Indiana passes Religious Freedom law and

#1 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Mon Mar 30, 2015 10:24 am

now they are shooting crossdressers in Maryland
Two men dressed as women tried to ram the gate of the National Security Agency headquarters in Fort Meade with an SUV Monday morning, resulting in a shooting that left one person dead, according to an official and sources familiar with the investigation.

After the gate was rammed around 9:30 local time, a guard reportedly got into an argument with the men and gunfire erupted. It is believed that the guard shot one or both of the men, who were taken to local hospitals to be treated, sources told Fox News.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/03/30/sh ... olice-say/
Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.

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Re: Indiana passes Religious Freedom law and

#2 Post by Bob Juch » Mon Mar 30, 2015 11:42 am

Here's an unexpected consequence:

Whoops: Indiana’s anti-gay ‘religious freedom’ act opens the door for the First Church of Cannabis

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/whoo ... -cannabis/
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Re: Indiana passes Religious Freedom law and

#3 Post by mrkelley23 » Mon Mar 30, 2015 11:44 am

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:now they are shooting crossdressers in Maryland
Two men dressed as women tried to ram the gate of the National Security Agency headquarters in Fort Meade with an SUV Monday morning, resulting in a shooting that left one person dead, according to an official and sources familiar with the investigation.

After the gate was rammed around 9:30 local time, a guard reportedly got into an argument with the men and gunfire erupted. It is believed that the guard shot one or both of the men, who were taken to local hospitals to be treated, sources told Fox News.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/03/30/sh ... olice-say/
Maybe they thought they were In-de-Annapolis (obscure NCAA basketball commercial joke of the day.)
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Re: Indiana passes Religious Freedom law and

#4 Post by Bob Juch » Mon Mar 30, 2015 11:58 am

mrkelley23 wrote:
themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:now they are shooting crossdressers in Maryland
Two men dressed as women tried to ram the gate of the National Security Agency headquarters in Fort Meade with an SUV Monday morning, resulting in a shooting that left one person dead, according to an official and sources familiar with the investigation.

After the gate was rammed around 9:30 local time, a guard reportedly got into an argument with the men and gunfire erupted. It is believed that the guard shot one or both of the men, who were taken to local hospitals to be treated, sources told Fox News.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/03/30/sh ... olice-say/
Maybe they thought they were In-de-Annapolis (obscure NCAA basketball commercial joke of the day.)
I know how you feel about the new law but what do you hear on the streets of E-ville?
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Re: Indiana passes Religious Freedom law and

#5 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Mon Mar 30, 2015 12:27 pm

Bob Juch wrote:Here's an unexpected consequence:

Whoops: Indiana’s anti-gay ‘religious freedom’ act opens the door for the First Church of Cannabis

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/whoo ... -cannabis/
More freedom is a good thing
Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.

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Re: Indiana passes Religious Freedom law and

#6 Post by mrkelley23 » Mon Mar 30, 2015 2:52 pm

Bob Juch wrote:
mrkelley23 wrote: Maybe they thought they were In-de-Annapolis (obscure NCAA basketball commercial joke of the day.)
I know how you feel about the new law but what do you hear on the streets of E-ville?
There was actually a protest today at the Four Freedoms monument downtown. Not hugely attended, being right in the middle of a workday, but the local media were all there, since this is such a hot button topic right now in Indiana. And protests of any kind are downright rare in Evansville. The largest one is usually the annual pro-life demonstration.

There are predictable reactions from many of my conservative Indiana friends, but I am a little surprised at the number of reliable self-identified conservatives who are not happy with the law, especially now that some of the implications are coming clear.
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Re: Indiana passes Religious Freedom law and

#7 Post by Bob Juch » Mon Mar 30, 2015 3:38 pm

mrkelley23 wrote:
Bob Juch wrote:
mrkelley23 wrote: Maybe they thought they were In-de-Annapolis (obscure NCAA basketball commercial joke of the day.)
I know how you feel about the new law but what do you hear on the streets of E-ville?
There was actually a protest today at the Four Freedoms monument downtown. Not hugely attended, being right in the middle of a workday, but the local media were all there, since this is such a hot button topic right now in Indiana. And protests of any kind are downright rare in Evansville. The largest one is usually the annual pro-life demonstration.

There are predictable reactions from many of my conservative Indiana friends, but I am a little surprised at the number of reliable self-identified conservatives who are not happy with the law, especially now that some of the implications are coming clear.
I'm sure being hit in the wallet will cause many to rethink things.
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Re: Indiana passes Religious Freedom law and

#8 Post by BackInTex » Mon Mar 30, 2015 4:07 pm

Bob Juch wrote:n the wallet will cause many to rethink things.
That's what got the whole thing going to begin with.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015 ... /22771685/

https://verdict.justia.com/2013/09/04/n ... otographer

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... acare.html

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