A Look Back: GA Rep Thinks Gays, Like Drug Dealers, Shouldn’t Be In Military
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— Georgia State Rep. Bobby Franklin (R) on gay servicemembers [via]
Spoken like a typically stupid Southern bigot and Bible-thumper. If this man had bothered to read the entire Bible he would have come across all sorts of outrageous sayings like it’s alright to sell your daughter into slavery, that it’s an abominatin to eat shellfish, it advises putting to death anyone who works on Sunday, and forbids a man from having contact with a woman during her period. There’s more equally rediculous advice. The Bible is absolutely filled with hate.
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This guy is an idiot. I cannot believe he actually said that in public. Haven’t people learned that bigots get nowhere with statements like that? Sure, plenty of people hate us due to their religious views, but usually they have the sense to not SAY it like that. It is like Obama said” “We are not a nation of Christians. We are a nation of many religions.”
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Only the elimination of all conservative Christians will allow all Americans to be free and the world to no longer have to live in fear of the U.S.A.’s imperialist, terrorist holy war. The conservative ideology has never helped mankind in any way, it has not only never helped mankind in anyway, it has oppressed, murdered, raped and killed all those in it’s way to gain power. History shows us this. Fact shows us this. James Madison, the “Father of the U.S. Constitution”, along with many founders of this country, regardless of their religious or non-religious affiliations, knew keeping politics and religion separate not only preserves each, but helps them flourish: “The number, the industry, and the morality of the Priesthood and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the Church and the State.”
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@Corey Mondello: Just as long as you mean “helping people see the error of their ways” when you say “elimination.” I’m against violent rhetoric no matter where it comes from, and I think that we, as a community, should be, too.
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No. 2 · Harbo wrote, “If this man had bothered to read the entire Bible he would have come across all sorts of outrageous sayings like it’s alright to sell your daughter into slavery, that it’s an abominatin to eat shellfish, it advises putting to death anyone who works on Sunday, and forbids a man from having contact with a woman during her period. There’s more equally rediculous advice. The Bible is absolutely filled with hate.”
Given the time, the lack of refrigeration, and the non-existence of public health services of any kind, many of those prohibitions made sense – at the time. Eating pork, if not well cooked, can give you trichinosis (still a problem today in much of the world). Shellfish toxin is similarly a problem (although we can now test for it, thus making shellfish safe to buy).
Slavery was unfortunately a common practice, but with nuances. See http://www.myjewishlearning.co.....very.shtml for one explanation (and it was worse in other parts of the ancient world).
Of course sensible people would treat much of the Bible as an historical document showing how beliefs evolved with time, not as a set of rules to follow and that cannot be questioned.
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@B:
Meh. Any meat can make you sick. The ban isn’t on all meat.
Desert nomads would have understandable qualms about shellfish. The pork thing is more intriguing. Human flesh allegedly looks, cooks and tastes like pork. A pork prohibition forecloses the possibility of incidental cannibalism.
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The guy died two months ago: http://blogs.ajc.com/political.....ng_nws_bnr
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Surprising..ly stupid.
The U.S. military has had to let in all sorts of people that they wouldn’t have considered before 9/11. Felons and pedophiles and…even terrorists!
(CNN said so http://articles.cnn.com/2008-0.....s?_s=PM:US)
Rep. Bobby Franklin, read a book before you talk.