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hero69 wrote:
bottom line, people have a right to protest. accept that and the fact that more people showed up to protest than attended his half-empty innauguration

Trump is the President! Accept it! Protesting against him is protesting against the country!

The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.

Yvonne wrote:
One reason why the USA is on this list. Did same sex activists say same sex marriage would not harm anyone?

http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/20/living/stutzman-florist-gay/

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http://religionnews.com/2016/03/31/us ... lerance-and-whining-rise/

Yvonne wrote:
An international group that list the Hall of Shame of countries that persecute Christians has added the USA to the Hall of Shame list for the first time.
http://www.persecution.org/persecutio ... 20of%20Shame%20Report.pdf

On June 11, 2016, Omar Mateen, a US-based radical Muslim, attacked a gay nightclub in Orlando, killing 49 and injuring 53 more. In a call to 911, he clearly laid out his motivation. The attack was driven by his allegiance to ISIS and desire for retribution for attacks on ISIS. Incredibly, after the attack, numerous high profile media outlets blamed the attacks on what they perceive as the antiLGBTQ atmosphere that Christians have created.

In short, Christians in the US are facing constant attacks in the media, where they are portrayed as bigoted, racist, sexist, and closeminded. The characterization in the media may be translating into direct attacks as well. The First Liberty Institute, the largest legal organization in the US dedicated exclusively to protecting religious freedom, documents such actions and reports that attacks on religion doubled between 2012 and 2015.

More importantly, Christians and all religious people are being marginalized through the law. From the case of a Christian football coach suspended for praying at the 50-yard line, to Christian business owners forced to pay a $135,000 fine for declining to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding, the number of troubling cases directed towards Christians has exploded.

In 2011, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship lost their official recognition as a student organization in all of their respective chapters across 23 California public colleges. This occurred because the Christian organization required their respective leaders to uphold a doctrinal statement of Biblical principles, which allegedly conflicted with California State universities? policies. After four years of embattled negotiations, InterVarsity regained their official recognition in June 2015.

In 2014, Eric Walsh was terminated one week after being hired by the Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH). The basis of termination was alleged undisclosed income from prior employment in California. However, the Georgia DPH knew that Walsh was a Christian preacher outside of work and went to great lengths to review and investigate the content of his sermons posted on YouTube. Georgia officials have even requested copies of Walsh?s sermons, despite prior statements that the termination had nothing to do with his religious views or affiliations. Walsh is currently suing the Georgia DPH for wrongful termination and religious discrimination.

The rise of these cases stems partly from a broad cultural shift towards secularism. The Pew Foundation found that those identifying as non-religious in the US rose by seven percent, to 23 percent of the total US adult population within just seven years (2007 to 2014).

Anti-Christian entities have been able to leverage the growing secularization of society and culture to their advantage, utilizing the courts as a preferred venue to gradually marginalize and silence Christians. Using the cudgel of ?equality,? secular forces in and out of the courts have worked to create a body of law built from one bad precedent after another. Claims of intolerance and inequality are used to fundamentally distort the clear intent of the First Amendment.

The Founders carefully and deliberately placed religious freedom as the first liberty because it encompasses several fundamental rights including thought, speech, expression, and assembly. The First Amendment explicitly grants freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. The essential aim is to protect the right of citizens to practice religion in the public square.

Decades of accumulated poor judicial decisions and precedents have twisted the First Amendment so that the courts, in defiance of the Founders, are pushing religion out of the public square, and into the small space of private expression. In essence, the courts are deciding that you only have full religious freedom and expression in the church and your home. In the public domain, your religious views and thoughts must be restrained and controlled. This trend is extremely worrying in the country that has long held the ideal of religious liberty.

While there is no comparison between the life of a Christian in the US with persecuted believers overseas, ICC sees these worrying trends as an alarming indication of a decline in religious liberty in the United States.

TheBigGuy wrote:
Baby steps... Rebuilding trust in our allies Obama Kerry and Clinton sold out.

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Monroe wrote:
'Mental'? You bigot, using a term like that. Go to your safe space and learn to harness your microagressions!

You are mental - with a mind-set that you and Yvonne have, unless you are receiving medication. I'd like to know how standing up for human rights is deemed bigotry!

The pair of you can't just spew out your comments without them being rebutted.

An 8 year old girl doesn't have a 'human right' to join the Cub Scouts, which are for boys. I couldn't join Hadassah, either, because I'm neither a woman or Jewish. But if I identify as a woman and Jewish I guess you could make a case they'd have to accept me!

Both you and Yvonne have a 'caveman' mentality - Coed scouts have existed for over a decade in Canada and other western nations: Some might like to live in the past and sometimes I wish we still performed lobotomies, because I would like to nominate two from JClist to have the procedure done to.

http://wiki.scouts.ca/en/Scouting_Myths

http://www.scouts.ca/sites/default/fi ... ars-of-Co-Ed-Scouting.pdf

Yvonne wrote:
In about 5 years, this "boy" will have a menstrual cycle and develop breasts. "He" will be too young to have hormones or to have surgery so "he" will have the body of a young woman. I suggest serious counseling for this child.

hero69 wrote:
and some people wonder how Donald Trump got elected....I am sick and tired of tax abatements in areas that do not need them. Maybe tulip needs to start looking for another job done he is not standing by his pledge to end stuff abatements

$5,000 to have all of the locks changed at the warehouse where his studio is located.

JCMan8 wrote:
At least you finally got one thing right. Trump could cure world hunger, but the legacy media would find a way to harshly criticize him for it.

Meanwhile, your article has been debunked because other countries have said that they will be moving their manufacturing to the U.S. due to Trump, creating many new American jobs. Look at these examples from Korea.

http://m.koreatimes.co.kr/phone/news/view.jsp?req_newsidx=217941

JCMan8 wrote:
Guess you've had your head in the sand for the past several decades.

Back on planet Earth, the extremely "progressive" Prime Minister of Canada reacted with "deep sorrow" to the death of "Cuba's longest serving President," who was a "remarkable leader."

A very bad year for the Democrats indeed.

http://pm.gc.ca/eng/news/2016/11/26/s ... an-president-fidel-castro

Monroe wrote:
'Best friends'? Obama has caved to Putin on just about everything, he may be Putin's best friend. He caved on the land grab, caved on missile shields, caved on Syria . . .

TheBigGuy wrote:
What is not to believe? The socialist democrats have always spoken favorably of Fidel and his island utopia.

TheBigGuy wrote:
Very bad year for the democrats... Hillary looses the election and now they've lost their most favorite totalitarian butcher, Fidel Castro.

JCMan8 wrote:
Not hypocrisy at all. He worked under the rules at the time. It was not his place to complain about how unjust they were towards others. His duty was to increase his profit, which he did by playing the system.

Now that he knows the system inside and out, he's in the best position to reform it. Which I believe he will.

Yvonne wrote:
Disenfranchise, really? So that means people without ID do not have apartments, ID is required. They never went to the Medical Center, ID is required. They never visited a family member in intestive care, ID is required. They never visited a doctor, ID is required. They never buried a loved one, ID is required. They never returned an item to a store, ID is required. Please tell these disenfranchise people not to get married, ID is required. But most of all, do not play the lottery, ID is required for winnings.

"Although OUR Turn NJ suspended the paid media component of its campaign, a variety of grassroots activities are continuing to encourage a 'yes' vote,"

JCMan8 wrote:
You are so full of it, linking to Nate Silver of all people (along with the Washington Post, owned by a guy who bragged about buying the paper just to influence this election) as if that means anything.

Want some facts? Just today, the Pennsylvania State Police raided the offices of a (surprise surprise) Democratic organization for engaging in suspected voter fraud. Hopefully all responsible get arrested, and voter ID laws are passed to help thwart these fraud schemes.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/ ... oup-evidence-voter-fraud/

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We need a strong leader': Trump's popularity high among Iraqis

BAGHDAD, Iraq ? Donald Trump?s favorability rating is sky-high here, where citizens are paying surprisingly close attention to the U.S. election and see the developer and political novice as the clear choice for the White House.

"Dr. Zainab Abbas Elshafei, a 26-year-old gynecologist from a mixed Sunni and Shia family in the south of Baghdad near Babil, echoed that the U.S. elections are coming at a crucial time given their nation?s enduring violence.

?The USA as a country is considered the main leader and engine for the international alliance against ISIS, so the next president will really determine if the war to eliminate them fully will be serious or not,? she said. ?I prefer Trump because of his opinions about the countries supporting terrorism, especially Saudi Arabia. We are against militant Islam. And Hillary Clinton was Obama?s Secretary of State ? they made ISIS by using all the wrong strategies, and now they are having to fight it.?

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/11/ ... ty-high-among-iraqis.html

In dozens of interviews FoxNews.com conducted in various cities across the country this month

Why exactly do you think these Democrats are breaking the law and registering dead people to vote? For the fun of it?

JCMan8 wrote:
Is this a serious post? You admit that voter registration fraud is common and easy to commit and then claim without any evidence that it's very difficult to turn these fake registrations into actual votes?

Why exactly do you think these Democrats are breaking the law and registering dead people to vote? For the fun of it?