This is truly a sorry state of affairs. Has the election of a black president really driven these people certifiably insane? http://www.nydailynews.com/news/201...age_and_ban_sodomy_outlaw_strip_clubs_an.html It's good to know that Texas Republicans (one of the largest states in the union!) are looking to the greatest minds of the nineteenth century for solutions to difficult problems in our troubled modern age. You cannot just write this off as the rantings of the lunatic fringe, not when it has been adopted as the official platform of such a large state. Here it is In all of its insane glory!
What is also interesting about these statements is how they are written..."We DEMAND". It says we don't care what anyone else wants, it is our way or the highway. Sounds a bit totalitarian to me...kind of odd coming from someone who ostensibly claims to be against "big government". I guess big government is ok if we use it to enforce their ethics in the bedroom and else where. So my next question to these folks is who is going to pay for the bedroom police? I don't care what people do in their bedrooms as long as they are not hurting others. And I certianly don't want to pay a bedroom police tax.
You better make sure there's nothing but shit cumming out into your pants there pj!! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Obama represents something Christian conservatives have been dreading for decades - change. In-Your-Face-Change. Societies are changing. We're a lot different than we were before - for example, people are much more open to the idea there isn't a God. Or that other religions are equal to Christianity... like Buddhism or Hinduism. THAT shit is what freaks these people out. Conservative Christians are really not any different than conservative Mormons, or conservative Muslims or conservative Jews. One True God, One True Book, One True Prophet/and or/ Messiah. Kids now-a-days really don't like to think like this, and THAT is what's pissing off Christians in Texas. But, too bad, they are not going to be able to stop society from changing - the genie is out of that bottle Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
This idiocy is a knee jerk reaction to having the sodomy laws overturned by the courts and part of the general anger boiling up on the right. People are pissed off and all the psycho's are coming out of the woodwork. Bad times produce a shift to the right. Since Texas was already pretty far right, it ends up in wacko territory pretty quick.
Sodomy, sex toys, and other social policies I believe you have it exactly. Conservatives, regardless of what party they have claimed in the past, have always been "traditional" and enjoyed certain advantages in this context. The last fifteen, maybe eighteen, years have not been kind to them in social policy.
Of course there is hypocrisy but that is true across the board and really for anyone regardless of their position in life. Here is the bold headline: ---------------------------- Texas GOP platform: criminalize gay marriage and ban sodomy, outlaw strip clubs and pornography ---------------------------- I really have no opinion on the first but lean towards allowing gay marriage. Strip clubs: i lean more towards banning them because they serve no purpose. Porn: I say ban it due to the fact that 90% of the people involved are on hard drugs and taken advantage of due to their state of mind and tht includes mental illness or deficiencies. That is something i cannot support. That is not to say that people shouldnt make their own porn for private viewing because what is the difference if you do the act or do it and record it? Live and let live, as they say. You run the risk of it getting out though so...all these cameras are a real pain in the *alls.
It funny because i support more the banning of cameras actually i prefer the old way of needed film to be processed instead then they can lock the files and need to send the card out to unlock it. I know that i dont want to be secretly recorded while doing something myself and there are too many sneaky bastards out there. So yeah i am not happy with all these new recording devices.
So where are you going to get the money to build porn jails and fund the porn police? Are you going to create a porn tax? And how do you know that 90 percent of the people you are involved in porn are on hard drugs or taken advantage of in some way? So you want to protect people form being taken advantage of, where do you draw the line? People are taken advantage of all the time in busisness every day. Are you going to hire a "taken advantage of" police force and related taxes to fund them? Should it be illegal for politicians to take advantage of poor and uneducated folks? Do you make an exception for them? Where do you draw the line? That does not at all sound like you are asking for a small government. I sounds like you are asking for a police and nanny state.
First of all i do not support "small government". I think that given extenuating circumstances it is very similar to forced prostitution and that is illegal. How i know is an estimation but the numbers are overwhelming. I dont necessarily want to get into that aspect because drug addiction is a miserable existence. However, it is easier on some people who are able to keep some of their resources when\if they get out of it but for others (average person\poor) it takes everyhting away. A contract signed by a person intoxicated is not legally binding due to the fact that all you need to do is get the person intoxicated and you stand a good chance of the business deal going in your favor. Do you support this?
Well it is good you admit you don't support small government. Drug addiction is a miserable existence, I would agree. But I think the solution is medical treatment and not criminalizing it. So you don't know how many people in porn production or usesage are into drug adicition. But you think porn is similar to forced prositution. I don't see any force going on in porn. I don't see the drug addiction either. I has seen some porn documentaries on cable news, and nothing there led me to believe there was a drug connection that you would not find in another Hollywood media endeavor. If you want to ban porn because some of its users and producers use drugs, I guess you mean you have to ban rock groups because they have a long standing history of drug use. So are we forcing them to make rock and roll music with drugs? And yes contracts signed while under the influence are vaild. It is not unusual for business to be conducted over a few drinks.
Joe, you are very naive on this subject and i am not even referring to casual use but full blown hard core addiction. I never said to make turn the addict into a criminal, in fact my post suggests the opposite. Addiction to stimulants (for lack of a better term) is medically very unique. The reasons are very complicated and beyond the scope of this thread but after awhile the user reaches the point of temporary insanity nad the thing people dont realize is that after years of abuse the intake needed to get out of control, i am referring to where a person has little ability to rationalize, becomes even less. Most people not aware of these drugs think people build up a tolerance when, in fact, the opposite is true. Drug use and the effects according to the substance is very different but any particular substance effects people the same exact way therefore i do not blame the addict. It is a very bad choice to make. You dont see the difference? I sure do and there are many. afa, contracts being valid. i dont think you can stumble into a courthouse and sign a legal document. otoh, what you mentioned is a grey area because after the fact it is impossible to prove and having a few drinks may not alter a person ability to make a decsion, especially when they already made up their mind on agreeing to it. http://www.youngerlaw.com/ContractEnforcability.htm
does it really matter, I mean come on. There is no way to in force a law on the general public, when the crime is being committed in the privacy of there home, This is just retarded gibberish coming out of the mouths, of a political party that still thinks its 1910, not 2010, another wards there idiots.
Well in order to but a camera in the bedroom all police need is probable cause. Someone says something to a coworker and the next thing you know, you can become the unexpected maker of some porn for the enjoyment of the local constabulary. When it comes to civil rights, I think we should be a little paranoid and think through some of the extremes. Because like it or not, there are those among us who take things to the exremes. And there are times when the masses follow the extremes.
