What will you do if Bush wins?
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What will you do if Bush wins?
| Fri, 08-20-2004 - 12:02pm |
I would like to know what you all will do if Bush wins? I don't know if I can handle another 4 years. Any ideas of how to reclaim our country and restore democracy and freedom? I'm worried that another 4 years will increase the authoritariansm and absolute power that Bush has come to claim and further trample on our constitution and individual liberties. I'm truly frightened.

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An interesting observation - I, personally, have not yet been welcomed to the board, but I am not surprised as I am definitely anti-Bush.
While were at it, so that I do not pull any punches, I also endorse the right of gay and bisexual people to be married and have the full rights under the law that those in a committed long term marriage in this country recieve. Why should a lesbian who stays home to raise the family and make a house a home be denied the right to her working partners Social Security benefits? Most marriages in this nation are civil ceremonies, not church weddings....if the religious right wants to keep a gay couple from being married in a church, I am fine with that, but keeping them from getting married before a justice of the peace is just wrong. Perhaps Christians and the church would have a stronger leg to stand on in claiming marriage is sacred if A) the divorce rate were not above 50 percent, and B) if the Catholic Church has not turned granting annulments into a big business generating millions of dollars a year into the church coffures. Your milage may vary, but that is my slant on the issue.
Oh, and in case I forgot to mention it, I would support the legalization of pot in America as well.
Yes, find some 30 plus WELCOMES very distracting. Especially in a thread of such magnitude as this one. There as been a lot of good serious discussion going on, and when you suddenly have to click past not one or two, but seven or eight welcomes it is overly redundant. If the CL feels the need to welcome everyone, why not A) have a thread just for issuing welcomes, or B) occassionally say hello in a thread to numerous people in one post instead of dedicating one post to each separate individual.
Like you, I am anti-Bush, because I feel the record of his term speaks loud and clear that we need a change in leadership, but I did get a welcome that I was not overly in need of here.
I’ve been told that aborting unwanted babies would leave more wanted ones and, therefore, there would be less child abuse.
Exactly the opposite has happened. In New York City during the ’60s, the number of abused children had averaged about 5,000 cases a year. Abortion was legalized in 1970. By 1975, over 25,000 cases were reported. The figures for the entire U.S. are:
Date Total Number
1973 167,000
1979 711,142
1993 1,057,255
1996 1,220,000
U.S. Dept. H.H.S., Nat. Center of Child Abuse,Child Maltreatment 259
Canada’s statistics show the same:
Year Abortions Child Abuse
1971 16,172 422
1978 38,782 1,762
1994 104,403 30,366*
Child Welfare Branch, Ministry of Human Resource, Ontario, Canada *These are the totals reported from all provinces except PEI and includes physical,sexual,and emotional abuse. Note that provinces vary in definition of "child abuse" and reporting requirements.
Ohio reported 27,248 cases in 1981 and 65,965 in 1985, a 142% increase according to a survey by the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Children, Families and Youth for the largest state increase. The same survey reported over a 55% increase nationwide from 1981 to 1985. Assoc. Press, March 3, 1987.
D r. Phillip Ney, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Christ Church, New Zealand, while still at the University of British Columbia, published a widely read study of this. His analysis clearly pointed to the fact that abortion (and its acceptance of the violence of killing the unborn) lowered a parent’s psychic resistance to violence and abuse of the born. P. Ney, "Relationship Between Abortion & Child Abuse," Canada Jour. Psychiatry, vol. 24, 1979, pp. 610-620
A nation and its people will ultimately be judged not by the fact that there are unwanted ones among them, but by what is done for them.
Are They Cared For?
or
Are They Killed?
If the individual welcomes bother you two so much, then why
Hi dreadpiratemina!
Welcome to the board!
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