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By Expert Textpert on August 18, 2010 4:34 PM
“Can we please ban men from wearing murses.”
Only if we can ban big, dry, frizzy hair.
Legion, you just refuse to get it. It has nothing to do with whether I agree with the fine points of Sharia Law. It has nothing to do with whether I agree with the CULTURAL mores of societies that treat women as second class, or lower, citizens. Of course I am personally against that. So what? The far more important point is that this country CURRENTLY gives them the right to be here, and to hold their beliefs, and affords me, and anyone else, the equal right to disagree with those beliefs and say so, when my voice is warranted.
You, and those who agree with you, are advocating that you, or some political party, or agency, or moral force, have the right to deny someone on American soil, their right to practice their religion. You do not. If you do get that right, we are on a slippery slope, downhill fast, and this will no longer be America.
dh – boobs are fine.
breastfeeding sucks.
once again because of the OT i’m scared to ride the subway home today.
I wonder what BrooklynCouch could add to the above conversation.
Jessi, I wasn’t trying (and would never try) to pwn you. I just somehow remembered that The Donald said that. One of the many useless bits of trivia taking up much-needed space in my brain. And I agree with you that it’s easy to say when one doesn’t have one’s own money invested in it.
Ha, Biff. I’m pwned. But it’s easy to say that when you don’t hold the ground lease.
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Did he also tell you he got VD from a doorknob????
of course!
*rob*
montrose,
no, not at all,
you are using my words which point out a
very real and developing issue in our national debate,
into some sort of “right wing” rant against muslims.
I already stated that there was no problems with previous mosques here in NYC.
why this one?
well because it is being pushed by people with
a known agenda,
how do we know this?
Because they wrote the agenda in books.
my larger point is really about how politically correct we’ve become, this means you,
in that you find yourself defending a system of religious beliefs in direct opposition to the pluralism of our
American society which has evolved through much struggle to a point of great openness.
once again,
you defend a system which in it’s varous permutations around the world alternately
-denies the existence of gays
-denies women basic rights
-denies other religions their expression