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When I first saw this, my immediate thought was "Oh, NOW you notice, Turley?"

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Western Chauvinist

Mendel

Maggie Somavilla

Mendel

   

Our fellow citizens have been swayed by a couple of decades of bombardment via news, entertainment and education all controlled by...cultural elites.

When someone murders another person, do you give them a pass because the media and entertainment glorify violence, or do you hold them accountable?

When someone makes a stupid financial decision, do you give them a pass because the media and entertainment glorify profligate spending, or do you hold them accountable?

I thought we all subscribed to personal responsibility. Yet when the majority acts in ways we disagree with, suddenly free will is powerless against Anderson Cooper and Ellen Degeneres. 

Mendel. Gay activists have been hammering the BSA for years. How can you say there's nothing coercive going on here? · 18 hours ago

Because... frankly... Libertarians support the coercion. 

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Byron Horatio: I asked on the other thread about this, but there were all sorts of horrid predictions on the conservative side about what would happen if DADT was repealed.  Nothing ended up happening.  Career soldiers were threatening not to reenlist if gays were allowed in the military.  (I never met a single person who ever said that or followed through)

So how will this be any different than the repeal of DADT? · 19 hours ago

Horrible things WILL happen, but it will take time on the military side, because the military is a job. People need to pay the rent, and with the economy bad, soldiers aren't going to just rush out and quit when their enlistments are up. Boy Scouts don't get paid. In five years the stats will be stark. 

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Benjamin Glaser: Here is a good article on the reaction to John Piper.

http://dougwils.com/s16-theology/rachel-held-evans-denies-the-cat.html · 23 hours ago

"Rachel Held Evans lives in a world where innocent people just get caught in the machinery, and God is terribly sorry about it."

Devastating, and right on target.

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Astonishing: @ Joseph Paqeutte: You say "there is a vast difference between admitting a young man, who might be homosexual . . . and admitting homosexual scout leaders." True, but soon enough the hounding to admit gay leaders will have its effects, and then soon thereafter inevitable pedophilia scandals will put the BSA out of business altogether. 

The BSA will largely be out of business long before that. When the Canadian scouts forced the gay issues, in the following five years, 30k boys joined, but 133k boys left, leaving the organization hollowed out. I'm confident the American numbers will be much more stark, and will happen much more quickly.

When you have an organization that is founded on traditionalist ideals, especially moral ideas, and then you cut the heart of those ideas out for modern political correctness, you drive away the vast majority of the very people motivated to join such groups in the first place. The left knows this. They know exactly what they're doing.

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He couldn't be more wrong. This had nothing to do with individualism, and everything to do with the left's collective effort at redefining what right and wrong are, and basically switching them around.

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Fred Cole

Astonishing: What will they do now about the line in the Boy Scout oath about being "morally straight?" · 1 hour ago

Maybe they'll start taking it to mean what it was meant to mean originally instead of the moronic interpretation that's been applied by some in the last 20 years. · 3 hours ago

If you think the interpretation is moronic, then you have no idea what the original meaning was at all. If anyone is going to suggest that Robert Baden Powell would have ever accepted sodomy as moral conduct, then they're either delusional or patently dishonest. But congrats, liberals and libertarians. You've killed scouting. It make take the body a few years to finish off, but the poison is already working.

Edited on May 24, 2013 at 7:08am
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Vald the Misspeller: Nice hat. Is that the Nefertiti model? · 7 hours ago

If she's going to turn her church into decadent paganism, she may as well look the part.

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Mike LaRoche: So in other words, he wasn't up to the Job. · 2 hours ago

You win Ricochet

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Denise McAllister

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Midget Faded Rattlesnake: The Book of Job is an achingly beautiful -- and extremely enigmatic -- book of the Bible. I can understand the desire to quote a verse from it during a tragedy. But not in public. Not to strangers.

Why? Because someone might be offended? This is one of the reasons why Christians are losing the cultural fight right now. This is exactlythe kind of time to use Biblical quotes, to put our lives in context of the bigger picture and teach what's really important. · 3 minutes ago

This (during a tragedy such as this) is not the time to use obtuse biblical quotes or throw doctrines at people. It's not the time to teach or admonish. It's time to love, to show grace, to comfort. It's the time to serve. Teaching comes later. · 22 minutes ago

I couldn't disagree with you more on this. This is precisely the time to teach. Teaching doesn't mean that you can't comfort, either. It's not either-or.

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Midget Faded Rattlesnake: The Book of Job is an achingly beautiful -- and extremely enigmatic -- book of the Bible. I can understand the desire to quote a verse from it during a tragedy. But not in public. Not to strangers.

Why? Because someone might be offended? This is one of the reasons why Christians are losing the cultural fight right now. This is exactly the kind of time to use Biblical quotes, to put our lives in context of the bigger picture and teach what's really important.

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The Conservative Party.  Plain and simple. "Constitution Party" is already taken, or I'd throw that out there too.

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Hartmann von Aue: Yeti- thanks for removing that picture. I get enough unwilling exposure that zombie crud. · 13 hours ago

Oh come on. The title of the episode had "zombie" in it. 

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Jeff: Unmoored from tradition, she floats wherever the Lord of the Air blows her. · 5 minutes ago

More likely it's the Lord of the Flies.

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Mollie Hemingway, Ed.

Nick Stuart

Mollie Hemingway, Ed.

Isn't it interesting that the Pope being Catholic is cause for huge headlines while Presiding Bishop Jefferts Schori's full-throated rejection of St. Paul's exorcism of demons doesn't generate a single story in the mainstream press?

Because nobody cares what Presiding Bishop Jefferts Schori thinks? · 4 minutes ago

You wouldn't know that from her media coverage. Despite being smaller than my church body (Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod), ECUSA gets tons and tons more media coverage. Much of it quite friendly. · 44 minutes ago

That's because of the historical legacy of the Episcopals being "America's Church"... the vast majority of the Founding Fathers were Episcopal. But history has no bearing on present reality, where the EC has become a hollowed corpse, a zombified, empty mockery of what it once was, with empty pews testifying to the long work of self-destruction that people like the Bishop have so earnestly tried to accomplish.

Edited on May 23, 2013 at 6:22pm
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Mike LaRoche

Socialism and Islam both seek the destruction of the West, hence their de facto alliance.

Don't forget feminists. Three groups utterly at odds with each other, yet united in their zeal to destroy the West.

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