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LOL The 46and2 step.

(Where's them HEE HAW dancin' pigs?)

Holy shit Casey! Never have heard that before. Cross Canadian Ragweed? LoL Gotta say it's spot on. hahahahahahahahahahaha

They might have remade it, but that song is every bit of 35 years old. Believe me, I first heard it about that long ago in a place I wasn’t supposed to be in at the time.

That wasn’t CCR

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46&2 I’ve always enjoyed your posts. If you leave the forum I can understand you have your reason but I suppose I’ll be one of the few who will not take any pleasure in you deciding to ban yourself. As you said this is one of the best moderated forums on the interwebs. I’d be sad to see you go.

I am also sorry to see you exile yourself.

LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME

No rational explanation needed. Won't sink in.

Anyone who thinks being part of the dipshit (seditious) Dems after what has taken place over the last 3 years is already lobotomized. Thanks for the $7 gas too asshole. Maybe with your help, they can raise it to $10. (forgot that's somehow Trump's fault.)

Pretty bizarre since only 15% of Americans by poll, make abortion their number one voting issue.

7% of the population of the United States makes up 54% of all abortions. Think about that.

That’s because most people don’t believe that murdering babies is a good idea. It’s not even a religious idea. It’s just basic humanity.

So I have no problem with you leaving. I only have a problem in the way you did it.

Losing well matters. Guess you never learned that lesson in life. We generally call such souls “poor sports“. I’ll leave it to you to imagine your new moniker. AMF

One more thing… a correction, as far as I understand it…

Mississippi triggers a complete ban on abortion now. It is not 15 weeks per the scotus case re: Dobbs.

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7% of the population of the United States makes up 54% of all abortions. Think about that.

Interestingly enough, 6% of the population commits half of the murders.

Amazing, isn't it? You don't suppose the two statistics have anything in common, do you?

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7% of the population of the United States makes up 54% of all abortions. Think about that.

Interestingly enough, 6% of the population commits half of the murders.

Amazing, isn't it? You don't suppose the two statistics have anything in common, do you?

Absolutely. Government got in the way of traditional family and decided to replace fathers and a whole community of people. Unnatural, and these are the consequences.

“The great society”

Now, it’s “The great reset” … A constant and pernicious attack on autonomy, liberty and self-determination.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLUuWl8oMFE

Oh man, I may have chuckled a bit. That was purty good.

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13 pages. Why is everyone giving this guy the attention he is seeking?

Attention, yes, but costly.

The OP's post is being given the treatment it deserves. The post is not being treated seriously because it's outrageously silly. It's not possible to take seriously stuff like "I must leave you all now to go fight against injustice." GMAFB

This is a face-saving maneuver, and an unnecessary one at that. 46and2 is announcing in melodramatic fashion that he's leaving because after all the trash talk before the big game, his team lost and there's no denying it. And because he thinks that the very first thing we thought of after hearing the SCOTUS decision, was him, well, he just has to do something about that, and here we are. So, he's self-conscious.

The only real power a member has in a forum such as this is whether to stay or to go. 46and2 tried to launch his thermonuclear stuff and succeeded only in dropping a Number 2 in his own thread.

By the way- of all the things to take a stand about- the ability to facilitate the murder of children- how grotesque. It's difficult to imagine the kind of world these people want to live in.

46and2 retains his posting rights, but in this thread, we've had our very last passion play from him; there have been others, and they are always grandiose and puzzling. In this thread, someone said that 46and2's post makes him sound nuts. This had not occurred to me but I'll say that it would explain a whole lot.

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That wasn’t CCR

Originally by Garry Lee & Showdown.

Local Article

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Oh hey, 46and2, here’s one for the road. Your plate is gonna be so full…

https://www.cbsnews.com/live-u...-school-prayer-case/

Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of a former football coach for a high school in western Washington who lost his job after praying on the 50-yard-line after games.

The court ruled 6-3 along ideological lines that the free exercise and free speech clauses of the First Amendment protect an individual engaging in religious expression. Justice Neil Gorsuch delivered the opinion for the majority in the case, known as Kennedy v. Bremerton School District.

"The Constitution and the best of our traditions counsel mutual respect and tolerance, not censorship and suppression, for religious and nonreligious views alike," Gorsuch wrote.

The dispute involving Joseph Kennedy, the former Bremerton High School assistant football coach, stood at the intersection of the First Amendment's establishment clause and the free speech and free exercise clauses, as lawyers for Kennedy argued the school district's punishment for his religious expression violated his constitutional rights. The school district, meanwhile, warned Kennedy when it learned of his postgame prayers that his activities likely violated the establishment clause, which prohibits the government from endorsing a religion.

The court fight involving Kennedy's postgame prayers at midfield attracted a bevy of friend-of-the-court briefs, including from former NFL players and professional and collegiate athletes who came down on both sides of the debate.

Writing for the liberal minority on Monday, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the Constitution does not authorize public schools to embrace Kennedy's conduct, and wrote that the majority's opinion rejects "longstanding concerns" surrounding government endorsement of religion.

"Official-led prayer strikes at the core of our constitutional protections for the religious liberty of students and their parents, as embodied in both the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment," wrote Sotomayor, joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan. "The court now charts a different path, yet again paying almost exclusive attention to the Free Exercise Clause's protection for individual religious exercise while giving short shrift to the Establishment Clause's prohibition on state establishment of religion."
Kelly Shackelford, head of the group First Liberty, which represented Kennedy, celebrated the Supreme Court's decision, calling it a "tremendous victory" for him and religious liberty.

"Our Constitution protects the right of every American to engage in private religious expression, including praying in public, without fear of getting fired," Shackelford said in a statement.

But Rachel Laser, the president and CEO of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, warned the decision by the court "represents the greatest loss of religious freedom" in generations.

"Today, the court continued its assault on church-state separation, by falsely describing coercive prayer as 'personal' and stopping public schools from protecting their students' religious freedom," she said in a statement. "It is no coincidence that the erosion of the line between church and state has come alongside devastating losses on so many of the rights we cherish. As that line has blurred, public education, reproductive rights, civil rights and more have come under attack."

The Bremerton School District said it will continue working to ensure it is a "welcoming, inclusive environment for all students, their families and our staff."

Kennedy first began praying after football games in August 2008 following his first game as coach of the Bremerton Knights. While his praying first began with him alone briefly thanking God after the final whistle, players soon began to join Kennedy after games, with participation varying from week to week. At least one parent said his son "felt compelled to participate" out of fear he would lose playing time.

The prayers, too, evolved from brief, private expressions of thanksgiving into motivational speeches with religious references.

Kennedy's practice of praying on the field continued without issue for seven years. The Bremerton School District learned what the coach was doing in September 2015 when an opposing team's coach told the high school's principal that Kennedy asked his players to join him for the post-game prayer and he "thought it was pretty cool" that the district would allow such an activity.

But the observation sparked a yearslong battle between Kennedy and the school district, with the coach arguing he was engaging in constitutionally protected religious expression, and defenders of the school district claiming the coach was acting as an agent of the state who, as a public school employee, violated the religious freedom of students who felt pressure to pray.

Kennedy stopped engaging in his postgame prayers after the district told him his talks with students had to be secular and his future religious activity had to be separate from any student activity, but he resumed the practice in October 2015.

The school district then punished Kennedy, placing him on administrative leave for violating its directives, and Bremerton's athletic director recommended he not be rehired for the following football season, citing a failure to follow district policy and supervise student-athletes after games.

Kennedy chose not to reapply for his coaching position at Bremerton High School and sued the district in August 2016 for violating his First Amendment rights to free speech and free exercise of his faith.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the school district, and Kennedy appealed to the Supreme Court for the first time. In 2019, the high court rejected his case, with four of the court's conservative justices saying it was premature for the court to consider the legal fight.

After additional proceedings, Kennedy again lost in the lower courts. He asked the Supreme Court for a second time to hear the case, and the justices agreed to do so in January.

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no, no it is not everybody's loss, sorry

I may be in the minority here, but I wish we had more people of differing opinions participating and not less. Without differing opinions the discussions are less entertaining.

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I may be in the minority here, but I wish we had more people of differing opinions participating and not less. Without differing opinions the discussions are less entertaining.

Plenty of differing opinions on here. Plenty. But, what does this have anything to do with this bullshit thread? This thread is about a drama queen with a "differing opinion" who chose to ban herself and join the leftists.

Be a Democrat if you want. That's up to you and you alone. Because of what they stand for, that does make you the enemy.

But I can't understand how anyone who claims to be for democracy can be upset about a SCOTUS opinion that reverses an edict of 7 old white men and puts it in the hands of the people to decide a controversial issue democratically through their elected representatives.

Weird. But, hey, you gotta do you.

This forum is well run and, as a result, the political/social/philosophical discussions tend to be mostly civil, sometimes informative, and almost always entertaining. If you think you can't discuss your opinions in that environment it sounds like you want an echo chamber, which this is not. I'd encourage you to consider why you think either you or your opinions can't withstand disagreement because you're going to get plenty of it if you devote your life to fighting with people over abortion, unless your plan is to exchange banal rhetoric with people who agree with you.

You stood up during church and announced that you have to fart, well bless your heart.

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