Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock said Tuesday when a woman becomes pregnant during a rape, “that’s something God intended.”
Mourdock, who’s been locked in one of the country’s most watched Senate races, was asked during the final minutes of a debate with Democratic challenger Rep. Joe Donnelly whether abortion should be allowed in cases of rape or incest.
“I struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize that life is that gift from God. And, I think, even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen,” Mourdock said.
If abortion exists, then it is obviously something that God intended, too. If we are going to base our politics on psychoanalyzing God, then let’s at least engage in an exhaustive reading of God’s intentions.
I’m kind of upset with God right now for allowing Richard Mourdock to happen. I understand there must be some higher purpose here, but I have to tell you, God, this Mourdock guy is very badly done. The gift of Mourdock’s life that you inflicted on all of us is quite a shitty gift.
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If you are a Democrat you should get down on your knee’s and pray to God. Afterall, with the slight Romney surge the timing of this nutjob opening his mouth couldnt have been better. 😉
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I don’t think Romney supporters will dislike this statement. Which tells us a lot about them. Romney said he would be delighted to ban abortion in absolutely all cases.
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Its not his supporters that matter. It is the undecided, this kind of statement will definately have people going the other way. 🙂
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I wish to God you are right.
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Not a monotheist, but my understanding of Christianity is that there are God intended things, and anti-God intended things. In a false physics analogy, you have to be careful that the two don’t meet, otherwise there may be war, famine, big explosions of mythic proportions. Continuing to torture the analogy, its incredibly hard to tell the difference between the two, given that they only differ in spin and charge. Physicists randomly choose which is the particle and which the anti particle. Apparently theologists do the same for God’s will and anti-God’s will.
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Ack! I meant to thumbs up this post and accidentally hit thumbs down on my iPhone. Sorry about that. I’m with you! Thumbs up! Thumbs up!
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I will interpreted it as a thumbs down for these woman-hating politicians.
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For them, God’s will is whatever they like and anti-God’s will whatever they don’t like.
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When will these men stop filling around with women’s reproductive rights? F this guy.
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There must be no other problems in Indiana but what women do with their bodies. The economy is flourishing, there is no unemployment. Oh, wait. . .
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It’s so scary to see something so similar to Candide in real life.
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“I understand there must be some higher purpose here”
To be a warning to others?
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God is a shitty asshole!
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And here I thought you were an atheist. 🙂
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Daily Kos blog has tabulated the variety of forms of rape that Republicans recognise as of October 2012.
“Whoda thunk that Linda McMahon (Rep. candidate for Senate in Connecticut) would join the Todd Akin brigades? I’ll have to refer to my Daily Kos colleague Kaili Joy Gray for the exact count (she’s an expert at this kind of thing), but the number of different flavors of rape according to Republicans has really reached epic proportions: forcible rape, honest rape, legitimate rape (of course), easy rape, and now emergency rape.”
Seems to me that rape is rape period and God wouldn’t condone any of it.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/17/1145651/-Daily-Kos-Elections-Morning-Digest-Linda-McMahon-invents-a-new-kind-of-rape-emergency-rape
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There must be a reason why they are so obsessed with rape. And I think we all know what that reason is.
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