Phantasmal (11-15-2017)
Were you asking for it? Were you dressed appropriately? Were you flirting?
So you denied the incident(s) when asked?
'More publicly known'. Moore has always been 'publicly known'. DURING the time of the attacks. Now he's asking to be granted one of the most powerful positions in politics. I'll ask again...if your attacker(s) suddenly had their faces plastered on national t.v., having just won a Senate primary....you wouldn't admit to his sexual attacks if you were tracked down by an investigative reporter?
Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
Sex with children is not all that uncommon in Alabama and among evangelicals in general.
Roy Moore's scandal is just the tip of American evangelical Christianity's child bride problem
When Alabama GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore was accused of sexually molesting children as young as 14, his fellow hardcore evangelicals shrugged at the scandal -- it was "common knowledge" that Moore had a fondness for young teens.
Moore isn't alone in liking very young girls as sexual partners. The grooming of children to marry adult men is a common practice in American evangelical circles, and infamous child-bride advocates are celebrated on the lecture circuit, especially among home schoolers.
These "courting" experts counsel parents to encourage their children to seek marriage with adult men, advocating for marriage in the "middle-teens."
It's a widespread view among the hard right evangelical world, mainstream enough that Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson has publicly advised his fans to marry 15- or 16-year-old girls, because "you wait until they get to be 20 years old, the only picking that's going to take place is your pocket." This view was defended by mainstream Republicans, and Robertson has continued to enjoy success in right-wing media, with a new show on CRTV.
https://boingboing.net/2017/11/12/early-courtship.html
AMERICAN HISTORY ITSELF IS A TESTAMENT TO THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE OF AFRICAN PEOPLE. WE, ALONG WITH THE COURGE AND SACRIFICES OF CONSCIOUS WHITE AMERICANS, LIKE VIOLA LIUZZO, EVERETT DIRKSEN, AND MANY OTHERS, HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED TOGETHER FOR OUR FREEDOM, AND FOR OUR SURVIVAL.
In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.
christiefan915 (11-15-2017), Phantasmal (11-15-2017)
Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
pain in abortion.
Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
which has begun. To abort life is to end it.
What kind of country have we become?
One in which federal prosecutors can take “evidence” before a “grand jury,”
and that grand jury can “vote to indict” a former president for 91 alleged “crimes”?
You really are obsessed with only cross-examining conservative women who have had unwanted advances made on them. I just wanted to see how far you'd push it and how hard you would lean and ask the same question more than once. You people are showing your true colors.
So, AGAIN AND HOPEFULLY FOR THE LAST TIME...............I was 17. Plus it was at a time where proper dress codes were in place at school...nothing tight, no jeans, skirts below the knee, etc.) Not only did I not "ask for it" but, I'm sure that none these women did either.
I'm still watching & listening to the lawyers and waiting to see how this unfolds. AS I SAID BEFORE, right now I'm taking the women at their word. It's still too soon to determine the outcome with 100% certainty........it's time to see and hear what the defense has to say.
Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
pain in abortion.
Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
which has begun. To abort life is to end it.
Everyone is entitled to their feelings and observations. We are only just now starting to hear from the defense lawyer. My PERSONAL SYMPATHIES lie with the women, not Democrat Roy Moore (political according to the time of when he allegedly accosted these women). But, I'm willing to hear and see evidence from both sides.
Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
pain in abortion.
Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
which has begun. To abort life is to end it.
"There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."
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