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A GOP state lawmaker who recently gave an impassioned speech about being raped as a 16 year old says she feels attacked after a Republican colleague passed out literature describing rape as a misdeed of the parent that doesnt justify having an abortion.
The Spartanburg Republican who passed out the card this week, state Rep. Josiah Magnuson, acknowledged the poor word choice in an interview with The State Friday but said he wouldnt back down from his position.
And now House leaders plan to address the dustup in a private meeting next month, reminding fellow Republicans there are rules against attacking the integrity or character of fellow House members.
State Rep. Nancy Mace, R-Berkeley, gave the speech two weeks ago, successfully persuading the House to allow exceptions for rape and incest in a proposed 6-week fetal heartbeat abortion ban. On Tuesday, she returned to her desk to find a card left there by Magnuson.
It is a twisted logic that would kill the unborn child for the misdeed of the parent, read the card, produced by Personhood SC, a group fighting for an outright abortion ban with no exceptions in South Carolina.
Mace took the message personally, since it came two weeks after her speech, and House Democrats were outraged. She blasted the card on Facebook for its use of misdeed to describe rape and parent to describe rapist.
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/south-carolina/article230258089.html#storylink=cpy
spanone
(135,920 posts)wellst0nev0ter
(7,509 posts)who curtails abortion rights thee but not for me.
drray23
(7,638 posts)She probably voted for that horrible bill anyway.
SCantiGOP
(13,875 posts)Very conservative, and often mentioned as having statewide potential at some point.
I hope this disgusting episode gives her pause to think about the party she has chosen to support.
Afromania
(2,771 posts)House of Roberts
(5,193 posts)until it affects them directly. Then maybe one out of a hundred will admit it.
Solly Mack
(90,798 posts)pansypoo53219
(21,005 posts)talibornagain.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,112 posts)I hate them all
keithbvadu2
(37,011 posts)How 'bout that? Rape is now a "misdeed".
Hekate
(90,978 posts)Ligyron
(7,644 posts)What evil spawned this disgusting dogma they've embraced?
Their vaunted Bible makes no mention of this supposed "sin" they've invented. Oh, wait: copied I mean because it was a pope in a completing supernatural cult that came up with this one I know, but Evangelical Southern Baptist type Fundies didn't even acknowledge Catholics as Christians not that long ago. Hell, most probably still don't and in fact I believe there's actually a statement of faith to that effect.
The real head scratcher here is the "lawmaker" probably thought this was a genius framing of the felony crime of rape that his fundy constituents will just flip over and love the logic of.
There really are two totally disconnected countries here in the US.
keithbvadu2
(37,011 posts)We have our own religious/political folks who say Catholics are not Christians.
Franklin (and Billy) Graham say Mormons are not Christians
According to them, Catholics are not Christians either.
https://billygraham.org/decision-magazine/october-2012/can-an-evangelical-christian-vote-for-a-mormon/
"We need something like what Jerry Falwell did in the 1980s. We need a moral majority-made up of Christians, Jews, Mormons, Catholics and many others of faith-to come together to take a stand for our religious freedoms and rights."
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Of course there are some Catholics who say Protestants are false Christians
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Wake the fuck up Nancy!
paleotn
(17,997 posts)she expects them to be all progressive and contemporary on this question? Um, no. It doesn't work that way. Sorry. Zero sympathy for enablers.
912gdm
(959 posts)But I did get a great reduction on my sat tv rate!
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Rape is a heinous crime.
Lovely you can joke about it. Smh.
Celerity
(43,683 posts)Fom 2006
http://zenoferox.blogspot.com/2006/12/intelligently-designed-politics.html
While R. Josiah Magnuson is younger than Paul, the writer of the second runner-up essay has outstripped his rival in his career as a creationist. Josiah is officially the Intelligent Design advisor to a presidential candidate. That's president of the United States, not president of Josiah's sophomore class. (Josiah is homeschooled, anyway.)
Who could the presidential candidate be? Surely it must be one of the conservative candidates, so that lets out Clinton, Gore, Obama, or Edwards (even though Edwards was born in Magnuson's home state of South Carolina). Perhaps it's McCain, or Romney, or Cheney, or (giggle) Frist, or (ha!) Allen.
Nope. None of the above. If you clicked on the link, you know it's Gene Chapman! (Someone please cue up Hail to the Chief.) Chapman is so old-fashioned that the major plank in his platform is anti-communism. Yes, that's how traditional he is. He also dislikes Demopublicans (and, I assume, Republicrats), but is somewhat more kindly disposed toward the Constitution Party, whose nomination he would apparently not spurn.
Your only Non-Communist Third Party Abolitionist Alliance candidate for President of The United States, seeking the Libertarian, Constitution, Southern, Goldwater-Reagan Conservative, Independent, Reform and Boston Tea Party nominations.
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A main reason Chapman said that Phillies is seemingly a Communist because, for one, Phillies is a card-carrying member of the ACLU. The ACLU was founded by Communist Roger Baldwin, who stated: I too take a class position. It is anti-capitlatist [sic] and pro-revolutionary . When that power of the working class is once achieved, as it has been only in the Soviet Union, I am for maintaining it by any means whatsoever. When asked for a statement of his beliefs regarding the ACLU in the Harvard 1935 class book, Baldwin proclaimed: Communism is the goal. True to its purpose, the ACLU has for years attacked Christian values in these United States, and effected the removal of much of true Conservative principle and American heritage from the minds of the people.
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