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B2G

(9,766 posts)
Mon Jun 20, 2016, 12:29 PM Jun 2016

If Mateen had been a radical Christian

and claimed to be committing the massacre because gays are evil and needed to die, do you think Lynch would redact those statements out of concern of 'revictimizing' anyone?

Or if he was a neo-Nazi skinhead or a redneck with a Confederate flag?

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melman

(7,681 posts)
1. I can tell you this
Mon Jun 20, 2016, 12:37 PM
Jun 2016

If she did do that the outrage here would be off the charts. There would be more angry threads about it than the server could handle!

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
2. OM: I pledge allegiance to (omitted) may God protect him, on behalf of (omitted).
Mon Jun 20, 2016, 12:40 PM
Jun 2016

Absolutely ridiculous.

forthemiddle

(1,379 posts)
9. Just imagine the transcripts of an abortion clinic bombing
Mon Jun 20, 2016, 03:37 PM
Jun 2016

Changed from "Praise Jesus" to "Praise Allah".......

Nuclear Unicorn

(19,497 posts)
3. Sadly, this will not quash possible Islamophobia, it will only spread and deepen it as well as
Mon Jun 20, 2016, 12:51 PM
Jun 2016

undermine confidence in the government's response.

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
4. Lynch is a religionist, very reluctant to respect LGBT and eager to protect 'the faith community'
Mon Jun 20, 2016, 01:34 PM
Jun 2016

her confirmation hearing was a litany of stories of her Baptist preacher ancestors and her dogmatic views of civil rights and the drug war.

Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)
5. Of course not.
Mon Jun 20, 2016, 01:39 PM
Jun 2016

Just as if an obscure pastor in Florida was threatening to burn a Book of Mormon, he would not get a personal phone call from the President urging him not to.

 

Lee-Lee

(6,324 posts)
7. I wonder how well a Broadway play entitled "The Koran" would go over
Mon Jun 20, 2016, 02:43 PM
Jun 2016

Would it be as big a hit as The Book of Morman?

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