Pro-Life Pol Who Pressured His Mistress to Have an Abortion Says It's Okay...

[Act_of_Reparation]

...Because She Wasn't Pregnant.

http://jezebel.com/5951815/pro-life-pol-who-pressured-his-mistress-to-have-an-abortion-says-its-okay-because-she-wasnt-pregnant

Scott DesJarlais, the pro family values anti-abortion rights Tennessee Tea Party Congressman who it turns out was actually only pro-family values and anti-abortion rights for people who aren't Scott DesJarlais, now claims that the tape transcript released last week wherein he pressured his mistress/ex patient to have an abortion isn't really that damning, since the mistress wasn't pregnant in the first place. Values intact! Hypocrisy avoided!

[guillaumeb]

1. Yet another post about a believer behaving badly.

I wonder if it is only theists who behave badly?

[Act_of_Reparation]

2. Good question.

How about you look into it and get back to us?

[guillaumeb]

3. Interersting also that there are no current posts in the Atheists group.

Nothing of interest to atheists there?

[Act_of_Reparation]

6. I dunno. A&A has more posts than all of the other religion groups combined.

So I guess we're still the most interesting cats around.

[guillaumeb]

9. The key word is "current", as in relatively recent.

For some reason, many of the regulars there seem to be here.

[Act_of_Reparation]

17. As in, say, the past 30 days?

Either you are not aware that anyone can go to the Religion & Spirituality Category hub and see A&A has both more posts and greater recent activity than the other sub-groups -- save Religion -- or you think everyone else is either too stupid or too lazy to go see for themselves.

[uriel1972]

8. nope atheists can behave just as badly as theists can..

Those who pronounce from the ground to the sky that they are the purist of the pure and determine who will go to heaven and who will not... well, when they show up covered in the filth they have themselves generated and still claim to be above the rest, it kinda rankles some of the rest of us a bit.

Absolving oneself of vile deeds and hypocrisy involved without making any kind of reparation... that's the kind of chutzpah that makes me a little titchy.

Oh and claiming a book makes it OK also is a little annoying.. yes...

If an atheist comes to light who is a pro-lifer that forces their girlfriend into an abortion and says their book makes it OK, well I would also be angry at them. When they do please post and I will direct anger at them as well.

[guillaumeb]

10. Understood.

As to hypocrisy, I recently posted a piece on atheistic intolerance. It was not received well, to say the least, by some of the non-theists.

[Lordquinton]

11. Yep, only theists commit horrid crimes, then say that their god forgives them

so they can't be punished for whatever they did.

[guillaumeb]

12. My question was actually: "I wonder if it is only theists who behave badly?"

And your answer to the question I asked is?

[Lordquinton]

13. Exactly my answer, as this is all within the context of religion

If you examine the discussions, you'll find one side is sticking to strictly theistic justifications, and things performed by organizations, while the other side takes any action by a singular member with no group backup and tries to smear a whole group of people.

[guillaumeb]

14. An interesting blend of avoidance and straw man argument.

So I will repeat the question:

I wonder if it is only theists who behave badly?

Or it could be framed this way:

Is violence a human characteristic, or is it limited to theists?

[trotsky]

15. How about you post what you want,

and let others post what they want?

You aren't the forum police.

[guillaumeb]

16. At least you did not reference the Spanish Inquisition.

[Warpy]

4. Conservatives think abortion is peach as long as the MAN decides

It's women deciding their own fate that has them all freaked out.

Pat Robertson, for instance, is fine with forced abortions in China because men are doing the deciding.

[Act_of_Reparation]

7. He also said it's OK to divorce your Alzheimer's ridden wife.

Because, you know, she's no longer fulfilling her wifely duties.

[EvolveOrConvolve]

5. +1

Golly...