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Salted Grits's avatar

You will vote for Herschel because????

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Steve Berman's avatar

I cannot vote for Warnock. Whether I hold my nose and vote for Walker is still an open question.

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Salted Grits's avatar

It would be nice if you articulated the qualities Herschel Walker possesses that make him qualified to serve in the US Senate other than he is not Warnock or any other DemocRAT.

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Steve Berman's avatar

He’s not qualified in any way. But I can’t vote for Warnock.

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SGman's avatar

Then by all means vote for neither.

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Salted Grits's avatar

I hope, then, you will abstain from voting in that race. I don't know how you, or anyone else, can justify voting for an incompetent. Look at Georgia's 14th district where, in 2020, the people rejected a neurosurgeon in favor of MTG and then doubled down in 2022 and rejected at least 3 other candidates to install her once again. It is a travesty what the GOP is perpetrating. I hope you are closely following the hearings being conducted by the Select Committee on Jan 6. A vote for Herschel is a vote for the rule of men and not the rule of law.

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Curtis Stinespring's avatar

Yeah, voters should have voted for the neurosurgeon but that was the primary, not the general election. In the case of Walker vs. Warnock, the choice is voting for a Republican puppet or a democrat puppet or sitting it out as Steve is considering. Your votes should be for the policies you favor.

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SGman's avatar

Some things matter more than preferred policies.

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Salted Grits's avatar

I will add that Herschel Walker would be of the same ilk as Jeff Clark who was incompetent to be the US AG, but was absolutely foaming at the mouth for the opportunity to be installed and to undermine the Constitution in order to elevate himself and curry favor with 45.

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Curtis Stinespring's avatar

And how do you know this?

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Curtis Stinespring's avatar

Hershel will vote the way I believe 90% of the time. Warnock and any other democrat will vote for bills I disagree with at least 90% of the time.

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SGman's avatar

I'm eagerly awaiting the push for government programs to support women financially and medically pre-pregnancy, during pregancy, and post-pregnancy; to do the same for the unborn; to expand funding and reform efforts for foster care; expanded funding for orphanages...

I'm also eager to see how the religious anti-abortionists plan to handle other religions. Is RFRA for all, or only for specific Christian denominations?

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Steve Berman's avatar

Interesting questions. I’d be in favor of federal funding for family-related services. As for RFRA, if a religion could show that abortion is a rite central to its core beliefs, good luck with that.

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SGman's avatar

I do not recall it being a "central rite" requirement for the RFRA: otherwise those that object to baking a cake for a gay couple wouldn't be able to claim it infringes their religious beliefs.

It just need be deeply held: that's easy.

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Curtis Stinespring's avatar

I do not believe baking a cake is the problem. The problems is the messaging added to the cake.

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SGman's avatar

There was no messaging added to the cake: they asked him to design and produce a cake for them, and he refused based on his deeply-held religious belief that gay marriage was immoral. He'd bake a cake for them for anything else, just not that.

So: RFRA.

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Curtis Stinespring's avatar

According to the baker, he refused to create a cake that celebrated queer marriage.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/baker-who-refused-make-cake-gay-wedding-i-don-t-n880061

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SGman's avatar

And that is different than what I said how, exactly?

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Curtis Stinespring's avatar

I like the idea of free contraceptives, especially birth control pills for women who can tolerate them.

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Scott C.'s avatar

50 years the pro-life community didn't lift a finger to help women except to harass and berate them. It won't change. There is no love of life on the right, only hate. It will show through again.

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Jay Berman's avatar

Exaggerated response, but I do sense the hate.

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Scott C.'s avatar

I would love to be proven wrong. That somehow the right rising to the challenge and starts to create a culture where women who get pregnant early still have a chance to be something other than a poor mom. But they literally had 50 years to work on it and they did nothing but hand out some free diapers and lie about abortions.

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Steve Berman's avatar

The “right” won’t because it’s a political association. The remnant, the Body of Christ, will. But it’s much smaller.

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Scott C.'s avatar

No they won't. At all.

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