Bryan Fischer #fundie

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The Supreme Court last Friday, through an act of judicial tyranny, made sodomy-based marriage a part of the Constitution.

The liberal majority bypassed Congress, the American people, and the Constitution itself by amending it all by themselves. In their benighted view, there is now a fundamental right to same-sex marriage embedded in the Constitution. Not because it's actually there, mind you, but because the Supremes put it there.

Mark my words on this. The ultimate outcome of this unconscionable act is that one day, before too long, it will be officially illegal for Christians to hold public office.

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old comment by NotaReptile

Let's count the number of Christians and non-Christians in public office. Taking Congress for our example:

Protestant 299
Catholic 163
Mormon 15
Orthodox Christian 5
Jewish 33
Buddhist 3
Muslim 2
Hindu 1
Unitarian Unilateralist 1
Other 0
Unaffiliated 1
Refused to answer 10

Now lets compare the percentages between the number of congressmen and adult Americans
Protestant Congress: 56.1% / Public: 48%
Catholic 30.6% / 22%
Mormon 2.8% / 2%
Orthodox 0.9% / 1%
Jewish 6.2% / 2%
Buddhist 0.6% / 1%
Muslim 0.4% / 1%
Hindu 0.2% / <1%
UU 0.2% / <1%
Other 0 / 2%
Unaffiliated 0.2% / 20%
Refused 1.9% / 2%

Now, lets consider that Atheism would fall under Unaffiliated and some of Refused. Even if all 10 who refused were in the Unaffiliated group, unaffiliated would still be the most under represented faith group in the US at 1/10th Congressmen to Public percentages. This is the best case, if none of the Refused fall under unaffiliated, then its 1/100 congress to public.

And as a whole Christians make up 90.4% of Congress representing 74% of the public.

Don't you fucking talk about how Christians aren't politically represented. You're grossly over represented. While major segments of our population has very little political representation. (Though Judiaism is the most over represented in terms of percentages, with 3x Congress to public %; but compared to 90%/74%, 6%/2% isn't a huge deal).

Forgot source: http://www.pewforum.org/2012/11/16/faith-on-the-hill-the-religious-composition-of-the-113th-congress/

Also note the Senate has 97 Christians vs 1 Buddhist and 2 who didn't give a specific answer.

old comment by Da Rat Bastid

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"Funny, when five wingnut judges actually DID overstep their authority to a level that demanded impeachment by shutting down voting..."

The Democratic party in Florida was doing the non-videogame equivalent of "save-scumming": if they got a result they didn't like, they'd say "okay, that one didn't count" and try again until they got a result they did like. The USSC was right to shut down that circus.

"...and selecting for president the candidate who lost."

Wrong again. Dubya didn't lose. The U.S. Presidential election has NEVER been decided by nationwide popular vote. Assume that major league baseball's World Series had produced the following results:

----- BOS -- NYY -----
Game 1: 9 : 2
Game 2: 13 : 6
Game 3: 1 : 4
Game 4: 7 : 2
Game 5: 0 : 2
Game 6: 2 : 3 (10 innings)
Game 7: 1 : 2 (16 innings)

FINAL RESULT -- BOS 3:4 NYY **YANKEES WIN SERIES**

...if the Red Sox' management protested that their team was the true winner of the Series by a margin of 33-21, and if Bud Selig (major league baseball's commissioner) responded to said protest by laughing them out of the building and telling them that they're full of it, would it then be valid to proclaim that Selig had stolen that year's Series from Boston and gifted it to their hated rivals?

To borrow a quote from Anon-e-moose: if your answer is the only one possible, then you've just destroyed your own argument. I'll agree with anyone who claims that Dubya wasn't the right President, but during both his terms, he was definitely the rightful President. Period, end of paragraph, end of chapter, end of story.

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@ Da Rat Bastid

I wasn't talking about the popular vote. With reference to Florida, I have to disagree with you. A months-long study by a number of news organizations found that if the entire state had been recounted as it should have been, Gore would most likely have won. This does not include the thousands of Democrats who were wrongfully turned away at the polls.

If you really believe it was Democrats who were responsible for the majority of the dirty tricks in that election, I have some swampland to sell you. I could start with the Republicans purging thousands of qualified Democrats from the voter rolls before the election, and the thousands of Democrats' absentee ballots they had no intention of counting.

Any improper behavior from either side would be reason for a court to rule that monitors be put in place so that the votes could be counted properly, but to shut down the recounts and declare a winner of their choosing was an outrage.

Bryan Fischer #fundie barbwire.com

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