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I think Philip could spend an afternoon throwing puppies from the top of the Empire State and only stop when his arm got tired." "It's not the same as killing
~ John Connolly
twenty-three years of RFRAs to produce anarchy,
~ John Corvino
Anderson and Girgis insist that it is not, because the baker's "reason for refusing to bake same-sex wedding cakes is manifestly not to avoid contact with gay people on equal terms" (p. 191). But that's a strange claim, given that the bakers are refusing to sell gay people the very same items they sell to other customers. They do so precisely because they judge same-sex relationships to be morally inferior.
~ John Corvino
T)here is no right not to be offended." (p. 237)
~ John Corvino
Do not let the focus on bakers and florists obscure this point: It is currently legal in most states to fire people for being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender; to refuse to rent them apartments or hotel rooms; even to refuse to tow their cars or repair their furnaces. Should this change? Anderson and Girgis argue that it should not. 4.3.5
~ John Corvino
A few decades back one could get a pretty good idea of someone's overall political stance by finding out how much he hates rich people; the equivalent today is finding out how much he hates white people.
~ John Derbyshire
I have been there, and I have seen these totally formed babies as early as ten weeks...with the leg missing, or with their head off. I have seen the little rib cages.
~ Deborah Priya Henry
I think the platform ought to be pro-life. It is the basis of the Republican Party. People have got to understand that abortion is not a contraceptive.
~ George W. Bush
Watching two women kiss is like watching two prizefighters shake hands.
~ H. L. Mencken
Hillary Clinton's life has been filled with corruption but nobody cares.
~ Jackie Mason
L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling was recorded on tape making racist comments. He now has been banned from the league for life. Great, just where Sterling wanted to end up - the blacklist.
~ Jimmy Fallon
If you're uncertain when life begins, why not give the unborn the benefit of the doubt and oppose abortion?
~ Jonah Goldberg
If Bush wins, I'm going to leave the country and spend the rest of my life in France.
~ Pierre Salinger
In his life, Donald Trump's had a great track record of failure, bankruptcies, running from Vietnam, everything like that.
~ Cenk Uygur
What I can't be is monogamous. That tends to upset people. I just don't like domestic life.
~ Fran Lebowitz
Outlaw all abortions; err on the side of life.
~ Mike Huckabee
Donald Trump really is who he is, and I think, for example, he'll probably tweet his entire life - and that's a fact. I just hope people get over it.
~ Newt Gingrich
There are many examples of this mistaken idea of freedom, such as the elimination of human life by legalized or generally accepted abortion.
~ Pope John Paul II
I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer.
~ T. Boone Pickens
Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless.
~ E.A. Bucchianeri
There's a lot of Democrats, myself included, who have supported right-to-life.
~ Joe Manchin
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
~ John Steinbeck
Attempting to grapple with improving end-of-life care is a political third rail.
~ Katy Butler
I'm not pro-life, and I'm not pro-choice. I'm pro-football.
~ Kinky Friedman