When Do We Start Stoning & Burning Again Adulterers, Fornicators, LGBT & Witches.

[TheMastersNemesis]

Based on the reaction of the religious wrong saying they will double down their efforts to discriminate because of the Hobby Lobby victory, when do we start going back to the dark ages? Based on RFRA they believe that can win court cases allowing just about anything.

[Thinkingabout]

1. You forgot the liquor store crowd, its freedom of religion as long as we comply with

Their religion.

[theHandpuppet]

4. And open carry

Bible in one hand, M16 in the other.

[Thinkingabout]

5. yep, that is the same group, you dont have to be sane.

[orpupilofnature57]

2. When Liberals Democrats no longer exsist .

[el_bryanto]

3. Well - what sort of lawsuit would they have to bring forward in order to burn and stone

Adulterers fornicators LGBT and witches? Who would they have to sue?

I think law's against stoning and burning people probably fall under murder, which is a federal offense? So Congress?

Or are you suggesting they could sue the government to force the government to sanction burning and stoning people? In that case who do they sue?

What's the next step for them?

Bryant

[Curmudgeoness]

6. If you remember, it was the court system

that did the burning and stoning....after a "fair" trial.

[el_bryanto]

7. Ah ok - so the religious right - who do they sue right now - 2014 - to get the right to force the

courts to burn and stone people? Pass a local ordinance and hope it survives a series of challanges up to the supreme court?

Bryant

[BrotherIvan]

8. They are currently challenging Obama's executive order for federal contractors

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025194036

The HL decision opened the doorway to all kinds of discrimination based on someone's "beliefs." It's very serious.

[el_bryanto]

14. I'm not saying it's not.

I do think it's serious. Talk of burning and stoning people though . . . I'm not sure it's that serious.

Bryant

[Snarkoleptic]

18. History repeats itself and we seem to have quite a regressive movement afoot.

[awoke_in_2003]

20. She turned me into a newt. nt

[bvf]

24. "I got better..." <eom>

[awoke_in_2003]

28. yes, I did

[bvf]

23. That's the first thing I thought of, too!

In a slightly different context, but the idea is the same. Everyone wait for the whistle.



Scary to think there are actually people out there nowadays who would jump at the chance to be in this crowd. That part's not funny at all.

[awoke_in_2003]

29. My wife once made fish...

that was suitable for the jehovah

[bvf]

26. ". . . I'm not sure it's that serious."

Yes, it is.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2014/06/11/oklahoma_tea_party_candidate_scott_esk_supports_stoning_gay_people_to_death.html

[sheshe2]

27. Bingo. eom

[Snarkoleptic]

16. Won't be long until we hear something like...

"Well, he wore a pink golf shirt once, so he must be one a them homma-sex-yawls we gotta fire him out of sheer hatred, but not until we go out for our usual lunch of shellfish and pork (all spoken while wearing mixed-fiber clothing).

[BrotherIvan]

21. Yes, I don't think this decision is anything to brush aside

It is the proverbial nose under the tent in a very big way.

[LeftyMom]

17. Do you ever listen to fundies talk among themselves? Because they want a theocracy.

They want to kill gay people and stone witches and disobedient children. They say so when they think we're not listening. Every podunk church in America webcasts their sermons and every third whackjob preacher has a podcast, they're not hiding this very well.

[freshwest]

9. November 5th, 2014 if we don't GOTV:

[littlemissmartypants]

11. ..

and I guess that makes a free thinking woman his sex slave.

[PatrickforO]

25. That sign is one of the scariest things I've seen

Just because of the sheer ignorance and hubris it takes to even have that as an opinion. Many in the Christian community seem to have become small, mean-spirited, hyper-nationalistic and excessively dogmatic.

Here is a fun little game for you to play.

There are seven quotes below. Try and match them with Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Glenn Beck, Pat Robertson, Americans for Prosperity (the Koch Brothers), Paul Wolfowitz, and Bill Krystal:

Can you match them? A smiley face is the prize for anyone who gets it right! Good luck!

1) “If you win, you need not explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!”

2) "Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it and eventually they will believe it"

3) Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction

4) People can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched life as paradise

5) He alone, who owns the youth controls the future

6) Woman's world is her husband, her family, her children and her home. We do not find it right when she presses into the world of men

7) Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith . . . We need believing people

[littlemissmartypants]

10. Those bonfires have been canceled so we can

Move ahead with the overkill appointments planned for a few of the justices on the US Supreme Court.

[SwankyXomb]

12. Without actually knowing anything about them

I would guess each and every member of the Hobby Lobby Green family would be on that list.

[atreides1]

13. About the same time

We hang the religious bigots from crosses and watch as they are chased around an arena by very large wild animals!!!

[rickyhall]

15. I predict someday our grand or maybe great grand children will push back &

Will push back & defeat the crazy people. I subscribe to wave theory.

[jtuck004]

19. I wonder what it would cost to do a kickstarter campaign to buy bead-making machines

and simply start making beads - how much does Hobby Lobby make from them? - completely valueless because women in some kind of cooperative capacity simply produce so many?

What then would they do for money to rule over people's lives, if we quit giving it to them?

[cali]

22. Why does anyone respond to anything by this poster?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

30. The Persecution of Witches, 21st-Century Style

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12191460

Most people believe that the persecution of “witches” reached its height in the early 1690s with the trials in Salem, Mass., but it is a grim paradox of 21st-century life that violence against people accused of sorcery is very much still with us. Far from fading away, thanks to digital interconnectedness and economic development, witch hunting has become a growing, global problem.

In recent years, there has been a spate of attacks against people accused of witchcraft in Africa, the Pacific and Latin America, and even among immigrant communities in the United States and Western Europe. Researchers with United Nations refugee and human rights agencies have estimated the murders of supposed witches as numbering in the thousands each year, while beatings and banishments could run into the millions. “This is becoming an international problem — it is a form of persecution and violence that is spreading around the globe,” Jeff Crisp, an official with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, told a panel in 2009, the last year in which an international body studied the full dimensions of the problem. A report that year from the same agency and a Unicef study in 2010 both found a rise, especially in Africa, of violence and child abuse linked to witchcraft accusations.

More recent media reports suggest a disturbing pattern of mutilation and murder. Last year, a mob in Papua New Guinea burned alive a young mother, Kepari Leniata, 20, who was suspected of sorcery. This highly publicized case followed a series of instances over recent years of lethal group violence against women and men accused of witchcraft.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/05/opinion/the-persecution-of-witches-21st-century-style.html?_r=3

[Enthusiast]

31. Stoning and burning adulterers, fornicators, LGBT and witches is right around the corner.

If the Fundies® get their way.

[IronLionZion]

32. That would wipe out a good chunk of Republican politicians

seriously. If they ever do decide to punish those, I hope they clean their own house first of the likes of David Vitter and Mark Sanford and Larry Craig.

And I think they even ran a witch for senator.

[FSogol]

33. Don't worry. Rick Santorum will never become President.