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    Sparkle_MotionErin Gloria Ryan
    8/15/13 11:17am

    This isn't even Wieland's first lawsuit.

    Last year he asked a court to keep his wife and daughters from going into Walmart because they started selling deviled eggs.

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      adddSparkle_Motion
      8/15/13 11:19am

      Not to mention Devil's Food chocolate cake mix.

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      Erin Gloria RyanSparkle_Motion
      8/15/13 11:19am

      (rim shot)

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    FishnetsFridayErin Gloria Ryan
    8/15/13 11:11am

    Okay. Repeat after me.

    My liberty is not the ability to infringe someone else's liberty.

    My liberty is not the ability to infringe someone else's liberty.

    My liberty is not the ability to infringe SOMEONE ELSE'S LIBERTY.

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      StoneMustardFishnetsFriday
      8/15/13 11:18am

      My liberty is not the ability to infringe someone else's liberty.

      My liberty is not the ability to infringe someone else's liberty.

      My liberty means no whore pills for dumb whores.

      Whoops, almost had it. Oh well, on the bright side, I think I just won a Republican primary for state office.

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      KristenfromMAFishnetsFriday
      8/15/13 11:18am

      I wish I could star this comment 100 times.

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    LynxErin Gloria Ryan
    8/15/13 11:19am

    When I told my mom that I was on birth control, she flipped her shit. And this was last year when I was a 28 year old grown woman who lives out of the house, with a job. But of course, I'm not married, SO I AM A SINNER.

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      KallieLynx
      8/15/13 11:32am

      Mothers. My mother, who is pro choice, flipped the hell out when my married adult sister who has 2 kids told an older married cousin that she had her tubes tied after the last baby. Apparently, we are supposed to be hypocritical or something- we can practice BC, just not talk of it ever.

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      CardinalVicesLynx
      8/15/13 11:34am

      Not in the same ballpark at all, but when I first brought my girlfriend (now wife!) to my parents' house for a few days, my Mom actually asked where she was going to sleep. I was 24 or 25 at the time, and I was shocked—Mom isn't usually so prudish. It all ended when I offered for us to go stay at a hotel if us (two adults!) sleeping in the same bed bothered them. We stayed at the house.

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    ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ : Riot GRRR is RUNNING WILDErin Gloria Ryan
    8/15/13 11:23am

    God, in his omnipotence, has yet to use his magic to overcome birth control nor is he able to make fetuses less abortable, but give him time. Angels in Godlab are working around the clock to overcome the simple inventions of the people God created

    Well a good place for Godlab to start would be easier implantation for fertilized eggs, given that the vast, vast majority of fertilized eggs don't even end up successfully implanting in the uterine lining.

    Man... if life really begin at conception, then god is a MASSIVE asshole.

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      Seminal Colonʕ•ᴥ•ʔ : Riot GRRR is RUNNING WILD
      8/15/13 11:44am

      Yeah. I mean, if everything in the universe is too awesome to have just like happened on its own then, like, how can't god make a few simple upgrades to the uterus? I'm not asking him to redesign humans to start laying indestructible eggs that don't require incubation.

      (Not that I would actually want that second part but eggs are a good idea).

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      bob_dʕ•ᴥ•ʔ : Riot GRRR is RUNNING WILD
      8/15/13 12:47pm

      I long ago realized that a worldview that includes both the notion of the "soul" and life beginning at conception actually creates a really disturbing universe. (I like to think out the ramifications of certain worldviews, for fun.)

      The afterlife is largely filled with the souls of fertilized eggs, who I'm guessing are not great conversationalists. (So Limbo is substantially larger than either Heaven or Hell in population. By design.) Identical twins have to share a soul. (Which presumably means that if one of them screws up, they both go to Hell. Or only one of them is "real." Or they get merged into one person in the afterlife. Man, Biblical science is hard.) Human chimeras, on the other hand, have two souls. (The benefit being, I assume, that they can get away with twice as much sinning.)

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    AriaheadErin Gloria Ryan
    8/15/13 11:39am

    I wonder if people like he and his wife are against women using birth control for horrible cramps. I mean, if his daughter could find comfort by taking the pill would he allow it or would he just let her lay in her room crying and puking all weekend. I just always wonder that. I am on bcp's for terrible cramps. I'm also celibate. What do they think of that?

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      AllTheFunAtOnceAriahead
      8/15/13 11:52am

      She should be able to pray those cramps away! If they won't go away she needs to say more "Hail Mary's"

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      AriaheadAllTheFunAtOnce
      8/15/13 11:55am

      I bet that they would really say that.

      God would be up there smacking himself in the forehead. "You prayed already. What do you think the pills are for."

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    BerkRieErin Gloria Ryan
    8/15/13 11:17am

    “I see abortion-inducing drugs as intrinsically evil, and I cannot in good conscience preach one thing to my kids and then just go with the flow on our insurance,”


    Aren't Catholics supposed to hate the sin, love the sinner? In which case a drug and the drug-taker are exempt from being intrinsically evil, it's the act of taking the drug that would be evil. As the OP points out, no one's forcing someone to do the "sin," so therefore, no evil is done by simply providing access to the drug. Love the fornicator/hate the fornication, so to speak.

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      Archibald_CunninghamBerkRie
      8/15/13 11:24am

      Aren't Catholics supposed to hate the sin, love the sinner?

      Can we talk about this for a second? Why do Catholics keep repeating this phrase? It allows them to be judgmental without facing personal scrutiny from those they judge. Plus some of these so-called "sins" they're against are core characteristics of people. Like being gay.

      "Oh I'm totally cool with you as a person. I just totally hate homosexuality and everyone who engages in that will burn because they're all immoral. But I like YOU though so you can't take offense to my burning hatred of your homosexuality."

      You can't extrapolate these so-called "sins." If that were actually true, no one would ever object to immoral behavior ever.

      Oh I like you as a person, I just object to your...

      abusive
      murdering
      stealing
      drug dealing in my neighborhood
      [whatever crime against society]

      ...behavior. See I hate what you're doing, but I like everything else about you! Let's be friends now, okay?

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      Dukes_of_AtlantaBerkRie
      8/15/13 11:25am

      "Love the fornicator/hate the fornication"

      I'm sure that's how the guy's wife feels.

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    catfaceErin Gloria Ryan
    8/15/13 11:39am

    I'm uncomfortable with the idea of an IUD because I know, like, four people who have gotten pregnant while using them, so I haven't used my insurance benefits to get one.

    Sorry to go all off topic because this dude is truly awful but WUT.

    ?!?!

    I'm getting one next week!

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      TobySays4catface
      8/15/13 11:44am

      It's very effective

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      georgianbandcatface
      8/15/13 11:46am

      Hey, don't panic, man.

      Anecdata aside, IUDs are great at keeping you from getting pregnant. Check the stats, talk to your gyno about your concerns, and then prepare for 1o minutes of discomfort and 5 to 10 years of baby-free sex.

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    corduroyndenimErin Gloria Ryan
    8/15/13 11:23am

    1. This guy just redefined the whole "Daaaaad, you're EMBARRASSING me!!!" gripe.

    2. Isn't a big thing about christianity the whole "humans are special because they have free will" thing? Homeboy's caught up in the parts of the old testament where dudes owned their daughters and whatever.

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      CardinalVicescorduroyndenim
      8/15/13 11:31am

      Well, I'm guessing at least one of the daughters will have an interesting time rebelling once they get out of the house.

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      LemonadeLovercorduroyndenim
      8/15/13 11:52am

      Well, it's the big thing about Catholicism, which is what I assume you meant. Most Protestant sects? Not so much, since most Protestant denominations theologically believe in predestination. If you want to read some really fun arguments about it from when Luther split off, check out "Discourse on Free Will," by Erasmus (a Catholic apologist) and the response by Luther, which is usually included. /end lecture by religious studies major

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    MoonCat82 is a nomnivoreErin Gloria Ryan
    8/15/13 11:13am

    I simply don't understand this guy's logic. Does he think that ACA is going to force all women to take BC?

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      Archibald_CunninghamMoonCat82 is a nomnivore
      8/15/13 11:18am

      No. He just doesn't want his money to pay for someone else to get it because God supposedly hates stuff like this.

      Although I'm trying to figure out why he's all against using taxpayer dollars for "abortion-inducing drugs" yet he's still down with all those wars we're paying for.

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      MoonCat82 is a nomnivoreArchibald_Cunningham
      8/15/13 11:21am

      I've never bought that whole "sanctity of life" line. If that were true, we'd be spending most of our energy on eliminating poverty and hunger and working to improve education and healthcare for all people.

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    ameagaErin Gloria Ryan
    8/15/13 11:15am

    UGH, MY STATE.

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      lydkatbrrrameaga
      8/15/13 11:43am

      Fellow Missourian here. I ugh with you.

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      jennaratrixameaga
      8/15/13 12:25pm

      Missouri is my kind of unwillingly adopted state; can I opt out of responsibility for shit like this, or do I have to hang my head in shame again this week?

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