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Scalia Wonders If Same-Sex Parents ‘Harmful’ To Children

Nothing more than Scalia showing his spots. How he passed muster is beyond me. The guy is bat **** crazy.
Pardon me if I suggest that your assessment of Judge Scalia might be just a little bit tainted?

NEWSFLASH: Judges that are "bat**** crazy" don't make it through the vetting process. Ever.
 
What a piece of work Scalia is. He looks like Lou Costello on a drunk and thinks like him too, except he's not funny.

while I hope the USSC overturns the bans (btw why are not the liberals complaining about the estate tax that raped Edie Windsor) I find it funny that none of the liberals wonder if a lesbian justice should have recused herself in this case
 
If you really think that way, why not be consistent. How does all that NOT apply equally to most of the other justices? Has Ginsburg ever made anything but a politically liberal ruling? Have you heard her speak outside the bench? She a flaming liberal - extreme left wing. And yet no scorn placed upon her for ruling from her political bent.

You hate him because his politics are different than yours, that's the length and breadth of it. And that's where all this vitriol against Scalia is coming from.

So you don't take issue with my contention that Scalia is an activist with an agenda, just that he isn't the only one? O.K. so we agree on Scalia at least. Now on Ginsberg, give me examples of when her positions smacked of activism. You might convince me that she's an activist on the scale of Scalia. Historically, not all conservative judges have been activists (some were appointed by Republicans, but once on the court they became more liberal -- Souter comes to mind, and before him it was Warren) ...

if they were all activists, of course I'd be agreeing with those on the left ... w agree on that too ...
 
Pardon me if I suggest that your assessment of Judge Scalia might be just a little bit tainted?

NEWSFLASH: Judges that are "bat**** crazy" don't make it through the vetting process. Ever.

true especially when you have people like Sotomayor who don't believe we have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms which-unlike sodomy or gay marriage-is actually spelled out in the constitution
 
Girly men? before you give anyone advice, grow up ...

If you don't understand manhood I doubt you could possibly understand what I mean by girly men.
 
this idea of girly men is part of the problem ... it even gets some kids beaten up, and even killed ... so why not stop referring to kids in this way?

When I was growing up girly boys would get beaten up, but I'm not saying that is what should happen to them here. I'm just saying it's not what boys should grow up to become.
 
You have to love the circular logic here. You pose the original question and I paraphrase "Why are more boys acting girly? And now you ask me if only gay men can act girly?

You can't make this **** up.

What circular logic? Bori made no indication that he understood that someone can be straight and still act girly and you more or less backed his post. Why is asking you that question out of line?
 
So you don't take issue with my contention that Scalia is an activist with an agenda, just that he isn't the only one? O.K. so we agree on Scalia at least. Now on Ginsberg, give me examples of when her positions smacked of activism. You might convince me that she's an activist on the scale of Scalia. Historically, not all conservative judges have been activists (some were appointed by Republicans, but once on the court they became more liberal -- Souter comes to mind, and before him it was Warren) ...

if they were all activists, of course I'd be agreeing with those on the left ... w agree on that too ...

No, you misunderstand. YOU are the one taking this activist judge position. It's my position that the justices float all sorts of questions and statements for the petitioners to respond to - and that doesn't necessarily lead back to their own political bias. They play devil's advocate quite a lot on the court.

Scalia has a constitutional position that he's developed over decades of study, just as Ginsburg does, just as Kennedy does. That's going to flavor their decisions. But the root is in how they view the Constitution. They are equal in this, so I'm not sure how you're getting that one justice is any more activist than another. All you're highlighting is that you disagree with one particular justice vehemently and want to call him names.
 
If you don't understand manhood I doubt you could possibly understand what I mean by girly men.

tell me if this is manhood or not (maybe I can learn something) - a straight or gay man who never marries, doesn't raise kids, has a job as an interior decorator, is active in his community, is very well-groomed and dresses well, doesn't like to watch sports, loves the opera and loves to watch ballet, rarely if ever curses, never served in the military, shuns violence (prefers to walk away from a fight than to have one), ... man or girly man?
 
When I was growing up girly boys would get beaten up, but I'm not saying that is what should happen to them here. I'm just saying it's not what boys should grow up to become.

Because your perception of what is right is the only correct one. Thanks for clearing that up.
 
When I was growing up girly boys would get beaten up, but I'm not saying that is what should happen to them here. I'm just saying it's not what boys should grow up to become.

when I was growing up it was the tough guys who usually got into fights and sometimes they were beaten up ... I have two boys ... when we discussed this topic, I told them that to be a real man (and a real woman for that matter) was to be responsible and to be responsible for your actions, and to care about others (I'm a true believer in that a man never stands taller than when he bends down to help a child), and the rest was icing ... kicking someone's butt never came up ..
 
tell me if this is manhood or not (maybe I can learn something) - a straight or gay man who never marries, doesn't raise kids, has a job as an interior decorator, is active in his community, is very well-groomed and dresses well, doesn't like to watch sports, loves the opera and loves to watch ballet, rarely if ever curses, never served in the military, shuns violence (prefers to walk away from a fight than to have one), ... man or girly man?

Not enough information to gauge how feminine he is. His job choice however is a red flag.
 
Because your perception of what is right is the only correct one. Thanks for clearing that up.

It's backed by a few thousand years of history going all the way to the Greeks. ;)
 
tell me if this is manhood or not (maybe I can learn something) - a straight or gay man who never marries, doesn't raise kids, has a job as an interior decorator, is active in his community, is very well-groomed and dresses well, doesn't like to watch sports, loves the opera and loves to watch ballet, rarely if ever curses, never served in the military, shuns violence (prefers to walk away from a fight than to have one), ... man or girly man?

Does he cry in public with any sort regularity? Does he mince when he walks? Is he afraid of his own shadow? Is he perceived regularly as a wuss (if you don't understand what that is there's no talking to you honestly on this issue)? Does he fly into excited hysterics at the drop of a hat?

It's one of those you have to see it, but when you do you know it things.
 
Does anyone know why there is an increase in boys acting girly?

I'm not saying it is connected to this, but I'm not taking it out as a cause either.

Any answers to that?

I don't think it has anything to do with gay couples, but I do think that is a trend. I'd probably attribute it to the fact it seems like grit is no longer a requirement of kids anymore. Not saying that women lack grit, not saying that at all. But I'm just applying what I think you probably think is "girly," i.e. being soft and a pushover rather then actually acting like a girl.
 
when I was growing up it was the tough guys who usually got into fights and sometimes they were beaten up ... I have two boys ... when we discussed this topic, I told them that to be a real man (and a real woman for that matter) was to be responsible and to be responsible for your actions, and to care about others (I'm a true believer in that a man never stands taller than when he bends down to help a child), and the rest was icing ... kicking someone's butt never came up ..

That's what all the post-Dr. Spock parents tell their kids, myself included. However, being responsible for one's actions in no way precludes standing up for yourself and fighting.
 
Not enough information to gauge how feminine he is. His job choice however is a red flag.

LOL ... you're hopeless Henrin, and maybe a little insecure about your own manhood ... gotta go soon ... catch you in a future thread no doubt ... but I think I'm getting it ...

:argue :shoot :gunsmilie :blastem: :beat
 
Now are the leftists and gays just so convinced they are going to win that they think they are going to win 9-0 as well. LOL.



I am 100 percent sure that having a parent like Antonin Scalia is harmful to children.

I think that I may have heard a rumor that maybe, just maybe, there might just possibly be a few gay people on the right.

Any ideas on that?

Is it possible?



"Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
 
Does he cry in public with any sort regularity? Does he mince when he walks? Is he afraid of his own shadow? Is he perceived regularly as a wuss (if you don't understand what that is there's no talking to you honestly on this issue)? Does he fly into excited hysterics at the drop of a hat?

It's one of those you have to see it, but when you do you know it things.

Dam! You just described Boehner! :eek:
 
That's what all the post-Dr. Spock parents tell their kids, myself included. However, being responsible for one's actions in no way precludes standing up for yourself and fighting.

to my knowledge the only "fighting" they've done is intellectually, and judging from their trophies and academic accomplishes, they've more than held their own ... hope they don't have to do any of the neanderthal stuff ...
 
LOL You would pick the Greeks.

There is no picking involved. That is the origin of the modern ideas of manhood. Where does yours come from? 2012?
 
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