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What he meant was that all babies were precious gifts from God and thus victims of rape shouldn't have any special allowances in the debate over abortion. That was what got him in trouble anyway no matter how anyone tries to spin it. I suppose there's a theological predestination argument to be made one could take offense to ("You were raped because God wanted you to have this baby") but even without it it's still a very offensive sentiment to a whole lot of people.

I will give him credit for actually having the commitment to not play the usual wishy-washy GOP "No abortions ever... oh, except for rape and incest, of course" stance but the unfortunate fact for them is that "No abortions" isn't a popular stance among single women. You can always go the Gbaji route and say "Yeah, but let's just ignore that as unimportant to you and look at my tax plan which is what you should really care about", I suppose.

In the deductive sense.

i.e.:

All human babies are gifts from God.
Rape babies are human babies.
Therefore rape babies are gifts from God.

He didn't think through what he was saying, and what it actually boiled down to, and how offensive that sounded. But as simple as that deduction is, you'd think he would have. Somewhere in the background some political aid must have been cursing and muttering something about staying on script.

Yes it was. Not by everyone, but many of his critics.



This interpretation is exactly what I am referring to. Everyone did not assume this. Many clearly understood his position and disagreed. Likewise, many argued and accepted the aforementioned interpretation.

That's the last time I buy an Everlast album!

Funny you should mention that. A while ago I saw a commercial for a Nickleback's Greatest Hits album, and I thought it was pretty outrageous of them to charge $30 for a blank cd.

So you see no difference between "You were raped because God wanted you to have this baby" and "All life should be treated as a gift from God"? Really? Again, not everyone inferred the former, but many critics were insinuating that he meant the former as opposed to the latter.

Edited, May 8th 2014 7:36pm by Almalieque

Every time I have to drive on the turnpike.

Devil gave me free beer.

Just sayin'

Sure. But with the messaging caveat that "equal pay for equal work" means just that, and not the silly statistical manipulation that the Left often employs.

The made up one that doesn't exist? That one "that the left employs"? Adjusted for all viable variables....women make less money for identical roles. Not because they want to, or chose family life over careers, or take time off to be moms, or go into HR instead of electrical engineering. For IDENTICAL WORK they are PAID LESS. Not fucking confusing. Pretending it can be explained away because "Women work less hours!" requires either massive ignorance or complete intellectual dishonesty. There are mountains of data.

There is a difference, but the guy quoted didn't say, "You were raped because God wanted you to have this baby"

Anyways, it would be more like God saying, "Eh, sorry bout that rape miss, here have a baby. It's a gift from me (God) so don't abort it"

Edited, May 9th 2014 3:00pm by Elinda

The pro-choice response to this is always, "God would have known I'd abort it, since he's omnipotent or whatever. So no, God wanted me to have an abortion."