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“It all seemed so real, like it made so much sense, but it wasn’t right.”
“Some people — in this case 63 percent — never learn.”
“Before we can ‘do something’ for the poor, there are some things we need to stop doing to them.”
“Climate change isn’t just making maple syrup scarcer — it’s making it taste way worse.”
“This kind of bullying can happen to any woman who speaks her mind.”
“Some women are worried that a President Mitt Romney and Republican Congress would — as they have promised — move against fair pay for equal work, toss between 14 and 27 million people off Medicaid (of whom about two-thirds are women), cut child care, health care, and food assistance for about 20 million children, defund Planned Parenthood, do away with Title X, and maybe seat a Supreme Court willing to reverse Roe v. Wade.”
“If the ACA had been in effect, these two young women who give so much to their community would never have been turned away at the hospital after suffering such grievous injuries.”
“When we see Muslim countries forcing non-Muslims (including Christians) to live according to strict Sharia law, we cringe. But we Christians are all-too-willing to force non-Christians to live according to our standards.”
“Plenty of churches, synagogues, etc., do allow same-sex weddings, and this bill would prohibit chaplains in those faiths from performing marriages that their tradition and the state recognizes as valid.”
“The Presbytery of the Redwoods opposes imposition of the rebuke … as inconsistent with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”
“I leave it to you to judge which of those statements from 2005 stands up better seven years later as a guide to John Roberts’s temperament and jurisprudence.”
“The pain inflicted by the idiocy of using the phrase ‘boundary violation’ for child rape is impossible to quantify, and for the survivor, it is devastating.”
“And she’ll come home, throw her bloody clothes in her washing machine, down a beer or six, and sleep that night just as sound as she could be, secure in her conviction that she’s a perfectly good, perfectly God-fearing woman.”
“We petition the obama administration to: Require free access over the Internet to scientific journal articles arising from taxpayer-funded research.”
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