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sce56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-02-06 03:26 PM
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13. Hey that's ok according to the Religous Right! Isn't that a republican
outlook on the way we should go back and take away the vote from women and blacks, mexicans! Repeal the Civil Rights Act, cancel Roe V Wade etc,etc!

Hey the way I see it if he wants something and she does not then it is time to see the divorce attorney after all their are plenty of fish in the sea opps err well thier used to be but now that global warming is changing that better hurry up before they are all gone!


Same old s**t different era
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3613/is_200509/ai_n15639433

When is a scandal merely voyeurism?

The year was 1873, the beginning of the American Gilded Age. The nation was exhausted by the Civil War. Robber barons were stealing public lands, importing cheap workers from abroad to build (and die on) the railroads, committing bank and securities fraud, and hiring thugs to beat up the newly organizing labor unions. The nation's economic structure was shifting from a very rough equality to an hourglass, with most of the wealth up top and most of the people on the bottom.

In response to all this economic dislocation and misery, at least one reformer knew exactly how to restore America's moral greatness. At Anthony Comstock's urgings, Congress made it a federal crime to send "obscene, lewd, or lascivious'' material (i.e., pamphlets about contraception or sexually transmitted disease, condoms, "French" playing cards) through the U.S. mail.

Comstockery is alive and well in today's United States. When citizens distract themselves from economic disruption by focusing not on common matters of public policy but on personal matters of sexual purity, social historians call it a "moral panic" - and, from the Starr report, which almost cost us a president, to the proposed Federal Marriage Amendment, the U.S. has had a runaway panic on its hands for at least a decade. Unfortunately, American journalism is making it worse - in part by covering precisely the wrong stories about sex and politics.
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