re: #993 alexknyc

That’s true. They just brought busloads of their parishoners to the polls to do the actual voting.

Sure. Busloads of their parishoners who live in the state. It was crappy of them and black culture is rife with a lot of sexism, racism, conspiracy theories, etc. Doesn’t erase that they Mormon church mounted an organized effort from Utah to affect politics in California. That sucked.

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re: #987 Slumbering Behemoth

I haven’t noticed US Muslims doing that, though.

I can condemn Islam in the middle East, I can condemn Totalitarian Communist China, I can condemn caste-bound India (where honor killings are rife as well), I can condemn the fascism rising in Eastern Europe, and I can condemn the complete fucked-up-edness of criminal Russia. I can condemn the systemic racism in Japan, the race-based nuttiness in Brazil, the racism in Argentina, the shabby treatment of the Aborigines in Australia.

But I don’t really have any influence in those places. The only place I can really affect anything is here in the United States. And we’re not anywhere, at all, in any way, close to Sharia law. Even if there are independent arbitrators set up, they have to follow US law. It’s a non-issue. I don’t get why it’s even a discussion. We have actual laws being passed against abortion that are clearly inspired by very conservative Christianity; that is an actual, real problem that’s occurring.