Board 8 > North Carolina Amendment One to pass tonight.

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red sox 777
05/09/12 9:34:00 PM
#201:


I kind of wonder what would happen if the Supreme Court said for their healthcare ruling: "All our Commerce Clause jurisprudence since 1937 was wrong. Half of the statutes Congress has passed since then are all unconstitutional. Good luck."

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MarvelousGerbil
05/09/12 9:38:00 PM
#202:


From: A_FamiIy_Man | #199
I'm with SM. Amend the constitution so ass backwards locals can't legalize stupid s*** or outlaw something because they're tools. Too bad nobody will do it because the starfathers knew how to make the perfect form of government and to change it is heresy.


Still more likely than a book written about 2000 years ago being used as a way to dictate morality.

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DeathChicken
05/09/12 9:41:00 PM
#203:


A book written 2000 years ago, garbled from its original meaning by translation and then selectively chopped up by that eternal beacon of not being corrupt and manipulative, the Catholic Church. *Then* we use it to dictate morality

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red sox 777
05/09/12 9:44:00 PM
#204:


We broke free of the clutches of the Catholic Church hundreds of years ago.

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MarvelousGerbil
05/09/12 9:44:00 PM
#205:


Well, I was going for the abridged version, but yeah.

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red sox 777
05/09/12 9:46:00 PM
#206:


Also, the reason it has lasted 2000 years is because it is both true and effective. By contrast your liberals' Communist wonderland the Soviet Union only lasted 74 years.

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SmartMuffin
05/09/12 9:48:00 PM
#207:


From: red sox 777 | #201
I kind of wonder what would happen if the Supreme Court said for their healthcare ruling: "All our Commerce Clause jurisprudence since 1937 was wrong. Half of the statutes Congress has passed since then are all unconstitutional. Good luck."


Doesn't really work that way though. When they overturned the DC gun ban, they didn't overturn every single firearms regulation in the country, which is what it SHOULD have done.

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red sox 777
05/09/12 9:52:00 PM
#208:


Doesn't really work that way though. When they overturned the DC gun ban, they didn't overturn every single firearms regulation in the country, which is what it SHOULD have done.

Because they didn't decide to overturn every firearms regulation in the country. And they won't overturn all the post-1937 Commerce Clause cases, because while the Court actually gives it some teeth now, it is nowhere near as conservative as the 1930s court. But if it did (say, if the 4 liberal judges retired during President Romney's administration and he replaced them with copies of Clarence Thomas), it'd be interesting to see the chaos that would unfold.

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SmartMuffin
05/09/12 10:00:00 PM
#209:


Because they didn't decide to overturn every firearms regulation in the country.

And yet, the decision they made essentially implies that they will, they're just going to make EVERY single jurisdiction take it to court first for some incredibly stupid reason.

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red sox 777
05/09/12 10:06:00 PM
#210:


And yet, the decision they made essentially implies that they will, they're just going to make EVERY single jurisdiction take it to court first for some incredibly stupid reason.

Looked at the history, and it seems the DC case applied to all federal territories. The Court then applied it to all the states 2 years later when overturning Chicago's gun law. Neither case abolishes all gun regulations anywhere however.

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SmartMuffin
05/10/12 6:25:00 AM
#211:


But the justification for all the gun regulations was "the second amendment is just about a militia and doesn't apply to individuals"

In the DC case (and subsequently in Chicago) the SC ruled that the second amendment obviously IS meant to apply to individuals. It's literally the equivalent of them coming out and saying "No, the commerce clause doesn't mean you can do that AT ALL"

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red sox 777
05/10/12 7:14:00 AM
#212:


The Supreme Court didn't mean that the right is never subject to any limitations, however. In general, none of the rights have been held to be subject to zero limitations. I mean, it'd be one thing if they said that Illinois cannot have any regulations on guns whatsoever because its government leaders are all crooks, but we won't decide for Indiana until someone brings a case against the state in the courts. Here, they're being consistent across the states, the ruling just doesn't go as far as you were hoping for, I guess.

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brian sulpher
05/10/12 11:46:00 AM
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you hypocritical inflatable balloon

I spit out my water on that one... maybe the best physical description of Rush L I have ever read.

As for this law being passed, I wonder how many people voted themselves into a worse position (death of civil unions and loss of benefits) just because it banned gay marriage? That would be a neat number to know.

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yoshifan823
05/10/12 1:23:00 PM
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red sox 777 posted...
Also, the reason it has lasted 2000 years is because it is both true and effective. By contrast your liberals' Communist wonderland the Soviet Union only lasted 74 years.

OK, if you're allowed to call liberals Communist, am I allowed to call conservatives Fascist? Because it's an equally implausible and silly jump in logic.

Also, if people actually read the bible, and got the message, I'd be happy to follow the basic morality of it for my life. As in, I'd be happy to treat others as I wish to be treated, to help the poor, sick, hungry and homeless, and to love my enemies as my neighbors. Those are all pretty awesome things to live by.

The only good (in terms of morality) part of the bible is the Gospels. The Old Testament is a bunch of old stories of varying accuracy that apply to living in a time vastly, vastly different from the one we live in now, and Paul was a big ol' jerk, and Revelation is The Old Testament without any judgment calls, morality-wise.
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SmartMuffin
05/10/12 5:42:00 PM
#215:


OK, if you're allowed to call liberals Communist, am I allowed to call conservatives Fascist?

No, because most conservatives want less government, which is literally the exact opposite of fascism.

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Mr Lasastryke
05/10/12 5:44:00 PM
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A better question would be: am I allowed to call conservatives anarchists?
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SmartMuffin
05/10/12 5:46:00 PM
#217:


From: Mr Lasastryke | #216
A better question would be: am I allowed to call conservatives anarchists?


Yes. This one is actually legitimately close and probably the equivalent of calling liberals communists.

Except that I won't get mad and yell at you if you call me an anarchist.

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SupremeZero
05/10/12 5:55:00 PM
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From: SmartMuffin | #217
Yes. This one is actually legitimately close and probably the equivalent of calling liberals communists.

Except that I won't get mad and yell at you if you call me an anarchist.


I won't get mad if you call me a communist, so I guess it works out? I might laugh, but there's not much I can do about that.

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MajinZidane
05/11/12 2:30:00 AM
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how come smuffin never replies to me i want to participate =(

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red sox 777
05/11/12 6:39:00 AM
#220:


OK, if you're allowed to call liberals Communist, am I allowed to call conservatives Fascist? Because it's an equally implausible and silly jump in logic.

Also, if people actually read the bible, and got the message, I'd be happy to follow the basic morality of it for my life. As in, I'd be happy to treat others as I wish to be treated, to help the poor, sick, hungry and homeless, and to love my enemies as my neighbors. Those are all pretty awesome things to live by.

The only good (in terms of morality) part of the bible is the Gospels. The Old Testament is a bunch of old stories of varying accuracy that apply to living in a time vastly, vastly different from the one we live in now, and Paul was a big ol' jerk, and Revelation is The Old Testament without any judgment calls, morality-wise.


Considering people were insulting Christians and the Bible quite openly here, I see nothing wrong with jokingly calling them Communists. And the Soviet Union imposed atheism on its citizens, which is the central connection. Conservatism needn't even have anything to do with it.

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