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		<title>By: SteveK</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/51294/breaking-scozzafava-drops-out-of-ny-23-race/comment-page-1/#comment-227673</link>
		<dc:creator>SteveK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>comment read. It&#039;s always good to start the day with a laugh.</description>
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		<title>By: superdestroyer</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/51294/breaking-scozzafava-drops-out-of-ny-23-race/comment-page-1/#comment-227660</link>
		<dc:creator>superdestroyer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Do you really believe that a liberal Democrat lead Justice Department will be neutral. It will give homosexuals anything they want.  Do you really believe that Attorney General Eric Holder, who believes that governmental action should be race based, will be neutral.  Pretty soon, being in the same church as a thought criminal or belong to the same club will be enough to draw the full force of the government down on anyone&#039;s head.  Go read George Will&#039;s column from last Sunday.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you really believe that a liberal Democrat lead Justice Department will be neutral. It will give homosexuals anything they want.  Do you really believe that Attorney General Eric Holder, who believes that governmental action should be race based, will be neutral.  Pretty soon, being in the same church as a thought criminal or belong to the same club will be enough to draw the full force of the government down on anyone&#39;s head.  Go read George Will&#39;s column from last Sunday.</p>
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		<title>By: SteveK</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/51294/breaking-scozzafava-drops-out-of-ny-23-race/comment-page-1/#comment-227614</link>
		<dc:creator>SteveK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good maps DLS.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Add to them &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqA-S0P7bXo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Add to them Red State Blue State One State Two State&lt;/a&gt; and it&#039;s easier to understand what&#039;s happening in this country... &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;*** Late in the Thread Warning - The following is Off Topic and meant in good humor so if you object to either off-topic or humor please ignore the following links.***  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And why &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Conservapedia&lt;/a&gt; thought they needed to write a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-8_qqBePKI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Conservative Bible.&lt;/a&gt; One that removes all the liberal bias that the pathetic leftists put into &quot;the other one&quot; when King James wasn&#039;t looking. :-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good maps DLS.</p>
<p>Add to them <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqA-S0P7bXo" rel="nofollow">Add to them Red State Blue State One State Two State</a> and it&#39;s easier to understand what&#39;s happening in this country&#8230; </p>
<p>*** Late in the Thread Warning &#8211; The following is Off Topic and meant in good humor so if you object to either off-topic or humor please ignore the following links.***  </p>
<p>And why <a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page" rel="nofollow">Conservapedia</a> thought they needed to write a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-8_qqBePKI" rel="nofollow">Conservative Bible.</a> One that removes all the liberal bias that the pathetic leftists put into &#8220;the other one&#8221; when King James wasn&#39;t looking. <img src='http://themoderatevoice.com/wordpress-engine/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: DLS</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/51294/breaking-scozzafava-drops-out-of-ny-23-race/comment-page-1/#comment-227456</link>
		<dc:creator>DLS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>More overdue remedial reviewing by people on this site can be found here.  This nation is far from homogeneous (politically as much as geogically, climatically, or &quot;scenically&quot; and the aging, decaying Blue Nation sites have been becoming separated from mainstream-normality (and vitality, and growing rather than declining importance, in the case of the Sun Belt, much of it Red Nation) the more they cling to old,outmoded, often-failed ways (so similar in a broader sense to the fools still stupidly stuck in the 1950s-1960s &quot;Detroit bubble&quot;).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www-personal.umich.edu/%7Emejn/election/2008/countycartnonlin1024.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/20...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If the foregoing catrogram is too difficult to grasp:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www-personal.umich.edu/%7Emejn/election/2008/countymapnonlinr1024.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/20...&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>More overdue remedial reviewing by people on this site can be found here.  This nation is far from homogeneous (politically as much as geogically, climatically, or &#8220;scenically&#8221; and the aging, decaying Blue Nation sites have been becoming separated from mainstream-normality (and vitality, and growing rather than declining importance, in the case of the Sun Belt, much of it Red Nation) the more they cling to old,outmoded, often-failed ways (so similar in a broader sense to the fools still stupidly stuck in the 1950s-1960s &#8220;Detroit bubble&#8221;).</p>
<p><a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/%7Emejn/election/2008/countycartnonlin1024.png" rel="nofollow">http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/20&#8230;</a></p>
<p>If the foregoing catrogram is too difficult to grasp:</p>
<p><a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/%7Emejn/election/2008/countymapnonlinr1024.png" rel="nofollow">http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/20&#8230;</a></p>
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		<title>By: DLS</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/51294/breaking-scozzafava-drops-out-of-ny-23-race/comment-page-1/#comment-227455</link>
		<dc:creator>DLS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Actually, the real issue is the real nature of Scozzafava (sp?), who may be a darling &quot;moderate&quot; (i.e., mushy or at least An Acceptable Republican or &quot;Conservative&quot; by Barbara Boxer and TMV standards), who after dropping out has chosen to endorse the Democrat.  I suspect it has to do with compatibility and political honestly (now that she&#039;s out of the race!) more than it may have to do with bitterness at losing.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Actually, the real issue is the real nature of Scozzafava (sp?), who may be a darling &#8220;moderate&#8221; (i.e., mushy or at least An Acceptable Republican or &#8220;Conservative&#8221; by Barbara Boxer and TMV standards), who after dropping out has chosen to endorse the Democrat.  I suspect it has to do with compatibility and political honestly (now that she&#39;s out of the race!) more than it may have to do with bitterness at losing.</p>
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		<title>By: SteveK</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/51294/breaking-scozzafava-drops-out-of-ny-23-race/comment-page-1/#comment-227253</link>
		<dc:creator>SteveK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;superdestroyer quoted: &lt;br&gt;&quot;(4) GUIDELINES.— All prosecutions conducted by the United States under this section shall be undertaken pursuant to guidelines issued by the Attorney General, or the designee of the Attorney General, to be included in the United States Attorneys&#039; Manual that &lt;u&gt;shall establish &lt;a href=&quot;http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/neutral&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;neutral&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/objective&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;objective&lt;/a&gt; criteria&lt;/u&gt; for determining whether a crime was committed because of the actual or perceived status of any person.&quot;&lt;/blockquote&gt;superdestroyer, You should keep a dictionary (and a thesaurus) handy while you&#039;re reading.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>superdestroyer quoted: <br />&#8220;(4) GUIDELINES.— All prosecutions conducted by the United States under this section shall be undertaken pursuant to guidelines issued by the Attorney General, or the designee of the Attorney General, to be included in the United States Attorneys&#39; Manual that <u>shall establish <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/neutral" rel="nofollow">neutral</a> and <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/objective" rel="nofollow">objective</a> criteria</u> for determining whether a crime was committed because of the actual or perceived status of any person.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>superdestroyer, You should keep a dictionary (and a thesaurus) handy while you&#39;re reading.</p>
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		<title>By: superdestroyer</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/51294/breaking-scozzafava-drops-out-of-ny-23-race/comment-page-1/#comment-227248</link>
		<dc:creator>superdestroyer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>SteveK, &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;You should read the law, &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;(4) GUIDELINES.— All prosecutions conducted by the United States under this section shall be undertaken pursuant to guidelines issued by the Attorney General, or the designee of the Attorney General, to be included in the United States Attorneys&#039; Manual that shall establish neutral and objective criteria for determining whether a crime was committed because of the actual or perceived status of any person.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The laws gives prosecutors complete discretion.  They can do whatever they wand and given the organized homosexual community&#039;s ability to manipulate the courts, that means the means whatever they say it means.  A single prosecutor and a single judge will eventually make it a thought crime law.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>SteveK, </p>
<p>You should read the law, </p>
<p><i>(4) GUIDELINES.— All prosecutions conducted by the United States under this section shall be undertaken pursuant to guidelines issued by the Attorney General, or the designee of the Attorney General, to be included in the United States Attorneys&#39; Manual that shall establish neutral and objective criteria for determining whether a crime was committed because of the actual or perceived status of any person.</i></p>
<p>The laws gives prosecutors complete discretion.  They can do whatever they wand and given the organized homosexual community&#39;s ability to manipulate the courts, that means the means whatever they say it means.  A single prosecutor and a single judge will eventually make it a thought crime law.</p>
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		<title>By: SteveK</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/51294/breaking-scozzafava-drops-out-of-ny-23-race/comment-page-1/#comment-227224</link>
		<dc:creator>SteveK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;superdestroyer wrote: &quot;The average university will show you the future... &quot;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Yes, a average university DID show me my future to which I will be eternally grateful. You should drop by one sometime... I think you&#039;d be pleasantly surprised.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I think you should &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization_Act_for_Fiscal_Year_2010/Division_E&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;actually read the bill&lt;/a&gt; that you&#039;ve so seriously misrepresented (misunderstood)... I think you&#039;d be pleasantly surprised by it, too.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>superdestroyer wrote: &#8220;The average university will show you the future&#8230; &#8220;</p></blockquote>
<p>Yes, a average university DID show me my future to which I will be eternally grateful. You should drop by one sometime&#8230; I think you&#39;d be pleasantly surprised.</p>
<p>I think you should <a href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization_Act_for_Fiscal_Year_2010/Division_E" rel="nofollow">actually read the bill</a> that you&#39;ve so seriously misrepresented (misunderstood)&#8230; I think you&#39;d be pleasantly surprised by it, too.</p>
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		<title>By: superdestroyer</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/51294/breaking-scozzafava-drops-out-of-ny-23-race/comment-page-1/#comment-227208</link>
		<dc:creator>superdestroyer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>SteveK, &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The average university will show you the future.  If you say anything outside of the politically correct dogma, a student, profressor, or employee risks their future association with the university.  Look at the political reeducation that was mandatory at the University of Delaware. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Why else do you think that the left is so excited about the just signed thought crime laws.  Federal prosecutors will be able to establish criminal conspiracies to punish anyone who says anything politically incorrect about homosexuals.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>SteveK, </p>
<p>The average university will show you the future.  If you say anything outside of the politically correct dogma, a student, profressor, or employee risks their future association with the university.  Look at the political reeducation that was mandatory at the University of Delaware. </p>
<p>Why else do you think that the left is so excited about the just signed thought crime laws.  Federal prosecutors will be able to establish criminal conspiracies to punish anyone who says anything politically incorrect about homosexuals.</p>
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		<title>By: SteveK</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/51294/breaking-scozzafava-drops-out-of-ny-23-race/comment-page-1/#comment-227196</link>
		<dc:creator>SteveK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tremble America... We have been warned... &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol5Dfs7jqFI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;superdestroyer&#039;s militant homosexuals&lt;/a&gt; are coming. They&#039;re coming and they want to steal our very way of life... and our color TV&#039;s!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tremble America&#8230; We have been warned&#8230; <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol5Dfs7jqFI" rel="nofollow">superdestroyer&#39;s militant homosexuals</a> are coming. They&#39;re coming and they want to steal our very way of life&#8230; and our color TV&#39;s!</p>
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		<title>By: superdestroyer</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/51294/breaking-scozzafava-drops-out-of-ny-23-race/comment-page-1/#comment-227086</link>
		<dc:creator>superdestroyer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Anyone who believes in freedom of speech, the free exercise of religion, or the freedon of association should be very scared of the militant homosexuals.  It will not be long before the government begin to collect data on sexual preference and starts environments quotas for gays, lesbians, transgendered, etc.  Why else would the organized homosexuals movements cling to the very discredited 10% number if they did not want 10% of the government to be for themselves. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Churches, private organizatio0ns, think tanks, religous schools, and others will soon be scared because organized homosexuals groups will have veto power over them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anyone who believes in freedom of speech, the free exercise of religion, or the freedon of association should be very scared of the militant homosexuals.  It will not be long before the government begin to collect data on sexual preference and starts environments quotas for gays, lesbians, transgendered, etc.  Why else would the organized homosexuals movements cling to the very discredited 10% number if they did not want 10% of the government to be for themselves. </p>
<p>Churches, private organizatio0ns, think tanks, religous schools, and others will soon be scared because organized homosexuals groups will have veto power over them.</p>
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		<title>By: Tweets that mention Breaking: Scozzafava Drops Out of NY-23 Race &#124; The Moderate Voice -- Topsy.com</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tweets that mention Breaking: Scozzafava Drops Out of NY-23 Race &#124; The Moderate Voice -- Topsy.com</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Hans Spee, TMV, Kevin Kavanagh, newswatchobama, John Newsom and others. John Newsom said: Breaking: Scozzafava Drops Out of NY-23 Race: Maybe people finally figured out that Scozzafava is not competent.. http://bit.ly/25Kjx3 [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Hans Spee, TMV, Kevin Kavanagh, newswatchobama, John Newsom and others. John Newsom said: Breaking: Scozzafava Drops Out of NY-23 Race: Maybe people finally figured out that Scozzafava is not competent.. <a href="http://bit.ly/25Kjx3" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/25Kjx3</a> [...]</p>
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		<title>By: JSpencer</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/51294/breaking-scozzafava-drops-out-of-ny-23-race/comment-page-1/#comment-226860</link>
		<dc:creator>JSpencer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Steve, the degree of patience management has shown is impressive. Pity the fellow is too immature to realize how he ruins his credibility by behavior alone. I suppose that&#039;s why most don&#039;t bother to respond, it isn&#039;t worthy of the effort. Still, there is a taint that lingers...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Steve, the degree of patience management has shown is impressive. Pity the fellow is too immature to realize how he ruins his credibility by behavior alone. I suppose that&#39;s why most don&#39;t bother to respond, it isn&#39;t worthy of the effort. Still, there is a taint that lingers&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: ProfElwood</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/51294/breaking-scozzafava-drops-out-of-ny-23-race/comment-page-1/#comment-226859</link>
		<dc:creator>ProfElwood</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you for a voice of reason. I&#039;ve always considered character attacks and insults to be an admission of defeat. I also see generalization to be to the fuel for discrimination. It&#039;s hard to hate someone for the group that they belong to, when you know them personally. I would even bet that there are some conservative homosexuals out there.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you for a voice of reason. I&#39;ve always considered character attacks and insults to be an admission of defeat. I also see generalization to be to the fuel for discrimination. It&#39;s hard to hate someone for the group that they belong to, when you know them personally. I would even bet that there are some conservative homosexuals out there.</p>
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		<title>By: JSpencer</title>
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		<dc:creator>JSpencer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>SD, you usually confine your diatribes to worries about increasing representation in the electorate by non-whites. You&#039;ve made this quite clear on many occasions. Now it appears your intolerance and paranoia include gay people as well. Not a very healthy picture you&#039;re painting of yourself there.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>SD, you usually confine your diatribes to worries about increasing representation in the electorate by non-whites. You&#39;ve made this quite clear on many occasions. Now it appears your intolerance and paranoia include gay people as well. Not a very healthy picture you&#39;re painting of yourself there.</p>
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		<title>By: nicrivera</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/51294/breaking-scozzafava-drops-out-of-ny-23-race/comment-page-1/#comment-226856</link>
		<dc:creator>nicrivera</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;Militant homosexuals are the ones that will do whatever it takes and do not care what the voters, the laws, or the polls say.&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;I&#039;m not sure why what voters or polls say should have any bearing on what homosexuals believe or how they act. The United States was founded as a Constitutional republic, not a democracy. The idea that 95% of the population has the right to dictate to the other 5% how they are to live their lives isn&#039;t very consistent with freedom.&lt;br&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;The next push will be the thought crime laws that activist homosexuals will use to silence anyone that diagrees with them.&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;I&#039;m assuming you&#039;re referring to hate crimes legislation, which I agree goes beyond prosecuting people for the crime they commited and seeks to criminalize bigotry, which i believe should be not be criminalized. But there is a difference between homosexuals who want to use the force of government to force others to agree with their views and homosexuals who simply want to live their lives without being coerced or denied basic rights that everyone else enjoys. Were homosexuals who supported the repeal of antisodomy laws &lt;I&gt;militant&lt;/I&gt;? Are homosexuals who want to be able to marry whoever they want (the same way heterosexual couples do) &lt;I&gt;militant&lt;/I&gt;?&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;I&#039;m not aware of the nuances of Scozzafava&#039;s views with regards to homosexuality to be able to judge whether your criticism of her is fair enough, but I&#039;d be curious to know what specific views you find particularly wrong. If it&#039;s a matter of hate crimes legislation, I&#039;m definitely not on board with that. But if its a matter of homosexuals not wanting to be arrested for having sex in the privacy of their own home or serving in the military or being able to marry whoever they want the same way heterosexual couples do, I see that as tolerance and common sense, not militancy.&lt;/BR&gt;&lt;/BR&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Militant homosexuals are the ones that will do whatever it takes and do not care what the voters, the laws, or the polls say.</p></blockquote>
<p>I&#39;m not sure why what voters or polls say should have any bearing on what homosexuals believe or how they act. The United States was founded as a Constitutional republic, not a democracy. The idea that 95% of the population has the right to dictate to the other 5% how they are to live their lives isn&#39;t very consistent with freedom.<br />
<blockquote>The next push will be the thought crime laws that activist homosexuals will use to silence anyone that diagrees with them.</p></blockquote>
<p>I&#39;m assuming you&#39;re referring to hate crimes legislation, which I agree goes beyond prosecuting people for the crime they commited and seeks to criminalize bigotry, which i believe should be not be criminalized. But there is a difference between homosexuals who want to use the force of government to force others to agree with their views and homosexuals who simply want to live their lives without being coerced or denied basic rights that everyone else enjoys. Were homosexuals who supported the repeal of antisodomy laws <i>militant</i>? Are homosexuals who want to be able to marry whoever they want (the same way heterosexual couples do) <i>militant</i>?</p>
<p>I&#39;m not aware of the nuances of Scozzafava&#39;s views with regards to homosexuality to be able to judge whether your criticism of her is fair enough, but I&#39;d be curious to know what specific views you find particularly wrong. If it&#39;s a matter of hate crimes legislation, I&#39;m definitely not on board with that. But if its a matter of homosexuals not wanting to be arrested for having sex in the privacy of their own home or serving in the military or being able to marry whoever they want the same way heterosexual couples do, I see that as tolerance and common sense, not militancy.</p>
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		<title>By: SteveK</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/51294/breaking-scozzafava-drops-out-of-ny-23-race/comment-page-1/#comment-226844</link>
		<dc:creator>SteveK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;JSpencer wrote: &quot;Most folks who contribute here temper their comments with a certain degree of civility, as though the people they are communicating with are real and could potentially be met face to face. There is one commenter here though who routinely engages in cowardly insults and characterizations...&quot;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Thank you JSpencer for saying what many here have hoped management would say for quite some time. Disagreement and debate are all fine and good but the constant (8333) diet of the childish taunts and generalizations that you refer to take much of the pleasure out of trying to have a reasonable conversation.</description>
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<p>Thank you JSpencer for saying what many here have hoped management would say for quite some time. Disagreement and debate are all fine and good but the constant (8333) diet of the childish taunts and generalizations that you refer to take much of the pleasure out of trying to have a reasonable conversation.</p>
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		<title>By: superdestroyer</title>
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		<dc:creator>superdestroyer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Militant homosexuals are the ones that will do whatever it takes and do not care what the voters, the laws, or the polls say.  The original strategy was to get one state to legalize gay marriage and then sue in court.  The DOMA put an end to that strategy, so the next was to apply civil rights laws to sexual behavior so that the militant homosexuals can go around the way.  I remember in the 1990&#039;s when Colorado pass a constitutional amendment banning special rights for homosexuals.  A liberal judge almost immediately struck it down and ruled that a constitutional amendment was unconstitutional. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The next push will be the thought crime laws that activist homosexuals will use to silence anyone that diagrees with them. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In the long run, the moderate Repubicans are going to have to learn the lesson that homosexuals dispise all conservatives and seem to be universal in their support for big government, big spending, and the nanny state.   Homosexuals want a nanny state because they know (correctly) that they will be the ones in control of it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Militant homosexuals are the ones that will do whatever it takes and do not care what the voters, the laws, or the polls say.  The original strategy was to get one state to legalize gay marriage and then sue in court.  The DOMA put an end to that strategy, so the next was to apply civil rights laws to sexual behavior so that the militant homosexuals can go around the way.  I remember in the 1990&#39;s when Colorado pass a constitutional amendment banning special rights for homosexuals.  A liberal judge almost immediately struck it down and ruled that a constitutional amendment was unconstitutional. </p>
<p>The next push will be the thought crime laws that activist homosexuals will use to silence anyone that diagrees with them. </p>
<p>In the long run, the moderate Repubicans are going to have to learn the lesson that homosexuals dispise all conservatives and seem to be universal in their support for big government, big spending, and the nanny state.   Homosexuals want a nanny state because they know (correctly) that they will be the ones in control of it.</p>
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		<title>By: JSpencer</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/51294/breaking-scozzafava-drops-out-of-ny-23-race/comment-page-1/#comment-226835</link>
		<dc:creator>JSpencer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Most folks who contribute here temper their comments with a certain degree of civility, as though the people they are communicating with are real and could potentially be met face to face. There is one commenter here though who routinely engages in cowardly insults and characterizations - ones I doubt he would ever make face to face. This aspect of the internet, which potentially removes accountability, is actually quite good at highlighting the character deficit some people suffer from. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Apologies for the digression, this observation has been waiting to be made for some time now. It could have been made by others here as well. As you were...&lt;/BR&gt;&lt;/BR&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Most folks who contribute here temper their comments with a certain degree of civility, as though the people they are communicating with are real and could potentially be met face to face. There is one commenter here though who routinely engages in cowardly insults and characterizations &#8211; ones I doubt he would ever make face to face. This aspect of the internet, which potentially removes accountability, is actually quite good at highlighting the character deficit some people suffer from. </p>
<p>Apologies for the digression, this observation has been waiting to be made for some time now. It could have been made by others here as well. As you were&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Davebo</title>
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		<dc:creator>Davebo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;The moderate Republicans are just going to have to find a way to stay Republicans as they poll lower than Libertarians.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;But the wrestler mask will make teabagging anonymously much easier so it&#039;s all good!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>The moderate Republicans are just going to have to find a way to stay Republicans as they poll lower than Libertarians.</p></blockquote>
<p>But the wrestler mask will make teabagging anonymously much easier so it&#39;s all good!</p>
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