American Rep. Randy Weber cries, begs God to forgive America for legal abortions and gay marriage - Polidicks

[QUOTE]Last night, nearly two dozen members of Congress joined Religious Right activists in Washington, D.C., for the annual “Washington – A Man of Prayer” event, held in Statuary Hall inside the U.S. Capitol. Organized by The Jefferson Gathering, which is a project of right-wing pastor Jim Garlow’s Skyline Church in California, the prayer event was kicked off by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan while Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., and Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., served as honorary hosts. Over the course of an hour and a half, 20 different members of Congress took to the podium to lead the gathering in prayer, including Rep. Randy Weber of Texas, who repeatedly choked up while begging God to forgive this nation for the “sins” of legal abortion and marriage equality. Modifying the Lord’s Prayer to declare that “thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth here in the halls of Congress,” Weber confessed the “sins our nation has been so emboldened to embark upon” and pleaded with God to forgive us.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/rep-randy-weber-tearfully-begs-god-to-forgive-america-for-the-sins-of-legal-abortion-and-marriage-equality/[/url] [video=youtube;wtcUdLzp5HA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtcUdLzp5HA[/video]

But not a single tear shed for the thousands of Americans who die because of poor healthcare. Go figure.

Don't forget that it's the emotional libcucks who put [I]feels over reals[/I], guys! Republicans are the party of logic and common sense! :downs:

It reads like a fucking Onion article. The religious right is insane.

Boohoo, cry some more your religious bullshit doesnt have a feather to fly on, maybe your imaginary friend's going to send an angel to wipe away your tears. Keep religion out of where only scientific fact has its sway, or shut the hell up and let the adults who know better than your sunday school level of education talk. And as I recall, Jesus also had some words to say about hypocrites who profess their faith in public and complain about the sins of their brothers. I think you missed that part in religious school, buddy.

It's a shame that anyone like this holds any degree of power.

What a snowflake

Yeah but no tears will be shed for the LGBTQ members that have died or suffered due to bigotry, no? There's something so sickening about people using religion to shit on others.

I think he's got what he should be asking forgiveness for mixed up.

Oh look, another religious zealot hemorrhoid who shouldn't be trusted with running a fucking daycare classroom who has significant political power in this country.

what a fucking gimp, get a grip of your self lmao

wtf kind of news source is rightwingwatch.org

[QUOTE=froztshock;52185913]Oh look, another religious zealot hemorrhoid who shouldn't be trusted with running a fucking daycare classroom who has significant political power in this country.[/QUOTE] tbh, I wouldn't bring a daycare classroom as an example of a thing that's like, easy to run.

Ladies and gentlemen: the United States Government. Our elected representatives literally break down in [B]horrified tears[/B] at the thought of Divine Retribution because of increasingly progressive stances regarding womens' healthcare and LGBT rights.

What a sad display. Get the fuck over yourself, seriously crying over positive progress in this country? Why don't you cry about the real problems our country faces.

Dear God [B]forgive us[/B] for recognizing basic civil rights! Do not send unto us your storms and plagues!

Religious lunatic.

Try not to cringe! 2017 (IMPOSSIBLE EDITION)

you know if you don't like abortions you can uhh just not get an abortion if you don't like gay marriage you can just not gay marry whoa that was simple

[QUOTE=J!NX;52186934]you know if you don't like abortions you can uhh just not get an abortion if you don't like gay marriage you can just not gay marry whoa that was simple[/QUOTE] I totally agree about gay marriage, but I do think abortion is muddier than that. Nobody can deny that abortion is the killing of a living being. There's a lot of issue to be had in consciously allowing that, for some people. Purely for elective purposes, obviously. Abortions are totally necessary/acceptable if the well-being of mother or child are in question. Not here to argue on it though, I just wanted to say I don't think that can be painted as simply as you're painting it. On topic, it's disappointing that people vote in representatives like this.

[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;52186515]It seriously feels like we went back over 50 years after the election, this is fucking disgraceful.[/QUOTE] To be fair, religious retards like this have been a consistent staple of American politics since way before Trump was elected.

imagine crying over the concept that people exist

[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;52186515]It seriously feels like we went back over 50 years after the election, this is fucking disgraceful.[/QUOTE] Thing is, it's been happening over the course of a decade. I think it was sadly in a major mistake of compromising with just plain evil bastards in the GOP on the wrong issues. When a weed grows into an infestation, you gotta get down to business and properly take of it as well as stopping weeds at the bud.

[QUOTE=KingofBeast;52186952]I totally agree about gay marriage, but I do think abortion is muddier than that. [B]Nobody can deny that abortion is the killing of a living being.[/B] There's a lot of issue to be had in consciously allowing that, for some people. Purely for elective purposes, obviously. Abortions are totally necessary/acceptable if the well-being of mother or child are in question. Not here to argue on it though, I just wanted to say I don't think that can be painted as simply as you're painting it. On topic, it's disappointing that people vote in representatives like this.[/QUOTE] I can pretty comfortably deny that, because I don't consider a mindless clump of developing cells to be a human being or a living creature until it has sufficiently developed well past the embryonic stage. By the end of the [B]first[/B] trimester, about three months in, the embryo is still an unthinking, unfeeling, unconscious mass barely larger than your thumb. This does not qualify as an independent living creature in my eyes, let alone an actual human being, and thus abortion should be at-will with no restrictions save for protecting the health of the mother during this trimester. During the second trimester is when the fetus develops into something beginning to resemble an independent life. During this phase, I am no longer primarily in favor of at-will abortions, but do believe that abortions should be readily available for anybody who has reasonable medical grounds for seeking one. If the fetus isn't developing properly, for example, or if the mother faces some potential risk of health problems as a result of the pregnancy or delivery. During the third trimester is where I would be wholly opposed to at-will abortions, and would argue that the medical grounds for abortion should be explicitly defined as only being available for a birth that poses severe potential risk to the life of the mother, or in cases of fetuses that have developed severe physical and mental birth defects.

[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;52186342]Dear God [B]forgive us[/B] for recognizing basic civil rights! Do not send unto us your storms and plagues![/QUOTE] At least now when the Earth floods from climate change that they brought on, they can blame it on the abortions and gays...

If God is going to pass judgment on us for the progress we've made, then God is wrong.

[QUOTE=KingofBeast;52186952]I totally agree about gay marriage, but I do think abortion is muddier than that. Nobody can deny that abortion is the killing of a living being. There's a lot of issue to be had in consciously allowing that, for some people. Purely for elective purposes, obviously. Abortions are totally necessary/acceptable if the well-being of mother or child are in question. Not here to argue on it though, I just wanted to say I don't think that can be painted as simply as you're painting it. On topic, it's disappointing that people vote in representatives like this.[/QUOTE] See, the thing is with abortions is, making abortions illegal really doesn't do as much as it "should" to stop abortions from happening. If a woman gets into a situation where she is in need of an abortion, she'll either, if she has the money, visit another state or country where abortion is legal and have the procedure, or, if she doesn't have the money for medical tourism, do various increasingly dangerous methods to induce an abortion in other ways. Some of the latter women will die in the process. If a woman is desperate to terminate a pregnancy for whatever reason, she will seek out whatever means available to do so. Because it's not about abortion itself, it's about not having the baby. That's the thing people who are against abortion don't seem to get. No one has an abortion because they love abortions. No one loves abortions. No one [i]likes[/i] abortions. It's either a vacuum up your hooha or medicine that makes your uterus vomit blood and masses of flesh everywhere. It's horrible, it's nasty, it's an unpleasant medical procedure. No one [sp]except some hypothetical handful of sexual deviants idk people are weird, for all I know some do exist[/sp] has sex with the intent of going out and getting an abortion. But I can tell you that 100% of people who get an abortion do so with the intent of ending a pregnancy because they don't want to have a child then. If someone's in the situation where they are pregnant and don't want a child, the stakes of not getting an abortion are high. It means a fully realized person is going to result, one that's likely going to live for the next few decades. A living, breathing person that they (and in most cases, the state) will be responsible for for a significant length of time. Either they will have to raise a child, or our already fucked up and choked full foster/adoption system will raise them. That's what [i]everyone[/i] in the country has to live with when a woman who wants an abortion can't get one. So leaving things as is means people are going to have abortions. Women get pregnant and they need to terminate a pregnancy, abortion happens. Making abortions illegal means people still have abortions, and some die, and when other people can't get abortions and can't find an outside means of inducing them, we have more children born to parents that don't want them. For people who don't want abortions to happen, neither of these seem like good ways of stopping abortion! So what would actually stop abortions from happening then if making them illegal won't? Well, why do people have abortions? Because they want to terminate a pregnancy, right? [b]If you want to stop abortions from happening fucking make it so women don't have to terminate a pregnancy to begin with.[/b] Mandatory sex ed, starting in middle school if you want to be thorough. Have teens learn about menstrual cycles and ovulation, what causes pregnancy and what will prevent it. Not only make condoms more accessible and understood, but also morning after pills and pregnancy testing kits. Fund Planned Parenthood so they can offer family planning to young couples so they can have safer sex and only have kids when they are willing and financially secure, so each baby born is wanted and planned for. Or, if you're so sensitive as to hate family planning when it has PP's icky germs all over it, create, set up and fund your own centers that offer off-brand family planning. Hell, [i]subsidize forms of birth control for women[/i] if you really, really, [i]really[/i] want to be sure abortions happen much less often. Like it or not, women fucking in ways that can produce babies is a fact of life, and when birth control is in reach at all times, women will get pregnant less often. And when women don't need to terminate pregnancies, guess what DOESN'T happen? That's right, goddamn abortions. Obviously some people would rather just be for making abortion illegal while also being against all of the above solutions. It's almost as if they somehow don't understand why abortions happen despite it being fucking obvious.

No, Climate Change isn't the wrath of a vengeful God, [i]it's gay people being allowed to exist in public.[/i]

Jesus fucking christ, shit like this doesn't usually illicit more than disappointment from me, but the fact that this despicable ass clown, who is literally breaking down in [i]tears[/i] (or badly pretending to anyway) over the thought of having to show basic tolerance and compassion to people, calls himself a Christian, makes me legitimately angry. Why are these far-right religious fucktards always so fervently anti-Islam? The differences in world view between your average Jihadi and these guys are so minimal, you'd think they'd be best friends. Oh wait, but they're brown and have a slightly different god, never mind.

[QUOTE=altern;52186057]wtf kind of news source is rightwingwatch.org[/QUOTE] Woooo, that be like me using Jihadwatch.org or something. Either way this obviously happened. So no need to argue on the source. I gotta say that was abit sad to watch for a multitude of reasons, but not because I sympathize with him. Not particularly religious myself or for it playing a role in politics.