Comments on: South Dakota: Just Like Mississippi but Up North https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/15/south-dakota-just-like-mississ/ Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:07:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/15/south-dakota-just-like-mississ/#comment-499249 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:07:07 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/15/south-dakota-just-like-mississ/#comment-499249 Rob, this also covers people who slaves killing people who are trying to harm their owners.

]]> By: Rob https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/15/south-dakota-just-like-mississ/#comment-499248 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:06:54 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/15/south-dakota-just-like-mississ/#comment-499248 As someone who is also from Mississippi, from Jackson btw, Confederate soldier is full of shit. That being said, I think the crap he’s spouting would only go to prove Laden’s point about Mississippi.

]]> By: Calli Arcale https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/15/south-dakota-just-like-mississ/#comment-499247 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:03:20 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/15/south-dakota-just-like-mississ/#comment-499247 Oh, and by the way, I have to also object to the comparison to Mississippi. Mississippi has not (as far as I know) attempted to make defense of the unborn a defense against a murder charge. (Mostly because in the legitimate cases, e.g. an ex-boyfriend assaulting a pregnant woman, “threat to the mother” is perfectly adequate defense already.) So SD is attempting to sink below Mississippi.

]]> By: Calli Arcale https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/15/south-dakota-just-like-mississ/#comment-499246 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:59:37 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/15/south-dakota-just-like-mississ/#comment-499246 I’m a Christian. I also disagree vehemently that just because someone isn’t heard decrying something that they tacitly agree with it. That’s like saying that Muslims all condone terrorism if you haven’t happened to have heard them, personally, speaking out against it. Or, as Jon Oliver put it on the Daily Show, “every religion has to be responsible for its biggest assholes.”

I am against this. Duh. I always have been, always would be; it’s a no-brainer. Plus, I’m pro-choice. A large percentage of Christians actually are. (That would have to be the case for abortion to be defended in countries which are predominantly Christian, and no the US is not the only predominantly Christian country where abortion is legal. Not every nation is Ireland, after all.) And I did not defend this before I responded to this post, even though from your perspective i was “silent” by virtue of not having read your post yet. I can only hope that this measure is soundly defeated, but given the way things have been going in SD lately (I have family there, and so when I drive out I have to look at all the pro-life billboards* that have sprouted since the last visit), I have my doubts.

* The multiplication of pro-life billboards is increasingly disturbing when I go to South Dakota, and the latest trend has been pictures of happy kids with Grandpa, usually happy and frolicking, because they’re not content to attack abortion now. They have to start going after the end of life as well. And that was *before* all the fuss about “death panels”, so it’s something that had been building even before Obama ran for office, much less proposed any health care reform.

]]> By: rob https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/15/south-dakota-just-like-mississ/#comment-499245 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:19:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/15/south-dakota-just-like-mississ/#comment-499245 “Homicide is justifiable if committed by any person in the lawful defense of such person, or of his or her husband, wife, parent, child, master, MISTRESS, or servant…”

glad to know those South Dakota republicans are thinking of their mistresses!

]]> By: MacTurk https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/15/south-dakota-just-like-mississ/#comment-499244 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:02:08 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/15/south-dakota-just-like-mississ/#comment-499244 And they accuse Islam of being a death cult?

They look in the mirror and see a wannabe Talib.

As for Confederate soldier, he is a bigoted and fact -free idiot.

]]> By: Mike Haubrich https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/15/south-dakota-just-like-mississ/#comment-499243 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 07:47:34 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/15/south-dakota-just-like-mississ/#comment-499243 Oh, and this is just more proof that religion poisons everything.

]]> By: Mike Haubrich https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/15/south-dakota-just-like-mississ/#comment-499242 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 07:26:05 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/15/south-dakota-just-like-mississ/#comment-499242 Murder is okay to protect life. I get it.

Do these people even think?

]]> By: Achrachno https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/15/south-dakota-just-like-mississ/#comment-499241 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 06:15:36 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/15/south-dakota-just-like-mississ/#comment-499241 Sond: You asked for a Christian viewpoint and I’m appalled.

I too am appalled that someone would ask for a Christian viewpoint. I think we’d had more than enough of those.

]]> By: peter https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/15/south-dakota-just-like-mississ/#comment-499240 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 02:48:14 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/15/south-dakota-just-like-mississ/#comment-499240 “Then again, the infanticide provider never does get”

That is all you need about the idiot and his post.
Since when is a foetus an infant?
I guess he is just sore that his state doesn’t pass a similar law.
My qquestion: are the idiots in the US all concentrated in one state?

We have Alberta for that…

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