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George Costanza/ Jason Alexander / Julie Louis-Dreyfus? Coincidence? I THINK NOT!

"I doubt these people would be allowed to hand out condoms to little kids. But it's okay to talk to them about abortion without my permission?"

The problem with raging cultural relativists like you is that you have put your own personal emotional comfort - brought by your privilege of living in a rich, First World country - above the safety and bodily integrity of women whose agency has ALREADY been taken away by centuries-old traditions. I'm sorry I have to

Are you out of your damn mind? You sound like a mediocre undergraduate reactionary. Try to understand this: this is not the culture of these GIRLS who have this DONE to them in order to prover their virginity and then are SOLD into marriage to older men, this is the culture of their oppressors. Would you defend the

Ya gypsy is offensive, but don't pull that cultural relativism bullshit here. If the people in Somalia decided human and animal sacrifice was the thing to do it wouldn't be about whether or not we should respect their culture... It's about protecting victims. And the women are victims. This isn't some circumcision,

I'm thrilled that visible public figures (I know, it's the view, not face the nation, but still) are pointing out how absurd this idea is. I feel like the nutty right-wing politicians are continually testing our boundaries as a country- how close can we get to The Handmaid's Tale before the public puts the brakes on

OH SHIT guess all is forgiven then.

And if Catholics are allowed to marry, then Sikhs might be forced to perform Catholic weddings too. Oh, wait a minute...

Dude, as much as you desperately want to believe what happened was not about race, IT WAS. Please stop trying to say otherwise.

If the situation was reversed with Trayvon as the "neighborhood watch" guy with the gun, and had spotted, followed and been the one to shoot Zimmerman, you can guarantee his ass would have

The justice system worked in the Martin case, too- you're just angry it didn't work the way you wanted it to.

Zimmerman could have walked away during that time, too. He didn't. He knew he had a gun, so he knew any confrontation would work in his favor. Remember, he's the one claiming self-defense. He had to prove that he couldn't possibly have walked away. He could have, but he chose not to.

I heard that story as well and I don't even live in your country.

Presumably you're trolling, but just in case:

Well I can't speak to why there is no national outrage, but I'm sure you can tell me the answer being that you have no social agenda....

I got into a heated facebook debate with someone about a very similar point. She thought because birth control allowed people to "have sex without consequences" that people were more likely to cheat and hurt their partners/relationship.

"I am so fucking sick of people just inventing facts."

I clicked on that 'Ask the bigot' link (because I'm stupid? I don't know anymore) and now I'm really annoyed that one of the first things it says is that even 'safe and legal' abortions are more dangerous than carrying a pregnancy to term. I am so fucking sick of people just inventing facts. It's not enough to have

Sex is not primarily recreational...

The GOP proves, once again, that they are anti-sex. They want to legislate what married couples do in the privacy of their own bedrooms but heaven forfend we ask businesses to stop shitting in our backyards.

Exactly. If he ran away, Zimmerman would have taken that as he's running away because he's a criminal and Trayvon would still be shot. His friend on the phone with him that night said, Trayvon didn't want to go home with this guy following him because his little brother was at home. I don't understand what exactly