Is it just me, or do all these "being gay is not a choice" and "being gay is biological" things bother anyone else? If being gay really IS biological, what happens in the future if they can find the gay chromosome or whatever and turn it into something they can "fix" before your baby is born? Wouldn't that become a…

When I was on my parents' insurance it would pay for one abortion a year, but would not cover my birth control. They deemed abortion as literally the cheapest option. This is ONLY about enforced morality.

Right, I understand why people might say Mormons aren't Christians. I'm surprised you think Mormons have been given a privileged position in America. Historically that hasn't been the case, although I do think they've become more mainstream lately. But they were run out of Missouri way back when on military orders.…

Yeah it really is terrible. I have read so much, and it seems so difficult to help the people there.

No, it's like saying Lutherans aren't Catholic, which they aren't. They were originally a break off of Catholicism, but they aren't the same. I'd still consider FLDS as Christians, just like I'd consider Mormons Christians.

I actually don't agree with this. Polygamy is currently a crime. I don't actually think it should be, but its criminality is what made them isolated, which lead to their extremism. The polygamy is what (back in the 1950s) the authorities were trying to prosecute when they found the young brides. Now, polygamy isn't…

It made me go on a binge reading about polygamous off-shoots of Mormonism. I've read as many books from his bibliography I could find, and like TONS and TONS of memoirs from the women who have escaped. It is so crazy, and so sad.

These people are not Mormons. They broke away from the Mormon church, and over time their beliefs have become very different. This is a cult, plain and simple. I'm not Mormon, so I probably don't understand all of the differences, but the FLDS and the Mormons disagree on a lot more than polygamy nowadays. That wasn't…

Because the compound was made specifically for this group to continue its practice of underage polygamous marriages. Without polygamy, this sect wouldn't exist at all. The entire reason they aren't normal Mormons (at least at first) is because they think the mainstream Mormon church diverged from God's teaching by…

Was it Brent Jeffs? He has written a book, and so was the witness who got Jeffs convicted in the first place (which was eventually overturned, until they got him on these two new child brides). It is a really good, but sad story. There are a ton of books out there about this sect (and others), and it is a really…

Actually, it is because many state governments for over 50 years decided not to do anything about this cult because of people thinking polygamy wasn't the government's business. And that is all well and good if everyone entering into these polygamous marriages was actually a consenting adult, but they typically aren't…

EXACTLY. If I understood how to nominate someone for cotd, I would totally be nominating you right now! (Sorry that I don't know how.)

It's not clear that the homeless people are choosing to be in the pictures.

This pledge is actually a really great idea.

But let's say you get hit by a bus. You don't die, and are rushed to the hospital. If you don't have insurance, it's very likely you can't pay your hospital bills, and then you become a burden on the tax payer. I don't think you deserve to die just because you can't pay your hospital bills, but that cost eventually…

My sister once called me a feminazi. I got upset. She said, "I didn't know that was an offensive term." I had to explain that any time you liken someone to a nazi, they'll probably get offended.

Well, I'm still more for Obama than anything else. But that was a fun quiz, so thanks!

That's ok. I'm one of the ten Americans who doesn't know what Game of Thrones is anyway.

Was this a real thing: "the old tradition of the group of people witnessing the consummation of the marriage to make sure it's official?"

My bro just got married. I asked him if he and his wife had heard of this. His response: "Nah, we just take pictures of my dick with a phone, like normal people." HA