Republican Senate candidate says rape pregnancies are "God's will"

[Colin]

Some of the so called christians in this thread sound more like followers of islam.

 

[Inthemiddle]

You seem to be one of the experts on stupidity around here

Intelligent people are inherently experts on stupidity, for they can identify it easily anywhere it may reside.

Stupid people are inherently ignorant of stupidity, because they are too stupid to identify it when it occurs.

 

[Mac1958]

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So rape and resulting pregnancies are "God's will".

Yikes.

Sounds like something you'd hear the Taliban say.

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[there4eyeM]

An idea; arm all women and when they kill rapists, let them go.

 

[Luissa]

I am sure a woman having an abortion is in the same state of mind as a rapist.

I am sure that committing murder requires an entirely different state of mind.

You will never understand a women's state of mind, so you should resist commenting on it or comparing a women who has an abortion to a rapist.
You are sick, and a disgrace to Christians.
You use your religion to judge people, and that is horrible. Jesus would be so proud.

 

[Luissa]

Anyone who understands the power of God can see the wisdom in his statement. You have to be able to understand that an all powerful being is capable of producing good from evil.

Actually, anyone who understands God's power would reject such a foolish statement. An all powerful God can stop the evil the first place. An all powerful God can bring about the good without the evil happening. And the argument from free will does nothing to save your weak minded statement. Because an all powerful God can do all those things without violating free will.

Tell you what, why don't you explain God's power to us lesser mortals that have to rely on self proclaimed experts, Before you do that, be sure to provide the credentials God gave you to speak for Him, and provide evidence that He actually approves of your words.

Alternatively, you could admit you are talking out of your ass.

I am with middle. You first.

 

[Grandma]

Your god is an asshole. Bottom line. There's nothing good about a woman being beaten and forced to the ground, her clothes torn, and a man that either she thought was someone trustworthy or who is a total stranger forcibly penetrates her, often repeatedly. There's nothing good about being forced to carry the child of that vicious attack and being told that some god wanted it to happen so it's okay.

Your god needs to fuck himself in the eye.

Are you saying that all rape victims are pathetic and useless for the rest of their lives, or do some of them turn that tragic experience into something positive, making the world a better place?

I hope you get raped soon. Then maybe you'll have an idea of what it is you're saying. As you bleed from the ass, barely able to walk, wondering if that big huge bastard is going to come back and do it again - you can get ice cream and see a movie - yay!

How's that for positivity?

Christ on a crutch, what a bunch of woman hating fucktards.

 

[Cammmpbell]

Just goes to show you what childhood brainwashing can bring about. If someone starves a child and feeds it shit to keep it alive the child will believe shit is food.

 

[decker]

Just goes to show you what childhood brainwashing can bring about. If someone starves a child and feeds it shit to keep it alive the child will believe shit is food.

mad talk really. Whether gop or dem anyone saying that is mad.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Anyone who understands the power of God can see the wisdom in his statement. You have to be able to understand that an all powerful being is capable of producing good from evil. It's is such a simple concept that even liberals can grasp it --- at least I would think they would have an intellect developed enough to understand it. Maybe I'm wrong here??...

If there is an 'all powerful' God, as is your premise,

then it was his will that caused the rape to happen in the first place.

Whose 'will' is it when the rapist gives his victim AIDS, or for that matter murders his victim after raping her??

 

[NoNukes]

Anyone who understands the power of God can see the wisdom in his statement. You have to be able to understand that an all powerful being is capable of producing good from evil. It's is such a simple concept that even liberals can grasp it --- at least I would think they would have an intellect developed enough to understand it. Maybe I'm wrong here??...

If there is an 'all powerful' God, as is your premise,

then it was his will that caused the rape to happen in the first place.

Whose 'will' is it when the rapist gives his victim AIDS, or for that matter murders his victim after raping her??

I guess that is God's will too.

 

[beretta304]

Just goes to show you what childhood brainwashing can bring about. If someone starves a child and feeds it shit to keep it alive the child will believe shit is food.

Indiana Senate candidate Mourdock calls rape pregnancy God's will



By Kim Geiger

October 23, 2012, 8:50 p.m.

Indiana GOP Senate candidate Richard Mourdock opposes abortion even in the case of rape and incest, he said at a Tuesday night debate, because pregnancy from rape is "something that God intended to happen.”

Mourdock, who is in a tight race with Democratic Rep. Joe Donnelly, was responding to a question about whether abortion should be legal in cases of rape or incest.

“I know there are some who disagree, and I respect their point of view, but I believe that life begins at conception,” the tea party-backed Mourdock said. “The only exception I have, to have an abortion, is in that case of the life of the mother.

“I've struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize that life is that gift from God,” Mourdock said, appearing to choke back tears. “And even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen.”

Mourdock's statement came near the end of the debate. Afterward, according to the Associated Press, Donnelly said he didn't believe “my God, or any God, would intend that to happen.”The controversy came as the Mourdock campaign unveiled a new ad featuring Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney making an on-camera endorsement of him.

In the ad, Romney calls Mourdock “the 51st vote to repeal and replace government-run healthcare,” and says he “will help stop the liberal Reid-Pelosi agenda.”

Casting Mourdock's comment as “part and parcel of the modern Republican Party's platform toward women's health,” Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz called on Romney to get the ad off the air.

“As Mourdock’s most prominent booster and the star of Mourdock’s current campaign ads, Mitt Romney should immediately denounce these comments and request that the ad featuring him speaking directly to the camera on Mourdock’s behalf be taken off the air," Wasserman Schultz said.

Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul tried to distance Romney from the comment. "Gov. Romney disagrees with Richard Mourdock's comments, and they do not reflect his views,” Saul said in a statement.

The flap comes about two months after Missouri’s Republican candidate for Senate, Todd Akin, said a woman is unlikely to become pregnant from “legitimate rape” because "the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down." That comment also came in response to a question on whether victims of rape and incest should be able to obtain an abortion.

Romney and most other prominent Republicans urged Akin to drop out of the race, but he did not. Instead, Akin said he had spoken inartfully, then apologized, but persisted in challenging embattled incumbent Claire McCaskill.

The Akin and Mourdock comments have the potential to undercut Romney's efforts to reduce the gender gap -- the margin by which women have tended to prefer President Obama.

Mourdock, the state treasurer, ousted moderate longtime Sen. Richard G. Lugar in the GOP primary in May. Romney embraced Mourdock's candidacy and traveled to Indiana in August to campaign for him.

“This is a man that I want to see in Washington to make sure that we cannot just talk about changing things but actually have the votes to get things changed,” Romney said at the time.

After Tuesday's debate in southern Indiana, Mourdock clarified his position on rape and pregnancy.

“Are you trying to suggest that somehow I think God ordained or pre-ordained rape?” Mourdock said, according to the Evansville Courier & Press. “No, I don't think that anyone could suggest that. That's a sick, twisted – no, that's not even close to what I said.

“It's a fundamental part of my faith that God gives us life,” he continued. “God determines when life begins. I believe in an almighty God who makes those calls.... There are some things in life that are above my pay grade.”

 

[there4eyeM]

Mysterious ways, eh?

 

[NYcarbineer]

Anyone who understands the power of God can see the wisdom in his statement. You have to be able to understand that an all powerful being is capable of producing good from evil.

Actually, anyone who understands God's power would reject such a foolish statement. An all powerful God can stop the evil the first place. An all powerful God can bring about the good without the evil happening. And the argument from free will does nothing to save your weak minded statement. Because an all powerful God can do all those things without violating free will.

Tell you what, why don't you explain God's power to us lesser mortals that have to rely on self proclaimed experts, Before you do that, be sure to provide the credentials God gave you to speak for Him, and provide evidence that He actually approves of your words.

Alternatively, you could admit you are talking out of your ass.

Did you ask that same question of your pal Obamanation? If not why not?

 

[Stephanie]

Just goes to show you what childhood brainwashing can bring about. If someone starves a child and feeds it shit to keep it alive the child will believe shit is food.

do you always have to lie?
I read what he said and he said NOTHING LIKE YOU POSTED

 

[NYcarbineer]

Anyone who understands the power of God can see the wisdom in his statement. You have to be able to understand that an all powerful being is capable of producing good from evil. It's is such a simple concept that even liberals can grasp it --- at least I would think they would have an intellect developed enough to understand it. Maybe I'm wrong here??...

If there is an 'all powerful' God, as is your premise,

then it was his will that caused the rape to happen in the first place.

Whose 'will' is it when the rapist gives his victim AIDS, or for that matter murders his victim after raping her??

I guess that is God's will too.

Apparently it was God's will that our forefathers would create a secular nation, that could be governed according to our will,

not his. Of the people, by the people, for the people. Not of God, by God, for God.

 

[beretta304]

Just goes to show you what childhood brainwashing can bring about. If someone starves a child and feeds it shit to keep it alive the child will believe shit is food.

do you always have to lie?
I read what he said and he said NOTHING LIKE YOU POSTED

Even Cammmpbell's headline is a lie. He left out the word pregnancy on purpose.

And then no llink...

 

[Greenbeard]

Even Cammmpbell's headline is a lie. He left out the word pregnancy on purpose.

Let me guess: legitimate rapes don't result in pregnancy. That's about the only way to draw the distinction you're trying to make.

 

[Stephanie]

Even Cammmpbell's headline is a lie. He left out the word pregnancy on purpose.

Let me guess: legitimate rapes don't result in pregnancy. That's about the only way to draw the distinction you're trying to make.

well you guessed wrong

 

[Greenbeard]

well you guessed wrong

Then it looks like we have a Senate candidate whose faith justifies rape.