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Not clear on the concept
Ok, in the last two days a couple of Southern governors have demonstrated that they need to go back to law school. Or take some classes in logic.
First, we have the Governor of Texas responding to the US Supreme Court declaring Texas's latest anti-abortion law to be unconstitutional..
His comment was along the lines "so the court is making themselves the medical board for all of the US".
Sorry, but that's what your state legislators (and those of far too many other states) were trying to do by passing laws that don't really have a medical justification, but are just dodges to restrict abortions even more.
Next we have the governor of Mississippi ranting about a federal court overturning part of a law that would (among a bunch of other things) let county clerks recuse themselves from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
He claimed it was a violation of the first amendment and violated the religious freedom of Mississippians.
Sorry, but freedom to practice your religion does *not* include being able to impose *your* religious beliefs on other people.
Your religious beliefs don't allow gay marriage? then don't marry someone of the same sex. Don't believe in divorce? Don't get one. But neither means you are allowed to fail to do your job.
First, we have the Governor of Texas responding to the US Supreme Court declaring Texas's latest anti-abortion law to be unconstitutional..
His comment was along the lines "so the court is making themselves the medical board for all of the US".
Sorry, but that's what your state legislators (and those of far too many other states) were trying to do by passing laws that don't really have a medical justification, but are just dodges to restrict abortions even more.
Next we have the governor of Mississippi ranting about a federal court overturning part of a law that would (among a bunch of other things) let county clerks recuse themselves from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
He claimed it was a violation of the first amendment and violated the religious freedom of Mississippians.
Sorry, but freedom to practice your religion does *not* include being able to impose *your* religious beliefs on other people.
Your religious beliefs don't allow gay marriage? then don't marry someone of the same sex. Don't believe in divorce? Don't get one. But neither means you are allowed to fail to do your job.
Re: RHJunior
As an example that bit about the "halos" in rocks is based on a standard con technique. Shifting the subject without appearing to do so.
Rock *formations* may take millions of years to form. But individual hunks of rock, especially the kind that have those "halos" in them *solidify* over fairly short periods. The "halos are used to measure *how long* they've been solid.
Spiral arms in galaxies aren't fixed features.
Gas and oil deposits exist *because* they are trapped under layers of rock that they *can't* leak through.
And so on.
But all that stuff *sounds* like it's poking holes in BS that scientists are trying to "put over" to disprove the young earth/creationist "theories".
But if you know the *actual* science you know where the guys pushing *this* stuff pulled their "bait & switch" tricks.
Try reading that particular comic from the start. There are less than 50 strips so far so it won't take long. And you'll see what he's putting forth as "true". And I'm pretty sure from back when I bothered to argue with him about stuff in one of his other strips, that he's *not* trying to put over a bill of goods on the readers. He just believes what the snake oil salesmen pushing creationism and the like have told him.