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Why Have Congress?
Townhall.com ^ | June 18, 2020 | Laura Hollis

Posted on 06/18/2020 10:36:20 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 06/18/2020 10:36:20 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

The result will be that any small business will be very careful to not hire these folks if at all possible.


2 posted on 06/18/2020 10:37:16 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: Kaslin

“Why have a Congress?”

So Liberals can play politics


3 posted on 06/18/2020 10:41:02 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights".)
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If it’s all based on “sex” and not “gender”, then there’s a test to tell which one is.

nobody changes sexes with hormones and amputations/additions.

insanity


4 posted on 06/18/2020 10:42:22 AM PDT by dp0622 (The very future of tihe Republic is at stake. We now know dems will do ANYTHING to win.)
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The Republic is doomed, long live the Republic.

We were already in a “Civil” Civil War.

At least we were until a Month ago. Now it’s “something else” and the recent actions of the SCOTUS is only helping it along.


5 posted on 06/18/2020 10:42:33 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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To: cuban leaf
Damn right.

And if I conduct business somewhere and I have to deal with a stunted freak, that will be the last time I ever patronize that business.

6 posted on 06/18/2020 10:43:27 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("We're human beings ... we're not f#%&ing animals." -- Dennis Rodman, 6/1/2020)
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To: Kaslin

How can the Supreme Court make a decision about the definition of “sex”? They are all lawyers. Not a single one of them has a degree in anatomy, physiology, medicine, or even biology.


7 posted on 06/18/2020 10:43:47 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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But it didn’t mean ‘sexual orientation’ in 1964 - the mentally ill were hospitalized back then, not allowed to roan the streets, halls of congress or halls of justice.


8 posted on 06/18/2020 10:46:15 AM PDT by curious7
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To: cuban leaf

...and then those businesses will just be liable anyway under the “disparate impact” angle.


9 posted on 06/18/2020 10:47:06 AM PDT by Boogieman
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Reduce it to PART TIME. Reduce pay to 1/10th. NO BENEFITS. Have them get a real job doing something constructive. Who do these pompous, arrogant PSYCHOPATHS & PRICKS think they are?

FUCONgre$$

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. - Declaration of INDEPENDENCE

C’mon Americans.


10 posted on 06/18/2020 10:49:59 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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Just think of all the dough we would save, CONgre$$ is for the most part a money pit anyway.

Time to raze DC and go cheap for a change? dems are all for it., They have been working towards that goal for decades.


11 posted on 06/18/2020 10:53:49 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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It's certainly not too late for Congress to take up the issues left or created by the Bostock decision, and to provide some statutory specifics and much-needed clarity.

The Democrats have no reason to do so, thanks to Gorsuch.

They can just say "In ALL cases the LGBT Mafia wins. Religious schools, churches, private clubs, everywhere. You don't agree? Then spent $10 million to get it back to SCOTUS so they can reject your appeal."

Gorsuch reportedly loved a former clerk who is a homo and went to his wedding and sent a cringeworthy, gushing letter to them. Robert's sister is a lesbian. They just can't stand them to disapprove of them PERSONALLY, despite how they have to contort the law beyond recognition for 317 million others.

12 posted on 06/18/2020 10:55:33 AM PDT by montag813 (Nonsenze)
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Well, we no longer have a budget. We just let the executive spend like a drunken sailor.

We are now over $26 trillion in debt and adding a trillion or more every few months.


13 posted on 06/18/2020 10:56:18 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: Kickass Conservative
Let's say that the Congress takes this essayist's advice (which they won't because they are too cowardly and polarized). They pass a law that makes it illegal to discriminate against gays and transgendered in hiring, but carve out exceptions for religious organization.

How long will it be before a case comes before the Supreme Court where they will rule the exceptions to be unconstitutional?

Even if Congress did its job, the fine points of their legislation would always be open to cancellation by the Supremes.

14 posted on 06/18/2020 10:57:50 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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The LEFT wants, desires, needs, begs, slobbers and foams at the mouth for only a court that makes up all the rules for us to live by. They pack the court with five or six more strict leftist, commie, socialist, & homo justices and they can rule by court rulings. They can lose congressional seats, but once you get the court packed, no losses again, EVER!!! They can lose the White House, but if they rule the court, they can overrule everything a president did. Don’t like his executive order, take it to the court where the commies will throw out the EO. Sadly this is what we are coming to in this nation. This nation is going down the hill, dying on the vine. We are going to lose this Republic in time. The Bible mentions no western power in the End Times. So, America has to fall at some point. This is probably the start of that downward spiral.


15 posted on 06/18/2020 10:58:28 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (Friends at FR - Are you prepared to meet the LORD??? Do you KNOW Him? Do so today!)
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Without Congress, who would do all the "investigations" and hold all those important (televised) hearings on ... Stuff?

/sarc

16 posted on 06/18/2020 11:01:37 AM PDT by workerbee (==)
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To: Kaslin

I feel like this ruling offers a very easy solution now for everybody.

Stop using the word “male” and “female”. Start saying “this bathroom is for people with a penis, and that one is for a person without a penis”.

If anybody tries to claim that this is illegal discrimination on account of sex, point to this ruling and say “hey, there is no such thing as sex. Women can have penises, and men can have no penises, so clearly our rule does not discriminate on account of “sex”.


17 posted on 06/18/2020 11:02:44 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Kickass Conservative

I’ve called for some kind of secession for over a decade. A few mainstream voices ever so slightly hinted at it earlier this week.


18 posted on 06/18/2020 11:06:02 AM PDT by MachIV
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To: Kaslin

Like a scene from Office Space

“What is it you say you do here?”


19 posted on 06/18/2020 11:07:19 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: CodeToad

Well, we no longer have a budget. We just let the executive spend like a drunken sailor.

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Meh...the legislative and judicial branches don’t mind spending either.


20 posted on 06/18/2020 11:12:57 AM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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