Messages By: nscrchick

I don't know, to me that sort of stifles free speech.  I mean if a preacher wants to stand there and tell people who he wants to vote for and why, I don't see the problem.

Are college professers allowed to do the same thing in front of their class?  It would seem sort of the same thing to me.

JMHO

BUT I am not talking about PUSHING a candidate, I am talking about just speaking.  Not endorsing, just conversation. 

I can remember when I was going to church, and we had Wednesday night bible study, it was a small group.  I don't see the harm in people talking about such, as long as it is conversation, debate, if you will.  But the pastor didn't even want to go there for "fear" (for lack of a better term) of repercussions.  I guess I understand the point, Because there would be those who would "tell" their congregation how to vote, but I guess I just have a problem with government in general.  I don't want or need big brother in every facet of my life. 

That is a good question.  One I have pondered.  I was always under the impression that the "morning after pill" was basically equivalent to an abortion.  In fact, I work in a hospital pharmacy and I have refused to take the "morning after pill" down to the ER.  I said I couldn't do it because I did not want to in any way shape or form be involved in the death of a baby. 

There is actually 2 different "after" pills.  There is the "morning after pill" (not available in this country legally) and "emergency contraception."  My pharmacist explained it this way:

The morning after pill will expell an embryo, will abort the baby.

The emergency contraception will prevent the fertilized egg from implanting in the uterine wall.  And it may be taken up to 3 days later.  They are actually birth control pills, just taken in a larger dose.

Don't know if this helps, but man it has raised some questions for me.  I have been on B.C.P. for 19 years.  And I am now in a serious dilemma.  To me it would seem that stopping a fertilized egg from implanting may be the same as killing it.  Oh God. Oh God.  Oh boy, I need to do some more research on this, if I have to live with the thought that I may have unknowingly  killed and unborn baby of mine...OH GOD

I don't know, I don't see the best friend as a real problem.  Maybe she is just concerned.  A few years back I was with a real jerk, I FINALLY got rid of him, but afterwards my best friend ( of almost 20years) had told me that she was just about ready to stop our friendship because she couldn't take seeing theway he treated me and seeing the person I had become.  Also when she was married to her first husband (psycho-freak) we didn't speak for a few months basically for the same reason.  I could see clear as day what he was all about, and she couldn't at first.

Although I would definitely say she was meddling if their marriage was stable and good, but obviously the wife needs a friend.

I don't think the guy is an alcoholic, and I don't think he was so nervous he needed to drink.  When I read the story he said he drank one shot then everyone wanted to do one with him.  He also stated that he rarely drinks.  I think he was just not thinking, not realizing that 4,5 or 6 shots to someone who rarely drinks is A LOT of alcohol.

I am not excusing his ruining the wedding, but I just didn't get the impression that this dude is a raging alcoholic.

I feel I have to make this point, although it is not a popular one.  A very close friend of mine is a "registered sex offender."  He received this label because when he was 18 he had a 14 year old girlfriend.

Loonnngggg story short, he got into some trouble ( I should say they)and to keep herself out of trouble with her parents, never refuted the story her parents wanted to believe.  He went to prison for assault,(not against her)and statutory rape and now he has to register as a sex offender.

I am ALL for sex offender registries, don't get me wrong, but I do feel that along with the picture and the label, there should be a way to find out the circumstances.

Granted maybe an 18 and 14 year old shouldn't be dating, but when I was 14 I dated an 18 year old.  Maybe legally a 14 year old can't make the decision to have sex, but in real life many do make that decision all by themselves, I did, and I can't be the only one.

I do want to add, before I am attacked, that I don't believe they can be rehabilitated.  Frankly, as far as I am concerned pedofiles should be shot and that would be the end of that.    It is just like they  have found innocent men on death row after DNA testing, not EVERYONE who has to register as a sex offender, is a sex offender.  Just my 2 cents.