A Methodist minister has cast himself out into the cold to show his support LGBT people, vowing to sleep in a tent outside his Michigan home for 175 days to protest his church’s opposition to same-sex marriage and the ordination of LGBT members.
Rev. Michael Tupper, pastor of Parchment United Methodist Church in Parchment, Michigan, first engaged with LGBT issues six years ago when his daughter Sarah came out to him as a lesbian. But his entry into outright pro-LGBT activism began last year, when Sarah asked him to officiate her wedding to another woman she met while attending Wheaton College, a hardline conservative evangelical Christian school.
I have seen an advertisement for a new show with three people romantically involved. I suppose we have to get ready. I am so sorry for my grandchildren. I am glad I have tried to be light and salt. I will continue, of course.
Wow. I am so concerned for him. I hope he does not get frostbite. Wait, I have camped out in a tent in the winter and in snow, and I know quite a few people who live that way all of the time. Guess I don’t feel sorry for him. Guess it won’t change my views. But I will pray for him, that he will experience the love of God.
Donna, Carson is a quick study and he is not a politician. But he is able to get things done and done well. He is able to surround himself with capable people. Until people get tired of politicians and business men who just want to rile them up, and start looking at the disaster in front of us, and begin looking for an exit strategy, they are not going to look at him. But, I hold out hope that, before it is too late, they will come to their senses and want their country back.
Meanwhile, Cruz & Rubio keep picking away at each other — but neither of them, sadly, can get anywhere close to Trump. Even though Nevada isn’t a big player per se, I fear that the ongoing momentum being built up by Trump’s string of big wins will give him a populist surge as the candidates head into the big March primaries on 3/1 and 3/15. 😦
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… Although only a few delegates have been chosen so far, Trump’s substantial win in advance of the Super Tuesday primaries next week gives his campaign the appearance of a juggernaut in the making. RealClearPolitics gives Trump the lead in 9 of 13 Super Tuesday states.
Trump’s candidacy is a byproduct of the Obama era every bit as much as Jimmy Carter’s was of the end of the Nixon & Ford administrations. He draws on the anger at Obama and the ineffectual Republican resistance to him. He expressly responds to the yearning among us to restore American greatness. Although I don’t know anyone who anticipated the strength of Trump’s candidacy or the weakness of the many other GOP candidates, it’s not hard to understand in retrospect.
Yet Trump is an embarrassment to the issues he purports to advance. He subtracts from the sum total of human knowledge. He is not a conservative. He is a devout vulgarian. …
… Putting to one side the merits of what would be an utterly dispiriting contest, does anyone in his right mind seriously think that Donald Trump stands a reasonable chance of beating the Democratic nominee in a general election? I don’t, and I think Trump will take the Republican majorities in Congress down with him, not to mention the Supreme Court, of course. Trump seems to me the worst and most destructive candidate remaining in what has turned into a weak field. …
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Donna J, The beach isn’t far enough. I have moved back to 1983. Reagan is just as good the second time around. Tonight I will watch Michael Jordan in Tarheel blue.
Good luck dealing with your dilemma. Concerning why I suggested Carson and Kasich drop out, I guess the entire party could unite behind Jim Gilmore or Lindsay Graham, but it probably makes sense to back a candidate with support in the double digits.
Tweet: “Why fear Trump especially? Because he’s the Black Swan candidate.”
Prager this morning also made note of a comment Cruz had made about Trump’s mantra of wanting to Make America Great Again — He doesn’t know what made it great in the first place.
Ricky, one thing we can learn from the elections is that nobody cares what the party thinks.
Nobody
Neither Republican nor Democrat
The best thing the “party” can do is go underground.
WASHINGTON — The first name out of the box among President Obama’s possible picks for the Supreme Court is a Republican.
Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval, a former federal district court judge, was named by several news organizations Wednesday as a potential nominee being vetted by the White House — a process the White House refused to confirm.
While Sandoval’s ultimate nomination is considered unlikely, Obama could gain credibility among some Republicans and independents for agreeing to consider someone from the opposite party at a time when Senate Republicans have refused even to hold hearings on anyone he chooses. …
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Donald Trump is running riot in the GOP china shop and gleefully tearing the place up. …
It might still be possible to beat Trump at that point (March 1 Super Tuesday) if the field is narrowed (states don’t become winner-take-all until March 15), but doing so would involve wrestling to the ground a candidate who will have cut a formidable swath through the first month of the nomination battle.
Even now, it’s hard to imagine a happy outcome for the party from the three likeliest scenarios …
Has any political party ever had a candidate who is such a wrecking ball, and who isn’t a fringe candidate, but a dominant one? …
It’s all very entertaining — but so are demolition derbies.
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A Methodist minister has cast himself out into the cold to show his support LGBT people, vowing to sleep in a tent outside his Michigan home for 175 days to protest his church’s opposition to same-sex marriage and the ordination of LGBT members.
Rev. Michael Tupper, pastor of Parchment United Methodist Church in Parchment, Michigan, first engaged with LGBT issues six years ago when his daughter Sarah came out to him as a lesbian. But his entry into outright pro-LGBT activism began last year, when Sarah asked him to officiate her wedding to another woman she met while attending Wheaton College, a hardline conservative evangelical Christian school.
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I have seen an advertisement for a new show with three people romantically involved. I suppose we have to get ready. I am so sorry for my grandchildren. I am glad I have tried to be light and salt. I will continue, of course.
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Wow. I am so concerned for him. I hope he does not get frostbite. Wait, I have camped out in a tent in the winter and in snow, and I know quite a few people who live that way all of the time. Guess I don’t feel sorry for him. Guess it won’t change my views. But I will pray for him, that he will experience the love of God.
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Donna, Carson is a quick study and he is not a politician. But he is able to get things done and done well. He is able to surround himself with capable people. Until people get tired of politicians and business men who just want to rile them up, and start looking at the disaster in front of us, and begin looking for an exit strategy, they are not going to look at him. But, I hold out hope that, before it is too late, they will come to their senses and want their country back.
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I’m getting that sinking feeling about Trump.
Meanwhile, Cruz & Rubio keep picking away at each other — but neither of them, sadly, can get anywhere close to Trump. Even though Nevada isn’t a big player per se, I fear that the ongoing momentum being built up by Trump’s string of big wins will give him a populist surge as the candidates head into the big March primaries on 3/1 and 3/15. 😦
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I’m just going to have to run away to the beach again at this rate.
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Are we heading also for a “Yuge” and epic loss, all the way around, government-wide, in November should Trump become the nominee?
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/02/after-last-night-14.php
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… Although only a few delegates have been chosen so far, Trump’s substantial win in advance of the Super Tuesday primaries next week gives his campaign the appearance of a juggernaut in the making. RealClearPolitics gives Trump the lead in 9 of 13 Super Tuesday states.
Trump’s candidacy is a byproduct of the Obama era every bit as much as Jimmy Carter’s was of the end of the Nixon & Ford administrations. He draws on the anger at Obama and the ineffectual Republican resistance to him. He expressly responds to the yearning among us to restore American greatness. Although I don’t know anyone who anticipated the strength of Trump’s candidacy or the weakness of the many other GOP candidates, it’s not hard to understand in retrospect.
Yet Trump is an embarrassment to the issues he purports to advance. He subtracts from the sum total of human knowledge. He is not a conservative. He is a devout vulgarian. …
… Putting to one side the merits of what would be an utterly dispiriting contest, does anyone in his right mind seriously think that Donald Trump stands a reasonable chance of beating the Democratic nominee in a general election? I don’t, and I think Trump will take the Republican majorities in Congress down with him, not to mention the Supreme Court, of course. Trump seems to me the worst and most destructive candidate remaining in what has turned into a weak field. …
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Donna J, The beach isn’t far enough. I have moved back to 1983. Reagan is just as good the second time around. Tonight I will watch Michael Jordan in Tarheel blue.
Good luck dealing with your dilemma. Concerning why I suggested Carson and Kasich drop out, I guess the entire party could unite behind Jim Gilmore or Lindsay Graham, but it probably makes sense to back a candidate with support in the double digits.
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Tweet: “Why fear Trump especially? Because he’s the Black Swan candidate.”
Prager this morning also made note of a comment Cruz had made about Trump’s mantra of wanting to Make America Great Again — He doesn’t know what made it great in the first place.
He has no philosophy, no core.
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Ricky, one thing we can learn from the elections is that nobody cares what the party thinks.
Nobody
Neither Republican nor Democrat
The best thing the “party” can do is go underground.
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On twitter: Romney: “I have reason to believe that there is a bombshell in Donald Trump’s tax returns.”
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Like, maybe, a rogue server?
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/02/24/supreme-court-obama-nominee-nevada-governor-sandoval/80863082/
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WASHINGTON — The first name out of the box among President Obama’s possible picks for the Supreme Court is a Republican.
Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval, a former federal district court judge, was named by several news organizations Wednesday as a potential nominee being vetted by the White House — a process the White House refused to confirm.
While Sandoval’s ultimate nomination is considered unlikely, Obama could gain credibility among some Republicans and independents for agreeing to consider someone from the opposite party at a time when Senate Republicans have refused even to hold hearings on anyone he chooses. …
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Thermonuclear war, bloodbath — no good options? Rich Lowry:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/02/donald-trump-the-destroyer-cometh-213646
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Donald Trump is running riot in the GOP china shop and gleefully tearing the place up. …
It might still be possible to beat Trump at that point (March 1 Super Tuesday) if the field is narrowed (states don’t become winner-take-all until March 15), but doing so would involve wrestling to the ground a candidate who will have cut a formidable swath through the first month of the nomination battle.
Even now, it’s hard to imagine a happy outcome for the party from the three likeliest scenarios …
Has any political party ever had a candidate who is such a wrecking ball, and who isn’t a fringe candidate, but a dominant one? …
It’s all very entertaining — but so are demolition derbies.
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