Libertarian Candidate Gary Johnson: Actually, I Wouldn't Ban the Burka

[CaptUSA]

Seriously. Gary needs to set the bong down for a few hours. It's fun, Gary, but you have remember that other people are listening.

 

[Christian Liberty]

My church does enforce the standard of women having their heads covered during The Lord's Day, but that's the extent of it.//

Wait... just curious, does your church require that even when those women are not in church (ie. after church on the Lord's Day?

The problem with the whole veiling 24/7 when out of the house thing is that it carries heavy legalistic connotations, which run afoul of most of the 1st table of the Decalogue. Furthermore, attempting to introduce any practice with even the slightest flavor of Islamic influence should be met with forceful resistance, and I'd definitely refuse the sacraments to someone going in that direction, in part because I wouldn't want knowingly allow them to drink judgment upon themselves while in a backslidden state.

OK fair enough. Though seriously... honestly would your church give communion to anyone who isn't part of your particular congregation anyway?

P.S. - I know this isn't OPC dude, I'm simply stating my position on the matter and recounting some of my own encounters on this topic. This is actually one of the points where the Reformed Steelite wing makes a clear break with others claiming Covenanter status, we're not in the business of adding stuff onto established standards without a full church review, which is naturally difficult in the church's current state.

In what way do covenanters currently do this?

 

[CaptUSA]

Oh geez... CL's gonna take us off on another religious tangent...

 

[Christian Liberty]

Oh geez... CL's gonna take us off on another religious tangent...

Eh... "Gary Johnson is an idiot" was a pretty clear conclusion to come do

 

[hells_unicorn]

Oh geez... CL's gonna take us off on another religious tangent...

To be fair, I kinda opened the door to this by bringing up the whole feminism thing, though I think that was the angle that Gary was trying to play up. Obviously I could be mistaken and Gary was trying to appeal to Neo-con warmongers, and come to think of it, most feminists actually don't seem to mind being subservient to open misogynists provided that they are thumping something other than the Bible.

Here I go again, taking things further off on a tangent...

 

[cajuncocoa]

Obviously not, since I wasn't the one conflating the two. You're a bit slow on the uptake, so I'll leave you to pursue remedial logic classes before I attempt to elicit a rational response from you on this topic, or most others for that matter.

Or maybe I just don't feel like having a discussion with pompous arrogant assholes.

 

[RonPaulMall]

People are free to wear the burqa.. but i should also be free to distance myself from anyone that does wear a burqa. People that wear burqas and feel alienated.. its kinda their own fault lol.

If Cosmotarians had their way, hundreds of millions of Muslims would be free to move to the US and you would be the one made to feel alienated for thinking women should be allowed to show skin. Johnson's flip flopping is the result of the inherent contradiction of his own messed up ideology. He wants open borders, but at the same time somehow avoid the negative cultural and societal changes that open borders create.

 

[Occam's Banana]

Hating feminism means hating women? Seriously.

Reason #4321 libertarians are just as dumb as everyone else.

Calling an entire group of people dumb because one of them said something you think is dumb? Seriously?

Reason #1 that Christians are even dumber than everyone else.

(See what I did there?)

 

[SilentBull]

Can't believe I voted for this moron.

 

[Ronin Truth]

Wear whatever you want, Gary.

 

[Voluntarist]

xxxxx

 

[cajuncocoa]

I've been noticing a lot of leaks from "Peace Through Religion" lately

They refuse to keep it confined to that forum.

 

[Cabal]

I've been noticing a lot of leaks from "Peace Through Religion" lately

Has been going on for ages.

 

[angelatc]

In about 3 months, we can use this question when we play, "Who said this? Trump or Johnson?"

 

[hells_unicorn]

They refuse to keep it confined to that forum.

The thread is dealing with the Islamic question, it's tangential, but it is not wholly off-topic.

Or maybe I just don't feel like having a discussion with pompous arrogant assholes.

Well, something we share in common for once. How about we both put our common ground into practice? Sound good?

In about 3 months, we can use this question when we play, "Who said this? Trump or Johnson?"

lol Warped minds do tend to think alike, don't they? We could probably give people a hint if they're stuck by asking them which one talked about killing entire families of suspected terrorists.

 

[Nathan Hale]

The burka ban comment sounds more like a gaffe that he thought up on the spot rather than a policy position that he premeditated and then changed when the wind clearly wasn't at his back. I love Gary, but I can tell from numerous instances that in interviews he falls victim to the human tendency to just start talking in response to a question if he doesn't have a planned answer.