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Re: How in the hell can CHURCHES be voting sites???
« Reply #25 on: January 15, 2008, 07:35:19 PM »
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Re: How in the hell can CHURCHES be voting sites???
« Reply #26 on: January 15, 2008, 08:05:50 PM »
The DUmmies get upset that the churches are used as voting sites...but have no problem when a Democrat slithers up to the pulpit doruing an election and basically gives a stump speech to the congregation. :whatever:
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Re: How in the hell can CHURCHES be voting sites???
« Reply #27 on: January 15, 2008, 08:55:50 PM »
I've lived in this house for 20 years and have always voted in the church about a mile from here.  I wear a garlic garland  :-) :-)

I have never frequented DU and only get what I get here or what I picked up on CU; sometimes I think you guys make this shit up; right??   :rotf: :rotf:
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Re: How in the hell can CHURCHES be voting sites???
« Reply #28 on: January 15, 2008, 10:09:22 PM »
Quote from: vftb on January 15, 2008, 08:55:50 PM
I've lived in this house for 20 years and have always voted in the church about a mile from here.  I wear a garlic garland  :-) :-)

I have never frequented DU and only get what I get here or what I picked up on CU; sometimes I think you guys make this shit up; right??   :rotf: :rotf:


ive got a decent imagination... but i dont think i could come up with even a tiny fraction of what they say day in and day out on my own... its just not possible.  :popcorn:
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Re: How in the hell can CHURCHES be voting sites???
« Reply #29 on: January 15, 2008, 10:27:23 PM »
I just learned something.

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but it still raises my spearation of church and state hackles

I didn't know that libs had different varieties of "hackles".   :rotf:
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Re: How in the hell can CHURCHES be voting sites???
« Reply #30 on: January 15, 2008, 10:31:39 PM »
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How in the hell can CHURCHES be voting sites???
   
I was just listening to MSNBC in the background a few minutes ago and they were reporting on the fiasco that is the Michigan primary. Some talking head was talking about the mood of primary voters at a church that is a polling station.

Every voting site I have ever been to have been municipal buildings or schools. Are churches regularly used as voting sites and I'm just clueless? I know that the separation between state and church has been terribly eroded, especially within the past 7 years. But using churches as voting sites is beyond the pale as far as I'm concerned.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2687405


well, in my 11 years in the Seattle area, I've voted mostly in the Lutheran church down the street. When we moved to a different town, we now vote in the elementary school. But, for 99 percent of the time I've been here.. its been in a church.

i hope that makes kookoo even more nuts than he/she already is.  :popcorn:

oh, and the thread is HUGE..


I say why not? A church can be a good venue for a polling place. Enough room to get folks in and out and like any polling place they have to follow election laws so the church can not influence which lever people pull.
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Re: How in the hell can CHURCHES be voting sites???
« Reply #31 on: January 15, 2008, 10:44:10 PM »
Heh,  I used to vote in churches all the time.  Everytime I walked up there to pull the lever for the (D) candidate the church made me vote for the (R) candidate so I finally gave up and just joined y'all morans.   :-)

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Re: How in the hell can CHURCHES be voting sites???
« Reply #32 on: January 15, 2008, 10:46:49 PM »
Quote from: Texacon on January 15, 2008, 10:44:10 PM
Heh,  I used to vote in churches all the time.  Everytime I walked up there to pull the lever for the (D) candidate the church made me vote for the (R) candidate so I finally gave up and just joined y'all morans.   :-)

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Same thing here.  :-)
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Re: How in the hell can CHURCHES be voting sites???
« Reply #33 on: January 15, 2008, 10:48:19 PM »
Quote from: Freeper on January 15, 2008, 10:46:49 PM
Quote from: Texacon on January 15, 2008, 10:44:10 PM
Heh,  I used to vote in churches all the time.  Everytime I walked up there to pull the lever for the (D) candidate the church made me vote for the (R) candidate so I finally gave up and just joined y'all morans.   :-)

KC

Same thing here.  :-)

Damn churches.  They have done more to destroy the voting process than Dibold will ever do.   :-)   The two of them together ..... well, they are UNSTOPABLE!

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Re: How in the hell can CHURCHES be voting sites???
« Reply #34 on: January 15, 2008, 10:51:36 PM »
Quote from: Texacon on January 15, 2008, 10:48:19 PM
Quote from: Freeper on January 15, 2008, 10:46:49 PM
Quote from: Texacon on January 15, 2008, 10:44:10 PM
Heh,  I used to vote in churches all the time.  Everytime I walked up there to pull the lever for the (D) candidate the church made me vote for the (R) candidate so I finally gave up and just joined y'all morans.   :-)

KC

Same thing here.  :-)

Damn churches.  They have done more to destroy the voting process than Dibold will ever do.   :-)   The two of them together ..... well, they are UNSTOPABLE!

KC

Well what got me was when the Southern Baptists flew a couple of planes into skyscrapers and when the Methodists beheaded my neighbor for not converting. So from now on when the fundies say "jump" I say "how high?".
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Re: How in the hell can CHURCHES be voting sites???
« Reply #35 on: January 16, 2008, 12:23:34 PM »
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37. They are big, EMPTY buildings which sit UNUSED six days a week.
   
All the energy to heat and cool them is generating greenhouse gases for Jeebuz.


Idiot DUmbass. Churches have other things going on every day. I know that and I'm not a churchgoer.

Yeah, but you're not a DUmmy, so...
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Re: How in the hell can CHURCHES be voting sites???
« Reply #36 on: January 16, 2008, 12:39:00 PM »
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How in the hell can CHURCHES be voting sites???
   
I was just listening to MSNBC in the background a few minutes ago and they were reporting on the fiasco that is the Michigan primary. Some talking head was talking about the mood of primary voters at a church that is a polling station.

Every voting site I have ever been to have been municipal buildings or schools. Are churches regularly used as voting sites and I'm just clueless? I know that the separation between state and church has been terribly eroded, especially within the past 7 years. But using churches as voting sites is beyond the pale as far as I'm concerned.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2687405


well, in my 11 years in the Seattle area, I've voted mostly in the Lutheran church down the street. When we moved to a different town, we now vote in the elementary school. But, for 99 percent of the time I've been here.. its been in a church.

i hope that makes kookoo even more nuts than he/she already is.  :popcorn:

oh, and the thread is HUGE..


Must be some kind of conspiracy. Since moving here in '91 my polling place has been at a Baptist church building  :hyper:
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Re: How in the hell can CHURCHES be voting sites???
« Reply #37 on: January 16, 2008, 12:47:48 PM »
Teh DUmmies are just afraid they'll burst into flames when they enter a church for the first time.   :whatever:
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Re: How in the hell can CHURCHES be voting sites???
« Reply #38 on: January 16, 2008, 03:28:30 PM »
Quote from: lug-nut on January 16, 2008, 12:47:48 PM
Teh DUmmies are just afraid they'll burst into flames when they enter a church for the first time.   :whatever:

much more likely that the roof would fall in.
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Re: How in the hell can CHURCHES be voting sites???
« Reply #39 on: January 16, 2008, 03:42:58 PM »
Quote from: jinxmchue on January 16, 2008, 12:23:34 PM
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37. They are big, EMPTY buildings which sit UNUSED six days a week.
   
All the energy to heat and cool them is generating greenhouse gases for Jeebuz.


Idiot DUmbass. Churches have other things going on every day. I know that and I'm not a churchgoer.

Yeah, but you're not a DUmmy, so...

Hey Jinx!  Welcome! 

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Re: How in the hell can CHURCHES be voting sites???
« Reply #40 on: January 16, 2008, 09:14:40 PM »
I'm shocked (well, not really, but still) that voting in a church would make somebody think about the separation between church and state.  Do they think that entering a church building somehow forces religious beliefs on a person?  :rotf:  How can anybody be remotely disturbed by the idea of voting in a church? 
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Re: How in the hell can CHURCHES be voting sites???
« Reply #41 on: January 16, 2008, 09:21:03 PM »
Quote from: lug-nut on January 16, 2008, 12:47:48 PM
Teh DUmmies are just afraid they'll burst into flames when they enter a church for the first time.   :whatever:


i was going to bring over a post where one of them wrote "Im suprised the Republicans dont burst into flame when walking on Hallowed Ground" .. *sigh*
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Re: How in the hell can CHURCHES be voting sites???
« Reply #42 on: January 16, 2008, 09:48:11 PM »
Quote from: lug-nut on January 16, 2008, 12:47:48 PM
Teh DUmmies are just afraid they'll burst into flames when they enter a church for the first time.   :whatever:

I was going to say the SAME thing, but since I saw that this thread was 3 pages long, I decided to read the posts first  :-)

The DUmmies just hate it that they just might have to set foot in a church.
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