Blogs Sep 23, 2009 at 9:39 am

Every Child Deserves a Mother and a Father, There Is No Morality Without Religion, Etc.

Dan Savage
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1
This post, and Mudede's before it, are like a peas in a pod.
shabadoo on September 23, 2009 at 9:41 AM Report this
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Ava Worthington is the most lovely name ever, but so much for good intentions.
meowmeowkitty on September 23, 2009 at 9:53 AM Report this
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You know, a lot of those folks over at Questionland wouldn't see anything wrong with this....
Cato the Younger Younger on September 23, 2009 at 9:54 AM Report this
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Is there nothing a little EVOO can't make better? Hmm... apparently there is.

Cracker Jack on September 23, 2009 at 10:08 AM Report this
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I followed this in the news. I hope the baby, if I remember correctly, that they are expecting now will be healthy and strong.
kim in portland on September 23, 2009 at 10:09 AM Report this
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Parents can avoid medical care for themselves if they like, but the state has to step in when their children's lives are in danger. Didn't a neighbor or non-cuckoo friend notice the kid was sick?

If their children ever make it to 18, they can avoid all the medical care they want.
on September 23, 2009 at 10:13 AM Report this
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Wait, what, they're having another baby? If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. I think I read that rule in a parenting guidebook somewhere.
john t on September 23, 2009 at 10:19 AM Report this
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they shoulda killed an albino.
Mike in MO on September 23, 2009 at 10:25 AM Report this
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They should be banned from medical attention for the rest of their lives. Doctors should all agree not to treat them, and to instruct them to pray, if they try.
Michael of the Green on September 23, 2009 at 10:31 AM Report this
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Oh no, we'll run out of kids real soon at this rate. Particularly baby fundies.
tiktok on September 23, 2009 at 10:36 AM Report this
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If you want to pray about your own illness instead of getting medical help, good luck. But doing this to an innocent child should be more than a slap on the wrist, it should be manslaughter.
Vince on September 23, 2009 at 10:36 AM Report this
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Yep, there's no shortage of crazy in the world. I figured that one out a long time ago.
Fifty-Two-Eighty on September 23, 2009 at 10:36 AM Report this
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I'm telling ya...
Heads on pikes may be a bit brutal, but the prospect of something like that might deter sadistic, faith-blind crap like this.
Oh, and the fellow church members would be liable as well.
givesgoodemail on September 23, 2009 at 10:38 AM Report this
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When you believe in things that you don't understand then you (and your children) suffer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDZFf0pm0…
Semi-hirsute anthropoid on September 23, 2009 at 10:58 AM Report this
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This is one of the problems with believing in an imaginary being.
Rob in Baltimore on September 23, 2009 at 11:01 AM Report this
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I heard if you eat the body parts of a religious fundie, you gain magical powers!

I don't know if the fundie has to be an albino or not.
Urgutha Forka on September 23, 2009 at 11:09 AM Report this
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if only they had killed the kid before she was delivered then everyone on slog could love them.
on September 23, 2009 at 11:18 AM Report this
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Only two months. Who wants to bet that if this were some non-christian religion, they would have been sentenced to at least two decades.
Bonefish on September 23, 2009 at 11:32 AM Report this
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At least in Oregon they can sentence them to something. Washington state's law basically has an exclusion in it that prohibits criminal prosecution of parents who don't seek medical care of their children for religious reasons.
Geni on September 23, 2009 at 2:03 PM Report this
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Where's Loveschild on this one?
DJDeeJay on September 23, 2009 at 2:13 PM Report this
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@17: Yes, if only they had killed her as a fetus before she was able to feel pain.

Or are you one of those who believe the right to life ends at birth?
on September 23, 2009 at 3:37 PM Report this
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FUCK those people
cubby on September 23, 2009 at 5:43 PM Report this
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EVOO is for salads and drizzling over a nice chicken breast. It is not for curing tumors and pneumonia. This guy and the entire church who refused to pick up a phone and get this child help should be in jail for the rest of their natural lives. This was not religion it was deliberate and ignorant murder.
Ghostbuck on September 24, 2009 at 2:00 AM Report this

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