# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 3) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 4, 2023, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588 "2023-07-04T21:42:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 197
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3921 "2024-02-27T01:12:26Z")
I’m guessing this is Junior’s version of big strong men with tears in their eyes calling him sir, since if a black man ever approached him in real life I’m sure he’d immediately call the police. > ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3922 "2024-02-27T01:20:17Z")
Hey, I thought early voting was cheating! ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3923 "2024-02-27T02:36:16Z")
Whose fault is it that IVF is shut down in Alabama? Why, the clinics’ fault, of course! > **[Alabama Republican urges fertility clinics to reopen; UAB says it’s not so...](https://www.al.com/news/2024/02/alabama-republican-urges-fertility-clinics-to-reopen-uab-says-its-not-so-simple.html)** > > Democratic and Republican lawmakers are considering legislation that would protect in vitro fertilization. > “These clinics should start providing these services again. It is not fair to patients to have their embryos held hostage and procedures cancelled,” Rep. Susan DuBose, (R-Hoover), told [AL.com](http://AL.com) Sunday. “My heart goes out to the families caught in IVF process.”… ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3924 "2024-02-27T02:37:53Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > That’s hilarious! Back when I was on shore duty, one of my coworkers used to go on about how impossible he was finding it to get the Mormon Church to accept that he had quit! Why is it important to him that they accept it? If I were to leave a church, I’d just stop going to it and stop claiming to be an adherent of that particular faith and go on with my life. I’ve known more than a few people who’ve left churches, including the Mormon church, who’ve done just what I described. Hey, that’s what I did when I left the church I was raised in. > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > He can be mocked for being an idiot, but I feel sorry for the guy. He wants a messiah-like figure to give his life meaning and put all his eggs in the Trump basket. He was swindled and can’t acknowledge that, so he’s sticking with the fantasy. I do believe you hit it out of the park on this. Yes, he wants a savior and he wants to stand tall and proud saying, “Yes, I voted for him and that helped put him in office”. He’s convinced, like so many of his fellow groupies, that the opposition is Satan, Inc. as personified by every Democrat on the planet and thus cannot accept that his side is not angelic. And because of the harm his idol has done and continues to do to the country and th incredible damage that idol will do if e-elected, I cannot muster any sympathy for this swindlee. > [@CalMeacham](#): > > Since I’ve moved away from The Beehive State I miss a lot of things that I’m sure made the news out there. I hadn’t heard about this, so thanks. > > Whatever you call it, I understand that you really have to work at it to commit something so heinous that the Church wants to withdraw from you. Happy to help. BTW, when did you depart for greener pastures? If you click on the link I provided, it takes you to Section 32 of the Church’s General Handbook. In Section 32.6.2.5, there’s a matrix listing acts which require and acts which may require a membership council be held. Section 32.6.4.1 has a list of acts which do not trigger a membership council. Section 32.11.4 indicates when withdrawal of membership is required. You’ll note there’s also a matrix indicating the results of suh withdrawal. The Church does’t withdraw from the person, just indicates the person is no longer a member; however, those who’ve had their membership withrawn are still encouraged to attend Church meetings, study scipture, and “correct their behavior” (my term) so they can have their membership restored. The entire section is kind of interesting reading. Just a few years ago, the old Handbooks of Instructions were replaced by this General Handbook. > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > > [@Monty](#): > > > > The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints no longer excommunicates people. > > Yeah, that does sound kind of Papist. Or even Anglican, which I’ve often heard referred to as _Catholic Lite_. BTW, I grew up in one of the churches in the Anglican Communion, the Episcopal Church. > [@Joey\_P](#): > > When running for president, it’s always a good idea to threaten to deport members of the royal family, right? Yeah. When I heard what Tan the Conman’s purported reason for deportation is, I laughed. First, isn’t “disloyalty to the queen” treason? Yeah, right. A traitor kicking out someone else for treason? Not that I believe Prince Harry was disloyal. After all, the only people griping about him are Tan and the bigots who are upset he didn’t marry a lily-white Brit. > [@eschereal](#): > > A state senator in oklahoma, sponsoring a bill to restrict their rights, [calls LGBT… people “filth”](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/oklahoma-state-senator-calls-lgbtq-people-filth_n_65da6055e4b0189a6a7e0ee5) and expresses a desire have them not be in his christian state. WTF? Yet another pubblie who doesn’t grasp that this country is not a Christian country, nor are the states. > [@Sherrerd](#): > > You just know the GOP is going to endorse a platform of outlawing ‘miscegenation’. Awkward for Clarence Thomas? Not a bit of it. Simply declare him an honorary white man–hasn’t he done enough to deserve that??? Didn’t some reporter already ask him about that after he joined in on the idea that states should get to define marriage? And honorary honky? No way! The best they’ll ever do for someone more complected than a particular brand of soap is to call him “one of the _good_ ones”. > [@Horatius](#): > > Let’s just use the traditional [One Drop Rule](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule) to declare his wife Black. I’m sure a sufficiently invasive investigation of her family history will turn up someone… Dead serious here. Some years ago in Georgia (of course), one old white guy felt the need to tell me, who happens to be white, that because I married a Korean woman I am therefore a \ myself. Evidently “it” doesn’t “rub off”; “it” is just contagious. No one drop of blood research necessary! > [@Leaper](#): > > Hey, I thought early voting was cheating! Have you forgotten we only have Schrödinger’s elections now? If the vote for president is not for Trump, the ballot is invalid in whole unless down ballot choices are for republicans, in which case those and only those portions of the ballot are valid. That leads us to _early ballots are cheating if and only if any choices are for other than republicans, in which case those and only those portions are invalid; all portions of the ballot which are for republicans are valid_. Christ, I wish I were making that up instead of describing fucking conversations I’ve had with those idiots who support Trump and the other traitors. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3925 "2024-02-27T04:50:15Z")
Debt forgiveness for me, not thee. [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GHQ5K-nXYAAcGlj?format=jpg&name=medium) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GHQ5K-nXYAAcGlj?format=jpg&name=medium) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3926 "2024-02-27T05:27:01Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > > > That’s hilarious! Back when I was on shore duty, one of my coworkers used to go on about how impossible he was finding it to get the Mormon Church to accept that he had quit! > > Why is it important to him that they accept it? If I were to leave a church, I’d just stop going to it and stop claiming to be an adherent of that particular faith and go on with my life. I’ve known more than a few people who’ve left churches, including the Mormon church, who’ve done just what I described. Hey, that’s what I did when I left the church I was raised in. AIUI, he felt that being repeatedly “summoned” to discuss his behavior/lifestyle/non-tithing with his bishop amounted to harassment, which he didn’t care for. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3927 "2024-02-27T12:34:01Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Happy to help. BTW, when did you depart for greener pastures? Oh, eons ago. Decades. Before they put in Light Rail, and when the Cosmic Aeroplane and the Blue Mouse were in full bloom. I still get things sent to me by friends back there. And i can look up Pat Bagley editorial cartoons online to get my “fix”. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3928 "2024-02-27T14:35:50Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Or even Anglican, which I’ve often heard referred to as _Catholic Lite_. BTW, I grew up in one of the churches in the Anglican Communion, the Episcopal Church. The Episcopal Church: Catholic Lite. Same great taste, one third less guilt. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3929 "2024-02-27T15:41:06Z")
Deleted for evil, not stupid. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3930 "2024-02-27T16:02:45Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Or even Anglican, which I’ve often heard referred to as _Catholic Lite_. “High Anglican” which is the sect to which my high school adhered, is practically indistinguishable from Catholicism. And I was brought up strict Catholic with Irish Catholic nuns teaching me. Pretty much boils down to a nerd fight about who has the better music, in my slightly facetious opinion. Fortunately my choir master was willing to straddle the gap, and we sung both sides… ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3931 "2024-02-27T16:05:10Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Or even Anglican, which I’ve often heard referred to as _Catholic Lite_. BTW, I grew up in one of the churches in the Anglican Communion, the Episcopal Church. I’ve known Episcopalians who refer to themselves this way, and others who take offense at the term. I know that no one uses the term to deliberately offend anyone, and I think the divide stems from those who can look at things (including themselves) in an ironic and self-deprecating way and those who can’t. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3932 "2024-02-27T16:05:34Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > Pretty much boils down to a nerd fight about who has the better music, in my slightly facetious opinion. There’s the small detail of who’s the head of the Church, the Pope or the King of England, but I’m sure that’s a minor issue compared to the music. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3933 "2024-02-27T16:08:58Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > who’s the head of the Church, the Pope or the King of England I have been atheist all my life, so the details dont bug me. I paid lip service to the Catholics, and the Anglicans, but I was in the choir because I like to sing, the subject of the music means nothing to me. I mean, like, amongst my favorites is J.S. Bach’s “Jesu Joy Of Man’s Desiring” which I have sung in English, and orginal German. I admit to being a choral nerd ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3934 "2024-02-27T16:25:13Z")
Having said that, we are wandering so far off topic we could be lost in the Amazon Jungle ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3935 "2024-02-27T16:47:56Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > I have been atheist all my life, so the details dont bug me. Yeah, I was born an atheist and never saw a reason to change. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3936 "2024-02-27T17:00:10Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > …and we sung both sides… Country _and_ Western? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3937 "2024-02-27T17:29:28Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > I’ve known more than a few people who’ve left churches, including the Mormon church, who’ve done just what I described. Hey, that’s what I did when I left the church I was raised in. > [@CalMeacham](#): > > Whatever you call it, I understand that you really have to work at it to commit something so heinous that the Church wants to withdraw from you. My mom, raised Mormon, decided in 1946 to marry a nice Catholic boy. Sometime in the late 1970s, maybe early 80s, she got a letter out of the blue from Salt Lake Central Bureau of Purity (note: not the real name) informing her she had been excommunicated, seemingly without any defense being heard, since no one asked her. She was quite surprised they went to the trouble, and that it took so long. And then she threw the letter away and got on with her life. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3938 "2024-02-27T17:38:58Z")
Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders has apparently taken her game (pun intended) to the next level. Not content with a lavish taxpayer funded podium (or lectern), she and her family enjoyed a suite at the Super Bowl plus other access such as being on the field at halftime and after the game. Who paid for that extravaganza? It’s a secret that once again she’s desperately trying to hide from prying eyes. [https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/who-paid-for-sarah-sanders-six-figure-super-bowl-extravaganza](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/who-paid-for-sarah-sanders-six-figure-super-bowl-extravaganza) ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3939 "2024-02-27T17:44:23Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Not content with a lavish taxpayer funded podium (or lectern), Is that what we’re now calling embezzling funds to pay for her friends to go with her on a European vacation? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3940 "2024-02-27T19:56:09Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > “High Anglican” which is the sect to which my high school adhered, is practically indistinguishable from Catholicism. And I was brought up strict Catholic with Irish Catholic nuns teaching me. > > Pretty much boils down to a nerd fight about who has the better music, in my slightly facetious opinion. > > Fortunately my choir master was willing to straddle the gap, and we sung both sides… aside: The Catholic church near me plays recorded religious bell music during the day – including the Lutheran hymn “A Mighty Fortress is Our God.” /aside [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=196) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=198)