The REPUBLICAN war on women

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Suuuuuuuuuuuure, they claim there's no "war on women".

Then another Rightie slime pops up to prove there really is.


Maine Republican regrets saying men should rape women if abortion is legal


A Republican state lawmaker from Maine says he regrets making decades worth of offensive comments about gays, rape, and abortion that were compiled recently by a liberal activist.

Blogger Mike Tipping dug up several offensive comments made by state Rep. Lawrence Lockman (R-Amherst) from old news reports he posted on the Bangor Daily News website, which has spurred Democratic calls for the lawmaker’s resignation.

In one of the quotes posted on the blog, Lockman falsely suggested HIV and AIDS could be spread by bed sheets and mosquitos, and he also said the progressive movement helped spread the virus by claiming “the practice of sodomy is a legitimate alternative lifestyle, rather than a perverted and depraved crime against humanity.”

The post also quoted a 1995 press statement by Lockman, then part of the Pro Life Education Association, comparing abortion to rape.

“If a woman has (the right to an abortion), why shouldn’t a man be free to use his superior strength to force himself on a woman?” Lockman said. “At least the rapist’s pursuit of sexual freedom doesn’t (in most cases) result in anyone’s death.”

The blogger also found a 1996 article that featured Lockman dressed as a vampire outside the Federal Building in Bangor to protest the IRS and its “police-state” taxation methods.

Although most of the comments were at least 15 years old, Maine’s Democratic Party chairman asked for the lawmaker’s resignation, saying the remarks were “hateful, vicious and offensive.”

“[Lockman is a] disturbed individual who holds some of the most abhorrent beliefs ever heard from a public official in Maine,” said Ben Grant, the state’s Democratic Party chairman in a statement Tuesday.

The lawmaker issued his own statement Wednesday, saying his previous comments did not inform his public service.

“I have always been passionate about my beliefs, and years ago I said things that I regret,” Lockman said. “I hold no animosity toward anyone by virtue of their gender or sexual orientation, and today I am focused on ensuring freedom and economic prosperity for all Mainers.”

House Minority Leader Kenneth Fredette (R-Newport) also issued a statement rebuking Lockman.

“I do not condone these or any statements that are intentionally hurtful toward others on account of race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation,” Fredette said.

Lockman is known as a divisive figure in the Statehouse who has baselessly accused colleagues of conflicts of interest and makes other outlandish statements during floor debates.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/...g-men-should-rape-women-if-abortion-is-legal/
 
ZappasGuitar said:
Suuuuuuuuuuuure, they claim there's no "war on women".

Then another Rightie slime pops up to prove there really is.


Maine Republican regrets saying men should rape women if abortion is legal


A Republican state lawmaker from Maine says he regrets making decades worth of offensive comments about gays, rape, and abortion that were compiled recently by a liberal activist.

Blogger Mike Tipping dug up several offensive comments made by state Rep. Lawrence Lockman (R-Amherst) from old news reports he posted on the Bangor Daily News website, which has spurred Democratic calls for the lawmaker’s resignation.

In one of the quotes posted on the blog, Lockman falsely suggested HIV and AIDS could be spread by bed sheets and mosquitos, and he also said the progressive movement helped spread the virus by claiming “the practice of sodomy is a legitimate alternative lifestyle, rather than a perverted and depraved crime against humanity.”

The post also quoted a 1995 press statement by Lockman, then part of the Pro Life Education Association, comparing abortion to rape.

“If a woman has (the right to an abortion), why shouldn’t a man be free to use his superior strength to force himself on a woman?” Lockman said. “At least the rapist’s pursuit of sexual freedom doesn’t (in most cases) result in anyone’s death.”

The blogger also found a 1996 article that featured Lockman dressed as a vampire outside the Federal Building in Bangor to protest the IRS and its “police-state” taxation methods.

Although most of the comments were at least 15 years old, Maine’s Democratic Party chairman asked for the lawmaker’s resignation, saying the remarks were “hateful, vicious and offensive.”

“[Lockman is a] disturbed individual who holds some of the most abhorrent beliefs ever heard from a public official in Maine,” said Ben Grant, the state’s Democratic Party chairman in a statement Tuesday.

The lawmaker issued his own statement Wednesday, saying his previous comments did not inform his public service.

“I have always been passionate about my beliefs, and years ago I said things that I regret,” Lockman said. “I hold no animosity toward anyone by virtue of their gender or sexual orientation, and today I am focused on ensuring freedom and economic prosperity for all Mainers.”

House Minority Leader Kenneth Fredette (R-Newport) also issued a statement rebuking Lockman.

“I do not condone these or any statements that are intentionally hurtful toward others on account of race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation,” Fredette said.

Lockman is known as a divisive figure in the Statehouse who has baselessly accused colleagues of conflicts of interest and makes other outlandish statements during floor debates.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/...g-men-should-rape-women-if-abortion-is-legal/
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You're not really saying anything here, Zipperhead. Remember, Republicans have been caving into the Left for sometime now. It's one reason why I am a Conservative Independent. ;)
 
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Another great investigative reporting job by rawstory, the guy is a first term state representative that got elected to office starting in December of 2012. If only they would have spent as much time investigating Obama, the Clinton's or any of the really important stories that are happening now.
 
Have you heard about the hypocrite repuke state congresscritter in Arkansas now trying his best to rid Arkansas of the medicaid expansion and throwing about 100,000 working poor out of health insurance altogether even though he has received more than $1,000,000 in medicaid to pay for injuries he received from an car wreck he endured during a drunken driving episode? How do people even think in that kind of hate and ignorance?
 
"“If a woman has (the right to an abortion), why shouldn’t a man be free to use his superior strength to force himself on a woman?” Lockman said. “At least the rapist’s pursuit of sexual freedom doesn’t (in most cases) result in anyone’s death.”

I mean, what can you say about that statement. It's clearly not a debate at all as much as it's a means to justify rape..
 
Anti-Party said:
"“If a woman has (the right to an abortion), why shouldn’t a man be free to use his superior strength to force himself on a woman?” Lockman said. “At least the rapist’s pursuit of sexual freedom doesn’t (in most cases) result in anyone’s death.”

I mean, what can you say about that statement. It's clearly not a debate at all as much as it's a means to justify rape..
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????....the guy is mocking the justification for abortion, not promoting rape...are all liberals as dense as you are?.........

the thread is wrongly titled, it should have been "The Democrats War on Unborn Children"........
 
LilliesWhiteLies said:
Have you heard about the hypocrite repuke state congresscritter in Arkansas now trying his best to rid Arkansas of the medicaid expansion and throwing about 100,000 working poor out of health insurance altogether even though he has received more than $1,000,000 in medicaid to pay for injuries he received from an car wreck he endured during a drunken driving episode? How do people even think in that kind of hate and ignorance?
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You are implying conservatives think? Conservatives react from fear. Instinct (base) guides their actions, not thought.
Remember we are all born conservative. Some of us grow out of it.
 
StormX said:
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Another great investigative reporting job by rawstory, the guy is a first term state representative that got elected to office starting in December of 2012. If only they would have spent as much time investigating Obama, the Clinton's or any of the really important stories that are happening now.
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You think the racists didn't spend a large proportion of what they steal? Come off it - they need race hate to distract attention from their thieving.
 
Space Monkey said:
You are implying conservatives think? Conservatives react from fear. Instinct (base) guides their actions, not thought.
Remember we are all born conservative. Some of us grow out of it.
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Please forgive me, SM. Sometimes I just forget and lose all control!!!!!! Know what I mean? My nephew was a hateful, spiteful, misbehaving little shit his entire childhood. He is now that same child and is county republican party commission chairman. He's well aware of my propensities in the political world as an active, agitating, progressive and liberal Democrat. He visits occasionally, we drink up and talk a bit before I trap him and before long he leaves here, his obedient wife driving and I'm just hoping he pukes in the street and not in my driveway. But, he IS going to puke. It's what he's all about. HaHaHaHa!
 
PostmodernProphet said:
????....the guy is mocking the justification for abortion, not promoting rape...are all liberals as dense as you are?.........

the thread is wrongly titled, it should have been "The Democrats War on Unborn Children"........
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Mocking? I doubt it. He's clearly a wacko, hopefully a one-term wacko.

Lawrence Lockman, a Republican state rep in Maine who is known as one of the most conservative members of that state’s legislature, has finally expressed regret for comments he made in 1990 in which he described rape as “pursuit of sexual freedom” and said the crime should be legal.

There were a number of past comments made by Lockman that surfaced in a report in the Bangor Daily News earlier this week, covered by the GOP lawmaker’s blanket apology.

“I have always been passionate about my beliefs, and years ago I said things that I regret,” Lockman, a favorite of Maine’s far-right Tea Party faction, said in a statement Wednesday. “I hold no animosity toward anyone by virtue of their gender or sexual orientation, and today I am focused on ensuring freedom and economic prosperity for all Mainers.”

Lockman, serving his first term in Maine’s state legislature, has already made a reputation for his unwavering support of Maine’s conservative governor Paul LePage and for his attacks on Maine’s Democratic House Speaker Mark Eves. Beginning his public involvement in politics as a tax protester, Lawrence Lockman refused to pay income tax, arguing that collection of the tax by the federal government was unconstitutional. In 1983 a federal court ordered Lockman to pay $17,000 in taxes that he claimed the government had no right to collect.

He soon moved on to a fight against gay rights and opposing the rights of people who test positive for the HIV virus. He claimed falsely that AIDS could be spread by mosquitos and bedsheets and said that people who die of the disease are actually victims of “progressive, enlightened, tolerant people in politics and in medicine have assured the public that the practice of sodomy is a legitimate alternative lifestyle, rather than a perverted, depraved crime against humanity.”

It was when Lawrence Lockman was director of anti-abortion group The Pro Life Education Association in 1990 that he argued that rape should be be legal — because abortion is also legal. “If a woman has (the right to abortion), why shouldn’t a man be free to use his superior strength to force himself on a woman?” Lockman wondered aloud. “At least the rapist’s pursuit of sexual freedom doesn’t (in most cases) result in anyone’s death.”
When Lockman’s history of bizarre and offensive statements was compiled in the Bangor paper on Tuesday, some Democrats called for his resignation and other Maine Republicans tried to put some daylight between themselves and the Lawrence Lockman train wreck.

Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/1153222/la...dom-that-should-be-legal/#2DWLl9DfgduoWYRV.99
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Blargity saw a cool lecture on tge subject of Hippocratic oath and it moral implications.

In it, a Doctor noted contraception in todays society to its effects. He also compared legalized abortion (i.e. euthanisia) of our western society to tge early developnent of tge nazis genocidal pogrom.

Maybe this republican 'moron' intuitively understands what all you leftwing 'smarties' dont: that the path we are heading down has been experimented with before. That, although tge lecture was for medschoolers interested in taking tge Hippoctatic oath, the moral behind the oath has decayed just as the moral of our society has?
 
My war is on abortion. Preventing mothers from murdering their unborn is one of the most important things a good citizen can do. ;)
 
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christiefan915 said:
Mocking? I doubt it. He's clearly a wacko, hopefully a one-term wacko.

Lawrence Lockman, a Republican state rep in Maine who is known as one of the most conservative members of that state’s legislature, has finally expressed regret for comments he made in 1990 in which he described rape as “pursuit of sexual freedom” and said the crime should be legal.

There were a number of past comments made by Lockman that surfaced in a report in the Bangor Daily News earlier this week, covered by the GOP lawmaker’s blanket apology.

“I have always been passionate about my beliefs, and years ago I said things that I regret,” Lockman, a favorite of Maine’s far-right Tea Party faction, said in a statement Wednesday. “I hold no animosity toward anyone by virtue of their gender or sexual orientation, and today I am focused on ensuring freedom and economic prosperity for all Mainers.”

Lockman, serving his first term in Maine’s state legislature, has already made a reputation for his unwavering support of Maine’s conservative governor Paul LePage and for his attacks on Maine’s Democratic House Speaker Mark Eves. Beginning his public involvement in politics as a tax protester, Lawrence Lockman refused to pay income tax, arguing that collection of the tax by the federal government was unconstitutional. In 1983 a federal court ordered Lockman to pay $17,000 in taxes that he claimed the government had no right to collect.

He soon moved on to a fight against gay rights and opposing the rights of people who test positive for the HIV virus. He claimed falsely that AIDS could be spread by mosquitos and bedsheets and said that people who die of the disease are actually victims of “progressive, enlightened, tolerant people in politics and in medicine have assured the public that the practice of sodomy is a legitimate alternative lifestyle, rather than a perverted, depraved crime against humanity.”

It was when Lawrence Lockman was director of anti-abortion group The Pro Life Education Association in 1990 that he argued that rape should be be legal — because abortion is also legal. “If a woman has (the right to abortion), why shouldn’t a man be free to use his superior strength to force himself on a woman?” Lockman wondered aloud. “At least the rapist’s pursuit of sexual freedom doesn’t (in most cases) result in anyone’s death.”
When Lockman’s history of bizarre and offensive statements was compiled in the Bangor paper on Tuesday, some Democrats called for his resignation and other Maine Republicans tried to put some daylight between themselves and the Lawrence Lockman train wreck.

Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/1153222/la...dom-that-should-be-legal/#2DWLl9DfgduoWYRV.99
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No ma'am. I've checked both sides of my family tree and this man is not a Wacko.
 
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