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News: "Pregnancies from rape God’s will" - GOP Senate candidate
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"Pregnancies from rape God’s will" - GOP Senate candidate
GOP Senate candidate: Pregnancies from rape God’s will
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(CNN) – Richard Mourdock, running for U.S. Senate in Indiana, said at a debate Tuesday that pregnancies resulting from rape are intended by God.
The Republican candidate was explaining his opposition to abortion in cases of rape or incest when he made the remark.
"I struggled with it myself for a long time, and I realized that life is a gift from God, and I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something God intended to happen," Mourdock said, explaining that he would allow for exceptions to an abortion ban when a mother's life is in danger.
In early May, Mourdock defeated longtime GOP Sen. Richard Lugar in a bitterly contested GOP primary vote, and is facing Democratic Rep. Joe Donnelly in November's election.
In a statement following the debate, Mourdock wrote that "God creates life, and that was my point."
"God does not want rape, and by no means was I suggesting that He does. Rape is a horrible thing, and for anyone to twist my words otherwise is absurd and sick," he continued.
Donnelly also responded, writing, "I think rape is a heinous and violent crime in every instance. The God I believe in and the God I know most Hoosiers believe in, does not intend for rape to happen–ever. What Mr. Mourdock said is shocking, and it is stunning that he would be so disrespectful to survivors of rape."
Mourdock has enjoyed support from GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who traveled to Indiana in August to campaign for the tea party-backed candidate alongside former Vice President Dan Quayle and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Romney has also appeared in a television ad for Mourdock.
Andrea Saul, a Romney campaign spokeswoman, said in response to Mourdock's rape comments that "Gov. Romney disagrees with Richard Mourdock's comments, and they do not reflect his views."
Former President Bill Clinton stumped in Indiana last week for Donnelly. A Howey/DePauw University poll taken September 19-23 showed Donnelly at 40% and Mourdock at 38% among likely Indiana voters.
The Republican Senate candidate's remarks on rape and abortion are the latest flash point on the highly sensitive issue. In August, U.S. Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri – also running for Senate – ignited a firestorm when he said "legitimate rape" rarely resulted in pregnancy.
Akin, who faced backlash from Democrats as well as from most of his own party, defiantly remained in the race, despite calls from GOP leaders, including Romney, to step aside.
And Rep. Joe Walsh, another tea party-backed Republican running for re-election in Illinois, questioned last week the necessity of allowing abortions if a mother's life is at risk, saying such an exemption to an abortion ban was simply a tool by pro-choice activists.
Speaking after a debate with his opponent, Walsh seemed to suggest medical advances made dangerous pregnancies rare.
"This is an issue that opponents of life throw out there to make us look unreasonable," Walsh said. "There's no such exception as life of the mother, and as far as health of the mother, same thing, with advances in science and technology. Health of the mother has been, has become a tool for abortions any time under any reason."
CNN's Rachel Streitfeld contributed to this report.
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Member Since: 3/17/2012
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"God does not want rape, and by no means was I suggesting that He does. Rape is a horrible thing, and for anyone to twist my words otherwise is absurd and sick," he continued.
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Actually god does want rape though. In the bible, he calls many people to rape and pillage. 
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Member Since: 12/28/2010
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Originally posted by feuxtography
Actually god does want rape though. In the bible, he calls many people to rape a pillage. |
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Fundies, just.....STFU.
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Originally posted by feuxtography
Actually god does want rape though. In the bible, he calls many people to rape and pillage. |
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Member Since: 1/30/2012
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Originally posted by feuxtography
Actually god does want rape though. In the bible, he calls many people to rape a pillage. |
you obviously don't understand a thing, educate urself and ask someone who actually knows about those stuff to explain the bible to u, don't just read and explain by yourself..
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Not even one page in and the girls are trYing iT.
Close it NAO. 
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I read the title wrong and was wondering what a rape god was.
In any case, this is some ********.
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Originally posted by Run The World
you obviously don't understand a thing, educate urself and ask someone who actually knows about those stuff to explain the bible to u, don't just read and explain by yourself..
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For ****'s sake.
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(Deuteronomy 22:28-29 NLT)
If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her.
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Pretty damn blatant if you ask me.
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These girls just need to stop it. 
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This is so wrong. 
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Originally posted by Rumpelstiltskin
I read the title wrong and was wondering what a rape god was.
In any case, this is some ********.
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Me too!
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Originally posted by Run The World
you obviously don't understand a thing, educate urself and ask someone who actually knows about those stuff to explain the bible to u, don't just read and explain by yourself..
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I went to SCHOOL for this ****. Don't tell me I don't understand a thing.
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Originally posted by (Cole)
For ****'s sake.
Pretty damn blatant if you ask me.
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It's not the same 
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Originally posted by feuxtography
I went to SCHOOL for this ****. Don't tell me I don't understand a thing.
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Then please enlighten us with a more in depth explanation.
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Originally posted by MrDeeds
It's not the same |
That was a bad example on Coles part.
For example, in Judges, where warriors are sent to Jabesh-gilead to kill everyone but the virgins, and then gave the virgins to men. Then the lord feels pity that not all the men were covered, so he tells the leaders to tell the men to snatch more women for them from the festival of the Lord. They hide in the damn BUSHES.
Then in Numbers, god and moses tell the people to kill the midianites, but once again, spare the virgins to keep for themselves.
And...
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Originally posted by Zechariah 14:1-2
Lo, a day shall come for the Lord when the spoils shall be divided in your midst. And I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle: the city shall be taken, houses plundered, women ravished; half of the city shall go into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be removed from the city.
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And for good measure.
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Originally posted by Exodus 21:7-11
When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her. And if the slave girl's owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter. If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife. If he fails in any of these three ways, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment.
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God loves rape. I dont get why the guy in the OP is trying to deny it.
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Religion cannot be in the government. This is such ********, I never want to follow politics
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Why is there so many people saying this ****!  It is wrong on so many levels.
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I bet Dick Lugar is somewhere laughing his ass off watching Mourdock dig is own grave and lose a seat that was Republican since the late 70's 
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