Rape pregnancy is a gift from god - Rick santorum

RichieC · 25-01-2012 4:06pm #1

"I believe and I think that the right approach is to accept this horribly created, in the sense of rape, but nevertheless, in a very broken way, a gift of human life, and accept what God is giving to you."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2012/jan/25/rick-santorum-rape-pregnancy?CMP=twt_gu

what the fk is he smoking over there and is it legal here?

sh*t like this would be another reson to invade Iran if amedjimijams said it...

for **** sake..

AnonoBoy · 25-01-2012 4:06pm

I think Rick Santorum is a test from God.

Professey Chin · 25-01-2012 4:07pm

-_-

Seachmall · 25-01-2012 4:08pm

and accept what God is giving to you

And God couldn't give you the gift of pregnancy without having you raped...?!

Underdraft · 25-01-2012 4:09pm

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I think Rick Santorum is a test from God.

Copyright Bill Hicks

Anyway I'm glad Santorum exists if only for the definition that bares his name http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Santorum

AnonoBoy · 25-01-2012 4:10pm

Underdraft wrote: »

Copyright Bill Hicks

Bill said I could paraphrase him whenever I like.

Kintarō Hattori · 25-01-2012 4:15pm

No idea who he is....... Google...... oh. I can't imagine that going down well with the US folk.

strobe · 25-01-2012 4:17pm

RichieC wrote: »

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2012/jan/25/rick-santorum-rape-pregnancy?CMP=twt_gu

what the fk is he smoking over there and is it legal here?

sh*t like this would be another reson to invade Iran if amedjimijams said it...

for **** sake..

Well wasn't Jesus basically a rape baby. So, what do you expect I guess.

RichieC · 25-01-2012 4:20pm

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

No idea who he is....... Google...... oh. I can't imagine that going down well with the US folk.

it's a target market.. but there are those who will cheer this.

Ellis Dee · 25-01-2012 4:21pm

OK, let's humour Dick Scrotorum and imagine, for a moment, that there is a god. If that god is the dude all the biblethumpers are always on about, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, and so on, then the big question is why he doesn't just put a woman in the pudding club the way the Holy Ghost is supposed to have done to the Virgin Mary. No need for the unpleasantness that is rape. I wonder how Dick would feel if his own missus strayed down the wrong street and got boned by a couple of big studs - and became pregnant. I bet he'd be singing a different song then!:):)

pickarooney · 25-01-2012 4:22pm

So what's he saying, "don't hate your baby because it wasn't his fault you got raped"?

It doesn't really sound that bad, does it?

Seachmall · 25-01-2012 4:24pm

pickarooney wrote: »

So what's he saying, "don't hate your baby because it wasn't his fault you got raped"?

It doesn't really sound that bad, does it?

Or that rape is God's way of giving you the gift of life.

ThinkAboutIt · 25-01-2012 4:25pm

It is one mans opinion. I don't see how it is even important to your life. Some people are stupid, that is a fact of life, the best thing you can do is ignore them.

Getting wound up over one mans opinion, when he's not even in your house saying it to your face, is very daft tbh.

o1s1n · 25-01-2012 4:26pm

Seachmall wrote: »

Or that rape is God's way of giving you the gift of life.

God works in mysterious ways afterall. If he choses to use rape to channel his gift, who are we to judge?

Me arse.

Seachmall · 25-01-2012 4:26pm

ThinkAboutIt wrote: »

It is one mans opinion. I don't see how it is even important to your life. Some people are stupid, that is a fact of life, the best thing you can do is ignore them.

Getting wound up over one mans opinion, when he's not even in your house saying it to your face, is very daft tbh.

He's running to be elected into the most powerful office on earth...

Myrddin · 25-01-2012 4:27pm

That should make the female children rape victims in African countries feel a bit better while watching their own kids starve.

4zn76tysfajdxp · 25-01-2012 4:27pm

Rick Santorum is a moron. He associates social welfare exclusively with black people ffs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdfZmcuomcE

mike65 · 25-01-2012 4:31pm

Is he in the presidential race for the Republican party?

pickarooney · 25-01-2012 4:31pm

Seachmall wrote: »

Or that rape is God's way of giving you the gift of life.

Is he? Is he not just being extraordinarily selective in what he considers to be the work of God? Maybe the devil made the rape happen and God put a good spin on it with the baby? He'd hardly consider himself fit to judge an act of God as 'horrible'.

RichieC · 25-01-2012 4:32pm

mike65 wrote: »

Is he in the presidential race for the Republican party?

He is...

tbh · 25-01-2012 4:32pm

I'm with pickarooney on this. It doesn't matter whether you actually agree with his stance on abortion or not, it's very easy to understand how he came to this viewpoint. Being honest, I would never condemn or seek to judge the actions of any woman who is pregnant as a result of being raped, but I can totally understand the viewpoint of someone who says the baby is an innocent victim.

For a lot of people the default action on santorum is to ridicule everything he says. I'd ridicule probably 75% of what he says, but this is based on what he, and a lot of people, genuinely believe.

Seachmall · 25-01-2012 4:33pm

pickarooney wrote: »

Is he? Is he not just being extraordinarily selective in what he considers to be the work of God? Maybe the devil made the rape happen and God put a good spin on it with the baby? He'd hardly consider himself fit to judge an act of God as 'horrible'.

accept what God is giving to you.

To me that suggests God has chosen to give you a baby.

Presumably he choose the method of delivery.

ronan45 · 25-01-2012 4:34pm

baby = gift

:cool:

being raped to get it = :eek::(:confused::rolleyes::pac:

RichieC · 25-01-2012 4:35pm

who in their right mind would bring a rape baby to term? the child will look like your rapist, possibly act and sound like him.

nobody needs a life time reminder of possibly the most brutal thing that ever happened you.

AnonoBoy · 25-01-2012 4:35pm

Seachmall wrote: »

He's running to be elected into the most powerful orifice on earth...

The most powerful orifice on earth?

So the sun does shine out of his behind after all!

simit · 25-01-2012 4:38pm

What kind of lunatic really believes something like that!

RichieC · 25-01-2012 4:40pm

simit wrote: »

What kind of lunatic really believes something like that!

A religious one.

cynder · 25-01-2012 4:42pm

RichieC wrote: »

who in their right mind would bring a rape baby to term? the child will look like your rapist, possibly act and sound like him.

nobody needs a life time reminder of possibly the most brutal thing that ever happened you.

My cousin is a Jehovah's witness she wad raped 6 years ago and was impregnated. Abortion was not and would never be an option.

She went on to have her son 2 months later at her 6 week check up she had a smear test done, she had pre cancerous cells and had a full hysterectomy. The boy is a full member of the family no one looks at him as the rape child. He is a lovely little boy and has given his mom and her family much happiness.

up for anything · 25-01-2012 4:43pm

It's the whole Christian thing that makes my skin crawl and my flesh creep. Following on from becoming pregnant by a rapist is a gift from God, then would becoming pregnant unmarried be like a gift from the Trinity (especially if the baby's father could be any one of a number of me).

I really dislike religion. It leads to all sorts of inconsistencies and abuses. :mad:

Myrddin · 25-01-2012 4:43pm

pickarooney wrote: »

Is he? Is he not just being extraordinarily selective in what he considers to be the work of God? Maybe the devil made the rape happen and God put a good spin on it with the baby? He'd hardly consider himself fit to judge an act of God as 'horrible'.

I wonder if he'd be spouting this if God forbid, his wife was raped & became impregnated with the rapists child. Wouldn't that be a wonderful gift from God? Sick b@stard needs to realise that the world is more than America

pickarooney · 25-01-2012 4:44pm

RichieC wrote: »

who in their right mind would bring a rape baby to term? the child will look like your rapist, possibly act and sound like him.

nobody needs a life time reminder of possibly the most brutal thing that ever happened you.

If you believe in the right to life of the unborn then you don't really have much of an option. For everyone who thinks the way you do there's someone for whom it would be a choice between compounding a rape with a murder and trying to make the best of a bad situation. In any case I don't imagine there is any easy option.

EnterNow wrote: »

I wonder if he'd be spouting this if God forbid, his wife was raped & became impregnated with the rapists child. Wouldn't that be a wonderful gift from God? Sick b@stard needs to realise that the world is more than America

Did you read the article? He went on record to say that his stance wouldn't change if it were his own daughter in that situation. I don't understand the America comment.

My name is URL · 25-01-2012 4:45pm

RichieC wrote: »

who in their right mind would bring a rape baby to term? the child will look like your rapist, possibly act and sound like him.

nobody needs a life time reminder of possibly the most brutal thing that ever happened you.

Martin Sheen's wife was conceived through rape and both have being somewhat opposed to abortion all their lives.

I think it's a tad unfair for you to assume that anybody conceived through rape will regret ever being born

RichieC · 25-01-2012 4:47pm

grindelwald wrote: »

My cousin is a Jehovah's witness she wad raped 6 years ago and was impregnated. Abortion was not and would never be an option.

She went on to have her son 2 months later at her 6 week check up she had a smear test done, she had pre cancerous cells and had a full hysterectomy. The boy is a full member of the family no one looks at him as the rape child. He is a lovely little boy and has given his mom and her family much happiness.

I said in their right mind... :pac:

cynder · 25-01-2012 4:51pm

RichieC wrote: »

grindelwald wrote: »

My cousin is a Jehovah's witness she wad raped 6 years ago and was impregnated. Abortion was not and would never be an option.

She went on to have her son 2 months later at her 6 week check up she had a smear test done, she had pre cancerous cells and had a full hysterectomy. The boy is a full member of the family no one looks at him as the rape child. He is a lovely little boy and has given his mom and her family much happiness.

I said in their right mind... :pac:

That debate is for a different thread. The point being the child is loved regardless of how he was conceived.

Myrddin · 25-01-2012 4:53pm

grindelwald wrote: »

That debate is for a different thread. The point being the child is loved regardless of how he was conceived.

The child is as much a victim as the rape victim. And that should always be the case. To call it a gift from God though, you really have to despair at some people...mostly Americans

Duggy747 · 25-01-2012 4:53pm

I get what he's saying but extremely poor choice of words and could do without the gift from God shìte.

jaja321 · 25-01-2012 4:53pm

grindelwald wrote: »

My cousin is a Jehovah's witness she wad raped 6 years ago and was impregnated. Abortion was not and would never be an option.

If Rick Santorum had his way it wouldn't be an option for anyone. Thankfully this man is unlikely to get the Republican nomination. I find him abominable.

MileyByrne · 25-01-2012 4:56pm

Sure most boardsies would simply "abort" the child.

Which is an even bigger wrong than the hypothetical rape.

Seems Santorum actually is making sense after all. Legislators have to deal with hard cases every day of the week and this is his reasoned opinion on those who become pregnant as a result of rape.

So leave out the misinformed outrage.

Auvers · 25-01-2012 4:57pm

hahaha just put Santorum into Google

nice top search result

MileyByrne · 25-01-2012 4:57pm

Duggy747 wrote: »

I get what he's saying but extremely poor choice of words and could do without the gift from God shìte.

Media spin is not his choice of words.

Batsy · 25-01-2012 4:58pm

Hopefully the Republicans will win the election. In these hard times America needs a sensible, common-sense hand on the tiller, not some loony liberal.

Batsy · 25-01-2012 4:59pm

strobe wrote: »

Well wasn't Jesus basically a rape baby?

Nope.

Seachmall · 25-01-2012 4:59pm

MileyByrne wrote: »

Media spin is not his choice of words.

The man isn't exactly unknown for saying stupid shit.

this is his reasoned opinion on those who become pregnant as a result of rape.

That they should be happy about getting pregnant from it?

Yeah, real "reasoned" opinion there...

MileyByrne · 25-01-2012 5:01pm

I'm no fan of Rick Santorum (I'd be a Ron Paul fan), but I admire his position on persons who are born as the result of a rape. Are we saying they'd be better off dead?

cynder · 25-01-2012 5:01pm

EnterNow wrote: »

grindelwald wrote: »

That debate is for a different thread. The point being the child is loved regardless of how he was conceived.

The child is as much a victim as the rape victim. And that should always be the case. To call it a gift from God though, you really have to despair at some people...mostly Americans

I personally would not call it a gift from god more like a blessing in disguise considering her womb and ovarys are now gone.

Yes the child is a victim too.

I have no idea how she will explain about his dad or if she intends to tell him how he was conceived, but that's her business not mine or anyone elses.

*Please note I'm only talking about my cousin not any other rape victim, in my cousins circumstances : loss of ability to have children, her love for her son and his love for her do I use the term blessing in disguise.

Batsy · 25-01-2012 5:02pm

pickarooney wrote: »

So what's he saying, "don't hate your baby because it wasn't his fault you got raped"?

It doesn't really sound that bad, does it?

I agree with you. I cannot believe that there are women out there who kill their perfectly healthy unborn babies just because the baby's father is a rapist. The baby is completely innocent and should be allowed to live.

Seachmall · 25-01-2012 5:02pm

MileyByrne wrote: »

I'm no fan of Rick Santorum (I'd be a Ron Paul fan), but I admire his position on persons who are born as the result of a rape. Are we saying they'd be better off dead?

We're saying it's not for him to make statements about "accepting Gods gift" after someone has just been raped.

The guys a prick.

Ickle Magoo · 25-01-2012 5:03pm

"the gift of human life" - unless on death row...or they happen to be gay - go rick! :rolleyes:

RichieC · 25-01-2012 5:04pm

Batsy wrote: »

I agree with you. I cannot believe that there are women out there who kill their perfectly healthy unborn babies just because the baby's father is a rapist. The baby is completely innocent and should be allowed to live.

People get abortions all the time and for far lesser reasons.

MileyByrne · 25-01-2012 5:04pm

Seachmall wrote: »

We're saying it's not for him to make statements about "accepting Gods gift" after someone has just been raped.

The guys a prick.

Ah bless.

He's a legislator - of course it's for him to make reasoned decisions based on evidence presented to him. Who are you to say otherwise?

MileyByrne · 25-01-2012 5:05pm

Ickle Magoo wrote: »

"the gift of human life" - unless on death row...or they happen to be gay - go rick! :rolleyes:

Babies are innocent. AFAIC, you can't do wrong until you reach the age of sense - about seven years old.

Rape pregnancy is a gift from god - Rick santorum

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