If we start lobbying the WHO now, ICD-12 might include ‘membership in the GOP’ as a medical condition.
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Christ: “What an asshole!”
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This, yet again, is the dumbest fucking thing ive ever heard. Im an atheist, and even I read the bible first. This jackass can’t even read it to know how beyond stupid this is.
This person is void of reasoning and should not be allowed to make laws on anyones behalf.
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While this one senator is undeniably an idiot, what about all the other assholes? I wonder if they had good reasons to want people killed…nope.
FTA
Several senators had other reasons for voting against the bill. Sen. Anthony Bouchard, R-Cheyenne, said that while the death penalty could be used as an effective tool, it was also a means to keep the state’s justice system from turning into the type seen in other states. He then noted that states like California — in some cases — have allowed inmates to undergo gender reassignment surgery.
Opponents of the bill, meanwhile, argued retaining the death penalty would allow the justice system to offer closure to victims of the most heinous crimes, and could be used as a tool to coerce confessions from the state’s worst perpetrators.
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I’m also an atheist, and I’ve read the Bible. I’m not sure that’s a coincidence. It has been my experience that atheists, at least in the US, generally speaking have read more of the Bible than most fundamental evangelicals.
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Gentle observation here:
A few posters read the thread title – “Wyoming GOP Senator…” – and subconsciously assumed that meant it was a man, referring to he/him/his in their responses.
This is the senator in question:
https://www.wyoleg.gov/Legislators/2019/S/1997
How many people here, in their mind’s eye, envisioned a white man?
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Probably only the racists. 
The gender issue was cleared up rather fast after the first 3-4 posts. Misleading clues where, GOP senator said something stoopid.
The big question is, of course: is it treatable?
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Unsurprisingly, he got it wrong.
Jesus was necessarily yet wrongly executed. So that’s Jesus’ execution only supports a necessary yet wrong execution – which, given all the circumstances, doesn’t and can’t exist.
So the genius GOP senator (I know: contradiction or maybe just non-existent) actually has no arguement supporting his vote.
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I think the right wing is determined to plumb every corner of rhetorical space for every sophistry that can be found.
This is a particularly good example:
Take a present-day situation.
Take a culturally favored traditional / mythical / historical reference.
Use a common rhetorical turn of phrase: “If it’s good enough for X, it’s good enough for Y.”
Plug values from the current situation and traditional reference into the phrase.
In so doing, obliterate the meaning of the original situation and the current situation.
Walk away fast, thus leaving to your opponents the job of explaining why you made no sense.
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It doesn’t matter. Stupid is stupid. We can fix a lot of things, but you can’t fix stupid.
If the gods didn’t want us to feed criminals’ livers to eagles, then why do we have the story of Prometheus?
Also, we should make fire illegal.
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Well Wyoming, GOP, Senator… It is a safe bet. That said if they are still not clued in by now just SMDH.
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Mostly the same here.
I initially became an athiest in primary school when being taught about Greek mythology, i asked why those were taught as being myths and Christianity being taught as true and essentially being told “shut up and don’t question it”
But what really cemented it was actually sitting down and reading the bible a few years later, it really is complete nonsense of a book 
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Guilty!
Of course, only changes my point in making me look yet more stupid, but thanks. Always happy to be enlightened.
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I had no presumption of the gender, but I did indeed suspect white, mainly because most of the bat-shit Xtian evangelicals it’s been my misfortune to encounter have been white people rationalizing the fucked up society their ancestors imposed. I suppose that was prejudice on my part. OTOH, as @TobinL points out given the party affiliation and state, I still think the odds were in my favor even if this time the pretzel logic came from a POC. After all, if you play darts with a chart of GOP Senators, you should probably wager on white.
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