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Arizona Senator Wants Mandatory Church Attendance
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Arizona Senator Wants Mandatory Church Attendance
March 27, 2015 at 9:04 pm (This post was last modified: March 27, 2015 at 9:06 pm by AFTT47.)
Can anyone top this? Az state Sen. Sylvia Allen, R-Snowflake, wants to make church attendance mandatory to repair our "moral erosion".

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics...-1.2164602
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RE: Arizona Senator Wants Mandatory Church Attendance
March 27, 2015 at 9:10 pm
It's a law that didn't work in Elizabethan England being applied to a country and a time where religious pluralism is written into law.

And, to quote Brad Pitt, "Whoa, whoa, how is this legal?"

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RE: Arizona Senator Wants Mandatory Church Attendance
March 27, 2015 at 9:11 pm
Universal background checks? Nah, let's make church attendance mandatory.
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RE: Arizona Senator Wants Mandatory Church Attendance
March 27, 2015 at 9:19 pm
WHAT! Confused Fall
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RE: Arizona Senator Wants Mandatory Church Attendance
March 27, 2015 at 9:24 pm (This post was last modified: March 27, 2015 at 9:38 pm by Pyrrho.)
Once one is totally batshit crazy, it is impossible to top. Of course, there are other batshit crazy people who can equal the craziness, but they cannot top it.

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RE: Arizona Senator Wants Mandatory Church Attendance
March 27, 2015 at 9:28 pm
The good Senator from AZ can lick our collective sacks.
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RE: Arizona Senator Wants Mandatory Church Attendance
March 27, 2015 at 9:36 pm
Well said.

I can't wait until Min sees this.
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RE: Arizona Senator Wants Mandatory Church Attendance
March 27, 2015 at 9:43 pm
Um...

https://atheistforums.org/thread-24283-p...#pid908664


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RE: Arizona Senator Wants Mandatory Church Attendance
March 27, 2015 at 9:59 pm
What a snowflake.
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RE: Arizona Senator Wants Mandatory Church Attendance
March 27, 2015 at 10:04 pm
Might be fun to go to a different church every week and see how fast an excommunication edict can be handed down.

I show up with a trick at Mormon Temple and start doing the nasty (after getting our attendance sheet stamped) it might be good for me, and informative for the Mormons.


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