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sasha031

(6,700 posts)
Thu Nov 1, 2012, 08:09 PM Nov 2012

Larry Flynt Offers Mourdock $1 Million For ‘Proof’ Of Claim That Rape Pregnancies

Are A ‘Gift From God
Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler Magazine, is offering Senate candidate Richard Mourdock (R-IN) $1 million for “proof” of Mourdock’s widely condemned claim that pregnancies that result from rape are “a gift from God.” Flynt, a known provocateur, has taken out a full-page ad in the Indianapolis Star mocking the candidate’s comments and asking him to verify the statement with “letters, emails, text messages, or videos from God.”

After sarcastically listing the criteria for this proof, Flynt goes on to make his point:
I will accept for purposes of this reward any verifiable transcript of your personal conversations with God; letters, email, text messages, or videos from God, or messages addressed to you from God trasmitted by any third party, including the Republican National Committee or the Romney/Ryan campaign.
I assume that you would not have made this statement unless you had been authorized by God. No one who believes in God would ever use the Almighty’s name in vain. That would be blasphemy.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/11/01/1121811/hustler-publisher-offers-mourdock-1-million-for-proof-of-claim-that-rape-pregnancies-are-a-gift-from-god/

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Larry Flynt Offers Mourdock $1 Million For ‘Proof’ Of Claim That Rape Pregnancies (Original Post) sasha031 Nov 2012 OP
Super funny! Heather MC Nov 2012 #1
Mourdock is about as bad as they come Tobin S. Nov 2012 #2

Tobin S.

(10,418 posts)
2. Mourdock is about as bad as they come
Thu Nov 1, 2012, 08:19 PM
Nov 2012

and I hope this blunder takes him down. He's a Tea party/Libertarian type candidate who makes your average Republican look like a socialist. There's no way he should be this close to the Senate as it is. Problem is, being in Indiana, he's got a shot.

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