Anti-abortion jihadist Martin Moore
Hey, Federal Way City Councilmember Martin Moore… don’t let the door hit you on the way out:
Like Miloscia, Moore said he no longer felt welcome in his former party as a “pro-life” Democrat opposed to abortion.
“The party has become so incredibly intolerant of people who might disagree with them on some issues,” Moore said in an interview.
Uh-huh. So Moore is lambasting the Democratic Party for being “incredibly intolerant” of his incredible intolerance. Because if you think about it, that’s exactly what Moore’s so-called “pro-life” stance is: An incredibly intolerant demand that the rest of us be legally barred from exercising our reproductive rights, on the grounds that abortion violates Moore’s own peculiar religious sensibilities. Sound familiar?
The morality of abortion is a religious issue. Don’t believe in it, don’t have one. I can tolerate that. Even respect it. But your religious convictions have no fucking place in our law.
Don’t like abortion, don’t get one. Don’t get her pregnant before she is ready. How hard is that?
1. City council is NON-PARTISAN.
2. Your (Goldy’s) hyper partisanship is showing.
Does not make his sentiment wrong.
@2(1) Calling yourself “nonpartisan” doesn’t make it so. See, e.g., Suzy Hutch.
@2(2) Goldy isn’t nonpartisan, in case you haven’t noticed, and what’s more he’s never claimed to be.
Don’t call these types “pro-life”. Their laws will kill women. They flood our streets with gun death. They elect war mongers. They deny the poor basic health care. If you refer to them, it should be “anti-choice”. I prefer “pro-death” myself. But I appreciate the quote marks.
Martin leaves out that Rep. Freeman was embraced by the Democratic Party, and received the support of the County and LD organization, even though he did not support a woman’s right to choose. He also forgets to mention he asked for, and gladly accepted, a contribution from the King County Democrats in 2014 to help retire his city council campaign debt. And, of course, his conversion on this issue, which he says he was hiding his true beliefs from the Democratic Party in 2013, but only just converted a few months ago.
This is about his quest for office and nothing more. What a shameful, pitiful little man.
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The story was updated.
Perhaps someone with knowledge of the local politics there could discuss likelihood of the seat staying in Dem hands, given the current additional candidates for the seat?
It will if the next democrat stands for more compelling than the other candidates. If they run as not being as bad as a republican, probably not.
Oh, my oops. I left off the list that they fight for the worst poisoners of the earth. Shouldn’t have forgotten that one.
“But your religious convictions have no fucking place in our law.”
If your goal is to replace a democracy with a theocracy, of course they do! Dig beneath the surface a bit and you’ll find Evangelicals have more in common with their Taliban counterparts than with secular Americans.
I went to March for Life once again this year and I was surprised (and disappointed) by how politicized the presentation at the capital steps as become. It was a rally, pure and simple, and legislators who spoke were asking for votes and those who weren’t there were called out for being voted out. Who remembers that McGovern and Carter were the pro-choice candidates? I’m offended that a noble cause has turned into a demographic exercise to stack election results. Mark and Martin are chumps who sold out cheap.