Certainly it is a whole lot easier to get 320,000 people to get behind something than 1000 times that many. However, I would be interested in knowing the religious makeup if Iceland, both denominationally and in intensity. There is little question in the US that these factors DO affect support of lack of support for gay marriage.
* 80.7% members of the National Church of Iceland.
* 6.2% members of unregistered religious organizations or with no specified religious affiliation.
* 4.9% members of the Free Lutheran Churches of Reykjavík and Hafnarfjörður.
* 2.8% not members of any religious group.
* 2.5% members of the Roman Catholic Church, which has a Diocese of Reykjavík (see also Bishop of Reykjavík (Catholic)).
Religion in Iceland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Why are people so arrogant they think they know more than people who actually LIVE in the state?
And what exactly are you basing this on?
And that has...what to do with this?
Which DOESNT reflect how people vote. California has a system of initiatives and referendum that means we can over-ride our legislature and pass things ourselves if we want. I invite you to look at the history of these ballot initiatives and see the political bent they tend to take.
Our incumbents have been re-elected, so what?
Why look, here it comes again!
In the 2008 elections, 52% of the voters in California voted for Barack Obama while 45% voted for McCain with about 3% going to third party candidates.
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Furthermore, Proposition 8 drew a slim 52% for Yes and 47% for No.
http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/sov/2008_general/sov_complete.pdf
These are two things that should have been LANDSLIDE issues in a supposedly liberal paradise like California.
It doesn't matter what people register as, it's HOW they vote that reveals an area's true political leanings. Also, California allows the Democrat and Republican parties to decide if they want "Decline To State" voters (AKA "Non-Partisan") to be allowed to cross-over to one party or the other during primaries, however that will change in 2011. Polisci 101, kid.
California is NOT as liberal as people like to think it is, we're divided fairly evenly.
There are threads here where many side with Plaestine and condemn Isreal most lean to the leftYou got a source for this generalization, or are you just venting some unfactual, anti-liberal sentiment?
If the latter, then read and learn. I'm a liberal, and I think Israel is just swell. I think Palestine is swell, too. Rather than point fingers and kill each other, I think it would be just grand if they could live in peace. I imagine almost every liberal feels that way, and I hope conservatives do, too.
You still don't seem to understand the difference between a religion and a nation. You can hate the actions of a group of people without hating the entire religion they belong to or the entire nation they live in. I'm starting to feel like a broken record, but you're just giving another example of conservative absolutism.
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There are threads here where many side with Plaestine and condemn Isreal most lean to the left
Why can't America be this tolerant?
I spent some time in Iceland. I found it a beautifuly place but a pagan country, and it's people were very immoral. Somehow, this newest abomination doesn't surprise me. Since there is now an active volcano going on., I wouldn't be surprised if the whole island goes up in smoake, soon.
What kinda nonsense comment is that!
Ahh, so now we've reduced it to a few threads on a political messageboard where some of the posters defend Palestine, and most - not all - of those posters supposedly "lean to the left".
So much for that generalization. I think we can call it officially dead.
Deny it if you want but it is not conservatives that defend the terrorist in Palestine.
Defending Palestine is not the same thing as defending terrorists in Palestine. You need to try not to think in black and white if you want to understand liberals at all.
Nice try but does not wash
Deny it if you want but it is not conservatives that defend the terrorist in Palestine.
No, if you had any evidence that liberals defend terrorism you'd have posted it by now. The fact that you cling to such a silly notion tells me all I need to know. Perhaps in the future you'd fare better if you steer clear of such partisanship - especially unfactual rhetoric like that.
No, if you had any evidence that liberals defend terrorism you'd have posted it by now. The fact that you cling to such a silly notion tells me all I need to know. Perhaps in the future you'd fare better if you steer clear of such partisanship - especially unfactual rhetoric like that.
Why is it that the attorney general of the United States can't place Islamic terrorism at the feet of Muslims? If that's isn't Liberals defending Islamic terrorism, then what is?
By that argument, we should pace Christian terrorists(see IRA and abortion clinic bombers) at the feet of Christians. So it seems Christians defend terrorism as well.
By that argument, we should pace Christian terrorists(see IRA and abortion clinic bombers) at the feet of Christians. So it seems Christians defend terrorism as well.
If 19 Irishmen had killed 3k Americans - my fellow Irish American Catholics would hang from lampposts any bastards who aided, abetted or supported that action. Maybe the police or FBI might be able to save one or two for intel purposes.
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