This entire charade is nothing but a made up outrage, carefully timed to  occur during an election year, so that the homophobic, the bigoted, the insecure, and the angry will forget that the politicians are picking their pocket and line up to support the GOP by making them feel righteous and superior.

Actually he did reference a study- a CDC study. He says the data was manipulated, yielding a skewed result. I saw something that recently a European court ruled that MMR was a factor in autism. America is always late when it comes to protect the health of the populace (with some exceptions to California).

You are correct.  I wonder if Kristin was also so knowledgeable about the history.

Agree on the first part, we balance our rights against the rights of others.  However, I disagree completely on limiting rights for "the common good".  The "common good" is collectivist bullshit that is used to seize the rights of individuals for the good of the state, and as such is an anathema to the rights of individuals.

It is my opinion that in a functioning republic, our rights are not absolute, expressly because those rights are balanced against the rights of others and the common good. We can come up with numerous scenarios that illustrate that this is the case, so I won't belabor that point. The disconnect in this discussion seems to be summed up here:

This is not true in our nation. We can take anything to its illogical extreme and claim the end is nigh. But, thankfully, we don't live at the extremes. Nor does our republic function at the extremes, having processes in place to protect against that. Rather, we exist in the broad middle, and we strive for sensible balance.

Even the founding fathers recognized that we can collectively justify abridging rights in some circumstances so that we may better function as a nation and so that the common good is protected. So the idea of "absolute" rights is a misnomer unless it has some definition that I am not familiar with.

I'll type slow.
Eight years ago, in 2008.... Hilary Clinton stayed in the primaries after finding herself behind Barack Obama. Nobody said she was damaging herself by continuing to try and win delegates and that it would come back to haunt her in the future, as Lucifer constantly posts.
Now...
It is eight years later than it was in 2008... and Hilary Clinton is poised to put Bernie Sanders away, even though she stayed in the hunt EIGHT YEARS AGO.