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(R) Greg Lopez
(R) Trisha Calvarese
90%
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President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Joe Biden*
(R) Donald Trump
80%
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CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
90%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
90%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
(R) Ron Hanks
40%
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CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(R) Deborah Flora
(R) J. Sonnenberg
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15%↑
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CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Dave Williams
(R) Jeff Crank
50%↓
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CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
90%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) Brittany Pettersen
85%↑
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
(R) Janak Joshi
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35%↓
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State Senate Majority
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August 15, 2016 02:53 PM UTC
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Only God should choose the day and hour of our death. But if you already support abortion this is not a big deal.
Well, maybe not only God.
Not the point. The point is you think the state gets to choose the time of death when it suits you and only God does when that suits you.
We aren't governed by religious law. If your religion says there is a God who should choose… fine for you. You won't have to choose a medically assisted exit if you don't want to. Nobody else is required to live by your religious beliefs so leave your personal beliefs about God and what that God wants out of it. We're talking about secular, not religious, law in a country in which government is confined to the sphere of secular matters leaving religious matters up to each individual.
There are legit reasons to support or oppose. Forcing the law to conform to your particular religion isn’t among them.
So, are you against the Death Penalty now, too?
God…and the CIA?
I dunno' . . .
if Dildus is right on this,
(. . . and, oh yeah, you bet I'm fully aware of the humor and irony in that absurdist assumption)
wouldn't that make war and many of those other CIA specialities sort of, you know, immoral ???
Who the fuck is your imaginary friend to tell me when I can end my life?
She's busy right now working on her immigration status in the off event Drumpf peels one off in November . . .
(. . . and here you probably thought that she already knew everything that's going to happen in the future???)
Give her a break, try exercising some puny thought yourself occasionally — let god concentrate on the big stuff . . .
. . . like finally getting the Cubs into The Series !
(PS — she tell's me she thinks you're a hopeless dumb ass. She'll be conserving her effort for folks who have a chance.)
I'm frequently interested in how "small government" supporters oppose efforts to limit the power of government.
It seems to me every time someone goes on a mechanical ventilator, installs a pacemaker, or takes advantage of medical care, it is "interfering" with the hour God has ordained. If you can justify the "it is medicine, and God provides that as a way to live" theology, can't you do the same with medicine for the right to die?
Don't humor him. It doesn't matter what his views on what God thinks are. They are not relevant in matters of law that affect everyone of every and no religion. We don't live under Christian or Judeo-Christian Sharia law.
Bravo. The voters will get a chance to inject some much-needed liberty and enlightened civilization into this area of the law. Arguably not everything it should be, but it's a step in the right direction.
I've unfortunately been at my share of hospice care death beds, both in people’s homes and in a hospice facility, over the last few years which have thankfully ended as well as one could hope with excellent care, compassion and pain management. We also lost a 105 year old loved one in her sleep after no particular illness besides the winding down of life. But such relatively gentle deaths aren't always possible. Sometimes there are true horrors of suffering and agonizing entrapment. In those instances and in accordance with the express wishes of the dying I believe the way out should be eased.
A member of my dying father's girl friend's church overheard a nurse conferring with me in hospice about pain management very close to the end. This woman had the nerve to stick her nose in and tell me that I shouldn't let them give him morphine, that he should offer his final suffering up to Jesus. After she heard what I had to say to her intrusion, including that she could offer her own damn suffering up to Jesus about whom my secular Jewish dad didn't give a flying f&*#k, she scurried off as fast as she could.
Funny… she didn't show up at the funeral.
And if Modster ever finds himself with no hope of ever recovering or of living another moment in his life without agony, he can follow his own beliefs if he wishes but the availability of legal assisted suicide will prevent people like him and that outrageous church lady twit from forcing others to suffer.
You've hit the nail squarely on the head, so to speak. These religious ideologues; time to start calling them jihadists; keep trying to insert their personal religious beliefs into other peoples' private & personal lives.
I will definitely vote for this initiative; it's a matter of personal freedom and liberty. But I'm also not optimistic for its chances as the religious jihadists will rally against it.
As for Moderatus ("only God should choose the day and hour of our death……"), what if one does not believe in a Judeo/Christian/Islamic supreme being?
One is a heathen…
For the Talibangalists, whose only objection to Sharia Law is that Muslims thought of it first, it's unimportant what misconceptions heathens adhere to. God's law, as revealed through their tortured biblical interpretations, prejudices, and ignorance is supreme.
There is only one God, Presbyter, and Donald Trump is his prophet.
Watch out for lightening.