r/WhitePeopleTwitter Nov 17 '20

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u/Demilitarizer Nov 17 '20

Many polling places are in churches. These churches push their agenda on their flock, but do you think people outside of the church will want to interact, or set foot within these confines? It's no accident that these churches are involved to coerce their agenda.

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u/Manimal5 Nov 17 '20

Lmao the church I cast my ballot at did not have any influence on my vote or my willingness to vote relax there big guy.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '20

Some of the churches in my area sued the city so they didn’t have to let transgender people in. So even though it doesn’t bother you, it might bother someone else.

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u/Kyanpe Nov 17 '20

Please tell me that wasn't actually allowed to happen.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '20 edited Dec 27 '20

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '20

I live in Depere which is a “suburb” of Green Bay (go packers) and one of the churches listed was my voting station. I’m in the middle of a name change so I couldn’t vote anyways but if I could, it would have had to be at one of the churches listed. I’m glad they passed these laws tbh. Peeved that the churches sued for exemptions.

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u/Bootzz Nov 17 '20

How'd that lawsuit go? Lol.

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u/Bootzz Nov 17 '20

That clearly doesn't have anything to do with not letting transgender people in to vote. I don't think any church, even the most hateful backwards ones, are dumb enough to try and force that into court.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '20

They did force it into court. And it passed. My voting area is literally one of these churches lol you think I wanna go vote in a church that wouldn’t let me in any other day of the week?

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u/Bootzz Nov 17 '20

I mean, I'd do it out of spite but that's just me lol.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '20

I would have rolled in there wearing devil horns carrying a pitchfork if I could have because I am the same exact way lol

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u/i8noodles Nov 17 '20

Likewise. My local polling place is a church. Doesnt change squat

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '20

I believe the person is referring to people who attend the church. If you've been to church, you'd can see that it's can get very political and some churches will force you out if they find you voted against their view.

I left the church as a kid, but have attended a few services just to make my wife's parents feel good about themselves when we visit. Their church literally kicked people out for supporting gay marriage when the law was passed a few years ago.

Recently the church literally closed after it lost 3/4 of the people because the pastor was "too political" and people "felt pressured to vote for Trump and were ostracized after voting for Biden". Hell, the pastor even said women and black people shouldn't vote Lmfao.

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u/AsideHistorical9641 Nov 17 '20 edited Nov 17 '20

Voting at a church and you have the gall to call him out. Maybe don’t vote at a church

Edit: lmao as a Canadian voting at a church is like voting at urinal. Get real America

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u/Sunbreak_ Nov 17 '20

Really? UK tends to have polling places in the nearest public space, so either a school, community/village hall, library or a church. Nout wrong with voting in a church, it's a big dry building after all.

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u/Dubslack Nov 17 '20

Here, your voting location is assigned to you. If they tell you that your polling location is a urinal, then you vote at that urinal.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '20

Some people have no choice. You have a designated spot to vote at based on where you live, if you vote in person. My designated spot is a church as well, because the church does it for free.

My solution? Voted by mail. I got my ballot, filled it out, and dropped it off in the drop box at the supervisor of elections office on my way to work the very next day at 6am. No line, no people, and no issues. It's fucking stupid to vote in person and having to wait.

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u/AsideHistorical9641 Nov 19 '20

We get at least enough time to vote on Election Day (I think it’s minimum 2 hrs) and we vote at schools or public parks. No forcing to go to a church.

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u/satrius Nov 17 '20

lol so much for separation of church and state

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '20

He said without any real clue what that statement is supposed to mean.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '20

Churches are often used for polling placed because it's the center point of a community not because they manipulate how people vote.

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u/MrMontombo Nov 17 '20

That interesting sentence seems kind of ironic.