On Sat, 09 Dec 2017 08:26:49 -0500, micky
wrote:

In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 08 Dec 2017 13:18:27 -0500, micky
wrote:

In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 8 Dec 2017 07:55:39 -0800 (PST), trader_4
wrote:

On Friday, December 8, 2017 at 6:37:50 AM UTC-5, micky wrote:
OT What was wrong with Trent Franks asking his staff members if they
would be maternal surrogates? That is, if she would handle the
pregnancy for him and his wife?

All they have to do is say no. Surely no one would expect to be fired
for saying no, any more than if he asked to borrow a million dollars. In
fact since there were two of them, we can check with the first one and
see if she was demoted or fired. And I've never heard of forcible
surrogacy.

And while it is called "sexual reproduction", there would be nothing
normally called a sex act involved.

He said that he was used to the topic and forgot that not everyone is.

And I can see that. Like a doctor who might think nothing of discussing
a bursting puss-filled something with a non-medical type, even at the
dinner table. So I can almost figure how one or even two employees
would be flustered if he brought it up. I think they're stupid for not
getting over it in an hour, or at most a day or two.

But what I don't get is the others in Congress not being able to see


Is this some sort of Puritan nonsense?

I thought similar. I think it's a bad idea to be asking people who
work for you to be a surrogate. It is bizarre and I can see it leading
to all kinds of potential problems, particularly if they said yes.

You're right, but otoh, he knew them and, I presume, knew they had good
health habits, and he also knew how little he was paying them, and
maybe he intended to have her quit (and work somewhere else part of of
the 9months) and make more money in total when you add in what he was
paying.

We havent' heard if he ever did this and if he ever got a child. Wikip
says he's 60 and has 2 children but no details.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/power...=.2ec56f0c041e

Lafferty said she was struck by what she called the hypocrisy of
Franks’s conduct: “Offering someone five million bucks is not a
discussion of surrogacy,” she said Friday. “Trent Franks says that he’s
a Christian and a conservative. I’m a Christian and conservative. What
he did offends me. It’s not Christian, and it’s not conservative.”

Franks, 60, said in his statement that he and his wife have long
struggled with infertility. After having twins with a surrogate, the
couple sought additional children, he said.

She seems to know exactly what is Christian and what isn't. I wonder h
ow she knows that.

“Offering someone five million bucks is not a discussion of surrogacy,”
Then what is it?

Gee- with all this badness of Franks and Wieners I hope they do not ban
Hot Dogs! HeHe
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Mr.E