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Criminalizing Miscarriages?

1 February, 2010

On of the things I admire* about the radical religious right wackos is their ability to get you coming or going.  First, they fight tooth and nail against any possibility of teaching our children actual facts about reproduction, sex, and all of the various ways to prevent pregnancy (abstinence, condoms, birth control pills, sponges, aspirin, IUDs).  Then, if a girl and boy do what teenagers do and (because they have been lied to about the effectiveness of birth control) she gets a little bit preggers, they make it as difficult as possible to get a legal abortion (by intimidation (of doctors, nurses and patients at women’s health clinics) or violence (up to (and including) murder).

Out in Utah (a bastion of progressive thought), a new law has just passed out of committee.  The “bill tightens the definition of what an abortion is and removes a legal immunity for women if they intentionally try to have an illegal abortion.” (this (and all others (except where noted)) is from KCPW‘s website).  Read the rest of this entry ?

Posted in abortion, Abstinence, abstinence-only education, Christianity, Church and State, conservatives, crime, GOP, health care, religion, Religious Abuse, Republican Party, sex, sex education, the law | 38 Comments »

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A Kentucky Hat Trick of Stupid

9 September, 2009

I guess I am just not jaded enough.  I can still be surprised.  Case in point?  The state of Kentucky.  I really am beginning to wonder about Kentucky.  There seems to be a veritable plethora of stupid seeping out of the state.

I, like every other civil servant, make a sacrifice.  Any time that I am in uniform, or on duty, my freedom of speech and of action is limited.  I must, while in contact with the public, avoid certain topics and actions.  If I were to  make public statements about politics or religion, while in either work status or in my government uniform, it would be very easy for a member of the public to interpret my personal views as an official stance of the government of the United States of America.  It really does not matter if a person is an employee of a state, federal, county, local or city government, their freedom of speech is similarly constrained while on duty.  Read the rest of this entry ?

Posted in born again, Christianity, Church and State, crime, education?, god, Predators, proselytizing, rant, religion, Religious Abuse, school | 10 Comments »

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Killing a Child for Acting Like A Child?

17 July, 2009

I, with (((Wife))), have two children.  Well, we actually have one young adult college student (now taking general studies courses with as many art credits as he can fit in) and one teenaged young lady.  Both are in school, both have jobs, both have become remarkably productive human beings (or are, at least, showing signs of becoming productive human beings).  Of course, (((Wife))) and I can smile no matter what happens.  Why?  We remember what they did as really little kids.

(((Girl))) once ate a firefly.  She did it to see if she could make her butt glow.  She also, during a party with some coworkers, had to be extracted from a bowl of potato salad.  Dressed only in a diaper.  (((Boy))) once came home from school, placed his books on the shelf, his jacket on the counter and his shoes in the sink.  He also, once, told (((Wife))) that he had a haddock.  (((Wife))) explained that it was a headache, as in “I have a headache.”  (((Boy))) then answered, “Oh.  So do I.”  (((Wife))) once changed his diaper on I-95 in New York City.  Without pulling over.  In stop-and-go traffic.  In a car with a manual transmission.

My point is, kids are, well, kids.  They are human beings, but they are still incomplete.  Their brains continue to change well into their 20s.  Their corps of knowledge grows faster than they do, and as the knowledge base grows, they make more an more connections.  But even a 19-year-old is, compared to a 30-year-old, incomplete.  That’s what makes them kids, right?

So what happens if, because of religious beliefs, the parents expect a toddler, or an infant, to respond in an adult manner?  Read the rest of this entry ?

Posted in Authoritarianism, batshit crazy, Christianity, crime, death, family, god, rant, religion, Religious Abuse | 12 Comments »

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How Do Christians Make Decisions

2 July, 2009

Over the years, we have seen many, many, many evangelical pastors and extremely religious right wing politicos get into trouble with drugs, prostitutes (male and female (you know the GOP is in trouble when the right heaved a great sigh of relief when Sanford’s mistress was actually female)), and theft.  Keep in mind (and this is why I pick on blog about them), these are the people who consistently claim that atheists cannot be moral, that Democrats are out to destroy the family, that gay marriage will destroy marriage and that liberals are out to destroy all that is good.  Anyway, here is a flow chart I developed to help me understand just how a good Christian decides that cheating or breaking the law is okay: Read the rest of this entry ?

Posted in (((Humour))), Bible, Christianity, crime, god, religion | 44 Comments »

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Glenn Beck is an Idiot

11 June, 2009

Glenn Beck is an idiot.  (And grass is green, the sky is gray, and scrapple is delicious.)  Either that, or he is severely dyslexic (I am mildly dyslexic (mostly number orders and left-right)).  Why do I say this?  While talking out of his ass about the shooting at the Holocaust Memorial, he said (from C&L): 

Beck: This is not the work of right-wing conservatives. This is the work of someone today who is racist, crazy, or most likely, both. Common sense tells you that there are very hateful people on the Right and the Left. Read the rest of this entry ?

Posted in Authoritarianism, conservatives, crime, Faux News, Fox News, terrorism, the law | 9 Comments »

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Leader of the Anti-Abortion Movement Calls Followers “Fruits and Lunatics”

8 June, 2009

Nan, who writes the very enjoyable blog All The Good Names Were Taken (which is a great name for a blog), commented today (on Federal Investigation Begins into the Murder of Dr. Tiller):

Given that Cheryl Sullenger was apparently e-mailing back and forth merrily with Roeder, and she’s a major player in Operation Rescue, one can hope the investigation will be serious and a number of the Operation Rescue folks will find themselves doing perp walks. Read the rest of this entry ?

Posted in abortion, choice, Christianity, crime, terrorism | 6 Comments »

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Federal Investigation Begins into the Murder of Dr. Tiller

5 June, 2009

While the questions about Roeder’s involvement with the Kansas chapter of Operation Rescue continue, while the silenceof (most) Christians continues, while O’Reilly frantically denies that he said anything that he actually said, while Randall Terry cheers the killing and Cheryl Sullenger considers hiring a lawyer, it is nice to know that the Justice Department is in adult hands.  They have opened an investigation to determine if anyone else was involved and if federal laws were violated Read the rest of this entry ?

Posted in abortion, choice, Church and State, crime, Doctor Tiller | 7 Comments »

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The Culture of “Life” Strikes Again: The Murder of Dr. George Tiller

31 May, 2009

Back in April, the Department of Homeland Security warned that right wing extremist and terrorist groups may take advantage of the worsening economy and the election of an African-American President would increase both the number of hate groups and increase the number of people involved in such groups.  Of course, the reaction of the media right was measured and moderate.  Well, not really — many accused the Obama Administration of orchestrating a hit job on real Americans.  After all, no Christian American would ever become a terrorist, right?  No politically conservative veteran would ever become involved in an extremist act, right?  Conservatives and Christians value life (even if it means the death of a mother).

Today, the sick neo-conservative Christian culture of ‘life’ struck again.  Read the rest of this entry ?

Posted in abortion, choice, Christianity, Church and State, conservatives, crime, death, Doctor Tiller, health care, Predators, religion, Religious Abuse, RIP, Tiller | 62 Comments »

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“You will never find a more wretched hive of villainy and scum.”*

29 April, 2009

I remember back when I was young and innocent and I could actually be surprised.  Case in point:  The United States House of Representatives passed hate-crime legislation.   The bill is called the Matthew Shepard Bill, honouring the memory of the young man killed in Wyoming because he was gay.  No, that is not the part which should surprise me.  The hate-crimes legislation makes sense and is need.  The part that really should surprise me actually makes me feel physically ill. Read the rest of this entry ?

Posted in conservatives, crime, Faux News, Fox News, Foxx, gay rights, GLBT, GOP, idiots, Republican Party | 13 Comments »

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Focus on the Family Narrator Caught Propositioning What He Thought Was a 15 Year Old Girl

7 April, 2009

The right-wing para-fascist group Focus on the Family has a great deal of faith (faith:  the ability to believe anything based on no evidence) in the effectiveness of abstinence-only-sex-education.  Despite reams of evidence that  AOSE not only does not alter teenager’s sexual habits (except, of course, that it makes unsafe sex (and thus sexually-tranimitted dissease and pregnancy) more likely), FoF continues to force-feed this faith-based program in public schools with the connivance of conservative politicians (who really don’t like to think anyway (which makes faith-based laws more likely). Read the rest of this entry ?

Posted in Abstinence, abstinence-only education, crime | 11 Comments »

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