What is it with these Republican men? They’re at it again in Congress because apparently contraception is still the enemy of freedom.
A Letter to the Editor in my paper a few weeks ago provided a nice list of religious beliefs and rules that are ignored, indeed violated, by civil law:
- The Catholic ban on divorce
- Muslim and Jewish laws about women and children
- Buddhist and HIndu prohibitions against killing animals
- Capital punishment
- Quakers and conscientious objectors pay taxes that finance wars
- Christian Scientist pay taxes to support medical care they abjure.
You can have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, or democracy. But you cannot have both.
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Unfortunately, it won’t stop until we vote them out of office. They are just nuts.
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Wouldn’t it be lovely Donald, if those Tea Partiers elected in ’10 are voted out in ’12?
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Moe, Moe, Moe. We are not just all barefoot and pregnant, waiting at home with the vacuum cleaner in one hand and a martini in the other and a gleam in our eye. That’s the problem.
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And you know what Elyse, that’s what it’s ALWAYS been about – aboriton, birth control, all that ‘teh sex’ stuff? It’s about putting us uppity women back in our place. As they define it of course.
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Employers and institutions denying women birth control based on moral objections isn’t freedom; it’s control. If the Republicans really cared about freedom, they’d support women’s reproductive rights without reservation.
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They do care about freedom, just not yours. Ask any corporation about the Republican commitment to freedom and you will see nothing but smiles.
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Right; they claim to be all about freedom but what they really want is freedom for themselves and constraint for everybody else.
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But ojmo, Jesus told the Republicans to go in our bedrooms and make sure we were doing it all God’s way!
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Oh, so that’s why Republicans only know one way to do it 🙂
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I”m going to copy & post that list on my Facebook page.
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Why thank you Pat!
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