Speaking of the GOP, we should never forget our snake-handling friends.
These wonderful christians are from the Apostolic Truth Tabernacle in
Indiana.
As a wise man once said:
Herr Pope
Enraged that the Obama administration has not been cowed into submission over its demands to outlaw contraception and abortion and gays – and send more tax free money - the Bishops have gone nuclear. And GOP. Vote GOP or else.
Personally I don’t think these Mafia Dons have the power to frighten their superstitious flock with visions of hellfire any longer, but even though their followers seem wise enough to ignore the old perverts and happily use condoms and Ortho-novum, somehow they don’t seem able to break the hold over their wallets and they continue to fund the right wing in America.
There is some kind of disconnect that lets them say that they aren’t freaky religious bigots, personally, but still they feel the need to pay so that Father Flanagan can be whisked out of town rapidly and quietly before that lawsuit is filed.
After all the Vatican bank is having a little trouble at the moment, and multi-million dollar anti-gay political campaigns aren’t cheap. They need the contribution of every parishioner.
We can only hope that one day they will wake up – but still if you are afraid of ghosts or hell – this is the video for you:
I am constantly amazed that these people actually pay money to these ignorant
mountebanks and expect something more than this unhinged lunacy.
Nevertheless they do, and tax free too.
Here is “Pastor” Charles L. Worley of Providence Road Baptist Church in North
Carolina -latest in the parade of anti-gay bigot states – proposing his solution for the queers -
put them in concentration camps with electified fences.
Romney meeting with a patient whose weight is down to 80 pounds discussing the
legality of medical marijuana.
Choose difficulty
“Privilege” seems to be a difficult concept for many people, while to others it is obvious. We are always dealing with straight white males that become offended if you simply mention their status. After all, they don’t “hate xxxx people” so how dare you mention it.
I just saw the most clear cut explanation I have seen from a unique perspective – that of the gamer – and I recommend it highly.
Well I see that blogger Don Lacey has discovered that writing critically of Ron Paul in Arizona is akin to writing critically of Muhammed in Afghanistan 
So it looks as if it’s time for me to mention how we arrived at this point in history – which in this case is the story of two melding ideologies.
Ideology 1 – Libertarianism – begun by Ayn Rand with her popular novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and her collection of essays (with her boy toy Nathaniel Branden) The Virtue of Selfishness.
As has been famously noted:
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs. – John Rogers
Rand was a refugee from Communism and her ideology was basically a celebration of free market individualism and a hatred of socialism.
She also was a dedicated atheist who hated religion, supported abortion rights and what she saw as human rights being oppressed by government.
ANY government.
She was not a “patriot”, did not justify her ideology with rigamarole from the US Constitution or founding fathers and was a believer in individual rights – not “State’s rights”.
Ideology #2 – the Confederates. Even after losing the Civil War the South Shall Always Rise Again in the hearts of the Confederates. These southern gentlemen remain commited to maintaining the privileged place of the white christian male and are fiercely dedicated to the Constitution – or at least those antebellum parts of it that extol “States Rights” – and hate the Federal government ( previously known as the “damn yankees”).
They will extol the virtues of “State’s rights” at every opportunity, human rights not so much, and they love Jesus.
Now it would seem that these ideologies have little in common, which is true, but they have just enough in common – at least in rhetoric – to have become the jumble that Jim sees in his comments thread.
They share a paranoid fear of the “federal government” and they both fetishize firearms.
So when a Confederate like Ron Paul attacks the “Federal” government, they hear it as an attack on “government” – and they are willing to let that little “State’s rights” plug he always inserts slip past. And soon they believe it themselves.
That is why, in 2012, “Libertarianism” looks suspiciously like those idiots arguing with Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind:
You simply do not understand the Libertarian philosophy that is embedded in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution (as per Thomas Jefferson).
The point of this bill was to return more rights to the states
You mean the constitution would have to be obeyed under this act. As it stands, the state governments are forced to bow before the “anti-religion” religion you are a devoted follower of.
The idea of promoting States rights is because you can represent the values of your constituents better that way,
That’s why we believe in state’s rights and limited government,The federal government shouldn’t have anything to do with the laws of the state. Furthermore, If a state wants to endorse or promote religion then they have that right. It’s up to the state to make just and moral decisions form themselves; even if those decisions turn out to be mistakes.
States rights is a very big deal but the author just does not understand this. If a state has bad laws or ones that I disagree with, I can move away from the state.
Abortion is the most unilateral use of force I can think of. A zygote is not the same as a fetus, but life is life and it should be protected.
It is very clear in the constitution where the federal government should be in relations to the individual States,out of their hair.
Take the California Supreme Court, they created policy from thin air that Gay marriage is to be allowed
Honestly the biggest thing about states rights that appeals to me is the whole mantra of “Don’t like it? Move to a state that runs the way you like.”
The Constitution is explicit as to what the rights of the American people are and the Bill Of Rights gives the protection enforced by the “Federal” government. The Constitution also is clear on the restraint of the federal government with interfering with the sovereignty of states.
Using the argument that without the Federal government mandating every aspect of our daily lives this country would be a state dictatorship with slavery is an outrageous statement.
It seems to be official now. The homily of Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, at the Mass during the April 14 “A Call to Catholic Men of Faith” in Peoria
Hitler and Stalin, at their better moments, would just barely tolerate some churches remaining open, but would not tolerate any competition with the state in education, social services, and health care.
In clear violation of our First Amendment rights, Barack Obama – with his radical, pro abortion and extreme secularist agenda, now seems intent on following a similar path.
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This fall, every practicing Catholic must vote, and must vote their Catholic consciences, or by the following fall our Catholic schools, our Catholic hospitals, our Catholic Newman Centers, all our public ministries — only excepting our church buildings – could easily be shut down. Because no Catholic institution, under any circumstance, can ever cooperate with the instrinsic evil of killing innocent human life in the womb.
No Catholic ministry – and yes, Mr. President, for Catholics our schools and hospitals are ministries – can remain faithful to the Lordship of the Risen Christ and to his glorious Gospel of Life if they are forced to pay for abortions.
Because we all remember when Hitler tried to provide medical care for everyone. I call Godwin’s Law.
We might have made a mistake cutting off these old queen’s access to altar boys. They have become really grumpy – not to mention hysterical – since then.
Maybe we should let them have them back the same way we exempt them from paying taxes and then they’ll go back to shearing their flock and stay out of our government.
In the race to the bottom, Arizona scores again.
The “fiscally responsible, libertarian” Repubs who are in total denial of the fact that their party is now totally controlled by stone age christian religious zealots have passed the country’s most restrictive anti-abortion law.
In theory it bans abortion after 20 weeks of conception – but in reality it introduces a new medical theory. Evidently now life begins at menstruation.
“Gestational age” means the age of the unborn child as calculated
from the first day of the last menstrual period of the pregnant woman.
So effectively it bans abortions at an average of 18 weeks.
Repub gynecologists know best, I suppose.
This 501(c)4 organization, Conscience Cause, is aimed at “stopping the implementation of a Department of Health and Human Services regulation which would compel people and organizations to pay for drugs and services that violate their faith”
If you are one of those oh-so-very-religious Americans whose conscience is under assault – or even if you just don’t feel like paying for yours or your employees medical care, you should know that there is a christian denomination waiting with open arms to ease your burden.
The Church of Christ, Scientist can help you not have to pay for any pesky penicillin and they are all scientificey too.
You can even feel morally superior to those insulin sluts whose faith is inadequate to control their glucose the way God intended.
There is only one downside, which is that you’ll have to do a lot of praying for healing, but that’s cheap.
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