Obama: This is not the pill you are looking for
Catholic bishops: This is not the pill we are looking for

Thus did the Jedi Master once again stifle the weak minded forces of evil without breaking a sweat.

The Bishops, of course, have been throwing something of a tantrum since under “Obamacare” contraception would be covered, even in corporations which they own.

(And they own a LOT).

This was a violation, they loudly proclaimed, of their “religious freedom” to live in the 18th century and pretend that contraception was a sin.

Naturally all the Repub candidates – also white males, but very very married – joined in to condemn Obama’s “war on religion”.

They are very religious, these guys.

As usual with the catholic church, no nuns were heard from.

But now it’s all gone away with one swoop of the bookeeping, and women will still be able to get contraception coverage.

If only altar boys could get pregnant, contraception would be a sacrament.

(No – not talking about SB1070 this time)

Today the 9th Circuit finally issued it’s long awaited decision on Prop 8,
finding it to be unconstitutional.

The vote was 2-1 with the Democrats outvoting the Repubbigots.

“Proposition 8 served no purpose, and had no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California,” the court said.

When I first moved to Arizona the first thing that greeted me was the christian bigot funded ballot proposition that amended the State constitution to discriminate against gays.

Pima County voted against it, but was outvoted statewide in this reddest of states.

What the decision means is still unclear – it will in all probability be stayed and appealed and may apply to Arizona or may be limited to California.

In the long run equality will have to wait for the Supreme Court, as always.

And there it hangs by a thread – the re-election of President Obama.

All of the Repub candidates have, of course, vowed to make the United States the most backwards country in the Western world and write bigotry into the Constitution.

Anyone who actually votes for Mitt or Newt or whatever clown they come up with has no excuse claiming that they don’t know they are voting for hate – it is in plain sight.

The Christian Hate Group American Family Association organized protest of J C Penny for choosing Ellen to be their spokesperson.

Funny that JC Penney thinks hiring an open homosexual spokesperson will help their business when most of its customers are traditional families.

The Christian USA Ministries is calling for a boycott of Starbucks for being one of more than 100 firms in Washington supporting same sex marriage.

“Christians are upset with Starbucks for turning against God…Starbucks can follow Satan if they want to,” Steven Andrew, and evangelical pastor and president of the USA Christian Ministries in California, said in a statement.

Started boycott of Girl Scout cookies in protest of their accepting a transgender brownie.
(I hear they support Planned Parenthood too)

St. Timothy Roman Catholic parish in Chantilly in Fairfax County ousted 12 troops with 115 girls. In Alexandria, Saint Rita Catholic Church is reportedly considering doing the same.

Revealed their control of the Komen Foundation by cancelling support for Planned Parenthood and embrionic stem cell research.
(That went well )

Catholic Bishops posted Urgent Action Alert to protest the Obama administration decision that women were entitled to obtain birth control.

They were busy this week. The good news is that more people seem to be considering them not only hateful, but irrelevant.

Except for Repub Presidential candidates, of course.

In the grand tradition of Arizona Republicans, Rep. Cecil Ash, a Republican from Mesa, is suggesting Arizona needs a holiday for white people.
You can’t make this stuff up.

Quite often now we hear someone explaining that the problem with our political process is “parties”.

If only we had open primaries, if only we didn’t print candidate’s parties on ballots, if only we had “non-partisan” elections …..

This is total nonsense – there is no better way to judge how a candidate will vote than to see the party affiliation next to their name.

These efforts are actually efforts to PREVENT voters from having the information they need to make informed decisions.

Not only can one tell how a candidate will vote based upon their party – you can tell what party they belong to based upon their vote.

Here are a few bills introduced in our state legislature in the last few weeks – I dare anyone NOT to know the party of the lawmakers who introduced them:

Bills to:

• Teach the Bible in public school
• Allow guns on campus
• Prohibit legal medical marijuana users in student housing.
• Define “human life” as starting at “conception” and lecturing pregnant women seeking abortions.
• Require hospitals to report suspected non-documented patients to immigration.

If you can’t guess the party, you aren’t informed enough to vote.

Last weekend, in a last ditch effort to stop the Mormon Menace, christian leaders and hate group spokespersons from throughout the Old Confederacy gathered in Texas to agree upon a single candidate to represent them.

Attendees were a diverse group of old white straight christian males.

The three contenders were Perry – an evangelical like most of them, Santorum – catholic, and Gingrich – bad catholic.

Surprisingly after a few votes they settled upon Santorum.

For some reason they considered Perry “unelectable”.

But now there is trouble in Paradise.

It seems that the christian voter ID laws aren’t well enforced ( “show me you Bibles” ) and some evangelicals are claiming that the catholics rigged the vote for Santorum and are demanding a recount.

WWJD ?

According to National Republican Radio, the christian bigwigs are meeting again

in Texas to try again to coalesce around a single candidate to run against cult

follower Romney.

They reported – with a straight face – that Jesus Christ wasn’t running and so they

needed to compromise, although little Frothy claimed that he was the pro-Jesus

candidate.

(Unfortunately for him, some of the bigwigs consider Catholicism a cult).

I admit that this brought to mind the vision of Jesus Christ presenting his platform

in front of the typical Repub debate audience:

Blessed are the Meek

No more apology tours !!! We are an Exceptional nation !!!!!

Feed the poor

SOCIALIST !!!!!

Care for the Sick

REPEAL Jesuscare !!!

Blessed are the merciful

Build the fence !! It takes balls to execute an innocent man !!!!

Blessed are the peacemakers

Bomb Iran !!!

Blessed are the persecuted

Stone the gays !!!

What terrific reality TV

Concerned that a Mormon stood poised to win the Repub presidential nomination, in June the leaders of christian churches and hate groups gathered for a conference call and settled on the strategy of encouraging Rick Perry to run as their preferred christian candidate.

Although Perry prayed mightily and pledged to stop Obama’s war on religion, God has not yet answered their prayers and so they have convened an emergency meeting in Brenham, TX to adjust their godly strategy.

“You and your spouse are cordially invited to a private meeting with national conservative leaders of faith at the ranch of Paul and Nancy Pressler near Brenham, Texas, with the purpose of attempting to unite and to come to a consensus on which Republican Presidential candidate or candidates to support, or which not to support” - Politico reports the invitation to read.

Invited are the luminaries of the right wing christian world (sans Catholic Bishops): James Dobson, Don Wildmon, Gary Bauer, John Hagee and Kelly Shackelford.

The fear is that religious right voters will split their votes among Santorum, Perry and even Gingrich, assuring Romney of victory. They hope to coalesce around a single Not-Romney and urge the other candidates to drop out.

The flavor of the week this week is Santorum and he is expected to be the choice, but my bet is that Perry will be the eventual beneficiary once Santorum is subjected to scrutiny and people learn more about what a nasty piece of work he is.

I just saw this again.

Imagine a country where preachers don’t tell people how to vote,
we don’t judge our leaders by their religion, we don’t give tax money
to church schools or institutions.

It is sad how far our country has fallen.