It is not very often, if ever, that Republicans, or any of their
conservative cohort, tell the truth; it just is not a part of their
character. However, for some mysterious reason a few of them are
abandoning their penchant for mendacity as of late. First it was McCarthy (R-CA) coming clean about the Benghazi
Select Committee illegally using taxpayer money for the rnc’s 2016
presidential campaign against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Then it was the typical lying Mormon Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) being honest
and confessing that he could find no wrongdoing by Planned Parenthood
despite a very thorough and comprehensive investigation. Now,
unbelievably, an anti-choice activist was honest in boasting that the
attacks on Planned Parenthood, and women’s reproductive rights in
general, have absolutely nothing to do with abortion and everything to
do with controlling when women have sexual relations; something
evangelicals and catholics consider a mortal sin unless it is in
servitude to a man or to produce offspring.
When Republicans and their evangelical base were desperate to
restrict women’s access to any form of birth control, one of the
complaints was that just the idea of a woman, married or not, having “
consequence free sex”
was an abomination that religious Republicans would not allow or
condone. In their minds there has to be a severe, usually an 18 year and
nine month, “
consequence” for any woman who has sexual
relations; even when their “man” demands being serviced” and the woman
is ill. Now, a representative of one of the anti-choice cabals planning
to harass Planned Parenthood clinics around the nation this weekend has
admitted that the crusade against Planned Parenthood is a purely
religious assault founded on ending the corrupt sexual ethic of
promoting sex not intended for procreation.
The spokeswoman for Citizens for a Anti-Choice Society explained why
evangelicals, the personhood movement, anti-choice fascists, catholic
bishops, and their Republican facilitators are so intent on destroying
Planned Parenthood, and it is not about banning abortion or protecting
zygotes and fetuses. Monica Miller is one of this weekend’s ‘harass
Planned Parenthood” rally organizers who was honest and angry when she
said,
“
Planned Parenthood from the top to the bottom is a corrupt
organization… corrupt in its view of the sanctity of life and corrupt in
its view of human sexuality. I say even if Planned Parenthood didn’t
perform one single abortion, just the mere fact that its sexual ethic is
corrupted means right there, should be the reason right there, that
they should not receive any federal money. The kind of sexual ethic that
Planned Parenthood promotes is sex for recreation, sex for mere
pleasure.”
Or in the words of more than a couple of patriarchal Republican
misogynists; social conservatives demand a prohibition on American
women, married or single, having “
consequence free sex.” Of
course the consequence in this case is producing an offspring annually,
or being guilty of, according to the catholic humanae vitae, a mortal
sin against god. To make their point and set American women on the
religious path or righteous subjugation to a man, anti-choicers cite a
woman who should be disgraced, Michelle Duggar of “
19 Kids and Counting” fame, as the archetype of a “
real christian woman.”
According to pro-lifers, women can only engage in sexual
relations as a man’s property like a good submissive sex slave; even
within the confines of marriage. Last week Michelle Duggar doled out
some ‘righteous’
advice to women on their biblical role according to god:
“
So be available, and not just available, but be joyfully
available for him. Smile and be willing to say, ‘Yes, sweetie I am here
for you, no matter what, even though you may be exhausted and big
pregnant and you may not feel like he feels. I’m still here for you and
I’m going to meet that need because I know it’s a need for you.”
For Americans that are unfamiliar with the evangelical mindset of a
woman’s role in the home and society, instead of taking any time to
peruse the christian bible for instructions for being a good submissive
wife, Duggar’s ‘advice’ to women fairly sums up exactly what the anti-choice crowd and catholic dogma require of a “
good 'christian' woman,” and it is precisely what they demand all American women should aspire to.
Over the past four years Republicans have controlled the House, there
have been numerous attacks on women’s reproductive rights and their
goal is no different than that of Hobby Lobby’s owners, the United
States coven of catholic blowhards (USCCB), personhood movement
advocates, and social conservatives driven to destroy Planned
Parenthood. It has never been about abortion or even banning
contraception; it has always been about controlling women by putting
them in the place their patriarchal mindset insists they belong; at
home, producing offspring, ‘
servicing‘ their man on demand, and emptying his chamber pot.
It is really unreasonable to claim categorically that where a person “
falls on Planned Parenthood really reflects where they fall on the fundamental questions of sex.”
It is likely there are some Americans that are genuinely sincere in
thinking that protecting a single-celled organism or a non-living being
fetus is about protecting life. But the religious zealots driving the
pro-life movement are solely on a crusade to control women and their
sexual activity. Anyone in their right mind understands that providing
STD screenings and access to contraception to “make sure that sex is
safe and without unintended consequences” accounts for the lion’s share
of what Planned Parenthood does and the anti-choice movement knows it as
well. The religious right and Catholic bishops are lying when they
claim that legal abortion drives their campaign to dominate women,
because their real motivation is, at its core, their vision of 'christian'
liberty to regulate every American woman’s sexual activity.
At least now they are being honest and admitting that is, and has
always been, their goal. Sadly, that idea of a woman existing as a sex
slave for a man, any man, is a concept that is rampant among the male
population that wants to “
take their country back” to
Puritanical America and put women in their biblical place. If any
American, man or woman, thinks the pro-life zealots will not do their
worst according to their misogynistic religion they are sadly mistaken
and will likely be the first to be “
regulated” by the anti-choice
sex police. Americans should prepare for some serious christian Sharia
if these evangelical zealouts acquire any more power because this vile anti-choice delusion’s assault on Planned Parenthood is a prelude to an
anti-sex crusade and inquisition.
Donald Trump complained Tuesday that he doesn’t have Secret Service
protection despite not qualifying for it and not requesting it.
This guy is about as thin-skinned as they come. That alone disqualifies him from being president.
After suspending the voting rights of more than 37,000 Kansas voters,
the worst secretary of state in the nation has finally fulfilled his
promise to prosecute election fraud, filing charges against three Kansas voters:
Republicans seem to only be in favor of gun control when it’s
exclusively targeting African Americans. Calling them “racist” is almost
too kind.
