PICTURED: A bunch of males, who want to lead America back to the glorious 1950s when men were men and women were best seen and not much heard, testifying at a G.O.P. oversight committee hearing in the Capitol of supposedly the most progressive nation in the world.
So it’s come to this?
Birth control is a national issue????
In 2012????
It’s an issue being inflamed to the high heavens mostly by the men of a Catholic Church, no less, that one would think would be some day be humbled by the tsunami of sexual misconduct by male clergy with boys and women all over the world. You would think the Church of Rome would someday arrive at more humility in light of all the ill will felt toward even its mostly good and decent and devoted priests who slug away embodying Christ every day in often terrible or even dangerous conditions.
For more on the world of Catholic credibility, see the daily Catholic news reports still coming out of Ireland on a regular basis, in a nation where the good men of the Anglican churches who wear collars get eyed with suspicion, even spat upon or worse, by people who think they are Catholic priests, so intense is the hatred toward anyone wearing a clergy collar these days.
And now come the Rick Santorums and the American Catholic Bishops, riding in on their high-horses with the winds of the blow-hards of Fox News at their backs, wanting to educate (if not legislate) America about an issue that was never a national issue in America before.
Rick Santorum wants us to believe, to borrow a phrase from a Monty Python movie that many years ago so brilliantly and hilariously lampooned the stubborn and misguided Vatican stance on contraception that leads to the births of countless poor or unwanted children in the world–he wants us to believe that “every sperm is sacred.”
And Rick Santorum is seen as a serious candidate for President of the United States and the leader of the free world.
“Free” being the operative word there.
Absolutely ridiculous isn’t it? The all boys club at the table pisses me off too…
read this today and it didn’t warm my heart…..
“appearing on MSNBC with Andrea Mitchell today, Foster Friess, the main donor to the Super PAC backing Rick Santorum’s presidential bid, dismissed the controversy surrounding President Obama’s new birth control rule by suggesting that women should just keep their legs shut.
FRIESS: On this contraceptive thing, my gosh, it’s so inexpensive. You know, back in my days, they used Baer Aspirin for contraceptives. The gals put it between their knees and it wasn’t that costly. ”
This level of ignorance is scary! The idea that contraception is solely a woman’s issue seems dated, but yet here we are…
If there was snow on the ground I would have written Santorum a nasty note when he flew over my yard today.
lol on the nasty note! They are just doing everything they can to hand Obama reelection–by a landslide. I don’t know a single woman who’s not upset about this stuff, most of all the Andrea Mitchell interview among my friends and even strangers on FB and others who’ve seen or heard it by now–and I’m talking very conservative Republican women included. I mean, I just don’t know how much more neanderthal these guys can get than Santorum’s “sugar daddy”? It just astounds me to no end, sis. And good luck with the women’s vote, Rick.
I have just sent Saturday Night Live the idea to do a skit about this!
Rick Santorum is CRAZY!!! A complete throwback to times when women had few choices. No contraception, No prenatal testing, use up the earth right now and don’t worry about the future of the environment! It takes a Family, but don’t worry about the Village! All these things make no sense because he is CRAZY!!
If we do not care about the future of the environment and the “Villages” that make up the country then we do not care about our Childrens futures!! How SELFISH and SHORT SIGHTED!! The job of the President is to care about the “Villages” that make up our country. If Santorum does not think it takes a Village for a healthy economy and healthy society for our children then why is he running for President? He is a disaster!
Well as a pastor I wouldn’t describe him in such indelicate terms as “crazy.” My honest to God opinion, though, is that he’s flakier than a Texas road lizard, as they say back on the farm. Seriously, he’s really starting to frighten me with what are obviously his core beliefs and rhetoric that grows more inflammatory every day and every time his poll numbers rise. I am genuinely becoming frightened by these people.