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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"OK... when exactly did the use of birth control become "controversial?"
Are we really going to have this debate in 2012?
This country has gone nuts.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)tallahasseedem
(6,716 posts)AlinPA
(15,071 posts)Not jobs, not foreign policy, not taxes, not defense, not infrastructure...but birth control!?
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)The Dominionists have been gaining in strength and numbers in politics for decades - they use stealth, they lie about their true views and try to get into positions of power so that they can institute theocratic rule per Leviticus.
I've been quite concerned about them for 15 years. They stayed below the radar until they felt they had enough numbers to come out and openly promote their agenda. But they still will deny that they actually seek things like stoning gays to death and the death penalty for abortion.
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)is a perfect example of the Domionist's reach for power.
She has been "groomed" and selected by these dangerous whack-jobs as one of their chosen ones.
edit: To the person that gave me the HEART...Thank you VERY much!!
Arkansas Granny
(31,529 posts)through neighborhoods bribing kids with candy and treats to get them to church. They weren't teaching the kids as much as they were indoctrinating them.
LiberalLoner
(9,762 posts)What I'm seeing is that there is a growing group of people who want to see harm done to women, minorities, the poor, anyone who has traditionally lacked in power. There is a growing group of people who are becoming downright sadistic in their temperment and their thoughts, mostly based on resentment at not getting what they felt they deserved in life.
It's like that old stereotype of, have a bad day at work so you come home and kick the dog and beat the wife and kids.
I really see this as being all about the glee and release of emotion that comes with being able to cause pain to someone seen as less powerful.
It is no longer about sound policy. It is no longer about what is best for this nation. It is no longer even about religious freedom or political differences.
It is about abuse, plain and simple.
I know abuse when I see it. I know the look of glee in the abuser's eyes when he backs you into a corner and uses you as a punching bag.
I see that same gleam in the eyes of the Republicants and their followers.
JHB
(37,162 posts)...and they're feeling their oats. They should try showing off how many of them there really are, just to show who's boss. Maybe they should all wear the same kind of shirt.
I wonder what color it should be....
JHB
(37,162 posts)...(that would be the people who oppose abortion rights and pretend it's just about babies) it's been there all along.
sinkingfeeling
(51,473 posts)control was formally legalized in the USA.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)It has only been a very short time, the brief enlightenment of the 60's and 70's. Surrounded by darkness.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenstadt_v._Baird
Eisenstadt v. Baird, 405 U.S. 438 (1972), was an important United States Supreme Court case that established the right of unmarried people to possess contraception on the same basis as married couples and, by implication, the right of unmarried couples to engage in potentially nonprocreative sexual intercourse (though not the right of unmarried people to engage in any type of sexual intercourse).
The Court struck down a Massachusetts law prohibiting the distribution of contraceptives to unmarried people, ruling that it violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution.
It is fucking depressing, pun intended.
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)Struck down a Connecticut law that actually made all contraception illegal and one of the first cases to discuss the "penumbra" of rights that included the "right to marital privacy". That law had been on the books since the 1870's (a time a great religious "revival" in this country) but had never really been enforced.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)And now they are right back at it again, only I am an old fart just worried what kind of hideous mess I've left for my kids.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)And the response from our party's leadership will be: slide to the right.
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justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)chowder66
(9,080 posts)Evasporque
(2,133 posts)Its magical, its maniacal its the Republican STUPID BOX!
Any topic once inside the Republican Stupid box is deemed controversial. Try it for yourself!
I am going to put the Republican Stupid Box over Kindergarten.
Kindergarten fosters lazy work habits because of naps. We should have kids working cleaning bathrooms not napping. Why do we even send kids to school at that age they don't really do anything. It is state sponsored child care for over paid union freeloaders.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)Not so much a decade later until about 3 days ago.
We're moving backwards.
Johonny
(20,888 posts)the small band of people looking hopelessly for reason to vote Republican because there is no sane reason to is. I 'm pretty sure that's not you, I or the average American voter.
Spazito
(50,454 posts)after the auto industry showed the 'bailout' worked and after the economy showed signs of improvement. The only thing left for the repubs to drum up faux outrage about is wedge issues and what 'better' wedge issue than 'Obama is coming after God and the only way to stop him is to vote republican'.
It's not working, the public is going 'yawn' as they go about their daily lives.