Religious right bearing false witness against Sandra Fluke

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http://pamshouseblend.firedoglake.com/2012/03/12/religious-right-bearing-false-witness-against-sandra-fluke-2/

For all of their talking about morality and following God’s laws, religious right groups seem to throw these things out of the window when it doesn’t suit their purposes, particularly the commandment about not bearing false witness.

The lgbtq community know this hypocrisy very well since we tend to be the recipients of the religious right’s lying vitriol.

But now they have a new target – Sandra Fluke. Fluke, who was venomously attacked by Rush Limbaugh two weeks ago for her testimony in front of Congress regarding contraception, now have members of the religious right smearing her name.

According to Equality Matters:

Spokespersons from groups like the American Family Association, Family Research Council, Liberty Counsel and the National Organization for Marriage have come to Rush’s defense while continuing to demonize Fluke as an immoral and promiscuous “sexual anarchist.”

These groups include:

The American Family Association:

AFA’s Bryan Fischer: Fluke “Sleeping With So Many Guys That She Can’t Keep Track.” During the March 7 edition of his Focal Point radio show, American Family Association (AFA) spokesman Bryan Fischer said:

FISCHER: To think that you would have a leftist like the President of the United States saying that the parents of a woman who goes on national TV, admits that she’s sleeping with so many guys that she can’t keep track, doing it three time a day, running out of money, driving me to the poor house, and to think that parents, he’s saying that parents ought to be proud of that. You know, I just wonder if he would be proud if his daughters were doing the same thing. Would he be proud of his daughters going on national TV to say the same thing? [AFA’s Focal Point, 3/7/12]

The Liberty Counsel:

Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber: Fluke Has A “Sexually Immoral Lifestyle,” Thinks “Sex Is Cheap And Causal.” In a March 8 column in Canada Free Press, Liberty Counsel Director of Cultural Affairs Matt Barber wrote:

Ms. Fluke recently went on Schultz’s program to criticize Limbaugh for indirectly suggesting that, in light of her admitted sexually immoral lifestyle, she was a “sl-t” (an offensive and inappropriate slang for which he has apologized).

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David Burge (@iowahawkblog) of the Iowa Hawk blog summed it up nicely in a tweet: “How can you monsters talk about a $15 trillion debt at a time like this, when a brave coed has hurt lady-feelings?”

Yes, how can we focus on trillions in Obama debt, $6.00 gasoline and Islamo-fascists with nukes while a Georgetown “coed” is being denied free medication from Christians for her “Saturday night fever”?

[get the red out]

1. Religion in this country has become a hate group

I know not all religion, but the fundies certainly out-scream the liberal Christians and others.

I knew they would eventually start publicly "Talibanizing" women. Their hate is so extreme they couldn't possibly limit its expression to gays and abortion providers. They hate women and have to show it. I am hoping it will wake people up to what we've been tolerating out of these groups for far too long trying to uphold a mixed up idea of "religious freedom" that only means the religious have the freedom to persecute anyone they wish without anyone else having the freedom call them out.

[libtodeath]

2. We need to call them what they are

religious terrorists.

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. Talibornagains

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3. Did we expect anything less?

The religious right are the evil that they talk about...they just haven't realized it yet!

[GopperStopper2680]

4. Call a Spade a Spade...

I can tell you two things: What these people are, and are not.

What they are NOT: True Christians.

And what they Are: Sanctimonious hypocritical bigots. Let me be clear about something; God does NOT hate gays. He doesn't hate anyone.

[tibbiit]

5. If they insert themselves into politics

Then where is the IRS? They need to be taxed. Occupy the churches till taxed!
If they are going to play they need to pay. Then Im okay with them telling their lies.
tib

[denverbill]

6. I do hope she eventually sues these fuckers.

NOTHING in her testimony even suggested that she used birth control, did it? The testimony I read only talked about her friend who need the pill to control a different medical condition.

[lunasun]

8. Yet most media never mention this have you noticed???????? It always looks

like the problem was Rush commenting on her testimony not making it all up .

It is not just the slurs it is actual lies

After Fox I guess anything goes and is accepted by most
sad

[bongbong]

9. Religionists

Religionists can lie "legally" because all they need to do is either:

1) ask for forgiveness for their sin, and then merrily go on their way, or
2) remember they are in a "Holy War" and thus anything up to and including global nuclear holocaust is as perfectly OK as petting a little kitten.