We will take action in short order to follow the President’s instruction to safeguard the deeply held religious beliefs of Americans who provide health insurance.
Trump’s abortion remark was bad, but it paled in comparison to “the wickedness of the response from anti-choice Republican organizations.
While Americans focus on the primaries, Republicans are eliminating women’s rights.
The reality is that the purpose is to punish the federal government for not adhering to Catholic and evangelicals’ religious edicts
Monica Miller of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society admits what she opposes is “sex for recreation, sex for mere pleasure”
We have been hearing for a long time that the Religious Right is dead; demographics or not, I’ll believe it when I see it lying in the road
The ruling and the assertion that a religious fanatic is treated the same as a secular person will not sit well with theocrats.
By the time children step foot in school again this fall, it will have been two years since Pope Francis cautioned that the Church had become “obsessed” with abortion, gay marriage and contraception. “It is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.” Indeed, it is not. Jesus never mentioned any of them….
There is no other reason for Republicans to try defunding Title X than denying family planning services and contraception from women.
Susan B. Anthony List has called a rape exception “abominable,” “regrettable,” “just wrong” and “completely intellectually dishonest.”
Peter Wehner says the liberal claim that Republicans are the ones who have become more extreme over the years is a “self-flatting but false narrative.”
Republicans claim their abominable legislation overturning a Washington D.C. anti-discrimination statute that prohibited religious employers from punishing women who use birth control, family planning services, or abortion services was to protect employers’ religious liberty according to the Hobby Lobby ruling. However, they revealed the legislation is about using religious tyranny to control women.
This time around, the subject is once again abortion and instead of New York, Missouri Satanists are assisting a woman seeking a religious exemption from Missouri’s religious 72-hour abortion waiting period because the Christian law violates the Satanist’s “deeply held beliefs about bodily autonomy;” something Christian fanatics cannot comprehend or countenance for any woman.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito opened a Pandora’s box that has the potential to give some corporations the right to impose their “deeply held” religious objections to birth control on other corporations.
It is why although the law appears only to target the LGBT community and allow the ‘faithful’ to legally punish same-sex marriage partners by refusing to hire, serve, or provide them with medical care, it is important to remember there is no mention of gays in the law.
In fact, Francis is closely aligned with conservative Republican ideology; particularly in his position on addressing poverty and social issues such as homosexuality, same-sex marriage, birth control, and women’s rights.
Today is the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling giving women the right to choose when they give birth and, like every year for over two decades, religious fanatics will protest the landmark decision. Their contention is that patriarchs in Catholic Church, not women, own the right to make reproductive choices for American women.
Instead of introducing legislation to create jobs, or help Americans struggling in an economy created for the benefit of the rich, on the first day of the 114th Congress Republicans introduced five separate bills restricting women’s reproductive rights; something they did not pledge would be at the top of their legislative agenda.
The recent appropriations bill known as the CRomnibus could have been a lot worse for women’s reproductive rights and it is very fortunate for women that Democrats and President Obama succeeded in getting it passed.
Now, the Republicans’ first order of business with Mitch McConnell sharing Senate Majority Leader duties with Ted Cruz is precisely what they did when they won the House majority in 2010; attack women’s right to choose when they give birth.
To accomplish their goal of controlling the government, the Koch brothers have had to climb in bed with fundamentalist Christians intent on using the government to control and subvert women’s rights.
It appears nothing short of an outright ban, and criminalization, of all forms of birth control will satisfy the United States Council of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).
Even shaky reason dictates that a robust women’s electoral movement would cleanse Republican patriarchs from Congress, governorships, and state legislatures, and bring the Republican war on women to an abrupt and just end. However, that is certainly not the case and it is down to American women’s greatest enemy and it is not Republican men per se, but the evangelical women electing them.
Although the religious right has effectively, through the Catholic Supreme Court, eliminated the Establishment Clause of the 1st Amendment and wiped out religious freedom of non-evangelicals, women, and non-believers, they are still convinced they are facing an existential threat from the federal government.
According to Georgia Republican Senate candidate David Perdue, his only reason for serving is to prosecute Democrats and President Obama because he does not approve of the “direction of this country.”
Don’t believe Republicans. Ladies, if a Republican says he has your back, clench; it’s not because he wants to give you a back rub.
Democrats hit Ernst today with an ad featuring Kim Tweedy, a Nurse Examiner on a West Des Moines Sexual Assault Response Team, who can’t understand how Joni Ernst could want to outlaw abortion even for victims of rape and incest.
For a senatorial candidate from Iowa, the way to show support for a religious principle is voting for a constitutional amendment that effectively eliminates a woman’s constitutional rights, and then claim the amendment really would not do anything at all.
During a debate with her Democratic opponent, Bruce Braley, Joni Ernst told the audience she is an independent leader, then recited Tea Party talking points on everything from “personhood” amendments to privatization of Social Security.
Republicans are big on dog whistle politics, particularly going into a midterm election where they have no apparent agenda to run on, and as is usually the case with Republicans, they are appealing to a dependable voting bloc that are rabid over socially conservative (read religious) issues.
These speakers want to fundamentally alter our way of life. In the ideal fake-Christian world, our freedom of religion would be an actual negation of freedom
A group of Catholic bishops in America found an easy means to exert control over Christian conservatives and manipulate them to re-establish Vatican control over theocratic and political matters to bring women into subjection to Catholic dogma.
The inspiration for Hobby Lobby, and 71 other “religious” corporations, to sue for a religious exemption of the contraception mandate is not about abortion, but about controlling women and inflicting consequences for not adhering to their Puritanical belief that women in their employ, can not, and will not, have sexual relations without paying a heavy price.
Whether most Americans realize it or not, they have been spectators, victims, and often combatants in a sectarian religious war that one side appealed to, and won, the support of a religious male cabal with the ultimate weapon of mass destruction; the U.S. Constitution.
There is a relatively large contingent of disgruntled citizens who seriously hate this country with a passion, and yet instead of fleeing America for their concept of Utopia, are Hell-bent on transforming America into a land Europeans emigrating to America sought to escape.
There were two reports out last week from a highly respected medical journal and an international organization that revealed America is a dangerous place to be an expectant mother, and for women-hating Republicans and Christian extremists it was welcomed news and a sign their anti-women efforts are a raging success.
The claim that President Obama campaigned, and revels, in being “the abortion President” is driven by racism, evangelical fanaticism, and an abject ignorance of statistics.
The Kansas House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed a piece of legislation crafted to legalize anti-gay segregation under the guise of “religious liberty”
A spokesperson for Sandra Fluke confirmed that the 32-year old attorney has filed with the California Democratic Party and is seeking their endorsement in the Congressional race to replace the retiring Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA.)
In Missouri this week, Republicans moved forward another measure to nullify federal gun laws.
Setting aside the incredible affront to women, Huckabee’s opposition to contraception coverage in insurance plans is a hundred-eighty-degree departure from his position when he was governor of Arkansas.
The Supreme Court is likely not done facilitating theocratic tyranny or disabusing the people from their 1st and 14th Amendment rights if right wing extremists have their way.
It is the right to choose their reproductive health that women are most likely under attack from Republicans whose latest assault is restricting abortion coverage in private health care plans.
“We control 30 governorships, we control 26 state houses and senates chambers. You know, we, in fact, know how to speak to women on their policy issues.”
Right wing Christians define their right to practice religion as forcing compliance of their beliefs on the rest of the population, and the religious right is counting on the judiciary to achieve their goals.
The problem is that if corporations have Freedom of Religion, its employers lose their Freedom of Religion
Fortunately for Virginians who embrace the Constitution’s guarantee of separation of church and state, freedom of speech, and equal rights, attorney general Ken Cuccinelli was defeated.
Conservative Christian business owners are appealing to other conservative Christians on the Supreme Court to grant them religious immunity from adhering to a federal law.
It can hardly be disputed that throughout Barack Obama’s tenure as President, Republicans have not made one concession or presented one piece of legislation to benefit the people.
I find it an indictment of our mainstream media that Miley Cyrus at the VMAs can attract such outraged responses, but Republican politicians, behaving in a much more outrageous fashion get a free pass
The judicial system has become a partisan tool of corporations and Republicans to impose theocratic law on women.
The 39th President and devout Christian addressed a human rights event and lashed out at all religious doctrines that contribute to political leaders passively accepting violence against women.
Republicans have taken to championing primeval causes for their reality-challenged supporters, and left to their own devices are creating a hazardous existence for women.
Republicans typically oppose women’s equality as a matter of course, their non-stop attacks on Planned Parenthood are based on their allegiance to evangelical Christians.
Republican attacks on women are purely ideological because despite women as an electoral force, the GOP made it clear that their assaults will be unrelenting.
There are those who say the mood of the nation toward gays and women’s rights are changing for the better, yet the far right is forging ahead to restrict their rights.
House Republicans proposed they will shut down the government unless they are allowed to restrict women’s access to contraception.
Senate Republicans plan to withhold funding to keep the government running as hostage for a ransom of defunding the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).
Although the right wing bible crowd is solidly behind any politician promising to impose the bible’s sanctions on women and gays, the rest of America is moving forward and supporting Obama’s agenda.
People actually willing to vocally support reproductive rights have become less and less common owing to the success of stigmatization
Apparently, voter rejection of extremist views against women in the recent election is lost on Republicans because they are persisting in attacking women’s reproductive rights as the primary focus of their war on women.
The election was a rejection of Republican extremism on women’s reproductive rights, but in states with GOP majorities, there is still a crusade to restrict choice.
The Republican Party’s doldrums are likely to continue until they acknowledge reality, but there are no signs of that happening soon
Republicans, in appraising the causes for the Republican defeat in 2012, shy away from the real reasons for that defeat: the culture war
A new poll shows that independents and swing state voters are aware of the war on women, crossing over liberal/conservative lines. So much for the GOP’s talking points.
There is no demographic that supports Romney that is not inexorably linked to their own destruction and unfortunately, to their family members, friends, and this country’s future.
America’s worst nightmare is a Romney presidency bolstered by conservative Christians in Congress and a bible-based Supreme Court.
Paul Ryan said that elected officials should be in charge of Row V Wade, raising the alarm bell that a Romney/Ryan admin intends to implement the Personhood Amendment.
Religious liberty proponents don’t understand that Obama’s policy does not require any man, or woman, to use contraception or to abandon their own religious prohibition against using birth control.
Tea Party hero Joe Walsh told a diner full of old white folks that Sandra Fluke needs to get a job, equating healthcare with’entitlement
Paul Ryan says women won’t be distracted by ‘side issues’ of Ryan’s positions on rape, which align closely with Republican Representative Todd Akin’s views.
As Akin begs forgiveness for his words, not one Republican apologizes for the mountain of legislation that proves ‘legitimate rape’ is a GOP policy, not a gaffe.
Republicans claim they want smaller government, but they are panting to impose their bible ideology on women with the full authority of the law.
Republicans have enlisted religious fanatics to forward their dangerous agenda by instilling fear that Democrats are waging a war on religious freedom.
The Christian Right pretends to be champions of religious freedom; but the only freedom they care about is their freedom to ignore ours
The Republican Party is eager to legislate on women’s use of their reproductive systems; they have so far shown no willingness at all to legislate use of their own
It is time to define gateway sexual activities and to determine whether or not they can be considered a spectator sport
You live in a modern world only because you have insisted on living in a modern world, not because the Church has ever agreed to or condoned it, but simply because since the Enlightenment they haven’t been able to do anything about it
Women are angry, insulted, and sick and tired of being treated like second-class citizens and they have the motivation, intelligence to end the Republican war against them.
Alaska legislation proves that state-sponsored sexual servitude is alive and well. So much for the First Amendment, because all this is 100% religiously based
Republicans are willing to hold 2.8 million jobs hostage unless the insurance industry is rewarded with the legality to decline any health services.
In state after state, the misogynistic mandates by Republicans enforcing religious edicts against women are inflaming men and women alike.
Rush Limbaugh, a.k.a. radio’s morning after pill for your intelligence, used an attack on Danica Patrick to stealthily advance the right’s war on contraception.
The Republican war on women has awoken a sleeping giant and she is furious, driven, educated, and will remove these male supremacists from power.
Elizabeth Warren joined Rachel Maddow to expose the fact that the GOP’s attack on contraception is the first step in gutting the entire health insurance system. Here is the video from MSNBC: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy MADDOW: Jim from New England Cable News there was essentially characterizing…
A Republican amendment in the Senate is proposing the creation of real life death panel that would put religious fanatics between patients and their health care professionals.
There is a religious war being prosecuted in America and it is borne out of an exaggerated sense of superiority by extremists in the Republican Party at the behest of the Catholic Bishops.
Rabbi Daniel Lapin generates a myth that the availability of oral contraception has somehow caused the collapse of American civilization
