Madfloridian's Journal - Religious right demands government stay out of health care, demands it intrude into our bedrooms.
Sun Oct 18th 2009, 01:26 AM
... and into the doctors' office when women need reproductive care. And into the pharmacies when women need contraception and emergency treatment to prevent pregnancy.
Just think about those stances. They are out yelling to keep the government out of Medicare (a government program)...they are yelling that government play no role, saying it is socialist.
Yet they want government right in the middle of the sex life of women, looking out for their reproductive rights, forbidding them to have abortions.
They are right in the middle of sexual preference, instead of staying out of peoples' private business.
It does not occur to them how foolish it all sounds.
There's an interesting post at RH Reality Check called When Church becomes State
She makes some interesting points, but there is one that stands out. It again shows the utter hypocrisy of many on the religious right.
When you’re in the Peace Corps, you expect culture shock. But it’s generally not supposed to come from your countrymen. Among many foreign experiences I had in Honduras a decade ago, interpreting for a brigade of fundamentalist Christian doctors was perhaps the most disturbing. ...
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