From Jim Wright, Stonekettle Station, author and blogger. He really pulled it all together for this rant.
My hate mail this morning is fantastic.
Seems a bunch of anti-abortion types took exception to yesterday's post and now I'm on some mailing lists.
They're outraged.
But then, when aren't they?
Seems they feel I've misrepresented what's happening regarding reproductive law in the Pennsylvania legislature.
Heh.
Listen, the ONE thing that you can absolutely count on is this: These religious nuts will never, EVER, be satisfied. These people are absolutely bugshit every second of every minute of every fucking day over abortion, reproductive rights, identity, and a woman's right to her own body. They are absolutely obsessed with other people having sex. You see it at EVERY turn, from their endless excuses for sexual assault to their attempts to legislate who can use what restroom to their seething outrage over sex education in the public schools to their bizarre desire to inspect children's genitals to their myriad attempts to punish women for having sex. When you tell me a pharmacist can refuse to fill a prescription based on that pharmacist's "sincerely held religious beliefs," you don't get to pretend like you're NOT attempting to impose your miserable shitty religion on the rest of us.
It's never enough.
IT'S NEVER ENOUGH.
It's never enough with these pinched faced, yellow-eyed rapture monkeys. NEVER.
They never think about anything other than punishing others for having sex.
Their fucking religion NEVER THINKS ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE.
Their miserable rotten god is obsessed with it -- that's not my opinion that's the message his holy men preach from the pulpits and the street corners and radios every single goddamn day. Here in this shitty Southern town where I live, it's on billboards in front of every single church -- and I bet it's no different where you live.
And now -- NOW -- these very same people want me to believe that the laws they are attempting to pass are the end all.
That they'll be satisfied.
Oh, it's harmless, they say. We're just trying to give women MORE choices is all.
Yeah.
So long as women make the RIGHT choice -- and the preachers and the Republicans get to decide what "right" is.
Because that's the next step, and don't try to tell me it's not.
The very last thing these disingenuous sons of bitches intend is for you to have the option of deciding anything for yourself, and that sure as hell goes double if you're a woman. They intend for you to follow their god's "law" as defined by them and that's the only option you're going to get. And again, don't try to tell me it's not. See the example above regarding pharmacies.
It's about power.
It's about control.
But the one thing it's for damn sure NOT about is children -- because if it was, then they'd do what their god commanded them to do and feed the hungry, clothe the poor, and heal the sick. Q.E.D. But THAT part, they ignore.
NOTHING is ever "settled law" with these people.
And nothing is ever, EVER, enough.
They are as fanatical, and as shamelessly hypocritical, as any Ayatollah and the only difference is that the zealots in Iran are at least honest about their intentions.
Nothing these people say with regards to their intentions can be trusted. Nothing. Not one goddamn word.
All you have to do is look to the recent Supreme Court appointees, compare what each of them told you about their judicial opinions regarding reproductive law during the Senate nomination process and what their actions are NOW.
So, you want to believe this "harmless" legislation that "gives women more options" in Pennsylvania is the end? That there's no ulterior motive? That this shitty state congressman and his shitty republican cronies DON'T have more up their sleeves?
Do you?
Is that what you want me to believe?
Yeah. Listen, if you want me to trust you, then you have to be worthy of trust. And you're not.
You are not.
And it's really just that goddamn simple.
