Santorum, the bishops, and you, By Mark Morford

[madokie]

Wait, can this be right? (Bangs iPhone on table). Is this thing broken? (Smacks iCal app with back of hand). Is there something wrong with the calendar (flicks tiny dial on wristwatch). Are you sure it's really 2012 and not, say, 1950? Or 1850? Or the Middle Ages?

Completely insufficient level of sarcasm, really, given how it apparently really is 2012, well past the sexual revolution, the Pill, shattered glass ceilings, designer vibrators and dragging females around the cave by their lustrous hair without enthusiastic fetish/safe word consent, and here we are, stuck like an errant NuvaRing under the sweaty, sexually disgraceful thumbs of a shrinking but still shrieking subset of hyper-religious males who think women are vile and lesser and should not, cannot make choices for themselves regarding sex and war and love, et al.

Birth control? Really? Can this be right? The Catholic church? Frightened old bishops who never have sex but nevertheless still have the gall to exclaim basic sexual empowerment is... whatnow? A "sin"?

Amazing. Some are actually suing the president for daring to threaten the church's diminishing power, for insisting that all American women finally be given free, easy access to simple birth control -- something that should have happened 50 years ago but took the first black Democrat president to say it's about goddamn time. I know, right? Hard to believe. ...

(Full URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2012/02/15/notes021512.DTL&nl=fix)

[NNN0LHI]

1. I couldn't sleep last night after thinking about something Tweety said about Santorum yesterday

Paraphrasing here, but Tweety mentioned something I really hadn't thought about. He said the scariest thing about Santorum is that he actually believes the crazy stuff he says. You could give him a lie detector test and he would pass it.



Don

[sarge43]

2. Sure he does.

A candidate doesn't publicly say things that crazy and not believe them.

[customerserviceguy]

4. Not necessarily

Mitt says things he doesn't believe all the time, depending who he gauges his audience to be.

[sarge43]

5. True, but Foamy is constant. He doen't say what the audience wants to hear.

He says what he believes.

[customerserviceguy]

8. He just finds an audience pre-disposed to hear what he has to blather. n/t

[Matariki]

3. This is just beautiful

Do you know what the next generation thinks of this so-called moral Christian fabric? That it's long overdue for a shredding. That it failed long ago and needs to be ripped into rainbow ribbons and re-made into something far more dynamic and interesting and inclusive. Maybe a kite. Maybe some spiritual prayer flags. A sex toy cozy. A nice blanket for a gay couple's newly adopted baby. You know, something... helpful.

[Swede Atlanta]

6. My only dispute with this is the statement....

"Frightened old bishops who never have sex....".... I think if there is one thing we have learned through the priest pedophilia scandal is the priesthood in the Catholic is far from celibate. I am not asserting that every priest, bishop, etc. engage in sexual activity but it would not surprise me if some of the leaders in the Church have engaged in prohibited sexual activity, heterosexual or homosexual.

[spanone]

7. k&r...

[malaise]

9. Nice read

Thanks