5 Right-Wing Outrages This Week: 'Biblically Correct' Sex Edition

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http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/5-right-wing-outrages-week-biblically-correct-sex-edition



1. Phil Robertson: You can't get STDs from having "biblically-correct" sex.

Boy are some Christians having “biblically-correct” sex going to be pissed if they come down with an STD. “Duck Dynasty” patriarch, Phil Robertson, told them this would not happen. He said it in a sermon, in a church, in the house of God, so it must be true. He said, “Biblically correct sex is safe,” during a sermon in West Monroe, Louisiana recently. “It’s safe. You’re not going to get chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, AIDS.” He meant monogamous sex with an uninfected partner, which is true enough. But that sounds kind of scientific-ey. Also, it does not rule out the dreaded homosexuality, which he has a well-known track record of hating. So, yeah, he prefers the term “biblically-correct sex,” which is, of course, heterosexual, monogamous, and maybe just a tad boring.

2. Phyllis Schlafly: Obama wants America to be just like Africa, Ebola and all.

Phyllis Schlafly is working hard to be the most hateful woman on the planet well into her dotage. In the last few weeks, the 90-year-old Eagle Forum founder has said some real doozies, from advising young women to get married to avoid being raped, to attributing the Secret Service mess-ups to the fact that an overweight woman was leading the agency. Now she is turning that lightning intellect to the scourge of ebola, which she says Obama is trying to spread around America.

3. Fox & Friends freaks out about assault on Columbus Day.

Here we are just 83 shopping days away from the War on Christmas, and the poor, persecuted White Christians in this country are dealing with another all-out assault: the War on Columbus Day. This week, the good and long-suffering folks at Fox News reported the deeply distressing news that a Seattle school board voted to scuttle Columbus Day, and redub the holiday, “Indigenous People’s Day.” The horror. As Peter Johnson, Jr. appearing on Fox & Friends declaimed: “It’s a social and political statement that says Christopher Columbus was a violator of indigenous people. It’s a slap. It’s an attack on Columbus. Day.” (sic)


4. Microsoft CEO: Women should not ask for raises. They should trust the system, their super-powers and karma.

We’re not totally certain of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s political persuasion, but he definitely had a pretty tin-eared, right-wing moment this week, when asked a predictable question about notorious unequal pay for women in the tech industry. How far do you have to have your head buried under a computer to not know that this question will come up when you are addressing a group at the annual Grace Hopper Celebration, which celebrates women in the tech field.

[RKP5637]

1. The "new" USA, leading the world in Idiocracy! n/t

[CJCRANE]

2. Biblical Correctness is getting out of control.

I want Big Religion out of my life.

[Gore1FL]

5. Why stop at the big ones?

[czarjak]

3. Poor Phil....

Thinks Phil's will is Gods will.

[chervilant]

4. Phil looks like he's ready for Halloween...

All he needs is a plastic pumpkin for all his loot.