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Republicans again appeal to theocracy
House committee votes to upend first D.C. law in 23 years
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Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)Assholes.
AuntPatsy
(9,904 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,861 posts)How is my employer going to KNOW if I am using birth control, I am certainly not going to tell them and If they ask, its non of their damn business!. Why the f@*^$ would they even ask me? I am so glad I live in San Francisco!
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)He might tell?....
yuiyoshida
(41,861 posts)secondly there won't be any kids, as I don't want any.. third.. if there ever is a hubby, she will probably not want kids either
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,861 posts)the unspecific "you" .... oops!
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)There was a reason for it in the old days...
yuiyoshida
(41,861 posts)Like Shakespeare old days... Romeo and Juliet!
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief,
That thou her maid art far more fair than she:
Be not her maid, since she is envious;
Her vestal livery is but sick and green
And none but fools do wear it; cast it off.
It is my lady, O, it is my love!
O, that she knew she were!
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)Man, in that painting, it looks like Romeo's pants are glued to his body or something!
yuiyoshida
(41,861 posts)Johonny
(20,888 posts)they might track what you use it on... Most companies wouldn't want to know. Companies run by sick brain damaged GOPers already want to kick birth control off your insurance. I have no doubt they'll force insurance companies to flag birth control users for them if allowed to.
CrispyQ
(36,509 posts)I know they can probably get around it, but if you found out they were actually doing this, isn't there a law against it? Your employer snooping your med files?
I feel like I've fallen down a rabbit hole.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)but as we drifter further and further into Corporatism... Hell, call it what is really is- Fascism.
CrispyQ
(36,509 posts)Wink, wink.
What a disgusting mess.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)my grandchildren will have to fight the same fight my grandparent's generation did.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)Bible trumps Constitution any day!
pansypoo53219
(20,995 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)With a rusty flagpole. Sideways.
Hepburn
(21,054 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Afterwards....instead of a cigarette....
A BLOWTORCH!!!!!
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)underpants
(182,877 posts)It is basically the basis of the separation of church and state.
Why didn't someone ask him to explain what he meant.
The question might go something like this: "If I might ask the congressman to explain what he means by the analogy. My memory of that scripture is that the Pharisees were tempting Jesus to make sure he was paying his taxes and thought they would trip him up. So they asked if his disciples paid their taxes. He said, 'Show me a coin.' And they showed him one. 'Who's image and superscription is on this coin?' he asked. 'Caesar's,' they said. 'Render, therefore,' he is reputed to have said, 'unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and render unto God that which is God's.' The people during that time, who evidently were more conversant with analogies and metaphor than some in our halls of Congress understood exactly what he meant. 'Pay your taxes. Your religion, like the Kingdom of Heaven, is spiritual and is within you. Give spiritual things to God, give material things to the powers that be in the material world.' Am I misreading this passage of scripture, Congressman? If not can you please enlighten me. I breathlessly await your brilliant exposition. As it seems to me you're saying that abortion is OK in the material realm but not in the spiritual, or maybe it's the other way around. I'm totally confused."
corkhead
(6,119 posts)Koch brother toady Tim
justhanginon
(3,290 posts)buying condoms or having vasectomies? Last I heard those are forms of birth control.
I am getting to the point that, fairly or unfairly just the word "christian" is making me nauseous.
Why is it always the men in congress that come up with this misogynistic crap?
Moostache
(9,897 posts)(SARCASM INTENDED just to be clear!)
If Viagra remains covered and birth control is not then I truly hope every man taking Viagra, while simultaneously exposing the evils of women taking control of their bodies through birth control, suffers a debilitating embolism and ends up being sustained on a feeding tube with no control over their own bodies as cosmic justice.
marym625
(17,997 posts)Faygo Kid
(21,478 posts)What a total jerk, and always has been. Voters electing him should be ashamed.
Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)way designed by God. I'm surprised they're using him as a proponent for natural birth.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)What a WHACK JOB
NBachers
(17,136 posts)This guy looks, talks, and thinks like a huge anal cyst. How does anyone vote for ignorant vicious shit-balls like this?
MADem
(135,425 posts)RoBear
(1,188 posts)I'm going to share this with friends; hope that's okay!
MADem
(135,425 posts)William769
(55,147 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)These freaks are a true danger for America.
GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)these pukes cannot even think straight
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Giving men more control over women's bodies, and giving them the guns to enforce it.
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)Worried about protecting the religious hatred of employers in the District of Columbia?
Overstep much?
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)If they are this bad when they are friendly I would hate to see what they would do if they had evil intentions. Oh wait...
Novara
(5,851 posts)Thank about that for a while. We've been fighting about BIRTH CONTROL throughout the last few years when IT WAS SETTLED in 1965 in Griswold v. Connecticut.
This is, of course, unconstitutional, not that it ever stops them.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Preventing a pregnancy is making all of those baby spirits sit forever in the Divine Waiting Room.
AngryDem001
(684 posts)when a man masturbates?
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)d_legendary1
(2,586 posts)To make sure you can catch it. Otherwise holy hell and all that...
vlyons
(10,252 posts)Because every sperm is sacred
Every sperm is great
If a sperm is wasted
God gets quite irate
Monty Python - The Meaning of Life
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,192 posts)Something Republicans vehemently oppose.
pansypoo53219
(20,995 posts)and i seem to remember WE ARE NOT LIVING UNDER SHARIA.
YET
samsingh
(17,601 posts)tartan2
(314 posts)He wouldn't know or understand separation of church and state. Why isn't there a law preventing a minister from holding any political office? It is just so wrong.......
Why? Hmmm?
Initech
(100,102 posts)Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)The CCC
(463 posts)When I want to render unto God I go to the church of my choice, not my government/employer. Keep your damn government/employer out of my religion.
classof56
(5,376 posts)Usta be, employers could ask a married female being interviewed for a job just what she did to keep from getting pregnant, since they didn't want to deal with the cost of providing, medical expenditures during the pregnancy, maternity leave, paying someone to cover her job, all that spendy stuff. Then there were the probing questions asked working mothers about who watches the kids while the Mom's at work, etc. etc. etc. The idea that a female employee should make as much as her male counterpart was, of course, unheard of. The notion of the working mother was almost unheard of (back in the 50s and 60s, before the Feminism Movement hit the national radar), since hubby was supposed to be the breadwinner and stay-at-home moms were the "norm". I'll never forget a children's book about "the family", which stated (with appropriate illustrations of course), "Daddy goes to work to make pennies, Mommy stays home to take care of baby." Sigh....
But I digress. Fact is, I'm simply appalled at this "congress-idiot's" statement. First of all, the twisted scripture taking Jesus' words out of context is bad enough, but I'm guessing he's totally against employers covering health care for female employees who aren't allowed to use birth control when the resulting pregnancy/childbirth/child care expenses kick in.
Good. Grief. And god help us all.
ProfessorGAC
(65,168 posts)Not kidding. God told me to tell him!
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)you can bet lunacy is going to follow. Why can't they just say "Jesus Christ"? Do we say "Tim the Walberg"?
Orrex
(63,224 posts)We do say Winnie the Pooh and Jabba the Hutt, so...
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)I guess it works for fictional characters
MynameisBlarney
(2,979 posts)It makes me want to smash things.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)I have GOT to remember to return that casserole dish I borrowed from Shiva!
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Which is clearly wrong of him, if so. We make such laws all the time, like you can't be fired for being away at jury duty.
CrispyQ
(36,509 posts)Much less that he is in Congress.
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)God gave me this middle finger just for you.
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)they probably will want you fired as well. I am sure that they will find scripture to justify that as well.
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)or horror, for getting vasectomies? Little secret Misogynists? Females don't get pregnant all by themselves. Sin? Hello? MALES spilling their "seed" without the possibility of conception!
Turbineguy
(37,365 posts)They get imbued with some sort of mental disorder. They think that whatever they say makes sense and is good. When in fact they are deranged morons.
allan01
(1,950 posts)deathrind
(1,786 posts)These idiots continue to quote bible verse and continue to completely miss the point of the verse. It is times like this when it would really be nice to see another member set aside the courtesy and decorum and call this idiots stupidity out in front of everyone.
mackerel
(4,412 posts)TBF
(32,090 posts)Iris
(15,666 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)face palm
libodem
(19,288 posts)In case I'm ever depressed and I need something hysterical to cheer me up.
cui bono
(19,926 posts)I see no other solution.
(but kinda not really)
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)father founding
(619 posts)Doesn't look like Timmy needs to worry about birth control.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)idiots making up Church Doctrine to suit their own needs. Christ never spoke of birth control in the Scriptures.
lupinella
(365 posts)TRoN33
(769 posts)This is exactly one of many reasons why young people are leaving religion in record numbers in 2014. I left it in 2005 and I found myself to be far more spiritually connected to Mother Earth than ever.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)For what that is worth.
tclambert
(11,087 posts)or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
Contrary to many Republican "thinkers," this applies to individuals as well as corporations.
If a woman doesn't happen to interpret the Bible, or the Writ of Cthulhu, or whatever, the same way Rep. Dumbass does, she should not be discriminated against any more than if she were a Unitarian rather than whatever dumbass religion Rep. Dumbass pretends to follow.