mark morford: santorum, the bishops and you

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Santorum, the bishops, and you


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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.

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Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2012/02/15/notes021512.DTL#ixzz1oJR9SLvx