Christian Conservatives Broaden Their WAR On WOMEN

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" America is involved in two unpopular wars, and finally there are disparate groups aligning together to encourage the Obama Administration to withdraw our troops and bring the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan to a reasonable end. The cost in lives and money has proven to be too much for most of the country, and with the death of Osama bin Laden, the original goals appear to have been met leading many in Congress to promote an accelerated end of the Afghanistan conflict. However, there is a war going on here at home that is escalating on a daily basis with no end in sight, and there are very few groups advocating to cease hostilities anytime soon.



In Congress and many state legislatures, social conservatives are waging vicious attacks on women’s reproductive rights and except for women’s rights groups, there is an alarmingly small number of people willing to take on the Religious Right that is the driving force and inspiration for the assault on women. The conservative Christians in Congress have assailed women with H.R. 3, the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act” that is an aggressive, multi-pronged effort to restrict insurance coverage for abortion. Federal law already prohibits the use of Federal funds for abortion and the bill aims to eliminate access to abortion by using the IRS and the tax code by removing deductions for insurance plans if abortion is offered. Men though, can deduct expenses for erection-inducing prescriptions without restriction.



The war on women is not solely concerned with abortion rights and has at its basis a philosophy that women are “hyper-fertile wives and mothers in obedient service to God.” The bible-inspired characterization of women as slaves is at the center of the war on women and conservatives in Congress have made no attempt to conceal their support for such a misogynistic approach to dealing with women’s reproductive health. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has been at the forefront of the attack on women’s rights and characterized opponents as, “an arrogant corrupt Washington elite” that has “declared war on marriage, on families, on fertility, and on faith.” Bachmann’s statement is key to understanding that Christian conservatives are attempting to eliminate women’s rights and designate them as nothing more than birth machines and slaves to a man’s will.



In 2005, James Dobson wrote that men, “have ceded too much power to women,” and that “most men lack the guts – and the sensitivity – to stand up to them.” Although Dobson penned those words 6 years ago, they portend the motives of conservative Christians’ desire to subjugate women and their rights. The “sanctity of life” argument being used as the reason for eliminating women’s reproductive rights is more about eliminating all forms of birth control to keep women in their place as defined by Christian fundamentalists, and one Texas lawmaker let the truth slip out in a statement to a reporter. Representative Wayne Christian (R) exposed the right wing’s attack on women and said it’s not only about abortion. The Republican Party is pushing to have total control over women’s reproductive rights and that includes contraception. When asked about the goal of Republican legislation to defund Planned Parenthood, Christian said that, “Well, of course, it’s a war on birth control and abortions and everything. That’s what family planning is supposed to be about.”



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So by their standards - reproductive rights are bad, yet boner pills should be over the counter. :grr: :eyes:

philosophical belief that " women are “hyper-fertile wives and mothers in obedient service to God.”



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control reproduction. That way, they can reproduce themselves in great numbers. It's a matter of pride in their existence. It's the reproductive imperative, and to have mere women decided how many offspring these men should engender is a great insult to them.

For these men, women are receptacles for their miraculous seed, and should be grateful to them.

Blech!

I really want to understand the concept of egomaniacism more. I'm totally fascinated by the line of thinking you said - and I really think making that clear could be the key to our salvation.

See - egomaniacs like Bryan Fischer - it's all about them and their thinking that they're superior to everyone else. I just don't get it.

He has a very, very small penis. That's why he feels the need to control women.

And we will NOT let repukes and right wing loonie Christians control us. NEVER.

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The slavery connotations of keeping a woman in a condition where it is hard for to leave the house are self evident.

and we need to bust through it --

GOP gave start up funding for the Christian Coalition -

Richard Scaife financed Dobson's group -- and other rw wealthy funded Bauer's group --

on and on --

GOP/"pro-lifers" were financed by white Christian Militias --

They solicited clinic protesters from methadone clinics and paid them to protest.

When they still couldn't get their way, some coaching by "pro-life" leadership led to

the more crazed "pro-lifers" murdering doctors.

"Christianity" has for millennia been a tool of elites -- a tool of conquest - and they

continue to use the same tools over and again.


GOP radicalized the NRA and used it to TARGET not only liberals in the Democratic Party

but liberals and moderates in the Republican Party, thereby moving Congress way to the right.


DLC was funded by the Koch Bros -- *

How many Democrats have divulged that info to Americans -- i.e., that the Democratic Party

harbored a Koch Bros. funded DLC within the Democratic Party for decades?


We also now have the Koch Bros. finacing the T-baggers -- an organization run out of a

Public Relations firm which guarantees them exposure. It's also an organization, imo, which

is being used to create a more violent political climate.


We've had more than 50 years of righwing political violence -- assassinations -- which took

not only our president but our people's government --

What was left of it, was simply bought --

Now, most of our government and government agencies have been corrupted.





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The Rightwing Koch Bros. Funded the DLC --

http://www.democrats.com/node/7789

http://upload.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x498414

Someone better tell my favorite feminist, who just gave birth to her second child. :P

The remnants of past genealogy that have not evolved or are in retrograde.
Just take a look at the Mormon polygamists if you want to know where the Republican version of Christianity will lead us.

said it best.