Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon

Thursday, April 7, 2016

Dumb and Dumber

I could be amused by some of the nonsense going on today if not for the pain it causes people.

Have you been keeping up with the latest "Religious Freedom" legislation that's been signed into law in North Carolina and Mississippi? Mostly this legislation is about giving religious people the freedom to discriminate against persons different than themselves.

"The new law bars people from using public restrooms that don't align with the sex on their birth certificates - a measure proponents say protects privacy but critics describe as a thinly veiled attack on transgender people."

Now how do you suppose these states plan to carry out this law? Who's job is it to check people entering restrooms to be sure they're in the right one? Does this mean you'll be barred if you can't present a birth certificate?
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In Indiana Gov. Mike Pense (R) signed a controversial bill that would block women from seeking abortions based on medical diagnosis. You can read about it in this article. The woman would be required to notify the state should she chose to terminate her pregnancy, regardless of the medical diagnosis.

The governor's office this week has received several calls from women describing the details of their period.

"I need to get a message to the Governor that I am on day three of my period.  My flow seems abnormally heavy, but my cramps are much better," one woman called to say.

The law apparently includes in the reporting requirement, "some women on their periods may unknowingly expel a fertilized egg and thus have a miscarriage and be potentially liable if the egg is not correctly disposed of."  (I'm thinking this surely cannot be true.)

One comment on this article was "Women in Indiana should mail their used tampons to the governor."

I thought this comment was right on target, "So let me get this right - these are some of the same people that push back because we want to close the "gun show loophole" which they insist violates their 2nd Amendment rights; yet these same people want to violate a woman (& her family's) right to terminate a pregnancy because the fetus has mental/physical/developmental disabilities?!? So is the governor going to pay for the upkeep and maintenance of the women that will now be forced into carrying the pregnancy to term?!?"
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This is a case of dumb and dumber. It's beyond me why conservative lawmakers are so obsessed with all things sexual.

10 comments:

  1. I do love it when you get going!
    The hypocrisy, of course, is monumental. These are the "small government" folks who want the government to leave them alone, apparently so they can tell everyone else how to live their lives.
    So when are the women in these states going to rise up and wise up and vote for Democrats? Sheesh.

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  2. As far as the 19 weeks goes - I agree. The rest is a bunch of nonsense, are they getting women riled to lure their minds away from something sinister? I don't trust the lot of them.

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  3. I, too, love it when you get going. I have two relatives who are "friends" of mine on FB. They support the above crap wholeheartedly, being "Christians" and all. It dumbfounds me, honestly. I'm convinced it is, absolutely, hypocrisy. I'm sure my two relatives pray for me daily. They might as well give up.

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  4. How can it be possible that there are enough people so concerned about sex and sexuality and the workings of a woman's body that these laws get passed?
    And really, I so wonder just who Republican leaders believe will be the next president that they can't consider Obama's nominee.
    Good grief. Let's make America great by becoming a world wide laughing stock.




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  5. How can it be possible that there are enough people so concerned about sex and sexuality and the workings of a woman's body that these laws get passed?
    And really, I so wonder just who Republican leaders believe will be the next president that they can't consider Obama's nominee.
    Good grief. Let's make America great by becoming a world wide laughing stock.




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  6. I live in one of these states and it's embarrassing. I love the South, but we look like a bunch of raving religious nuts to the rest of the world. I have a neighbor who won't see a movie with Julia Robertson because she's a Buddhist and another who will walk out of a room if a gay character is on the TV. Many more like this I'm sure here in the South. Remember Kentucky and the gay marriage fiasco. And these people are "Christian" and so very self righteous in their views. I sense a fear underneath it all which leads to hatred of those different than us. It's embarrassing but also scary.

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    1. Mary, I lived 62 years of my life in Texas. People who haven't experienced this have no idea how bad and how dangerous it is. People asked me why I was leaving Texas and I said "heat, politics, and religion."

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  7. If I have to take off my shoes and walk through an electric door to go to the bathroom, then I'm carrying a can with me!

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  8. I think what scares me the most is that these laws actually get passed. There sure are a lot of "my narrow little way or the highway" sorts out there. I guess those so called "Christians" don't really read the Bible.

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  9. I just saw an Ellen Degeneres Youtube about this:
    https://www.good.is/articles/ellen-speaks-out-against-mississippi

    I thought she did a great job to tell it like it is.

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