Aaarrgghh!!!!

Last week I couldn’t think of anything to write about, but this week there is plenty!!  But first off, I want to wish a very Happy Fourth of July to all of those who believe that our freedoms are for all of us – not just for some! 

Of course anyone who knows me knows what I will be writing about – the Supreme Court’s decision this week re: Hobby Lobby and birth control, which stemmed from the court’s decision that corporations are people.  The first two of these next three statements I have purloined from other places, and the third from my husband.  I’ll believe that corporations are people when Texas executes one; when one of them gets Baptized, or when one of them gets pregnant!  Until then, there needs to be a really strong country-wide grassroots effort to get that silly decision about corporate personhood overturned.

But there were another two incidents, not getting nearly as much media coverage, but in my mind they should have.  Does anyone remember during the 2012 Presidential race when Rick Santorum had an interview with someone, it makes no difference who it was, and Santorum brought up the fact that birth control was somehow immoral and needed to be done away with?  Now I know that Santorum is a very, very conservative Catholic, and that he has every right to be that.  At the time, most people simply thought that Santorum was a real nut job to be even discussing something that was so set into law.  After this last week’s court decision, it occurred to me that we had better start listening to what Santorum is saying.  And then later in the day I saw another current interview with Santorum and Tucker Carlson, to be viewed by just googling Rick Santorum and voting: 

 “Were we ready for an election when the United States was formed to have everybody in the United States vote? Well, our Founders didn’t think so. They limited the people who could vote in an election. Now, you could say, ‘that’s horrible, that’s terrible.’ Well, maybe it was, maybe it wasn’t. But it was a decision that was made to make sure that there was some continuity and stability within the government that was consistent with the values the government was founded upon.” 

The big question then becomes, who defines the values the government was founded on.  According to the radical religious right it was founded on fundamentalist Christian values, even though those fundamentalist values didn’t surface until the early 20^th century!  Is Rick Santorum the bell wether (sheep) for the radical religious right in the sense that he goes first with their current radical notion they want to get into the public consciousness gently, but then eventually becomes what the radical religious right works for overtly?  This combined with the efforts in all Republican states to limit access to the polls by minorities and the elderly, who tend to vote Democratic, gives me the chills.  Will the religious radical right attempt to extend its obsession with political power to only land owning males, preferably white, and radical right Christians?  It is my belief that this is something that all rational people need to really keep an eye on.  I would hope to the high heavens that I am wrong, but still with the history of that bunch, their obvious denigration of women and minorities, I think we need to be very aware.

But getting back to the Supreme Court’s decision this week and the contention by some that it only applied to some forms of contraception thought to be abortifacients (which they are not), the following day the court confirmed that they were referring to all forms of birth control.  And with that, lining up to claim religious belief sensibilities, are corporations who don’t want to hire or serve LBGT people, and who don’t want to provide birth control.  Please don’t think this will stop with one case!

I don’t know about you, but as an adult, intelligent, rational and sane woman, I am really p@$#%& over this decision.  Not only has it violated the religious liberty of Hobby Lobby employees who disagree with this policy, it has placed what a corporation wants over the medical needs of its women employees, and placed the concerns of corporations before the needs of any woman anywhere, and that includes me at some future point in my life.  Any woman who votes for anyone but a Democrat in the next election needs to have her head examined!!  Oh, wait!  Emotional health can only be provided by an acceptance of the Lord Jesus as your personal Savior according to the religious beliefs of some, so getting needed mental health therapy is a violation of some other people’s religious beliefs. 

Aaarrrgghh!!!!