JABbering Stooge

Yep, the conservative perversion of Christianity is sooooooooo much better than Islam. Here’s how (I know how! N’yuck! N’yuck! N’yuck! N’yuck!):

• A Lancaster County, Nebraska rape victim is not allowed to use terms like “rape,” “sexual assault,” etc. because the judge said those words are “too emotionally loaded” and would “prejudice a jury.” And for his next trick, the judge is going to a) unilaterally declare the victim guilty of “moral terpritude,” and b) demand that she produce 20 male relatives who were witness to the rape.

• Another woman is gang-raped in San Jose, yet the DA flatly refuses to file charges, apparently taking at face value one of the alleged assailants’ claims that “she did this to herself.” Yeah, and Clinton’s penis made you rape her. Sure.

• A 14-year-old rape victim was refused emergency contraception at the hospitial.

• CBS and Fux (yes, the “u” is intentional) reject Trojan ads that emphasize the pregnancy prevention element of condom use. As Amanda Marcotte put it:

  Translation: We can accept advertising of sexual devices if they are advertised as benefiting men. But if they insinuate something as crazy as the concept that men should respect women’s bodies, health, and choices, then they’re way out of line.

• While we’re on the subject, an increasing number of pharmacists are refusing to fill prescriptions for emergency contraception.

• Violence aimed at abortion clinics continues apace, despite mainline abortion opponents’ bleating to the contrary. And no, it doesn’t help that SCOTUS took away the use of RICO statutes against anti-abortion protesters in 2003, either.

• Eastern Michigan University covers up the rape and murder of one of its students out of fear of the impact on its bottom line.

• Liberals are routinely sent death threats for the crime of merely holding an opinion to the left of Torquemada.

• Muslim-Americans are also a frequent target of death threats and violence.

• SCOTUS, under its new Scalito-Roberts Axis, has just issued two rulings that strike at the heart of religious freedom in this country. The first, Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc., effectively gutted McCain-Feingold vis a vis interest-group ads aired right before an election. In announcing the ruling, the Roberts Court failed to mention whether or not a political litumus test would be applied in determining which ads were valid under this ruling and which are not. However, I would not be surprised to find that had the name on the right side of the v. been oh, say, Greenpeace, Iraq Vets Against the War or Amnesty International, the ruling would’ve been very different. Just sayin’.

  The other disturbing ruling in regard to religious freedom in America - what’s left of it, anyway - was the ruling that atheists “lack standing” to sue the federal government over The Most Holy George W. Christ’s Office of Faith-Based Initiatives in Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc. - for the crime of being atheist, apparently. Because we all know that atheists can’t be moral, much less harbor such “exclusively Christian” notions as altruism.

• To make matters worse, being atheist ranks dead last among qualities or traits that a person would consider favorably in a presidential candidate in a Gallup poll conducted back in February. (Mind you, this is the same Gallup that’s been in trouble for oversampling Republicans in the past.)

• There has been movement among some of the more extreme elements of the conservative echo chamber for a constitutional amendment effectively banning belief in Islam. Given the rapidity with which “ideas” propagate from the Nazi wing of the GOP to “mainstream truth” these days (thanks, “librul” media!), I wouldn’t be surprised to see this idea promoted among “Serious Thinkers” before the year is out - especially if there’s another 9/11.

• And last, but most certainly not least, let’s not forget that moment of Ultimate Conservative Rage™ that expressed itself as a Curly Howard Double Eye-Gouge Special™ aimed at the twin Holy Grails of Conservative Rage™ - the U.N. and feminists - when they sided with repressive conservative Muslim regimes in efforts to block the Convention for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women.

The only thing missing is the honor killings. For all the screeching protests of the unhinged right to the contrary, there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between the theocrats that they lovingly endorse and the theocrats that they want to stuff inside of human-sized microweaves.