Current Ramblings
Saturday, May 14, 2005
Mating Habits of the Wild NeoCon
Usually I stay away from politics here, mostly out of respect for some conservative friends whose opinions I can understand if not agree with. (Also, unlike some friends I can think of, I'm not all that big on my comments turning into a political firefight.) But two things have popped up this week that, especially in proximity to each other, bore mentioning.
The first is funny, and I'm totally ganking it from Hoop's LJ: anti-abortion extremist Neal Horsley stridently defends mule-fucking on nation TV. The thing I like best is this exchange:
AC: "Are you suggesting that everybody who grows up on a farm in Georgia has a mule as a girlfriend?"
NH: "It has historically been the case. You people are so far removed from the reality... Welcome to domestic life on the farm..."
It really, really amuses me to see a conservative talking head use that "You people are so far removed from reality" bullshit they like to throw at liberals to defend having sex with farm animals. Liberals only look down on that sort of perfectly normal blue-collar behavior because they're elitists. And not because it's having sex with farm animals.
Less funny is the revelation that Dr. W. David Hager, who Bush appointed last term to the Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs in the FDA and who has written the demeaning "Christian" women's health books As Jesus Cared for Women and Stress and the Woman's Body, also regularly forcibly sodomized his wife, leading to their divorce. Yeah, that's totally following in how Jesus treated women. It's just sick how Bush has to cover his grossly un-Christian activities - y'know, starting wars, screwing over the poor, that sort of stuff - by appointing hypocrites to do things like restrict women's access to birth control. And it's even sadder how many Christians either can't see through this charade or actually feel it's more important to punish people for not sharing their religion than it is to help the poor.
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