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NotANeocon

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January 12, 2023

Pro ? life or control

I’m a priest. Here’s why I left the ‘pro-life’ movement — and why it’s not necessary to pray outside abortion clinics


https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2023/01/08/im-a-priest-heres-why-i-left-the-pro-life-movement-and-why-its-not-necessary-to-pray-outside-abortion-clinics.html

"The bitter irony is that many — probably most — so-called pro-lifers oppose these policies, which leads me to believe that they’re more concerned with control than life. The situation is far worse, of course, south of the border, where anti-abortionists lead the campaign to close borders, fight wars and maintain the death penalty. Hardly champions of life."
June 29, 2022

Given today's testimony this becomes required reading.

Fascists in our midst

Supreme Court rulings, including the overturning of Roe v. Wade, herald the ascendancy of Christian fascism in the United States


Chris Hedges / June 26, 2022

he Supreme Court is relentlessly funding and empowering Christian fascism. It not only overturned Roe v. Wade, ending a constitutional right to an abortion, but ruled on June 21 that Maine may not exclude religious schools from a state tuition program. It has ruled that a Montana state program to support private schools must include religious schools. It ruled that a 40-foot cross could remain on state property in suburban Maryland. It upheld the Trump administration regulation allowing employers to deny birth control coverage to female employees on religious grounds. It ruled that employment discrimination laws do not apply to teachers at religious schools. It ruled that a Catholic social services agency in Philadelphia could ignore city rules and refuse to screen same-sex couples applying to take in foster children. It neutered the 1965 Voting Rights Act. It watered down laws allowing workers to combat sexual and racial harassment in court. It reversed century-old campaign finance restric­tions to permit corpor­a­tions, private groups and oligarchs to spend unlim­ited funds on elec­tions, a system of legalized bribery, in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. It permitted states to opt out of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion. It undercut the ability of public sector unions to raise funds. It forced workers with legal grievances to submit their complaints to privatized arbitration boards. It ruled that states cannot restrict the right to carry concealed weapons in public. It ruled that suspects cannot sue police who neglect to read them their Miranda warnings and use their statements against them in court. Outlawing contraception, same-sex marriage and same-sex consensual relations are probably next. Only 25 percent of those polled say they have confidence in Supreme Court decisions.

I do not use the word fascist lightly..........................


https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/fascists-in-our-midst
May 3, 2022

SCOTUS declares women to be "Second Class Semi People"

Let's face it. The leak shows that the court may agree that all MEN are created equal but Women are not equal to men and women are not entitled to the same rights and bodily autonomy as men.

The ruling is also a death sentence for women who disagree with the "instant baby" insanity opinion based on 2000+ years of erroneous / false biological lies and women who use their reason to terminate a process while it is in process but incomplete.

As we go marching, marching
We battle too for men
For they are women's children
And we mother them again

Our lives shall not be sweated
From birth until life closes
Hearts starve as well as bodies
Give us bread, but give us roses

Women Unite - Your future role depends on it.

March 28, 2022

So i'm finding this confusing!

I fully understand why the anti womens rights pro deathers get confused and insist that a pregnant human is two people but refuse to discuss how the reproductive graft part can exercise its rights without enslaving the host part - which is unconstitutional.

Now I am seeing two distinct persons being legally treated as a single entity simply because one is a member of the USSC, I understand the holy babble says that with marriage "the two shall become "as" one, but that is symbolism and not reality. There is no proof that Clarence is doing the crime so he can't be automatically charged with Ginni's crimes.

As Yul Brynner reminded us -

There are times I almost think
Nobody sure of what he absolutely know
Everybody find confusion
In conclusion he concluded long ago
And it puzzle me to learn
That tho' a man may be in doubt of what he know
Very quickly he will fight
He'll fight to prove that what he does not know is so!


But... is a puzzlement!

August 4, 2021

When will Meghan McCain GTFO

Typical politician - she told the world she would leave at the end of July 2021 but she's still delivering her carefully selected diatribes of half truths and un-sourced "statistics".

Go already and here's hoping the wind carries you far from the airwaves.

April 5, 2021

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, "

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."


Despite the 1st there seems to have been a religion surreptitiously formed this year. I've been hearing about "sacred ground" and "sacred ideas" (like democracy) being attacked - particularly since 1/6/21.

Have our journalists run out of words like "beloved, respected, archival, historic, peoples place, etc" just to name a few, when speaking of government buildings.

For a nation without an established religion there seem to be a lot of genuflecting and hands over heart along with other non-secular customs to put the lie to that claim.

April 2, 2021

Today in Minnesota

The evidence presented today gives CHAUVANISM a brand new meaning.

November 7, 2020

Poor 45

Drumpfty Trumpty planned a big wall.
Drumpfty Trumpty had a big fall.
All Bannon's horses and all of Barr's men
Couldn't put Drumpfty in office again.

October 2, 2020

The pressing quesrtion NOW is --

- Just how soon after the Barret Gloat Show did the Idiot In Chief find out he was positive and did he purposely fail to cancel the "debate" in the hope he would get close enough to infect Joe?

That seems like SOP to me for the prick.

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