Hey Ladies---check out who testified at the birth control hearing on the Hill today.

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35. So we can put to rest the myth that there is no

"male privilege."

When Issa refused to let a woman testify, as she was "not an expert on religious freedom" or some such, he showed how you marginalize women. It makes half of us mute, absent, neglected and invisible in this house of law, while it taxes us and regulates us. We have no representation when this brutish, Talibanish behavior is tolerated.

Now we all will agree, we are, each of us, experts on our own religious freedom. The Constitution makes that plain. The federal government cannot decide that we all must live under the rules of one religion or another. "Religious Freedom" means you can use contraceptives and family planning if you like, or you can spit out a few dozen kids, no holds barred or diaphragmed, if that's your choice.

Why are Republicans trying to claim that a belief that 'contraceptives are the devil' should be acknowledged as anything with which the federal government must be concerned? Will we hold hearings on the Easter Bunny next week? And why do they call denying the rest of us contraceptives "religious freedom?" Is it only freedom for them when they are taking away another's liberty?

Personally, I think Republicans are all going to hell where the fire dyeth not and the worm is not quenched and there is everlasting torment and no liquor. I believe that Republicans should NEVER be allowed any sort of leadership or legislative role in our society. That belief is a very important part of my faith.

Will they hold hearings to acknowledge my belief? If we're going to talk about the moral things we should be doing, I've got a few suggestions myself.