religious fanaticism

Highlight of My Day

by Cara July 8, 2008

Well okay, it’s only 10:30, but kind of hard to top.  I turned up at work today to find that we have either got a new anti-choice protester, or the regulars got a new sign.  Next to all of the fetus pictures, was in bright blue letters BIRTH CONTROL CONTROLS YOU.  The lady with the bullhorn [...]

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Catholic Charities Workers Help Teenage Girl, Bishop Apologizes

by Cara July 5, 2008

There were recently reports that a Catholic organization in Virginia was being investigated for allegedly helping at teenage girl obtain an abortion with federal funds.  The part about them helping a teenage girl to obtain an abortion, at least, has turned out to be true.  And a Roman Catholic bishop, who had nothing to do [...]

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Librarians: Warping Your Children’s Minds with Factual Information About Sex

by Cara June 24, 2008

clearly not a place for learning Some jerks calling themselves the Concerned Citizens for Batavia are demanding that the Batavia, IL public library take down a link to the Planned Parenthood sex education site, Teenwire. As most of you probably know by now, I work for Planned Parenthood, and I just so happen to use [...]

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Offensive Remark of the Week: Sometimes Media Matters Alerts Make Me Hate Humanity Edition

by Cara June 20, 2008

Shorter Michael Savage: “I am bigoted piece of shit who doesn’t deserve the life given to me by this “God” I supposedly believe in.” Verbatim Michael Savage (to a caller who was whining about two men holding hands in front of his kid): “You’ve got to try to explain to the children why the — [...]

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OMG Teh Pill Killz

by Cara June 7, 2008

As many other bloggers have noted, today is “Protest the Pill Day ’08: The Pill Kills Babies.” It’s brought to you by the same women-hating nuts you would expect — The American Life League. And pro-choicers aren’t making this shit up.

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True Love . . . Talks to Their Damn Kids About Sex

by Cara June 4, 2008

The news about this latest campaign to promote abstinence-only education has sent me into the fetal position. Proponents of sex education programs that focus on encouraging abstinence are launching a nationwide campaign aimed at enlisting 1 million parents to support the controversial approach. The National Abstinence Education Association, a Washington-based advocacy group, said that it [...]

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Morning Funny

by Cara May 28, 2008

Via Feminist Philosophers

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Oh No They Didn’t

by Cara April 27, 2008

You know that stupid Ben Stein movie Expelled, that argues in favor of “intelligent design” and chastises the sane for not allowing religious bullshit to be taught in science classes? Apparently, they used the John Lennon song Imagine in the film . . . without permission. Yoko Ono, one of my all-time favorite feminists, isn’t [...]

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The Cost of Unwed Parenting?

by Cara April 16, 2008

Some conservative wingnut groups funded a study on divorced and out-of-wedlock parenting, and results claim that it costs U.S. taxpayers $112 billion each year. There have been previous attempts to calculate the cost of divorce in America. But the sponsors of the new study, being released Tuesday, said theirs is the first to gauge the [...]

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Mother May I?

by Cara April 15, 2008

Who remembers the 2005 and 2006 California propositions that tried to instate parental notification rules for minors seeking abortions? You know, the ones that failed? Well, not so fast. Looks like it’s probably going to be on the ballot this year, too. Meet the man you can thank: Jim Holman, owner of the San Diego [...]

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