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A Further Perspective
Limbaugh vs. Party of Subsidized Sin
Apologize for nothing in the culture war, GOP, and take the fight to Obama.
Babbling incessantly about a fictitious “war on women,” Barack Obama and his band of hubristic hedonists play the victim even as they rape the freedom and conscience rights of the religious. Obamacare’s decree that the religious pay for the promiscuity of their employees and students represents the greatest government-directed assault on religious liberty in the history of America.
The audacity of the president’s secularist hope — which is nothing more than a totalitarian power grab against the Catholic Church and other denominations — is despicable. The GOP should apologize for nothing in this battle of the culture war and take the fight to him. Portray him every day as an enemy of religion and conscience rights. And do not surrender one inch to a mau-mauing media of anti-religious bigots who do his bidding day in and day out.
Far more troubling than Rush Limbaugh’s comment about Sandra Fluke is the cowardice of country club Republicans who refuse to join the talk show host in denouncing Obama for his war on religion. If anybody deserves an apology from Rush, it is prostitutes. They pay for their birth control themselves, and, unlike Fluke, they don’t demand that the clergy underwrite their carnal activities.
Let’s cut the PC crap: college and law school students who demand that priests and nuns finance their fornication deserve searing satirical treatment. This is the sorriest collection of arrogant snots in the history of academia. Perhaps the sequel to “Failure to Launch” — that Hollywood vehicle about an in-residence thirtysomething who beds women in his parents’ house — will be a pornographic film in which the aging protagonist uses the Obamacare HHS mandate to purchase an endless supply of Viagra.
Obama already mandates the lunacy of 26-year-old-and-younger “kids” purchasing abortion pills and contraceptives through the insurance plans of their parents. Now he has to dragoon the religious into this absurd spectacle too.
Naturally, Georgetown, yet another phony “Catholic” university in the tank for Obama (its faculty outranked all other faculties, religious and non-religious, in campaign donations to the openly anti-Catholic candidate in 2008), sided with Sandra Fluke. Out rolled the familiar wheelbarrow of pitiful PC clichés from the office of Georgetown President John J. DeGioia:
In recent days, a law student of Georgetown, Sandra Fluke, offered her testimony regarding the proposed regulations by the Department of Health and Human Services before a group of members of Congress. She was respectful, sincere, and spoke with conviction. She provided a model of civil discourse. This expression of conscience was in the tradition of the deepest values we share as a people. One need not agree with her substantive position to support her right to respectful free expression. And yet, some of those who disagreed with her position — including Rush Limbaugh and commentators throughout the blogosphere and in various other media channels — responded with behavior that can only be described as misogynistic, vitriolic, and a misrepresentation of the position of our student.
In other words, the flaky modern Jesuits DeGioia represents stand ready to give Fluke an allowance for her pre-marital sex. Somehow I can’t imagine the Jesuit founder, St. Ignatius of Loyola, describing a demand from one of his students for subsidized sin as an “expression of conscience.”
After Obama’s bogus HHS mandate “compromise,” several Jesuit colleges and universities praised it loudly, even though the issue is moot for them, since they already furnish their students with condoms, contraceptive jellies, and an assortment of pills. Nor are some of the Jesuits themselves above nibbling at the crumbs that fall from the table of this sexual revolution. Several years back, a progressive California Jesuit who decided to quit the order successfully demanded that his provincial pay for his vasectomy on the way out.
It is too bad that Tom Wolfe hasn’t yet applied his comic talents to secularized Catholic universities like Georgetown. “I Am Sandra Fluke” would make for an illuminating novel of modern farce.
About the Author
George Neumayr, a contributing editor to The American Spectator, is co-author, with Phyllis Schlafly, of the new book, No Higher Power: Obama’s War on Religious Freedom.
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Brian Mc| 3.5.12 @ 6:25AM
Couple this with the youtube stillshots of the "Too Sexy at Walmart" video posted recently and one must wonder if this Republic can long endure.
Timothy L. Pennell| 3.5.12 @ 8:42AM
"She was respectful, sincere, and spoke with conviction. She provided a model of Civil Discourse."
She wants to Get LAID, like it's 1999. She just doesn't wanna PAY $19.99 to do it. Evidently, she's never met a man she didn't want Banging her, she's never had a Sausage Grinder that she couldn't get all the way down her throat, and she can't believe that, in the 21st Century, people who aren't Saloon Whores, refuse to kick in a coupla bucks, so that she can be Stuffed like a Turkey, and Split like a log whenever to mood hits. And at $6,000 a year. it would appear that the MOOD hits with every sighting of the Moon.
Mr. Fluke? How's it feel to know that your Daughter's a WH*RE? How does it feel that the whole world knows that your Daughter's getting POUNDED, to the tune of $6,000 a year in Contraceptives? God knows what she's spending on CHAP STICK?
You must be so Proud.
She got a Sympathy Call from the Boy who would be King. After all, She is part of his Base. Everyone who is like her, is his Base. The Freaks, and the Losers. Gays, Lesbians, Cross Dressers, and Trans-Genders. The Felons and Illegals. The Drug addicted, and (apparently) the PENIS Addicted. (Or, is it - Adickted?) Those who want Anal Sex, Oral Sex, Masturbation, and Sex with an Adult, taught in Elementary Schools, are his Base. Those who want Gays in the Military, Gay Marriages, Gay Adoptions and NAMBLA, are his Base. Those who want Homosexual Scout Masters, are his Base. Everyone who is an AFFRONT to God's Teachings, is his Base.
Especially this SLUT.
"The only way for Evil to succeed, is for good men to do nothing."
He's gotta go.
I will be STUNNED, if he even finishes his Term.
DRed| 3.5.12 @ 8:49AM
What a classless piece of misogynistic trash you are. And a dumb one, to boot. What sort of moron hears a woman testify that some women spend $1000 a year on contraception and figures that means she spends $6000 a year so she can get laid? A lying moron like you, Timmy.
Do you think your daughters are going to grow up to be proud of the way their father thinks of women? I'd be stunned.
Dai Alanye | 3.5.12 @ 9:19AM
Does DRed subsidize his own daughters to enable their sexual activity? Or does he expect others to do so?
Rush made a tactical error, but Fluke is merely a political activist, undeserving of much sympathy.
Timothy L. Pennell| 3.5.12 @ 9:24AM
Not "Women". Women like her? That's what I think about Women like her. She's a SLUT. She said as much, out of her own mouth. Are you so Fcking stupid, that everything has explained to you?
Of course you are.
DRed| 3.5.12 @ 3:14PM
Timmy you ignorant bigot, kindly point to the part of Ms. Fluke's testimony where she identifies herself as a slut. Afterwards, could you be so good as to highlight the part where she says she spends 6k a year on contraception?
StephenF| 3.5.12 @ 3:30PM
DRed, I've never met a woman who called herself a slut...no matter how many men she has had sex with. The hypocrisy of this mental gymnastics is astounding.
DRed| 3.5.12 @ 3:46PM
So, because she didn't call herself a slut, therefore she is a slut?
StephenF| 3.5.12 @ 4:27PM
Hmm, if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, and acts like a duck...it is a duck. Does a duck have to say "I am a duck" to be one?
Unless DRed you are of the "school" that states a baby, in utereo or otherwise is not a person. In that case your silly disingenuous makes sense.
DRed| 3.5.12 @ 5:10PM
Again, what is she doing that makes you think she's a slut? Anyone who advocates for contraceptives to be covered by insurance is a slut? Can you really think of no reasons for a woman to want their contraception to be covered by insurance? You know you use the same amount of contraception no matter how much sex you're having, right? A woman with one sexual partner uses the same amount as a woman with dozens. So it doesn't logically follow that only a slut would want contraception.
USSAlabama| 3.5.12 @ 5:38PM
She did.
DRed| 3.5.12 @ 5:48PM
Bullshit. Show me where.
Boar Hunter| 3.5.12 @ 5:32PM
Once again I have to find an point of contention with you Timothy.
No disparaging characterizations of this woman are required beyond her given name. The irony is probably lost on the willfully ignorant piece of human offal DRed, but as "Fluke" is a type of parasitic worm, I think her given name is entirely appropriate.
I would give this idiot all the attention his inane and willfully ignorant hypocrisy merits, which is to say none. People can see for themselves what a buffoon he is.
jcrew| 3.5.12 @ 6:36PM
What exactly did your mother do to you? It's too bad you'll never be mentally healthy enough to enjoy a really satisfying, normal sexual relationship with another human being. Maybe that's a good thing since it gives you less of a chance to procreate since you are against birth control and abortion. At least they would hopefully make an exception for rape or incest because that's surely what it would take. Have fun, scary sexually repressed guy!
cowgirl| 3.5.12 @ 7:47PM
Listen here you red diaper doper baby: The Slut got on national television and tells the whole world about her sex life and how much it is costing her. What is she looking for a Girl Scout Badge of Honor? Do you have any respect for anything. I fear for your daughters because their father has no boundaries.
James Solbakken | 3.13.12 @ 1:48PM
Oh yes, my mother and wife and daughters, whether drunk or sober!!! No matter who they screw...
albert constantine jr.| 3.5.12 @ 8:50AM
Would the assessment of not finishing his term have anything to do with the passage about the 42 month rule of the beast?
Timothy L. Pennell| 3.5.12 @ 9:18AM
I don't care how it happens.
jcrew| 3.5.12 @ 6:38PM
Of course you don't care, you liberals are all about some apathy. Get a job slacker!
PolishKnight| 3.5.12 @ 1:04PM
I'm thinking to myself that it's ironic that the anti-Christian Marxist left in the USA stole a lot from Christ's ministry which was to collect all the sinners around him with one fundamental difference: Christ sought to reform the sinner and provide redemption while the left encourages sinful behavior, even by their own standards, in the pursuit of power and selfish gains. Most leftists make money from their church of big government.
Truth be told, the leftist faux indignation over Rush's wording was a trial balloon. Rush has said and done stuff far worse than this in the past and didn't apologize. It's part of their standard playbook to gripe over every single thing their opponents say and do. Rush apologizing lent (surprising) credibility to their gripes and they went for the jugular. Throwing out apologies to leftists is like throwing out meat to crocodiles.
Teaghan| 3.5.12 @ 3:23PM
Kind of like obama apologizing to the muslims who offer up artificial indignation over the burned koran. It did nothing but rile them up all the more.
Teaghan| 3.5.12 @ 3:23PM
Kind of like obama apologizing to the muslims who offer up artificial indignation over the burned koran. It did nothing but rile them up all the more.
Teaghan| 3.5.12 @ 3:23PM
Kind of like obama apologizing to the muslims who offer up artificial indignation over the burned koran. It did nothing but rile them up all the more.
florin| 3.5.12 @ 4:42PM
Sorry Timothy, your response is disgusting...and does nothing to help those who stand against Fluke and her absurd demands. I'm sure you mean well but, as Cardinal Dolan said, we should try to be forceful but civil...or, as Rush Limbaugh said - let's not stoop to their level or they will have won.
Timothy L. Pennell| 3.5.12 @ 5:49PM
She's a Slut. She's a Whore, and she's a Pig. Okay? I don't know why you would stick up for this POS? She's a Plant. She's a Democrat Activist.
What she is NOT, is a Women's reproductive Activist.
If I might quote Bill Maher, in his description of Sarah Palin?
She's a C*NT.
Ya got it?
I choose to play by THEIR RULES.
If you don't approve?
I don't give a Sh*t.
jcrew| 3.5.12 @ 6:40PM
I bet you're a real lady's man. You probably do really well on EHarmony or EVow. See, Timmy, that's the problem with you Romney supporters you're just full of hate. Have fun losing in November loser!
Todd S| 3.5.12 @ 8:53PM
What makes you think he is a Romney supporter troll? He is in fact not but he will certainly vote for him in November over our Marxist-in-Chief. Now go get bent
jcrew| 3.5.12 @ 10:19PM
What makes me know he is for Romney is the fact that he is a complete and utter goober. If you don't believe me just read his comments. Now go beat an egg or some other quaint little send off. Dork.
Bobloblaw| 3.5.12 @ 6:04PM
Dont forget butt ugly
jcrew| 3.5.12 @ 6:41PM
Don't forget you are a complete moron.
cowgirl| 3.5.12 @ 7:43PM
ROTFLOL
Todd Powers| 3.5.12 @ 8:30PM
Has anyone sent condoms to Georgetown Law School?
jcrew| 3.6.12 @ 12:46AM
Save them for your family reunion, you all turn out some ugly, ignorant ass people. Consider it your patriotic duty. You'd be doing a great service for your country there harelip.
Brian Mc| 3.5.12 @ 2:37PM
Houston, we have a problem. I attempted to post a response to Tim and "Mike Hawk" came up under my user-name. Other times the info is blank. I hate to sound conspiratorial, but.
jcrew| 3.5.12 @ 6:44PM
Oh no, we're missing out on your thoughtful commentary. It's a national crisis, we'll never be the same as a country or as a people. Let's kill two birds with one stone and replace MLK Day with Poor Little Brian Day. Can't wait to see that parade Dingus.
Alan Brooks| 3.5.12 @ 6:08PM
But -as if needs to be written-
Romney is a total statist.
You are now merely going through the motions, unless there is a big fight at your convention this summer- a fratricide. In that case you will shred each other like starving tigers locked together in a small cage.
Alan Brooks| 3.5.12 @ 8:39PM
Hard to believe: you Repuglicans think subsidized contraception is more important an issue than Afghanistan, Iran, and other existential 'issues' (threats).
Your priorities have become warped, and you are hanging by a thread from the Sears Tower.
Someday the thread will break.
Alice Moore| 3.6.12 @ 8:33AM
The root concern is religious freedom as written in the 1st Amendment. This is the argument. To force a religious body such as the Catholic Church to violate their creed is an unconstitutional act.
Appleby| 3.5.12 @ 6:25AM
Is it true that Ms. Fluke is in fact a 30 year old Axelrod plant from the same crib that produced the Herman Cain "bimbo explosion"?
Be not deceived: God is not mocked. Sandra, God has been watching...and wondering what on earth you are doing in a Catholic school.
USSAlabama| 3.5.12 @ 9:21AM
She has quite a resume as an activist. She is 30 and not the 23 year old 'coed' as claimed.
Has over 20,000 twitter followers...look at who some of those are!
http://theconservativetreehous.....old-womens
jcrew| 3.5.12 @ 6:55PM
If you spent half as much time on your personal hygiene as you did researching some woman you'll never meet and has no impact on your life then maybe you'd have some friends. Trust me, Uno is a lot more fun with other people and not just cardboard cutouts of Larry the Cable Guy and Shania Twain. Thanks so much for the link, can't wait to throw my life away right along with you compadre.
Russel| 3.5.12 @ 10:11AM
You're on the same hunt I am Appleby . Make no mistake that these socialists' are playing to win and ANY ploy that is useful will be implemented . Taking on or out Rush would be a first down . Zero and his band of cutthroats could cars less about Americans , they're to be used , just as this socialist activist is . Remember Sheehan ? . But any and all we'll get from the Lame media will be a campaign ploy until Nov , so put that in front and in bold print . Campaign and fight as dirty as you can , comrades ! .
SteveP| 3.5.12 @ 11:33AM
Really good comment. Best one so far. Name calling never made it - but the proper facts sure make a difference. Hope they find the facts, too for Mr. O's all-important entrance into this world. So far, all the data is either missing or hidden!
Teaghan| 3.5.12 @ 3:28PM
But the BC has been proven to be a computer generated fake. And watch for videos from Breitbarts people about obama's college years and his association with the commie radicals.
Bob| 3.5.12 @ 1:53PM
Yes, Fluke is an invented persona, just like the many that have come out to destroy the Republican candidates one-by-one.
Al Adab| 3.5.12 @ 3:01PM
Distincy possibility. In any event policy making through anecdotal evidence is never wise. I am frankly more disappointed in Georgetown if this is how their graduate school coeds think, than I am in this poor hedonist who has bought into a lie about personal responsibility.
florin| 3.5.12 @ 4:45PM
And then there is this - many contraceptive pills are abortifacient and would terminate the life of a baby already conceived; and many steroid based contraceptive pills cause blood clots and cervical and breast cancer. We should not have to pay for this!! No one is telling anyone they cannot have contraceptives...but if they want them, they have to pay for them themselves. If they don't want to pay, Planned Parenthood will give them to you for free.
DRed| 3.5.12 @ 5:11PM
They aren't asking you to pay for them. You don't pay for Georgetown student's medical insurance, do you?
USSAlabama| 3.5.12 @ 5:43PM
Yes, every insuered DOES pay for every other insured. That's what insurance IS.
Go get a Series 7 and Series 6 like I did ... educate yourself. YOURSELF.
DRed| 3.5.12 @ 5:50PM
So you pay for lots of people to use contraception, but you won't pay for Ms. Fluke because she goes to a Catholic institution, even though she's paying for your health care. That makes sense.
USSAlabama| 3.5.12 @ 6:04PM
Only to you.
Northlite| 3.5.12 @ 3:33PM
That's right. Rush speaks for Jesus. Jesus said to have multiple wives. "Nuff said. Jesus said to take Viagra and Oxycodon. Jesus said to take plenty of Viagra when traveling to the Dominican Republic to a resort famed for its boy prostitutes. Rush is an exemplar of the Godly Man. Rush is what Jesus would have been if he returned in out time, undercover.
Boar Hunter| 3.5.12 @ 5:41PM
WOW! How many times does the coo-coo clock go off at your house every day.
jcrew| 3.5.12 @ 6:51PM
Wow! Where did you get that "18th Century Insults and Magical Cures"? Too bad you couldn't come up with a sundial joke you killed have owned it. Oh and how about using a question mark every once in awhile there Peter Punctuation?
Boar Hunter| 3.5.12 @ 8:06PM
LOL .
"Too bad you couldn't come up with a sundial joke you killed have owned it."
You sir are a retard.
Alan Brooks| 3.5.12 @ 8:33PM
Such a silly genital issue. If sex isn't so important then why do you make a big deal out of it? Contraception at law school is more important to you than Afghanistan?
Perhaps OWS wont need to ruin your convention this summer- you can ruin it by yourselves.
Mike Hawk| 3.5.12 @ 6:33AM
Before the trolls get here, here is what Rush said.
RUSH: What does it say about the college co-ed Sandra Fluke, who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex, what does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She's having so much sex she can't afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex. What does that make us? We're the pimps. (interruption) The johns? We would be the johns? No! We're not the johns. (interruption) Yeah, that's right. Pimp's not the right word. Okay, so she's not a slut. She's "round heeled." I take it back.
Maybe he could have used a different word such as trollop, hussy, strumpet or tart. Ho is out, that wound be racist I suppose.
Dixie Pixie| 3.5.12 @ 6:35AM
Obama is running on the MTV Ticket.
“Money for Nothing and Chicks for Free.”
jcrew| 3.6.12 @ 12:48AM
Wow way to keep it current there Dennis Miller. Don't let anybody hold you back from your dream of being the biggest jigwad the world has seen.
jppc| 3.5.12 @ 6:38AM
Remember, this is all political theatre and Obama has won this round.
Also, remember Obama himself as well as many MSM news hosts have used the vulgar term "tea-bagger". Why no rebuff for that term?
RJ| 3.5.12 @ 7:20AM
Yes, Obama called American citizens concerned about annual deficits over a trillion dollars "tea-baggers" and one of those times he flipped us the bird as well. There were those in the mass media who joined in the slander attacks. I will never forget Cooper Anderson and David Gergen giggling like high-school girls when throwing that term around. You bet there is hypocrisy in the media.
Mike 3/505| 3.5.12 @ 6:49AM
misogynistic= any male who doesn't vocally agree with the feminazi agenda.
Clint| 3.5.12 @ 6:57AM
This Ain't No Fluke.
The Axelrod/Obama/ Pelosi Campaign Blame/Credit Game Is Damaged, Once Again By This Deliberate Premeditated Messin' With Another Catholic Institution.
25 Percent Of American Voters Are Catholics, Half Of Them Women And A Significant Minority Are Hispanic Catholics.
The Left's Attempts To Mess With Catholics Is Creating A Catholic Backlash.
coal carrier| 3.5.12 @ 7:00AM
If she can afford to go to Georgetown Law School, she can afford to buy her own contraceptives. Oh, and by the way, she is a slut.
Seek| 3.6.12 @ 5:24PM
My definition of a slut: A woman who won't sleep with a person who calls her one.
benny havens| 3.5.12 @ 7:04AM
Does Obama wonder how she would fare under Sharia Law?
Al Adab| 3.5.12 @ 3:04PM
Under sharia she would be adjudicated an adultress, taken out and stoned. Actually a solution to the public financing question she posed.
Anthony| 3.5.12 @ 4:46PM
An excellent question. They don't care, and neither does this phony leftist activist recruited by the Ds to testify in this sham testimony.
How many times must it be said; the Ds are morally and intellectually bankrupt. This whole issue has been spun purely for politics.
As is the wont of the left, they are brave and fearless when taking on their issues in America, where their rights are protected, and the Ds and the media have their backs.
Pity poor Ms. Fluke, $45,000 p/y for Georgetown Law. but no money for contraceptives. What a leftist crock!!!
Ms. Fluke would never dare to pull this crap anywhere else in the world for fear she'd be stoned to death.
Perhaps a taste of Sharia law would bring Ms. Fluke back to her senses, that or she'd be dead. It's a win/win either way.
jcrew| 3.5.12 @ 10:26PM
You are just a ray of sunshine with your talk of Sharia law and stoning people to death aren't you? It makes me feel really bad for the abuse you suffered to turn you into such a turd of a human. Then again you probably deserved it.
James Solbakken | 3.13.12 @ 1:56PM
When you put it that way Sharia looks pretty good!!!
Joellen| 3.5.12 @ 7:16AM
The left only wins on this round if we are not active in rallying around Rush and educating everyone we know on this newest attack on our morals. Now before I get attacked by the left on "whose morals" and "Rush's morals", we all sin and we all have to be accountable for our sins. But the difference between us and the left - the left only acknowledges when a "conservative" sins. Otherwise all is RELATIVE. For the conservative who is fighting to save the soul of this country, we know that FLUKE is an example of what is wrong in this country. Not only does she not want to be accountable for her actions, she wants the taxpayer to be the footstool of her lifestyle. We must be courageous in this fight and say no to Miss Fluke (who every time we discuss her we should remind all she is THIRTY YEARS OLD - shameful) and to her ilk who wish to perpetuate this lifestyle of dependency, immaturity and intimatdation to those who reject their lifestyles.
Timothy L. Pennell| 3.5.12 @ 8:50AM
Let's see. Who were those Companies that dropped their Advertisements. And, how perfect is is, that 2 of them were for MATTRESSES?
You can't make it up.
Spongeworty| 3.5.12 @ 7:36AM
"... the Obamacare HHS mandate to purchase an endless supply of Viagra."
Viagra has been covered by insurance, including Catholic institutions, since 1998; long before Obama declared war on religion, socialized the free market, and ruined America.
If the author of this piece can see the parallels between users of Viagra and contraceptives leading to the "demand that the clergy underwrite their carnal activities," why then should either be covered by insurance?
Timothy L. Pennell| 3.5.12 @ 8:46AM
Viagra isn't KILLING any Unborn Children.
Get it?
Russell| 3.5.12 @ 7:40AM
Why ask American taxpayers to pay for employee contraception when Mormon High Priests like Mitt and Jesuit provincials can make ecumenical common cause in subsidizing the anti-bastardry kitty ?
PCP Smoker| 3.5.12 @ 7:40AM
I think Rush, as usual, is right. I don't know how he came to preliminary conclusion this woman was a prostitute. She is not. She is welfare activist who knew about Georgetown's position and decided to challenge it. Her claims were easily refuted. Rush is a good guy. I'm glad he corrected himself.
Ken (Old Texican)| 3.5.12 @ 7:47AM
George...PCP...
please see my comments on Jeffrey's column today.
Al Adab| 3.5.12 @ 3:10PM
I believe the apology was for the choice of words not the position or content. Fortunately, Truth is a defense so there is no libel. This woman needs to be confronted with the nature of her lifestyle. Whether she is monogamous or promiscuous is beside the point. If one is unwilling to accept the responsibility of ones actions, society at large has no responsibility to do so in their stead.
I am disappointed in the toleration level of Georgetown however. One might they they expected a better quality of grad students.
mjs_pa| 3.5.12 @ 7:40AM
How can we take the fight to obama with a potential nominee like this:
2009 Romney glad to hear Obama copying RomneyCare
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvwwWkzO82g
Clint| 3.5.12 @ 7:47AM
This Ain't No Fluke.
" Sandra Fluke a 30 year old activist, not a 23 year
Fluke came to Georgetown University interested in contraceptive coverage: She researched the Jesuit college’s health plans for students before enrolling, and found that birth control was not included. “I decided I was absolutely not willing to compromise the quality of my education in exchange for my health care,” says Fluke, who has spent the past three years lobbying the administration to change its policy on the issue. The issue got the university president’s office last spring, where Georgetown declined to change its policy.
The Daily Caller reported that Fluke has a long history of activism:
Fluke attended Cornell University from 1999-2003, where she received a B.S. in Policy Analysis & Management and Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies.
While at Cornell, Fluke’s organized activities centered on the far-left feminist and gender equity movements. Fluke participated in rallies supporting abortion, protests against war in Iraq and efforts to recruit other womens’ rights activists to campus.
During that period, she gained experience engaging in disputes concerning abortion with religious organizations."
Dr. X| 3.5.12 @ 7:58AM
Abs0lutely 100% correct, Neumayr. Now, here's the REAL problem: the Flukes and the Obamas of this world are a bunch of narcissistic, whiny punks who are the direct cultural legacy of the 1960s hippie movement. make no mistake about it, the hippies WON the Culture War.
Nothing is going to change without a conservative cultural counter-revolution that responds with more force than the 40-year long Leftist revolution. Nothing will change until conservative counterrevolutionaries stage mass "Chicago '68" style demonstrations, form right wing squadristi, the rightist equivalent of the Weathermen, reclaim pop culture, the universities, and the bureaucracy and put FEAR into the hearts of their Leftist opponents.
THAT's how the Left won the culture war... I don't see that happening on the Right.
Seek| 3.5.12 @ 7:43PM
Oh, great, Dr. X. Yeah, let's just mimic the worst aspects of the Left. I believe there's a word for that behavior. It's called "fascism." That would be the real kind, not the sort imagined by Jonah Goldberg.
Dr. X| 3.5.12 @ 10:33PM
Fascism, particularly Francoism, was in many ways a serious -- nay, the ONLY response -- to the destruction wrought by the Left in post-WWI Europe.
Most contemporaries cannot even comprehend just how badly the conservative monarchies screwed up and left Europe's greatest nations to the mercies of the Left, which immediately began to sow the seeds of Communist agitation.
Frankly I think Hitler gave fascism a bad name with his anti-Semitism and his death camps. A total overreaction that claimed a lot of innocent people.
But I don't have the SLIGHTEST problem with the patriotic veterans of the Freikorps who took out Rosa Luxembourg and the Bavarian Soviet.
How much longer do you think it's going to be before we end up in a latter day Weimar Republic -- if we aren't in one ALREADY??? If you think Mitt Romney's or the Republican Party's going to save us, maybe you should read up on Franz von Papen a bit.
Seek| 3.6.12 @ 5:30PM
Ah, so Hitler "overreacted." He had the right idea, you see, he just got somewhat carried away. Dr. X, you have proven my point.
By the way, if you think Franco represented a "proper" response to the Left, read historian Paul Preston's biography of him to see what El Caudillo and his Falangists wrought upon Spain -- and not just upon the Left.
James Solbakken | 3.13.12 @ 1:59PM
Franco & Pinochet succeeded with their fascism much better than the communists did with their communism. Fascism also proved much much much easier to reform than communism.
Von Mises Jr.| 3.5.12 @ 8:11AM
Some may forget Pastor Niemoller's warning:
First they came for Israel, but I was not a Jew so I said nothing.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I was not Catholic so I said nothing.
Then they came for the capitalist, but I was not a business owner so I said nothing.
Then they came for my kids and gave them condoms and KY Jelly in grade school ,with Kevin Jennings real life demonstrations but no one was left to stand up for me.
http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/i...../1808.html
Russell| 3.6.12 @ 1:58AM
Then they came for my stem cells, and I realized that guy who sounded a lot like Pastor Niemoller was just another gauleiter.
post*tenebras*lux| 3.5.12 @ 8:17AM
So, what if Rush has a plan? How to out a liberal feminist who probably has never used birth control pills at all because she has a different sexual preference than one who would need birth control pills?
Dai Alanye | 3.5.12 @ 9:23AM
Are you suggesting she might be one of the "Let's be friends" type?
RJ| 3.5.12 @ 8:18AM
Obama's contraceptive mandate is much more than an attack on religion. It is another action demonstrating government's growing dictatorial control over every day life events, no matter how personal. How can we think of ourselves being free when there is a government edict for every action that is taken in society?
It is depressing to see how dependent some Americans have become. A 30 year old student is chosen to testify before legislators asking that others be forced to pay for her ordinary health care expenses. The Women's movement of the 1960s, who prided themselves as being strong and independent, must be ashamed of what is taking place. Is the nation really evolving into a dependent, child-like society?
tsd| 3.5.12 @ 8:19AM
Once again the push for centralized control by the liberal left for the liberal left is what is in question... first on a national level and then on a international level. The aim is to do it by building up claims on environmental concerns and so called human rights and then tearing down any competition such as religion that would challenge they're right to rule/control the mass's. They will push and push and use any method to strike down any who challenge. They will create a politically correct maze to drive out detractors who would boldly challenge any of their outlandish claims. I am not always a Rush fan, but in the end he is one of the good guys.
stmichrick| 3.5.12 @ 8:48AM
Sandra Fluke is an activist in the fight to mainstream the 'shit happens' lifestyle, which happens to apply to many Obama supporters. When you listen to big media for extended periods one forgets how many people would think that the spectacle of a Georgetown law student, on television, whining about the cost of her social lifestyle and demanding that a catholic organization roll over and pay for it is pretty absurd. I have as much sympathy for her as I do for people who buy houses near airports and complain about noise. The idea that free birth control constitutes essential healthcare is also absurd on its face, yet typical of modern liberal thought. As with the medical marijuana and abortion advocates, the issue of who might actually medically need these elective treatments and procedures is fogged by these lifestyle advocates.
Rush's schtick lives in the rhetorical realm and won't attach itself to any particular candidate (as he hasn't). Politics is now more in the popular culture than any time since the sixties (you remember, the great 'Leftward Enlightenment' period) Without public people like Rush, Coulter and Breitbart to explode leftist highjinxs, these propositions are accepted by many, who don't think too deeply, as the 'new' way to think about things. Political candidates shouldn't touch these side shows because they are not as nimble as Rush. Nancy Pelosi and operatives like Stephanopoulas will try to set these traps by laying such PR bait. To the extent a candidate stumbles in will determine their fate. All that needs to be said is, 'Rush has his way of expressing opposition, I have mine.' Let Barack Obama weigh in and give us more ammunition.
Believe it or not Rush et al are not large political factors as they've been around through both democrat AND republican victories. The stunts conceived by the left, like Fluke's "testimony," are not arguments from 'the other side' of an issue to be 'fair' with. They are symptoms of a mental pathology that needs to be ‘treated’ because it spreads easily with lazy thought processes and encouragement by the big media. Conservative republicans have plenty to argue amongst themselves about while we endure these primaries. I'll be glad when they are over.
But I would like to see the video if Fluke gets her birth control allowance.
albert constantine jr.| 3.5.12 @ 8:59AM
Regarding Ms. Fluke and her desire to have Georgetown University, taxpayers, insurance companies or anyone but her pay for her birth control, I offer the following observation. I recall a few years back seeing the bumper sticker “Get Your Rosaries Off My Ovaries”. Apparently the line underneath that I couldn’t read was “I Want Your Dollar Bills For My Plan B Pills”.
jlkthree| 3.5.12 @ 9:53AM
What the mainstream media was able to do to Rush,they can also do to Newt and Santorum.They will simply not allow either one of them to be president.Romney is a much more difficult matter for them.
stmichrick| 3.5.12 @ 10:30AM
What was 'done' to Rush was primarily a function of the squeamishness of his advertisers and maybe his wife, not the mainstream media. Don't forget what happened to Harry Reid and the drive-bys after the phony soldier episode.
hunter| 3.5.12 @ 10:35AM
I remember several years ago, watching a news person interviewing a femmi-plannabortionist outside a plannedabortion clinic, protest against the church. (GOD). I could hardly belive it then, but if I hadn't heard it with my own ears... She said "The church (GOD) is going to have to listen to the will of the people. Things have changed with modern times, the church (God), needs to be brought up to date." Well I'm sure God will get on that real soon. Thanks to eve we have hell here on earth. Thats why child bearing is so painful....But ohh I forgot, with birth control pills and the morning after abortion pill there is no birth. Thus no pain...The woman has certainly outsmarted God....Yea, RIGHT. God will see that the sentence of pain upon the woman is borne one way or the other. The dried up old witches like glorie stennimen are going to bring on this country a misery and pain far worse than childbearing. As far as the Ms. Flute, if she can afford The expensive college, she should afford birth control. Besides I understand that a plannedabortion clinic is within walking distance from her dorm for free. But with all the extracurricular activities I guess she don't have time. Rush is a good name for Rush, he needs to slow down and watch out for decietful practicing young pretty witches.
Con Chef (NB) | 3.5.12 @ 11:36AM
She IS a slut. She's expecting people to pick up the tab for products that allow her to keep dropping trou without consequence. So, by default, we're paying her to screw. And make no mistake, we ARE getting screwed. YOU may like it. Most of us don't.
Oh, & can you tell me where all the lines of women who couldn't get rubbers & anti-baby pills were BEFORE this "controversey" was manufactured out of thin air? Can you tell me why some stupid skeez would go to a Catholic institution, knowing they don't provide services like that? Think she was just there to cause a ruckus? Nah, PERISH the thought, right?
jcrew| 3.5.12 @ 10:33PM
If it wasn't for sluts you wouldn't be here son. Oh yeah it's "controversy" you dumb ox, the red squiggly line means you done went and spelled something wrong hillbilly. What is this "we" stuff? You sir are definitely not getting screwed and haven't been since you got screwed out of looks and brains at conception. Apparently it's been downhill ever since.
Con Chef (NB) | 3.5.12 @ 11:37AM
She IS a slut. She's expecting people to pick up the tab for products that allow her to keep dropping trou without consequence. So, by default, we're paying her to screw. And make no mistake, we ARE getting screwed. YOU may like it. Most of us don't.
Oh, & can you tell me where all the lines of women who couldn't get rubbers & anti-baby pills were BEFORE this "controversey" was manufactured out of thin air? Can you tell me why some stupid skeez would go to a Catholic institution, knowing they don't provide services like that? Think she was just there to cause a ruckus? Nah, PERISH the thought, right?
DRed| 3.5.12 @ 3:19PM
She's expecting the insurance company that she pays for medical insurance to cover contraceptives. You're not paying a dime. You think every woman in America who has insurance that covers contraceptives is a slut?
The Bruce| 3.5.12 @ 10:43PM
DRed, she can go right down to the local Planned Parenthood and get all the contraception she wants... for free.
This woman is nothing more than a political prop.
Bob| 3.5.12 @ 1:46PM
Careful George, Aaron Goldstein might demand that you apologize too.
shipley130| 3.5.12 @ 2:03PM
This proves to me that liberals will lie about anything to get their freebies that are already free.
Simon Templar| 3.5.12 @ 2:45PM
George, where were you last week when I fought like hell with Goldstein and he dismissed EVERYTHING I said as gibberish?
Everything in your article is what I was speaking to all last week while I played merry go round with Aaron.
This failure to realize the basic lessons Breitbart was teaching us about how to be a warrior and effectively fight the Left will be responsible for the mortal death of conservatism.
I have tried for three years on this site to warn you, educate you, and share with you what I know from being a radical and a liberal most of my life.
What comes next, you can thank your pal there, Goldstein, and so many others in your media.
Now, we have that ugly, ingrate, hypocrite Imus calling for Rush's radio program to be destroyed and taken off the air. Never, never, never trust a liberal and give them an inch. When will we ever learn this.
Does anyone but me see the incredible irony here? Conservatives comes to that ingrate bastard Immus 's defense, give him a second chance and a job, this is how a liberal and he is one, pays you back.
The stupidity I have witnessed being demonstrated by your fellow talking heads on the right is sometimes just too much to deal with and handle. The way so many are played by the Left and their media machine can make someone just cry at times.
Well, lessons learned the hard way and better late than never. You have a voice as an opinion journalist and a lot of influence, start using it and fight them all the way, never give them ground, and call them out every chance you get.
Rule number two, defend your own, defend you own, defend your own, and never apologize to them for anything! Never give them quarter, never, never trust a liberal. They are playing by no rules, they could give a rats ass about you playing by them. They are counting on it. They see it as your achilles heel.
Stop letting these liberal hypocrites define and tell you what you can say, think, and do. Stop giving them the power to define morality, ethics, values, language, acceptable thought, what you eat, how you live, your institutions, your rights, your liberties....
Do not accept their narratives about anything, anyone, anytime.
DRed| 3.5.12 @ 3:21PM
Remember yesterday when you said we'd get back to criticizing Obama's economic policies? Good times. At least you guys aren't afraid to double down on stupid. Don't stop until you've convinced every woman in America to not vote Republican.
Ken| 3.5.12 @ 2:54PM
While Rush's larger point may be the correct one (at the very least one that reasonable people can ultimately agree to disagree on) his choice of comments were boorish & crude. And unfortunately, this has played into all usual suspects hands w/the predictable resulting s**t storm. The end result is that this is what the focus has been on and not the substance of the argument itself. Limbaugh has set back this cause quite a bit with his antics. I'd have thought someone as clever and media-savvy as he would have know better.
Mike Hawk| 3.5.12 @ 6:42PM
The sluts and whores are all Democrats.
jcrew| 3.6.12 @ 12:56AM
Interesting. A whole sub population of women is made up of one political party, huh? That is very firmly rooted in fact and reality. Otherwise you wouldn't have taken the time to type that in unless you just wanted to try to get a childish, smarmy insult in at the "other side". If you could think you might consider that whores would want to be libertarian since they don't want the government telling them how to make a living. Oh yeah I forgot you guys act like you religious and all too. Forgot about that particular hypocrisy.
DatsunMark| 3.5.12 @ 3:15PM
Obama and his cronies are very smart...they changed the National dialog from his failed economic policies to this stupid contraceptives argument and we are falling for it. Maybe we should ask that the reason Obama is giving away condoms is that people have more time on their hands being out of work and no money for $4 gas, how else can he buy off his votes?
gearjammer| 3.5.12 @ 3:19PM
Rush said he stooped to the left's level and he regets it. He and we are better than they are. He is leading again, the right way, the best way. I feel better now are our chances ti defeat this horror in the oval office. Thanks Rush.
Slacker| 3.5.12 @ 4:07PM
It would have been so much better if this Fluke woman actually looked slutty. No such luck.
So here we are listening to an asexual looking feminist speaking to her lesbian friends need for birth control....and nobody can even laugh.
jcrew| 3.6.12 @ 12:39AM
So you are calling her out for being a slut and because she doesn't look slutty? You are the type of person who stabs hookers to death because you have so much shame and guilt. Who knew your mom dressing you like a girl all those years ago would affect you this badly? If I need a laugh I'll think of you getting a rare disease.
Notra Bumma| 3.5.12 @ 4:23PM
Looking at this S. Fluke woman?man's face I got the creep. Is she for real, just the face of it, what she/he demands is so silly, deceitful, and illogical, the next thing the left's demand would be to pay for their gourmet dinner for two.
Seek| 3.6.12 @ 5:33PM
If people like you came to define the GOP, our party will be eaten for dinner this November.
David| 3.5.12 @ 4:42PM
Without the vote of women the GOP goes the way of the Whig Party.
You've already lost gay people and minorities.
Keep it up guys, you're hastening your extinction as a political party.
Citizen Jerry| 3.5.12 @ 5:13PM
"This is the sorriest collection of arrogant snots in the history of academia."
Great turn of a phrase for the radical activist Ms. Fluke and her ilk. But this is to be expected. Country club Republicans are more a pale shade of blue than they are a pale shade of red. And most of the "brand name" Catholic institutions, along with its faculties, are Catholic in name only. Their faith is in liberal politics, not the Magisterium.
Charles Jackson | 3.5.12 @ 5:45PM
The Catholic Church is governed by unmarried, celibate (?) males. Their views on women, marriage, the family and sex are worth squat.
Mike Hawk| 3.5.12 @ 6:40PM
So don't be a Roman Catholic you bigot.
Clint| 3.5.12 @ 7:46PM
So Was Jesus, Anti-Catholic Punk Bigot, Chuckie.
Juan Jose Morales-Castillo | 3.5.12 @ 6:15PM
Obamination's gallant defense of the Fluke Floozy reminds me of this quote of Groucho Marx:
Remember, men, we're fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably more than she ever did.
jcrew| 3.6.12 @ 12:42AM
Makes me think of this quote from Jesus: Don't be a dick. Oh well, maybe next life huh? At least you know you're a really nice guy. Oh wait, maybe you need birth control cause you got screwed there too my many named friend.
Juan Jose Morales-Castillo | 3.6.12 @ 5:25PM
I am the son of an unwed mother; naturally that strongly influences my opinion about contraception and about the people who use it and abuse it.
My half brother's daughter will have a son out of wedlock on June; my mother is very eager to meet her first great-grandchild.
Crassus| 3.5.12 @ 6:31PM
I bet if you waive a $20 in Sandra Fluke's face she'd immediately drop to her knees.
Boar Hunter| 3.5.12 @ 8:23PM
You sir are wrong. You do not require $20 to have sex with the "Fluke Worm" that would make her a whore.
She is a slut which means that she is providing her services for free!
jcrew| 3.6.12 @ 12:36AM
You sir are an ass. Too bad you can't put a window in your stomach so you could see where you're going with your head jammed so far up your pooper. Go back to watching Brokeback Mountain you fairy.
jcrew| 3.6.12 @ 12:33AM
I bet if you learn to spell wave correctly you would get a gold star for your helmet. Hey if you have to wear it you might as well trick it out. Good luck with that whole dressing yourself thing mouth breather!
Carl| 3.5.12 @ 7:10PM
You, sir have an issue with reading comprehension. Didn't do so well on that portion of your ACT did you? Nowhere does the Georgetown President support the position of Ms. Fluke. What he did do was criticize those who deserve criticism, Rush Limbaugh and conservative bloggers, that their treatment of Ms. Fluke was unacceptable, which is true. So instead of yelling about Georgetown, go after the real culprits here, the Obama administration.
Boar Hunter| 3.5.12 @ 8:19PM
"Rush Limbaugh and conservative bloggers, that their treatment of Ms. Fluke was unacceptable" Why is that do you suppose?
Since "Fluke" is by her own admission the very definitive of a slut, why is it bad to say that?
Is it unfair?
Is it inaccurate?
Oh I know! It's because she's another liberal Fluke Worm whose moral depravity I'm supposed to pay for.
The Bruce| 3.5.12 @ 10:50PM
Well, she is earning her law degree.
Maybe she'll mostly be doing pro-Bono work, if you get me drift.
jcrew| 3.6.12 @ 12:30AM
The closest you will come to a law degree is rubbing one off to Judge Judy sicko. What's funny about your jealousy is that you have no clue that is what feeds the hatred that's eating out your insides. Poor, sad, pitiful little (by little I mean tiny) man.
michael| 3.5.12 @ 7:25PM
What an ugly looking ho!
Seek| 3.5.12 @ 7:51PM
So who's your lady? What does she look like?
jcrew| 3.6.12 @ 12:23AM
I bet you are just as beautiful as the personality your comment paints for us. What a level headed, wise and kind fella you are there Mikey. Your parents must be so proud. Proud they kicked you to the curb before you could really recognize them.
POST American| 3.5.12 @ 10:36PM
---Great piece!
NOW, back to that NDAA 1021 and the
'unpleasantness' with Mr Brietbart.
THANKS!
Osamas Pajamas| 3.5.12 @ 10:42PM
Well, I'm an atheist and I support those religious organizations who object to OhBummer's award of stolen property --- money hijacked from religious organizations --- to pay for contraceptives and abortion services. Do I favor the rights of contraception and abortion? I do. And if you want these things, you should pay for them yourself, unless a benefactor volunteers them to you at his own expense.
The Bruce| 3.5.12 @ 10:50PM
I take it she'll mostly be doing "pro-Bono" work upon graduation?
jcrew| 3.6.12 @ 12:27AM
I take it you are a very accomplished comedian? With material like that there's no stopping you there Gallagher. You are living, breathing birth control with no other purpose in life except to warn against the dangers of inbreeding.
John II| 3.5.12 @ 11:24PM
Let us not lose sight of the main point of Mr. Neumayr's commentary. Georgetown University is a slut.
And I apologize to any ordinary, good-hearted sluts who may be offended. No self-respecting slut could possibly burble with Georgetown's self-congratulatory smugness.
And yet, to paraphrase Gertrude Stein, a slut is a slut is a slut.
And now back to "Destry Rides Again" (1939), in which the incomparable Marlene Dietrich set the standard which no subsequent slut has ever met, including Melina Mercouri and Georgetown University. Alas, they just don't make sluts the way they used to.
sirbourbon| 3.5.12 @ 11:42PM
Rush isn't worth defending but the first amendment is. How many of you wrote congress to demand they vote against this anti-American bill>>>>The Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act? It is a direct attack on the first amendment. But you see, Rush Limbaugh, never mentioned it on his show. Lots of things the "entertainer" never mentioned and this millionare is in hot water over a stupid pill. Ha! what a joke that he may get his butt ash canned over that.
The occassions that he talked about illegal immigration he never mentioned the NAU. The other occasions he spoke to global warming he never once said we should get the H*** out of the UN. Here the UN's IPCC climate warmists had the world bambozzled on this idiotic non science issue and yes he went after them but he never went after the source - the UN.
Remember the 90's and Femi-Nazis, the homo bashing and I the "I used to believe in the conspiracy stuff for 6 months but then...."
Well, Rush wake up to the conspiracy that is using you to attack freedom of speech. Now you can spend all that money you made telling talk show listeners essentially nothing of substance.
Richard Baker| 3.6.12 @ 12:02AM
"College and law school students who demand that priests and nuns finance their fornication deserve searing satirical treatment. " Exactly. Poor babies. They want the rest of us to pay for their "fun". Fluke is a disgrace.
jcrew| 3.6.12 @ 1:00AM
Hey Dick, a disgrace is you acting like you know anything at all. Maybe if you weren't a complete tool you'd have friends. Too bad at least you're really good at Solitaire there Tiny Tim.
Brian| 3.6.12 @ 12:22AM
Lost in the argument is link between the pill and cancer. The biggest lawsuit in history will soon be upon us. No doubt the tax payer will foote the bill.
jcrew| 3.6.12 @ 1:04AM
No, the biggest lawsuit in history will come when I sue your parents for gross negligence. They must have severely deprived you for you to turn out as such a grotesque, disgusting person. Oh and I'm going to hire Matlock so they might as well settle. They should be used to settling anyways, they settled for each other, their boring lives and a mediocre do nothing son.
Russell| 3.6.12 @ 1:52AM
For an idiot, Rushbo is a miserable excuse for un bon Chretien
Bob S| 3.6.12 @ 3:12AM
Sandra's new bumpersticker.
I Don't Want the Govt. In My Bedroom.
I Just Want Them to Make Other Taxpayers Pay For What I Do There.
While I have no love for either the Roman church or Flush Lumbaugh - they're both phonier than a three dollar bill - the latest diktat from Herr Geo. W. Obama is over the top.
To say that my constitutional prerogatives now include - besides torture, indefinite detainment and same sex "marriages" - free contraceptives, is deceptive in the extreme. If we are going to trash the First Amendment in the name of honoring the First Amendment, why don't we just say so? It would be the despicably honest thing to do instead of just being despicable.
Pastor emeritus Nathan Bickel | 3.6.12 @ 5:06AM
Mr. George Neumayr - Excellent short and concise commentary!
You summed up (appropriately) this current political issue with the following acute description:
.......In other words, the flaky modern Jesuits DeGioia represents stand ready to give Fluke an allowance for her pre-marital sex. Somehow I can't imagine the Jesuit founder, St. Ignatius of Loyola, describing a demand from one of his students for subsidized sin as an "expression of conscience."....... [your words]
I strongly believe that it's a perversion to "subsidize" sin, and then rationalize it by saying that this subsidized sin is an "expression of conscience." No, - it is an expression of multiple fornications [hedonistic activity]. Furthermore, this [so-called] "expression of conscience" (termed, by the political left) is merely the political correctness / multicultural manner of needlessly "taking offense" to another worldview perspective. I'm reminded how leftist people and their political groups conjure up the political correctness (nasty) tactic of "taking on offense" and using their (erroneous) offended perspective to launch ideological warfare upon their [the] Christian and Conservative opposition.
Definition of "offense: "An offense is something that is said or done whereby our opinion of God and men is distorted; and an offense is active when I give it, passive when I take (patior) it." [Dr. Martin Luther]
Finally, you are correct in saying (implying, in effect) that Conservatives need to take the fight to a higher level. Politicians on the political right would do (very well) to trumpet the moral sinful "inefficiencies" (crimes against humanity) committed by their political left, rivals. Not only should Conservative (God fearing) politicians be morally outspoken, many religious leaders, pastors, priests and rabbis need to apply the teachings of the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures to the everyday decadent world (cosmos). Here are a couple of examples, as I am not mealy mouthed in my online topical Christian message approach, endeavor:
"The President of the United States: A Sex Offender? - Why Obama's support of the abortion industry is the worst molestation of youth:"
http://www.thechristianmessage.....ender.html
The Infanticide / Abortion Genocide US "President" Obama
http://www.thechristianmessage.....e-and.html
In short, Conservatives and Christians need to oppose the present Obama Administration and their counterpart liberal political party and kowtowing media, not because it is opposite their political philosophy, but, primarily, because it is godless and hedonistic, in nature and most contrary to a healthy worldview and practical lifestyle manner.
wodiej| 3.6.12 @ 6:12AM
Gingrich has been the most mature about this entire thing among conservatives. I am not a Limbaugh fan but I give him credit for apologizing and his reason for doing so was spot on. This argument never was about free birth control. It was about the language Limbaugh used. The overwhelming comments I have seen from conservatives think that him implying women who want free birth control are sluts and prostitutes were just fine and dandy. On one hand many conservatives are appalled at this kind of language if it is used against a conservative. But if it's used to frame a debate about a liberal, then they don't mind. It's called hypocrisy. Alot of married couples use BC too. Are those women sluts and prostitutes? Just because a single woman uses BC does not even mean she is having sex and it certainly doesn't mean she has multiple partners. It is used for other medical reasons.
The defense of these kinds of remarks show ignorance, sexism and willing to stoop to the level of liberals. Conservatives better get off their self righteous high horse if they want to win in November.
Bob S| 3.6.12 @ 2:07PM
You still don't get it, wodiej.
It's not about free speech. Rather it's about the free exercise of one's (religious) conscience.
Yes, Frush Rumbaugh said some coarse and nasty things about Sarah P. - no wait, wrong boycott - but the real question remains: Just what exactly do you call someone who is brazen enough to go on national tv and essentially ask the govt. to force others, who refuse for conscience sake, to foot the bill for her recreational sex?
Let me tell you. A libertine and a whore for more big govt. power and tyranny.
Not only that, her pimp called her up after the hearing and along with congratulations, commiserated with her that she had to endure such vile and abusive language from those who vehemently disagreed with her naked appeal to Leviathan to crush all those who disagreed with her, whatever their vocabulary.
Yes, there are medical conditions that are treated with "contraceptives", but that's not what we are talking about and everybody knows it. Neither is that why Big Brother put out the HSS mandate.
emmy| 3.6.12 @ 4:15PM
Amen, brother!