Hmmmm.....

[ravan]

OK. The religious right assholes have pushed through a ban on abortion in South Dakota, and are working on it in other states. They are trying to restrict access to birth control by their idiotic "conscience" clauses (for pharmacists, not patients). Congress (full of fascist rethuglicrats and spineless demicans) has caused the federal government to push the bullshit "abstinence only" sex ed down the throats of schools. Their lap dog Shrub has appointed social conservative idealogues to the SCOTUS, just to please his fundamentalist "base".

Now other people have posted about the previous abortion underground, and there are lists of pharmacies that are stupid, and those that aren't. This is all good.

BUT...

Money talks, and the fundies have a lot of it. They started this goddamn "culture war" - making war on the secular people of this country, seeking to impose their narrow version of one particular faith on the entire citizenry of the United States. Government hands off doesn't apply when it comes to their theocratic agenda of supression of women and minorities into baby factories for cannon fodder for their manifest destiny of imperial theocracy.

So the best counter is money, lots of it and at all levels, from individuals *and* corporations. Local money, to fight their creeping talebanization at the local level. Corporate pressure - that means buying voting stock and making your voice heard - and organized lobbying is all that the neocons will hear at any level. Don't buy from theocrats, don't contribute money to religious organizations that lobby for theocratic laws.

Even people who don't have kids should pay attention to the backgrounds and beliefs of people running for school boards and city councils. These posts are springboards to bigger posts. Non-partisan? They don't care - they run by stealth, as "upstanding citizens", and then start voting in their restrictive religion driven agenda. If a politician runs as a faith "inspired" person, be suspicious. If their bragging points include membership in "non-denominational" or known fundie churches, don't vote for them, no matter how "reasonable" they sound. If they run on a "moral" platform, that's a code word for "impose their 'morals' on everyone".

I don't want to live, or die, in the "Handmaid's Tale". But that's exactly the kind of theocratic state we're headed for, unless a lot of people get it through their heads that it's not your average, everyday Christian who is backing this stuff, but cynical theocratic propagandists who will twist everything that anyone holds sacred to serve their agenda.

The Constitution and the Bill of Rights have been savaged by the theocrats and statist bigots. Do what you can to stem the tide, and reverse it. Ignore the propaganda chaff about war and democracy, and only support people who get the "government does not run my life, or the lives of others" idea.

Maybe we need an MYOB party...

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I think we already have kind of a MYOB party, it's Libertarian. In case you hadn't heard, Wal-fart caved into pressure and is now selling the "morning after" pill from their pharmacies and they've told all pharmacists to fill pills for birth control, get another pharmacist there to do it for the customer if they don't want to, or provide a p harmacy where the customer won't have problems getting their scrip filled. Money does, indeed, talk, and even Hell-mart listens. Why doesn't Shrub? And excellent points on local politics. Many fundies use school boards and community organizations as a spring board for further political ambitions.