Sneaky fundie bastards!
21 September 2009 by Stardust
Thanks to Jesse Galef over at the Friendly Atheist blog for bringing this to our attention. This is the stuff that doesn’t seem to make it to the forefront of the news media. The Secular Coalition for America has sent out letters “to members of the Senate Finance Committee urging them to oppose two proposed amendments to the healthcare reform bill” says Galef.
The Secular Coalition for America states:
Senator Orrin Hatch has submitted amendment #C10 requesting that funding for Title V abstinence-only-until-marriage be restored. Senator Michael Enzi has submitted amendment #C15 to ensure that conscience protections are applied in the healthcare reform bill. Please oppose these two amendments. Both of these amendments privilege religious values over patients’ and students’ rights to ethical treatment and medically-accurate information.
Galef at Friendly Atheist writes:
President Obama’s proposed budget earlier this year removed funding for abstinence-only education, mostly because studies shown they hadn’t worked — some studies even found that the programs made things worse, discouraging contraception without actually reducing sex. And Senator Hatch wants to spend $50 million a year on these programs.
I thought that Rethuglicans were against “evil socialist programs”?
There was public outcry over a so-called ‘conscience protection’ clause the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was pushing right before Bush’s term ended. When Obama took office, he prevented it from taking effect. And now Senator Enzi wants to slip a similar clause into the healthcare reform bill.
It never ends with these sneaky fundie bastards. Gotta keep our eyes and ears on them every minute.
22 September 2009, on 12:39 am
I used to be somewhat surprised…WAY back when…hearing about shit like this; but, especially, since the blatantly over-the-top, ultra-hypocritical, lying, delusional, even just amazingly stupid level, especially of the more recent vintage (read: GW Era) of Rethuglicans, surprise has become a rather rare commodity.
Add to that the lack of surprise at the source of all the stupidity…Fundie Fuck Religions.
Speaking of Fundie Fucks; isn’t it Wednesday when Ahmadinejad (I’m-a-dimwit-jag?) is due to address the U.N…with his stupid Islamic-based ultra-preachy BS disregard for the Holocaust?
Did the human race, many thousands of years ago, unalterably perhaps, rather commonly and terminally, turn into a bunch of hopeless planetary retards; caused by some incredibly stubborn, nasty, Genome-style “god-fuck” factor? Kind of an “Insidious Evolutionary-based Design”, perhaps…by which we’re ALL, from birth hopelessly, and terminally fucked! Even if you do manage to wake up and realize the fact…ala atheism; it may already be beyond any truly viable hope.
After all the, the famous “Genome guy”…Francis Collins…demonstrably highlights just how prevalent, and baffling, religious fucktardness is.
Enzi (ala Enzyme?) of course…similar to “Chuck (your ass is) Grassley”…is one of those notable fucktard “Gang of Six” assholes who, IMO, aren’t REALLY interested in any truly meaningful, let alone intelligent Health Care Bill. He has, no surprise, very close ties to the healthcare and insurance industries.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Enzi
And Hatch (as in hatchet? or, hatching more bullshit?) is a fucking delusional Mormon (Moron); who’s also not really interested in essentially changing the Health Care system.
See (if you dare; and can stomach it?)…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orrin_Hatch
[Somehow I feel kind of unusually dirty now; after that bit of muckraking futility.]
22 September 2009, on 12:58 am
“Senator Orrin Hatch has submitted amendment #C10 requesting that funding for Title V abstinence-only-until-marriage be restored.”
Why would we continue to fund, with tax payer dollars, a program that has been shown to be entirely ineffective? Oh, that’s right, fundies are hungry and need red meat.
“Senator Michael Enzi has submitted amendment #C15 to ensure that conscience protections are applied in the healthcare reform bill.”
Fucking fuckers–this again? Why do I, as a healthcare provider, have to do things I sometimes don’t like to do? Oh, that’s right, because I fucking get paid to do my job. Don’t like dispensing RU-487? Fuck you–get over yourself you self-important prig. Shit. What did you think was going to happen when you got your pharmacy license–you were only going to dispense Bennies to bored housewives?
Ugh, this shit makes me so angry. Does it show?
22 September 2009, on 6:47 pm
Dammit. We might as well strike a match and burn our tax dollars,considering all the compost heap of garbage it gets used for,like this abstinence-only taxpayer scam bullshit. Faith-based birth control in a nutshell: “God,please,don’t let her be pregnant.” Gotta love that faith in action,folks. “Oh,God,yes! Oh,God,yes!” Nuff Said.