While President Obama was busy distracting us by making hot sexy love to centrists and six-figure commentators whose job it is to tell us what real Americans want (Hi David Gergen!) his Department of Health and Human Services started throwing around free birth control pills like they were Tic Tac’s … only these Tic Tac’s kill babies. Just like Altoids! This offends K-Lo and Her Church which needs more babies; girl ones to become nuns, and boy ones to become thrill rides for priests.
While everyone was watching the debt-ceiling debate, the Department of Health and Human Services announced mandatory coverage of contraceptives (including ones that may act as abortifacients) and sterilization in new insurance plans, with the narrowest of conscience protection.
In a statement in response to the move, Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo, Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, who is chairman of the pro-life office of the bishops’ conference in Washington, explained that “under the new rule our institutions would be free to act in accord with Catholic teaching on life and procreation only if they were to stop hiring and serving non-Catholics.”
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Those opposing the new rules are simply saying: You can disagree with me on whether or not contraception has helped make a wreck of our lives. But don’t make me violate my conscience.
Because using contraceptives like the pill lulls people into having sex they normally wouldn’t have which, in turn, can psychologically “wreck” the life of their partner possibly leading to lifelong erectile dysfunction problems as well as deep lingering feelings of guilt and remorse. For more on this, please refer to this case study of a patient simply known as “Ross D.” found here.
And, yes, if ever a picture cried out for an alt-tag … this one was it.





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I want to know who the hell told these people about the internet. That’s when all the Defcon 1 level stupid started.
Do I want to know what she’s measuring in that photo?
Well that’s a real blessing.
How is Kathryn making a living now? Who pays this idiot?
Oh heh, you all are wondering what she’s measuring?
The chocolate subway sandwich with fries she ate on her last NRO cruise.
If you can’t do the job stop expecting a pay day.
And K-Lo, simply declaring everyone icky and sinful doesn’t make you morally superior.
Everybody objects to something. Everyone is afraid of stepping on a crack or walking under a ladder or some such superstitious shit. But just because I have a superstition with a capital “S” and call it “sincerely held”, I get to carve bigger and bigger chunks of religious exemption out of your freedom to the integrity of your own body.
And don’t even start with how your conscience is shocked by having to send your money to kill brown bodies overseas. YOUR conscience isn’t the one that matters.
Did I get it right?
Here’s the thing. The HHS announcement K-Lo links to is dated July 28. The Cardinal’s “statement in response to the move” K-Lo links to is dated July 22.
What the Cardinal is actually responding to a list of “preventive services for women” proposed by the Institute of Medicine to HHS, which also recommended a religious exemption. The HHS announcement that K-Lo links to (but apparently didn’t read) states:
The HHS then did just that. Their latest news release:
So which are we more surprised at — that Lopez is putatively an editor and journalist, that she is without scruple or competence, or that she is completely full of shit?
Do I want to know what she’s measuring in that photo?
You don’t really – I’m pretty sure it’s an estimate of a Romney asset. or maybe she is miming how enthesiastically she is willing to kiss ass in exchange for wingnut welfare. Or maybe just a sammitch. Or perhaps she is explaining how she was the active partner in the world’s biggest ever goatse.
Or else she’s trying to catch a fly.
It is hard to know. Kathryn Lopez is inscrutable to ordinary mortals.
So, if under the new rule our institutions would be free to act in accord with Catholic teaching on life and procreation only if they were to stop hiring and serving non-Catholics, the church will get out of the business of running schools and hospitals, since they can’t operate without public funds, and if they don’t serve the general population, the welfare will be shut off. Let them run their own institutions and fund them themselves, and let the rest of us live in the 21st century.
“conservatives.”
They get their economics information from college drop-out Rush Limbaugh; they get their sex education from Kathryn Lopez.
My thoughts exactly.
K-Lo is clearly driven *insane* with jealousy that human beings (a race that she isn’t a member of) have fun in bed. The only “fun in bed” that K-Lo gets is not choking on all the endless ham sandwiches she eats there. That’s what she’s measuring: just the most recent ham sandwich she ate in bed.
I don’t know what part of our brain holds the Puritan Center. Some of us are more frighteningly intense about their belief that pleasure is evil, and also more willing to convert the heathen idolators. These people should not simply be mocked, but should also be recognized as terrible threats to society. Once one is willing to force everyone else to submit in one aspect of life, then anything goes. It’s always ‘for their own good’, of course. Except it’s all about power, resentment and jealousy, with just a pinch of emotionally twisted mental illness to give it that little extra zing.
John Stuart Mill, letter to the Conservative MP, Sir John Pakington (March, 1866)
“But don’t make me violate my conscience.”
What a Drama Queen.
And, yes, if ever a picture cried out for an alt-tag … this one was it.
Alt-tag hell – it’s crying out for a sammitch Photoshop.
I want to know who the hell told these people about the internet. That’s when all the Defcon 1 level stupid started
This. On steroids. I was thinking today how ironic that my beloved television has become everything Newton Minow warned us about.
If you truly believe, you can see the string. It’s an intricate cat’s cradle, showing God’s plan. Cat’lics can see things we can’t.
The good bishop pontificates like Benny the Popenführer.
More catholics for all is what he commands.
Especially the tired and poor ones who they want to block from the joys of science which the rest of us partake.
So which are we more surprised at — that Lopez is putatively an editor and journalist, that she is without scruple or competence, or that she is completely full of shit?
Surprised? I would only be surprised if she actually read anything (a) that she criticizes or (b) that explains how to use the English language to write a coherent sentence.
KKK-Lo is kinda kkkute in a kkkudly kkkinda way. Take ‘the’ pill KJL and even I’ll do ya.
This is your brain on Catholicism, conservatism and alcohol:
I think Obama supporters are happy enough tonight. But I suspect they wanted McCain to show up tired and cranky and he didn’t he appeared a leader whose dont some of that leading
So K-Lo(ad) is a cast member of the Thunderbirds?