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So by now most everybody's probably still reeling from the surprise of the day, i.e., McCain's VP pick. Thus far there has been quite a bit of fun-poking at this decision, but this is anything BUT funny. This is downright frightening, especially if you're a female:
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/8/29/182057/888 - This post, written by a former dominionist walkaway, gives up the ugly news. Sarah Palin is not only *extremely* anti-choice (as you'll see below), she's affiliated with what is quite possibly a stealth dominionist attempt at the highest seat of power (remember, McCain's getting up there in age, and frankly, I'm cynical about his lasting out one whole term, let alone two). Excerpts from the article:
Palin explicitly promoted "teach the controversy" by calling for the misnamed "creation science" to be taught in public schools (as now well documented in Kitzmiller vs. Dover School District, it's known that "creation science" is nothing more and nothing less than a method of putting young-earth creationism in public schools)...
Creationism is bullshit. Pure and simple. It doesn't come anywhere close to a serious and honest discussion of "could there have been a Supreme Being who possibly made the earth and all things in it?" All it is is the so-called Xtian Right's attempt to brainwash people into believing THEIR version of religion so they can have more little 'soldiers' for their 'armies'. I'm an agnostic, and I have no problem with people believing in a God who may or may not be responsible for such, but I draw the line at this kind of subversive indoctrination. It doesn't belong in the science classroom, period.
It also appears that Sarah Palin is a member of a misnamed group called Feminists for Life. FFL in fact engages in "cultural appropriation" of women's suffrage icons to promote a very woman-unfriendly agenda that--despite attempts to sound "not like those crazies in Operation Rescue"--would not only criminalise abortion but the IUD and hormonal birth control methods, and potentially everything outside the rhythm method (the term "abortifacient birth control" is a codephrase in the dominionist "pro-life" community for hormonal birth control--partly due to a unique urban legend claiming "the pill" and other hormonal birth control causes abortion and partly because of a unique definition of pregnancy beginning at conception rather than at implantation (the latter is what most mainstream OB/GYNs use) and thus making anything preventing implantation potentially "abortifacient").
FFL promotes such fun bogosities as "post-abortion syndrome" (the idea that having an abortion will inevitably lead to PTSD and insanity), ((This has recently been proven *false* by the American Medical Association - it's a favorite lie of anti-choicers. Maybe a few women do regret having an abortion, but by and large the majority of women who have had one have never reported any such feelings; in fact many have said they felt relief.)) and promotes mandatory waiting periods and misinformation guidelines that can be insurmountable for poor or rural women--even those forced to make the most heartbreaking choice because of a nonviable pregnancy. In fact, one of their biggest causes isn't feminist at all--they actively promote the idea that the best choice for women is to stay home as fulltime mothers, and it can be well argued that the only traditionally feminist viewpoint they really support is women's suffrage!
One of the big things FFL promotes is deceptive "pregnancy counseling centers"--where pregnant teens are forced to essentially listen to an altar call on how "abortionists want to murder their children" whilst a pee-stick test clears--and if she tests "yes", she gets a hard-sell to keep the child or to check herself into a dominionist-run "halfway house for teenage moms" where she will ultimately be forced to sign her kid over. ((Another example of how dominionists are trying to build their own little 'army'. PCCs also will have nothing to do with birth control dispensation and deliberately falsely advertise themselves - to the point of setting up shop right next door to legitimate women's clinics - in order to confuse women looking for the legit clinic.)) (Yes, there is an entire private adoption industry in the dominionist community--mostly focusing on adopting out the infants of poor teenage mothers who have been forced to give their kids up and who have been either scared into it or checked into such facilities by their parents.)
So yeah, if you take birth control - even for medical necessities like PCOS or other - you'd be royally screwed. As someone who is on the Pill for just such a reason (irregularities that could worsen if I wasn't on it), this infuriates me beyond all belief. The difference between genuinely "pro-life" people and anti-choicers is that real pro-life people, while they would not choose abortion themselves, *will not subvert anyone else's right to make that choice even though it may differ from their own.* Anti-choice people don't even want you to have access to birth control - which is the very thing that would help *prevent* a lot of abortions!
As for abortion itself, I support it. I can understand why some people may not agree with it, but I firmly believe the choice needs to be available to prevent worse from happening (Speaking only for myself, I'm celibate, but if God forbid I was attacked, I would do everything up to and including tossing myself down a flight of stairs or drinking poison, if I was denied a safe and legal abortion - hell, we already have women doing horrid things like douching with Mountain Dew or dipping into dangerous herbal concoctions). The ONLY way the abortion rate will ever be lowered successfully is by properly educating people and improving birth control rates. Abortion is a problem in that it represents a failure of communication and birth control, two things which can easily be fixed to prevent an unwanted pregnancy from ever occurring. Not only is Palin apparently affiliated with a group that is solidly against such sex ed/birth control, she's on record as saying that she doesn't believe that even rape/incest victims should have the option to abort, and frankly, I have NO respect for anyone who thinks a rape victim should be forced to bear and give birth to something she doesn't want.
And needless to say, considering the gravity of what Dominionist rule would mean for *everyone*, it is most assuredly NOT a good idea to put a stealth Dommie/Dommie sympathizer within reach of Very Bad Toys, if you get my drift. Some of these fanatics have VERY itchy trigger fingers and a hate-on for certain people/countries the size of the Pacific Ocean. If you identify as Christian, don't be fooled into thinking that you'd be safe from their aim - if you're not *their* flavor of bastardized religion, you're toast just the same as the groups they hate.
Obama "scary"? I don't think so, compared to this.
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/8/29/182057/888 - This post, written by a former dominionist walkaway, gives up the ugly news. Sarah Palin is not only *extremely* anti-choice (as you'll see below), she's affiliated with what is quite possibly a stealth dominionist attempt at the highest seat of power (remember, McCain's getting up there in age, and frankly, I'm cynical about his lasting out one whole term, let alone two). Excerpts from the article:
Palin explicitly promoted "teach the controversy" by calling for the misnamed "creation science" to be taught in public schools (as now well documented in Kitzmiller vs. Dover School District, it's known that "creation science" is nothing more and nothing less than a method of putting young-earth creationism in public schools)...
Creationism is bullshit. Pure and simple. It doesn't come anywhere close to a serious and honest discussion of "could there have been a Supreme Being who possibly made the earth and all things in it?" All it is is the so-called Xtian Right's attempt to brainwash people into believing THEIR version of religion so they can have more little 'soldiers' for their 'armies'. I'm an agnostic, and I have no problem with people believing in a God who may or may not be responsible for such, but I draw the line at this kind of subversive indoctrination. It doesn't belong in the science classroom, period.
It also appears that Sarah Palin is a member of a misnamed group called Feminists for Life. FFL in fact engages in "cultural appropriation" of women's suffrage icons to promote a very woman-unfriendly agenda that--despite attempts to sound "not like those crazies in Operation Rescue"--would not only criminalise abortion but the IUD and hormonal birth control methods, and potentially everything outside the rhythm method (the term "abortifacient birth control" is a codephrase in the dominionist "pro-life" community for hormonal birth control--partly due to a unique urban legend claiming "the pill" and other hormonal birth control causes abortion and partly because of a unique definition of pregnancy beginning at conception rather than at implantation (the latter is what most mainstream OB/GYNs use) and thus making anything preventing implantation potentially "abortifacient").
FFL promotes such fun bogosities as "post-abortion syndrome" (the idea that having an abortion will inevitably lead to PTSD and insanity), ((This has recently been proven *false* by the American Medical Association - it's a favorite lie of anti-choicers. Maybe a few women do regret having an abortion, but by and large the majority of women who have had one have never reported any such feelings; in fact many have said they felt relief.)) and promotes mandatory waiting periods and misinformation guidelines that can be insurmountable for poor or rural women--even those forced to make the most heartbreaking choice because of a nonviable pregnancy. In fact, one of their biggest causes isn't feminist at all--they actively promote the idea that the best choice for women is to stay home as fulltime mothers, and it can be well argued that the only traditionally feminist viewpoint they really support is women's suffrage!
One of the big things FFL promotes is deceptive "pregnancy counseling centers"--where pregnant teens are forced to essentially listen to an altar call on how "abortionists want to murder their children" whilst a pee-stick test clears--and if she tests "yes", she gets a hard-sell to keep the child or to check herself into a dominionist-run "halfway house for teenage moms" where she will ultimately be forced to sign her kid over. ((Another example of how dominionists are trying to build their own little 'army'. PCCs also will have nothing to do with birth control dispensation and deliberately falsely advertise themselves - to the point of setting up shop right next door to legitimate women's clinics - in order to confuse women looking for the legit clinic.)) (Yes, there is an entire private adoption industry in the dominionist community--mostly focusing on adopting out the infants of poor teenage mothers who have been forced to give their kids up and who have been either scared into it or checked into such facilities by their parents.)
So yeah, if you take birth control - even for medical necessities like PCOS or other - you'd be royally screwed. As someone who is on the Pill for just such a reason (irregularities that could worsen if I wasn't on it), this infuriates me beyond all belief. The difference between genuinely "pro-life" people and anti-choicers is that real pro-life people, while they would not choose abortion themselves, *will not subvert anyone else's right to make that choice even though it may differ from their own.* Anti-choice people don't even want you to have access to birth control - which is the very thing that would help *prevent* a lot of abortions!
As for abortion itself, I support it. I can understand why some people may not agree with it, but I firmly believe the choice needs to be available to prevent worse from happening (Speaking only for myself, I'm celibate, but if God forbid I was attacked, I would do everything up to and including tossing myself down a flight of stairs or drinking poison, if I was denied a safe and legal abortion - hell, we already have women doing horrid things like douching with Mountain Dew or dipping into dangerous herbal concoctions). The ONLY way the abortion rate will ever be lowered successfully is by properly educating people and improving birth control rates. Abortion is a problem in that it represents a failure of communication and birth control, two things which can easily be fixed to prevent an unwanted pregnancy from ever occurring. Not only is Palin apparently affiliated with a group that is solidly against such sex ed/birth control, she's on record as saying that she doesn't believe that even rape/incest victims should have the option to abort, and frankly, I have NO respect for anyone who thinks a rape victim should be forced to bear and give birth to something she doesn't want.
And needless to say, considering the gravity of what Dominionist rule would mean for *everyone*, it is most assuredly NOT a good idea to put a stealth Dommie/Dommie sympathizer within reach of Very Bad Toys, if you get my drift. Some of these fanatics have VERY itchy trigger fingers and a hate-on for certain people/countries the size of the Pacific Ocean. If you identify as Christian, don't be fooled into thinking that you'd be safe from their aim - if you're not *their* flavor of bastardized religion, you're toast just the same as the groups they hate.
Obama "scary"? I don't think so, compared to this.
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