Month: March 2013

Trolling for the white supremacist reader

by digby

Here’s the Daily Caller bringing you all the news that’s not fit to print:

Something called the White Student Union at Towson University has announced plans to conduct random nighttime patrols on the school’s campus.

Members of the group say they have taken this task upon themselves to protect the 20,000 or so students who attend the public school in Baltimore County, Maryland from serious crimes such as robbery and sexual assault, according to The Towerlight, Towson’s independent campus newspaper.

That’s nice. But lest you think there is something racist about the “white Student Union’s” concerns, worry not:

“One thing we’re doing at night is to have a male member accompany female members across campus or to night classes,” Commander Heimbach told The Towerlight. “Not because we’re terrified, but in college everyone is focused on themselves. We just want to make campus a better place. If we see a white person commit a crime against a person who is not white, we’re going to assist the person who was attacked every time.”

That’s mighty white of him.

These are not fringy weirdos. They are mainstream conservatives:

“Commander Heimbach” and his troops found their way into the headlines recently when several group members attended the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. earlier this month.

You remember these guys, right?

The accidental media star of CPAC is a bearded North Carolina conservative named Scott Terry. He went a black Republican-run panel titled “Trumping the Race” card and asked an unexpected Socratic question: Were the experts “reaching out to voters at the expense of young white Southern males?” K. Carl Smith, the moderator, started to explain that even Frederick Douglass forgave his slavemaster.

“For giving him shelter?” asked Terry. “And food?”

The rest of the story was told immediately by TPM’s Benjy Sarlin. I was only dimly aware of the mess when I stopped by a happy hour put on by Rick Santorum’s Patriot Voices PAC. After Santorum left, after talking Quantitative Easing over Coronas with a law student, I found a table where a guy in a Confederate flag shirt had set up shop. He was Matthew Heimbach, founder of the White Students at Towson University — the guy sitting next to Scott Terry at the fateful moment. He was reading his smartphone and sharing the news.
“We’re on LGF (Little Green Footballs)!” he said. He showed the phone to Terry and a small group of Marylanders standing around the table. LGF, a blog run by a reformed “anti-jihadist” who now shames white supremacists whenever they make news.

Terry was amused and exasperated. “All the minorities agreed with us! All of ’em!” he said. A raw but polite argument had been turned into a shouting match not by them, but after a black female reporter from Voice of Russia started trolling the panelists.
Heimbach fielded phone calls from reporters — “It’s on the front page of The Blaze!” — laughing that his media reputation couldn’t really get any worse. The Southern Poverty Law Center had designated his group a “hate group,” a weird badge of honor.

“You look at the SPLC — as fake as they are, they talk about how patriot groups are increasing in the Obama era,” he said. “With a black face in charge of the White House, of the federal government, we know it’s foreign. We know something isn’t right.

For a real treat, read the DC’s comments.

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About that Stupak “compromise”

by digby

Yeah that abortion “rider” compromise in Obamacare is going to work out really well:

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) introduced an amendment to the state’s health insurance exchange implementation bill that would prevent insurance plans in the new health exchange from covering abortion.

While similar bills introduced in other states would allow a woman to buy a policy rider for abortion coverage, McDonnell’s proposed amendment late Monday night would ban that as well.

“No qualified health insurance plan that is sold or offered for sale through an exchange established or operating in the Commonwealth shall provide coverage for abortions, regardless of whether such coverage is provided through the plan or is offered as a separate optional rider thereto,” the amendment reads, adding that women who have become pregnant from rape or incest or whose lives are in danger would be exempt from the ban.

Most private insurance plans in the U.S. include abortion coverage. NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia estimates that the ban on abortion coverage in Virginia will affect about 50,000 women in Virginia — the estimated number who will be using state-based health benefits exchange.

Recall that the “strategy” if that’s what you want to call it was for pro-choice advocates to keep their poweder dry and not make trouble so as to co-opt the moderates and prevent the right from having a hissy fit. You know, someday, I suppose that strategy might actually work. But it hasn’t yet.

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Archie Bunker’s macho friend was gay

by digby

From TeacherKen at Daily Kos:

[This clip from All in the Family] is from Season Five. The set-up is that Mike and Gloria have a friend Roger who is a photographer and artsy, which you can imagine how Archie interprets. Archie has a friend at the bar, Steve, who is a former NFL Player.

I was a young teenager when this episode aired and was educated when I saw it. I literally didn’t know that I knew gay people at that time.  And then I realized that I did.

Norman Lear is a liberal hero who doesn’t get enough credit for changing the way our culture thinks on a whole host of issues. On this one, as with so many others, he was ahead of his time.

*For a rundown on today’s gay marriage oral arguments read Scotusblog.

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Suburban homelessness: there but for the grace of God …

by digby

Please read this amazing story by Monica Potts about suburban homelessness and then ask yourself, once again, why our political leaders seem to care not at all about this and are instead obsessed with deficit reduction and “reforming entitlements”:

Hotels have always served people who need an off-the-record place to live—sex workers, drug dealers—and the Ramada has its share of people who are hiding out. (Bounty hunters come to the hotel so often that the weeklies know their names and say hi.) But in the aftermath of the Great Recession, the Ramada’s clientele shifted away from such regulars to include suburban families who had been used to staying in hotels only on vacations. Many of the families still had incomes. Some had long been struggling members of the working class, fighting to stay better than broke; others had fallen suddenly out of the middle class.

Across the country, suburban poverty rose by more than half in the first decade of the new century. Families now find themselves navigating landscapes that were built around wealth: single-family houses that are sold, not rented; too few apartment buildings; and government agencies hidden at the far edge of the suburban ring, more responsive to trash-pickup complaints than rising hunger rates.

The Ramada families became homeless because they could no longer pay rents and mortgages and found little help to slow their fall. In 2011, Colorado ranked eighth in foreclosures nationwide. When families in Jefferson County, which encompasses Denver’s western suburbs, lost their home in the recession, they flooded a market that had the lowest number of rental vacancies in ten years. The Section 8 program in the area dispenses vouchers through a random lottery that typically has about 2,500 applicants; in any given year, only 30 to 40 spots become available. The school system, which keeps the best records of homelessness in the county, says the number of homeless students rose from 59 in 2001 to 2,812 in the current school year. Unable to find another home and unable to find space in the county’s shelters, which hold fewer than 100 beds, the new poor disappeared into the suburban landscape wherever they could find a roof. With nowhere else to go, they turned the Ramada Inn into an impromptu SRO.

“Homeowners lost their homes, and here we are,” says Bonnie, a 53-year-old who lives with her husband and son in the Ramada. “This is where the homeowners are.” Bonnie’s family used to live in the small brick ranch in southwest Denver she’d grown up in; as an adult, she stayed and helped her father pay off the original mortgage. But during the mortgage boom, she and her husband, Andy, took out a home-equity loan. Nationally, $1 trillion in such loans were doled out in those years. Like subprime mortgages, these were often loans with hidden fees and adjustable rates that eventually made monthly payments impossibly high. When the crash came, the destruction didn’t differentiate between those who’d become new homebuyers with bad subprimes and those, like Bonnie and Andy, who’d taken out loans on houses they already owned.

It’s an amazing story of middle class slippage. It could happen to many of us very easily with one bit of bad luck or bad timing. And yet, our elites pretend to care about non-existent problems, insisting that everyone’s got to have “skin in the game.” The wealthy, at best, are only being asked “to pay a little bit more in taxes” while the people who have fallen out of normal life, or are old, or sick are being asked to, well — sacrifice everything.

Oh, and these folks too:

Veterans who served in Iraq or Afghanistan (or in many cases, both) had an unemployment rate of 10.9% in August 2012, according to new data released by the Labor Department on Wednesday. Among nonveterans, the unemployment rate was 7.9% at the time.

Among the broader population of veterans who have served on active duty since September, 2011 — wherever they served — the unemployment rate was 9.9%, still significantly higher than for both non-veterans and for veterans of earlier conflicts. Those who served during the first Gulf War had an unemployment rate of just 5.9%.

They need to sacrifice some more skin too. They’re takers, dontcha know.

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The United States isn’t broke. It’s just the 90% that are broke.

by David Atkins

If you haven’t seen this yet, consider yourself duly notified:

Incomes for the bottom 90 percent of Americans only grew by $59 on average between 1966 and 2011 (when you adjust those incomes for inflation), according to an analysis by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston for Tax Analysts. During the same period, the average income for the top 10 percent of Americans rose by $116,071, Johnston found.

To put that into perspective: if you say the $59 boost is equivalent to one inch, then the incomes of the top 10 percent of Americans rose by 168 feet, Johnston explained to Alternet last week.

Conservative shills like to point out that the wealthy are paying a bigger share of the overall tax burden than ever. That is true. But the difference between their previous share of the burden, and their overall share of the wealth isn’t even close to comparable. They’re paying a slightly greater share of the burden–but that’s to be expected when their share of the wealth has increased two-thousandfold compared to everyone else.

And these statistics only look at the top 10%. The top 1% is making exponentially more than the rest of the 9% under them. And the top tenth of a percent is doing exponentially better than the rest of the one percent.

The country isn’t broke. It’s just that a small portion of the country’s people have basically looted all the wealth of the last 50 years.

Ideally, that looting would be illegal in its own right. But if we give conservatives the benefit of the doubt and say that it would be too economically restrictive to attempt to control how much these people are taking away from the rest of the economy, then the second-best alternative we have under the circumstances is to redistribute a greater portion of those ill-gotten gains to create better jobs and social services for people whose incomes have been artificially constrained.

What we should under no circumstances be doing is cutting the safety net while allowing these thieves to walk away with all their loot.

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Were the voices raising questions really “lonely ones”?


by digby

Paul Krugman flags Kathy Geier’s excellent piece in the National Journal on the failed punditry of the Iraq war and discusses the challenge of being wrong in a very public way:

If you’re in the pundit business, you have a moral obligation always to second-guess your own motives, to ask yourself “Am I saying this because I’ve really thought it through? Or am I just feeding my ego?” And let’s be clear: ego-feeding happens on the left as well as the right, on matters economic and social as well as on questions of war and piece.

Indeed it does. (And even those who do manage to correct their own errors, even when they do it early, are often so ungracious and self-serving about it that they might as well have said nothing at all..)

The big story of the past few days on this is the decision of the Washington Post not to publish a similar piece by Greg Mitchell. (If you missed it, Mitchell wrote about it here.)This is par for the course for the Washington Post, of course. They’ve been so wrong for so long that they quite obviously don’t know the difference anymore.

Someone tweeted this piece from a blog called Long Story Short Pier from 2004, which I think perfectly illustrates just how bad they’ve always been:

Better bloggers than I have ripped into the Washington Post’s shockingly deficient mea culpa for cheerleading us into an invasion of Iraq—but there’s this one bit that just won’t leave me alone:

Across the country, “the voices raising questions about the war were lonely ones,” [Executive Editor Leonard] Downie [Jr.] said. “We didn’t pay enough attention to the minority.”

You know what I have to say to that?

This is what I have to say to that.

500,000 in New York City.

100,000 in Seattle.

30,000 in Los Angeles.

10,000 in Philadelphia.

200,000 in Washington, DC.

200,000 in San Francisco.

20,000 in Portland.

3,000 in Chicago.

To say nothing of Akron and Amarillo, Anapolis Royal, Antigonish, Arcata , Armidale, Asheville, Ashland, Athens, Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Barrie, Beavercreek, Bellingham, Billings, Biloxi, Binghamton, Birmingham, Bisbee, Blacksburg, Bloomington, Boise, Boulder, Brampton, Brandon, Burlington, Butler, Calexico, Calgary, Canmore, Canton, Cape Cod, Cape Girardeau, Capt. Cook, Carbondale, Castlegar, Cedar Rapids, Charleston, Charlotte, Charlottetown, Charlottesville, Chatanooga, Chico, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Coburg, Colorado Springs, Columbia (Missouri and South Carolina), Columbus, Comox Valley, Concord, Cornwall, Corpus Christi, Cortez, Corvallis, Croton-on-Hudson, Cowichan, Cumberland, Dallas, Dayton, Daytona Beach, Deland, Denton, Detroit, Dubuque, Durango, Ellensburg, Elkins, Encino, Erie, Eugene, Fairbanks, Farmington, Fayetteville, Fillmore, Findlay, Flagstaff, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Smith, Fort Wayne, Fredricton, Fresno, Gainesville, Galesburg, Galveston, Geneva, Grand Junction, Grand Prarie, Grand Rapids, Hadely, Hilo, Holland, Honolulu, Houston, Hull, Huntington, Huntsville, Indianapolis, Ithaca, Jasper, Jefferson City, Jersey City, Johnston, Juneau, Kamloops, Kansas City, Kelowna, Kezar Falls, Kingston, Knoxville, Lafeyette, Lancaster, Lansing, Las Cruces, Las Vegas, Lawrence, Leavinsworth, Lethbridge, Lexington, Lilloet, Lincoln, Little Rock, Long Beach, Louisville, Macomb, Madison, McAllen, Meadville, Medicine Hat, Medford, Melbourne, Memphis, Minneapolis, Miami, Midland, Milwaukee, Minden, Mobile, Moncton, Montpelier, Mount Vernon, Nanaimo, Naples, Nashville, Nelson, New Orleans, Newark, Niagra, Norfolk, North Bay, Olympia, Orange, Orangeville, Orillia, Orlando, Ottawa, Palm Desert, Parker Ford, Parry Sound, Pensacola, Peoria, Peterborough, Phoenix, Pittsboro, Plattsburg, Portland (Maine), Port Perry, Portsmouth, Qualicum Beach, Racine, Raleigh, Richland Center, Riverview, Rockford, Rolla, Sackville, St. Augustine, St. Catherines, St. Charles, St. Joeseph, St. Louis, St. Paul, St. Petersburg, Salem, Salt Lake City, Saltspring Island, Sacramento, San Antonio, San Diego, Sandpoint, San Jose, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, Santa Monica, Sarasota, Sault Ste. Marie, Savannah, Sherbrooke, Silver City, Sioux Falls, Sitka, Sonora, South Bend, South Haven, Spokane, Springfield, Starkville, St. John’s, Sudbury, Summertown, Tacoma, Tallahassee, Taos, Tehachapi, Temple, Thornbury, Tofino, Truro, Tulsa, Tucson, Valdosta, Vallejo, Vancouver, Watertown, Wausau, West Palm Beach, Wilkes-Barre, Williamsburg, Williamsport, Williamstown, Wilmington, Yakima, Yarmouth, York, and Youngstown.

Or 25,000 in Vancouver, Canada. 100,000 in Montreal. 10,000 in Toronto. A million in London. Two million in Rome. A million and change in Barcelona. 100,000 in Paris. 500,000 in Berlin. 100,000 in Dublin (30,000 in Belfast). 35,000 in Stockholm. 150,000 in Melbourne. 100,000 in Sydney. 200,000 in Damascus. 10,000 in Beirut. 100 in Mostar, Bosnia. 25,000 in Baghdad.

Eleven million, around the world. That’s what I have to say to that.

Here’s something else:

Good journalism—in a newspaper or magazine, on television, radio or the Internet—enriches Americans by giving them both useful information for their daily lives and a sense of participation in the wider world. Good journalism makes possible the cooperation among citizens that is critical to a civilized society. Citizens cannot function together as a community unless they share a common body of information about their surroundings, their neighbors, their governing bodies, their sports teams, even their weather. Those are all the stuff of the news. The best journalism digs into it, makes sense of it and makes it accessible to everyone.

Only I didn’t say it, of course.

Leonard Downie Jr. said it. The aforementioned Executive Editor of the Washington Post.

There’s a whole wide world out here, Mr. Downie, and we sure could use some help making sense of it all.

Do let us know when you come out into it.

Here in the United States, for many months it was considered anti-social if not unpatriotic to even broach one’s disagreement with the administration during these troubled times. I believe that yesterday began to fundamentally change all that. Despite some of the unintentionally hilarious commentary by reporters and pundits, who appeared to be gobsmacked by the realization that Junior is not as universally beloved by “normal” Americans as he is by Sally Quinn’s email web ring, it is now quite obvious that Bush is not perceived by one and all as a heroic figure of Churchillian proportions, here or around the world. The sheer numbers of the protesters have given people permission to dissent without the threat of broad social opprobrium and if nothing else we are free of the notion that it is unpatriotic to criticize the President.

What’s next? The war with Iraq is a done deal and who knows what the aftermath will be. But, the real issue is this notion of aggressive American hegemony and the pathetic inability of the current administration to explain their goals in a believable fashion, bring our historical allies along or re-evaluate policies in light of changing circumstances. They have failed the test of a decent civilized superpower and they must go.
—digby, 16 February 2003

I was wrong about that, actually. The fever had not broken as I’d hoped. A month later, the Natalie Maine of the Dixie Chicks made her famous comment that she was ashamed the president was from Texas and all hell broke loose. And sadly, I’m afraid that the notion of “aggressive American hegemony” still has to be reckoned with, regardless of who is in the White House.

Classic rock by Michael Bérubé

by digby

Scott Lemieux reminds us of this classic satire by a master:

Brown’s Birth, and Death

Justice Earl Warren did more inadvertent damage to our democracy than any other 20th-century American. When he and his Supreme Court colleagues issued the Brown v. Board decision, they set off a cycle of political viciousness and counter-viciousness that has poisoned public life ever since, and now threatens to destroy the Senate as we know it.

When Warren wrote the Brown decision, it took the segregation issue out of the legislatures and put it into the courts. If it had remained in the legislatures, we would have seen a series of state-by-state compromises reflecting the views of the centrist majority that’s always existed on this issue. These legislative compromises wouldn’t have pleased everyone, but would have been regarded as legitimate.

Instead, Warren and his colleagues invented a right to integration, overturning more than a half-century of established precedent, and imposed a solution more extreme than the policies of just about any other comparable nation.

Southern voters became alienated from their own government, feeling that their democratic rights had been usurped by robed elitists. Liberals lost touch with working-class Americans because they never had to have a conversation about values with those voters; they could just rely on the courts to impose their views. The parties polarized as they each became dominated by absolutist activists.

The fact is, the entire country is trapped. Earl Warren and his colleagues suppressed that democratic “integration” debate the nation needs to have. The poisons have been building ever since. You can complain about the incivility of politics, but you can’t stop the escalation of conflict in the middle. You have to kill it at the root. Unless Brown v. Board is overturned, politics will never get better.

No matter what, you can’t go wrong by blaming it on the liberals. If only those hippies didn’t provoke everyone into being assholes everything would be just fine.

It’s always better if we lose. As Bérubé remarked today on Lemieux’s blog:

I remember when we lost on the Equal Rights Amendment, and then because there was no backlash, the conservative movement totally abandoned its attempt to roll back women’s rights, and went home.

Lemieux’s post is about this popular idea that there is danger in the Supreme Court upholding gay marriage because it would create more of a backlash than the preferred legislative approach. He dismantles the argument surrounding Roe vs Wade that this is based upon and writes:

There’s no reason to believe that a broad opinion invalidating same-sex marriage would produce any more backlash than legislative repeals would. There would be more “backlash” only if you (plausibly) assume that absent Supreme Court decisions many states would maintain their bans on same-sex marriage for a long time. In other words, you can avoid backlash by just not winning, an argument I consider self-refuting.

This is also why I thought the president should have evoked universal human rights rather than states’ rights when he made his switch on gay marriage. In our culture, validating such rights under our constitution is about as good as it ever gets — and the only way to avoid backlash is by losing. There’s just no margin in it — and there’s a lot to be gained by stating the principles clearly.

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QOTD: Chris Hughes

by digby

Fergawdsakes:

“Once, shortly after he bought it, he said he liked a piece I’d written advocating an energy tax,” Noah wrote. “Another time, after I wrote a piece about Jim DeMint’s departure from the Senate headlined ‘Requiem For A Wingnut,’ he emailed me to say … wait, I’ve got it here: ‘I have little esteem for Jim DeMint, but I also want us to make a rule of not name-calling in headlines. We have strong opinions, but name-calling so outrightly undermines the seriousness of what we are trying to do here.’”

Maybe he should be wanker of the day instead?

Who is Chris Hughes, you ask?

Facebook co-founder and former Obama staffer and donor who bought The New Republic last March

Chris Hughes is a 29 year old multi-millionaire who Tim Noah, who relates the quote above, correctly characterizes as a young man with more money than sense.

(And, by the way, I no longer feel constrained to say such things about young people now that I have learned that anything they say when they are young will not be held against them. That’s fair enough, but if that’s the case I think it’s probably a mistake to take them seriously.)

Update:  I’m just kidding about not taking young people seriously.  I always take the arguments on the merits. But I also always gave a little more room to the earnest young people who were for the war, for instance, assuming they were lucky enough to grow up in good homes where they trusted “adults” to do the right thing.  Learning that our leaders are liars is a tough lesson that everyone has to learn and I don’t hold it against them for not knowing that at the time. The adults are the ones who have no excuse.

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Letting the racist cat out of the bag: The Zimmerman family shows its spots

by digby

Do you remember when George Zimmerman’s brother emerged last fall to great reviews, saying that his family was not racist and that George had been unfairly tarred as one for the killing of Trayvon Martin? The Orlando Sentinel reported:

Zimmerman’s family felt it was time to become more vocal about their multicultural heritage to rebut the charges of racism that have mischaracterized who they are, Zimmerman said to members of the Central Florida chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.

“At the beginning we couldn’t speak publicly to the media to defend ourselves against the allegations that we are family of racists and that George is a racist,” Zimmerman said in Spanish. “We didn’t grow up with racism. We grew up with a Latino mother and white Father. Theirs was an interracial love story.”

First of all, the idea that because someone comes from an interracial background they can’t possibly be racist is silly. All humans have that capability and in our culture African Americans have most often been the target of racism from people of all racial and ethnic backgrounds. In fact, the right wing has made quite a profit at fomenting resentments among all racial minorities.

But I think this probably clears up any misconceptions. Robert Zimmerman Jr, the brother tweeted this over the week-end:

On Saturday, Zimmerman went on a Twitter tirade against “black teens,” equating the boy killed by his brother with De’Marquise Elkins, the 17-year-old suspect in the murder of a Georgia infant. 

As highlighted by Mediaite, Zimmerman tweeted a photo comparison between Elkins and Martin flipping their middle fingers with the caption, “A picture speaks a thousand words…Any questions?” 

Zimmerman tweeted the photo at Michael Moore, the NAACP, the NRA, and a Breitbart.com editor. He followed it up with another comparison between the two, tweeting “Teen to West: “Do you want me to shoot your baby?” #TrayvonMartin to #GeorgeZimmerman: You’re gonna die tonight Motherf**ker.” 

In case the reason for his comparison of the two young black men was unclear, Zimmerman later tweeted:

I think this is the perfect illustration of a certain common form of racism that still exists today. I’m sure the Zimmermans don’t think of themselves as racists. They just think they are exercising common sense. It’s the “fear” that exists in the psyches of those who know, somewhere deep down, that African Americans have a right to be angry and violent about all the terrible things you think about them. And so they assume they all are angry and violent, even when they are just average 17 year old American kids out buying some skittles on a rainy night.

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“You’ve set this chicken your last time cause now I’ve got the pill”

by digby

Remember when Rick Santorum got caught on tape saying that contraception is “One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in this country. It’s not okay. It’s a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be?” 

Well, this is actually a fairly widely held belief among the true believers.  Robin Marty reports:

Theologist Peter Baklinski argued that birth control isn’t just wrong because of its alleged health risks (as he incorrectly notes, birth control pills cause cancer and vasectomies sap your sex drive)—it ruins marriages, too.

This is why contraception turns sex into a big fat lie. It makes the lover say, “I love you, but not your fertility. I don’t want that part of you. Lock it up.” 

It truly poisons love between a husband and wife since nobody ever wants to be loved only conditionally. 

[M]any contracepting couples have eventually discovered that contraception feeds a creeping selfishness that makes the man and woman focus almost exclusively on their own pleasure in sex, and not on one another. 

Contraception makes one person suddenly become for the other a sexual object to be used for pleasure and no longer a cherished and honored beloved. The resulting mutual sexual exploitation can devastate true love. 

By putting fertility under lock and key and thereby closing the sexual act to the possibility of new life, the contracepting couple no longer is able to give themselves completely and totally to each other. It is true that with contraception, the lovers caught up in the sexual act still act and react in much the same fashion as without, but the inner life of the person suffers rejection and compromise. Contraception degrades and violates the person.

The “it ain’t true love unless you can get pregnant” mentality goes a long way toward explaining the fascination that anti-choice zealots have with ensuring every sexual encounter has “creation” potential. It also explains their irrational fear of same-sex marriage. 

In their minds, if same-sex couples are allowed to have full legal rights as couples, that will create a permanent wedge between sex and creating a family—validating the belief that couples can have sex simply because they love each other and that children can come from a source besides intercourse and still make a complete and loving family.

You know, I can pretty much guarantee that most women really don’t give a damn if a man “loves her fertility.”  Here’s one to explain the whole thing to these people:

You wined me and denied me when I was your girl

Told me if I’d be your wife you’d show me the world

But all I’ve seen of this old world is a bed and a doctor bill

I’m tearin’ down your brooder house because now I’ve got the pill

All these years I’ve stayed at home while you had all your fun

And every years that’s gone by another baby’s come

There’s gonna be some changes made right here on nursery hill

You’ve set this chicken your last time cause now I’ve got the pill

This old maternity dress I’ve got is going in the garbage

The clothes I’m wearing from now on won’t take up so much yardage

Miniskirts hot pants and a few little fancy frills

Yeah I’m making up for all those years since I’ve got the pill

I’m tired of all your crowing how you and your hens play

While holding a couple in my arms another’s on the way

This chicken’s done for up her nest and ready to make a deal

And you can’t afford to turn it down cause you know I’ve got the pill

This incubator is overused because you’ve kept it filled

The feeling good time’s easy now since I’ve got the pill

It’s gettin’ dark it’s roostin’ time and that’s too good to be real

Oh daddy don’t you worry now cause momma’s got the pill

Oh daddy don’t you worry now cause momma’s got the pill

But then I guess she’s a west coast liberal elite who didn’t understand how Real American women lived.  What does she know?

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