Just Sayin’ Is All (Oh, Sweet Jesus! edition)

[NanceGreggs]

Well, it looks like the Catholic Church hierarchy have their cassocks all in a twist over the Obama administration’s recent ruling that religious institutions had to follow the same rules as other employers, and offer contraception as part of health insurance coverage.

Now, I hope His Holier-Than-Thouness is sitting down for this news:  Catholic women use birth control. Yep, they do – honest to God.  And they really don't give a damn what the Church has to say about it.

The basis for the Church’s objection seems to be that they should not have to fund something that is against their conscience as Catholics. That being said, I wonder when the powers-that-be will be reimbursing parishioners who, via their Sunday contributions to the collection plate, unwittingly funded the legal defense of pedophile priests and/or the monetary settlements flowing from same.

Of course, what the Church’s position fails to recognize is that the cost of birth control being covered by insurance does not equate to shoving BC pills down a woman’s throat. It’s a matter of choice as to whether any woman takes advantage of this option – and, as we all know, the concept of a woman having a choice with respect to her own body is something the Church has had a problem with for centuries.

Needless to say – but I’ll say it anyway – the RW talking heads lost no time declaring that Obama will lose the votes of the entire Catholic electorate in November. Yeah, mm-hmm, right. There’s nothing that makes one moan “Oh, Sweet Jesus!” like outraged pseudo-Christians purporting to know what they’re talking about – especially in a political atmosphere where "None of the Above" is ranking at the top of the current list of GOP presidential wannabes.

In a related story of committing the sin of hypocrisy, Cardinal Edward Egan (formerly of the archbishop-prick of New York) has withdrawn his 2002 apology for the Church’s handling of sex abuse cases, now maintaining that the handling of the situation under his watch was “incredibly good”.

“I never should have said that,” he said of his previous mea culpa. “I don’t think we did anything wrong.” As he stated in a recent interview with Connecticut Magazine, “If you have another bishop in the United States who has the record I have, I’d be happy to know who he is.”

Well, given his actual record (during his time with the Diocese of Bridgeport, Egan’s diocese had to settle cases and shell out awards to victims to the hymnal tune of some $12-15,000,000 in damages), when someone does come up with another bishop with a worse record, I hope I’m the one sitting down for that news.

Egan went on to claim that the Church had no obligation to report abuse to the civil authorities (which they have, by law, been required to do since the Seventies).  So we can add the sins of lying and arrogance to Egan’s list of transgressions. He’d better hope Christ was so busy laughing at the idea that Catholic women don’t use birth control that he wasn’t listening to Egan’s administration of Extreme Unctuousness.

On the topic of people who allegedly know whereof they speak (despite all evidence to the contrary), Orly Taitz made the nooze this week by losing her case in a Georgia court, alleging (yet again) that Barack Obama is not a US citizen and is therefore not qualified to serve as POTUS.  Ms. Taitz’s case was so compelling, she lost to an empty chair – Mr. O having not shown up for the festivities, what with being busy governing a nation and all.  If you’re looking for the tie-in to the "Sweet Jesus" theme, think: “Sweet Jesus, when will this mentally deranged woman STFU already?”

I recently asked a RW acquaintance why, if there was any modicum of validity to the argument that Obama isn’t a citizen and is therefore ineligible to be president, the Republicans have left this righteous battle in the hands of a crazed, incoherent, totally inept woman. His answer was, “Well, it’s all politics, ya know.” His contention is that for their own inexplicable but nefarious purposes, both parties have adopted a look-the-other way stance on the fact that we have a completely ineligible man running the country without interference.

Said acquaintance then provided me with a helpful link to a website where, for a small fee ranging from $39 to $79, one can have one's name added to a petition to stop the insanity and fund newspaper ads denouncing Obama as a non-citizen usurper. He is convinced that any minute now, some devoted keyboard warrior in Bumfuck, Montana, is going to find the smoking gun that proves Obama’s deception in being elevated to the highest office in the land – something that the GOP, with all of their resources and money, were somehow unable (or for some reason unwilling) to unearth.

And, yes, this guy votes.  If that doesn’t scare the Sweet be-Jesus out of you, nothing will.

This week’s winner of the Oh, Sweet Jesus, tell me he didn’t say THAT! award goes to – drum roll, please – none other than Lil’ Ricky Santorum!!! During a town hall meeting in Plano, Texas, Mr. Sweater Vest (hey, that’s more polite than the term by which he’s usually described) stated:

“(The Obama administration) are taking faith and crushing it. Why? Why? When you marginalize faith in America, when you remove the pillar of God-given rights, then what’s left is the French Revolution. What’s left is the government that gives you right, what’s left are no unalienable rights, what’s left is a government that will tell you who you are, what you’ll do and when you’ll do it. What’s left in France became the guillotine. Ladies and gentlemen, we’re a long way from that, but if we do and follow the path of President Obama and his overt hostility to faith in America, then we are headed down that road.”

Well, at least he acknowledged that “we’re a long way from that” – probably as long away from that as Mr. Frothy is from anything remotely resembling reality.

Given the above quote, however, I will give Lil’ Ricky credit for bringing back something that a lot of RWers felt was sorely lacking in the run-up to November:  pathetic pandering delivered in Palinese.

[jaxx]

I'm lovin' it Nance. That old time religious hypocrisy is shining through the wingers in their dastardly deeds.

[SeattleGirl]

[Born_A_Truman]

You have such a way with, well ... the truth.

[NJMaverick]

this is spot on!