Strategery strategery

Remember him?

Bush's malapropisms were as infamous as his actual war strategies or strategeries in a moment we suspected he fell off his wagon or gord.
The messenger can be as important as the message sometimes.

Cheney, pretty much universally reviled by the left made a rare lobbying appearance to lobby for same sex marriage (he has a gay married daughter with a child) in Maryland and it passed the Senate. What trumps morality for family values republicans? Maybe a war mongering profiteering snarling bully with lots of connections in high places in the defense contracting industry in Maryland. You will vote to legitimate my grandchild and her lesbian parents or else. Here is where real war takes precedence over any culture war. He basically undermined the earnest efforts of at least two entire Archdioceses and evangelical pastors in the state to stop the trend across the country. And lots of those guys are republicans. I wonder who Cheney will vote for President this time if Santorum is the nominee and one of his signature issues is the repeal and roll back of same sex marriage everywhere.

In the wierd world of republican culture wars we see a lot nonsensical arguments.

The health care statute's mandates are being viewed as a sort of tax constitutionally and that argument they hope flies with the Supreme Court. If that is the analogy then the argument that
no one gets to withhold taxes because they don't like policies like war holds water. What the supreme court does with the upcoming case will determine a lot about what they think of any
universal contraceptive coverage.

The discussion from opponents is confused and falls into the trap of conflating all contraceptives with abortofascients- something that they have different moral objections to in different ways. The Pope himself has clearly clarified that condom use prevents AIDS and it is a higher good to use them if one is HIV positive or sleeping with someone HIV positive than to risk death of either person. The church can't morally object to drugs that treat various conditions promoting wellbeing that are also contraceptives. (Endometriosis affects 15-20 percent of women). What they seem to be objecting to is that they have to pay for it. In some cases sterilization also is not morally objectionable in for instance a case where a hysterectomy is the only solution to not dying of uterine cancer. Once again, what would be the objection to paying for non elective surgery like this? Why isn't the distinction being made between legitimate use of contraception and non elective life saving sterilization and elective use of same and a firm distinction between abortofascients. Why are they all being lumped in the same argument?
Is there just an objection to paying anything for insurance? Especially when one is self-insured?
It is possible that the conclusion reached by many of the faithful will be that the objection just arises more from a profound cheapness and disrespect for the health and wellbeing of women. Self Insured and we hope no one ever needs it. Contraception is more threatening to a budget because if someone is on it, they are on it for years in lots of cases and it is thus an ongoing expense.
Millions and millions of dollars, literally in Archdioceses are spent on schools and buildings. Millions and millions of dollars on renovations, teacher salaries, school building and church maintenance and paintings on domes. Seriously. At some point are women just going to go- they don't give a Rat's A about our health. All these men could care less about whether we died or not.
There was recently a movie on cable called The Cardinal- its an old classic. There is a bone chilling scene in it wherein the young priest is faced with his blood sister giving birth in a manner that threatened her life and he ordered there not be an abortion knowing his sister would die and asked for her confession before she died. It would shock the sensibilities now.
Women are saying, hey- mr. man. You don't get to say whether I die or not. I get to say.
If they need a hysterectomy and cannot afford one and will die fast from uterine cancer (this is a fast dead because it is incredibly fast spreading typically due to the tissue structures around the uterus) HHS says we want to make sure there is some insurance that will take care of this person to save their life. Isn't Jesus in the life saving healing business.

Reading blog posts and facebook comments it is easy to see now that the more well groomed clergy with chains draping their breasts take to the cameras the madder and madder women get. Because they know millions and millions and millions of dollars are spent on elective optional things like new and improved church doors and painting on domes, while their very lives hang in the balance of this budgetary show down.

It's not a democracy, the church. When it gets into some of these issues it looks more like a business than In Persona Christie.

If it were really being healing minded instead of budget minded we would be hearing efforts to make distinctions between elective and non elective procedures and medicines and non conflation of abortofascients from contraceptives.