WHAT THE HELL ?

I never remember hearing from so many right wing extremists in my life. I also never remember so much silence from the more moderate voices. The crazy panels of men trying to control what women do with their bodies and their health is so out of sync with the real world that they just sound like they're nuts. From the lunatic from Virginia trying to force women to have ultrasounds, to Corbett in Pennsylvania telling them they can just close their eyes during the unwanted procedure, to the HANDFUL of Catholic Bishops suing the government because THEY want to stop women from using birth control...it just keeps escalating.

While the Canadians are attempting to curb bullying by providing their schools with "gay/straight" alliances...the bishop there is fighting to stop them.

The money that people are putting in the collection baskets in many dioceses is also being used to fight equal marriage laws according to the National Catholic Reporter. Donald Wuerl in DC has been ferocious in his attempts to fight Washington's acceptance of equal marriage, and the Vatican is out to get the nuns.  (Can't wait to hear more from the Butler).

I've heard pastors telling their congregations not to vote for Obama, and to punch their gay kids, while another wants to round up all the gay people and fence them in until they "die out". The whole blurring of the church and state boundaries and protections is extremely fuzzy these days. I hope the IRS starts doing it's job.

I thought the idea that Sarah Palin might end up in the Oval office was scary..that the non witch Christine O'Donnell winning a GOP primary was unbelievable....that Billy Graham's son turned out to be nothing like his Dad was disappointing....that Michelle Bachman who wanted Congress to take a loyalty test while her husband (the Swiss Miss) flits around like the gayest thing since Liberace when he's not "curing" the gays was hysterical...and that Donald Trump still flings back his orange bouffant and insists that Obama isn't an American is mystifying (as is his choice of Marigold Just for Men).

Well....just the times we live in I guess....great for conservative, white, rich, conservative Catholic, racist heterosexual men...but for lots of other folks...ummm not so good.