there is no war on religion, the true war is against women.

[spanone]

turn on your teevee, it's everywhere.

as the economy gets better, republicans turn on women.

[cliffordu]

1. Yep they are.

And in the face of it I cannot understand why anyone, including the morons and halfwits i the R party can think this is a good idea.

[hifiguy]

2. Indeed And all of the generals in that war,

as well as the footsoldiers, are drawn from the ranks of the religulously insane. Every one.

[virtualobserver]

3. a religious crusade against women, no less

[librechik]

4. Every Republican on Senate Judiciary Committee voted against reauthorization of the Violence

Aganst Women Act.

It's systemic.

[spanone]

6. that is just unfathomable to me....good god what the fuck is wrong with people?

[sufrommich]

5. It is stunning to watch. k&r. nt

[DisgustipatedinCA]

7. Like really stupd bugs into the pretty blue light

Contraception seems to be this election cycle's Republican-manufactured "social issue". The problem for Republicans, of course, is that contraception is mainstream, widely supported, widely adopted, healthy, and responsible. This anti-contraception stance is so bankrupt of any common sense that the Republicans have no one to make common cause with except a global child rape organization. This needs to stick to the Republican party, and it needs to be brought up over and over and over. They'll try to run from this soon. Don't let them. They own it, and I want to watch them slip below the waves for the last time while clinging to it.

[Rex]

8. Yes.

Republicans swarm and attack like flesh eating fish...they always go after what they perceive (even if not true atm) as the weakest and easiest target to smear, slur, deface, destroy...it is their MO. GO after the most vulnerable in society. Divide them, make the issue convoluted and only attack those that are a danger to the GOP. Women are a danger to the GOP, even their coma-like stepford wives could come out of the dillusion at any moment. It is their war on everything woman and their constant attack on the female persona in America. Destroy the character of something then make it into an object to be subjegated. MO, SOP. The GOP is a Good O' Boys club and they want to keep it that way. In America. For all white men.

[AtomicKitten]

9. It is indeed a war on women, a war the neanderthals are going to lose.

[Lifelong Protester]

10. Repubs, religious zealots, right wingnuts

You who make war on women DO SO AT YOUR PERIL.

Sick of this crap. We took to the streets in the 70s. We'll do it again. And this time we will REALLY be p-oed.

[niyad]

15. EXACTLY

[Initech]

11. This is getting scary. You'd think the pro lifers and Taliban were allies.

[Icicle]

12. .....

There are some similarities seen here....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban_treatment_of_women

For all that the Republicans decry the Taliban, they seem to be adopting some of their views...

[niyad]

14. some of us have been pointing out the similarities between the reichwing and the taliban for many

years now.

[RainDog]

17. which is why I called them the talibornagains n/t

[niyad]

19. exactly

[niyad]

13. the absolutely insane thing is that the religious zealots, the reichwing fundies, the repikes, all

seem to really believe that women are just as helpless, clueless and docile as they portray us.

get a clue, you woman-hating thugs. we aren't.

what we are is "MAD AS HELL AND NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE"

[Lifelong Protester]

22. EXACTLY!

[RainDog]

16. it's a religious war against women n/t

[spanone]

20. not all the war wagers are religious, but they're all republicans

[RainDog]

21. that's true. only extremists wage crusades or jihads or other types of religious wars

if someone isn't on their side in this, they have no reason to take offense.

[lumberjack_jeff]

18. I think this war is going to alienate a great many moderate Republican men too.

"What do you mean my daughter can't buy contraceptives?"

[_ed_]

23. The entire purpose of religion

is to wage war on women. Especially the conservative, regressive religion du jour: Catholicism.

[RainDog]

24. it's not just Catholicism

The Southern Baptist Convention's belief system includes the statement that women must be subject to their husbands. The SBC has also made a marriage of convenience with the Catholics (whom they otherwise detest) in this war against women.

There are other religious groups involved, as well - these two are just have the largest memberships in the U.S.

[Johnson20]

26. That's nonsense ed and you know it! Talk about rampant hyperbole.n/t

[_ed_]

32. Hyperbole?

Yeah, women have really had it great in our major world religions.

[Johnson20]

33. That is not what you said. You said

"the entire purpose of religion is to wage war on women." How would you like to defend that statement in any debate you choose? That's why its hyperbole and you know it.

[_ed_]

34. You're right: that's not the entire purpose

Waging war on women is at least as important as demonizing gay people and extracting money from credulous church-goers.

[Liberal_in_LA]

25. yep

[tanyev]

27. Yep. There are plenty of women ministers and bishops that could have been invited to that panel.

I'm sure the GOP didn't want to hear what they would have said.

[Missy Vixen]

28. The only silver lining in the "war against women"

Females make up 52% of the registered voters in the USA. The more education a woman has, the more likely she is to vote Democratic, and the more likely she is to limit the size of her family via birth control.

In other words, GOP, you just flushed your chances of any kind of majority in the House, Senate, and winning the Presidency for quite some time.

[EFerrari]

29. Absolutely. n/t

[NightWatcher]

30. Congrats Ladies, for 2012 your vagina is the wedge issue

It's not gays (cause too many people favor rights for them).

It's not guns (cause Obama was so smart by never even saying the word, Gun)

Congrats and welcome to the Year of the Vagina Wars. I'd like to suggest a way for women to end this controversy once and for all. Cut all of us men off from sex until you get everything you want (equal pay, equal rights.....)

[marlakay]

31. Obviously Obama knows this

He said in speech today talking at Boeing about the power of women. He was talking about working there but women will know what he is really saying is he is going to stand up for them...