Are Florida's religious extremists similar to Montana's?

Don't you just love it when radical Christians (0.00 / 0)

push their morality and religion on the rest of us...

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by: bigsage @ Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 11:32:53 AM UTC

When will the anti-abortionists start paying and caring for all the abused, unwanted children? (0.00 / 0)

I worked for over 21 years in a community mental health center, where a good majority of our clients were children in abusive homes (suffered from physical, sexual and/or emotional abuse). Sometimes these kids were placed in foster care where their new "parents" cared only about the few bucks they received from the state each month, and continued to abuse these kids in other ways.

I learned that sexually abused children almost always grow up to become sexual abusers themselves; I learned that physically abused children almost always grow up to become physically abusive toward their spouse or children; I learned that parents who emotionally abused their children, usually had children who grew up to be emotionally abusive towards their spouse or children.

The anti-abortion crowd never showed up to rescue these kids from their abusive situations.  The anti-abortion crowd never wants to pay more in taxes to house these abused and disturbed children in special foster care homes or therapeutic group homes.  The anti-abortion folks really don't want to know about the lives that they "save," nor do they want to know how these "saved" lives suffered at the hands of parents who never, ever  wanted them in the first place.  Some parents are both emotionally and mentally incapable of raising healthy, happy children.  Some parents have IQs so far below the norm that they are incapable of benefiting from parenting classes.

The Rick Jore's of this world should never be elected to the office of dog catcher, let alone to a state legislature or U.S. Congress.  

I do not believe that pharmacists who refuse to fill valid prescriptions for birth control medications should be employed by ANY pharmacy, and probably should lose their state licensure for such refusal.  Refusal to fill a valid prescription on "moral" grounds should be considered to be cause for immediate termination of employment, as such a practice is not in keeping with accepted medical standards.  Perhaps a pharmacist with such "high morals" chose the wrong profession, and should instead have sought a career in a religious field.

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by: Gypsy @ Tue Sep 15, 2009 at 02:51:15 AM UTC

And on a lighter note . . . (0.00 / 0)

It is said that Sandra Day O'Conner was once asked when she thought life really began.  Being a rather "sticky" question, and not wanting to offend someone on either side of this contentious issue, she reportedly replied, "I don't believe life begins at conception, and I don't think life even begins at birth;  as far as I'm concerned, life doesn't really begin until your last kid graduates from college and the dog dies."

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by: Gypsy @ Tue Sep 15, 2009 at 02:59:05 AM UTC