| Political insanity knows no limit.
So it shouldn't be a surprise that some of Montana's most whacked-out activists have started collecting signatures to amend our constitution.
Thus, for the next nine months, a crackpot team that includes Roger "Koopdog" Koopman , and Trevis "The Pink Pig" Butcher, and Rick "Constitution Party" Jore will be badgering us with their shrill and poorly parsed arguments in what will surely be another failed attempt to mobilize conservative voters amend the Montana constitution to take away our rights.
These guys have quite the reputation. So the Montana Pro-Life Coalition scoured their ranks for a front person they hoped would have as little baggage as possible--but Annie Bukacek is turning out to be every bit as much the self-aggrandizing wing-nut as the rest of them.
Not familiar with Bukacek? You should be, she's the new official face of extreme-right politics in Montana. Bukacek's all about giving rights to "the unborn"-- but once born, she doesn't want them to have healthcare.
Reporters I know have found that Bukacek is the only member of the so-called organization that is allowed to talk to the press.
She's also posted many of her views in a series of treatises she calls "All of Annie's Letters." She's posted her views on "morarl relativism" [sic] and you can read about her belief that when it comes to "sexual crimes against humanity" perpetrators come first on the list of for whom "her heart aches."
If you're so inclined, you can seek out Bukacek's comparison of "islamofaciasts to christofacists" and her views on radical Islam being the "true" Islam of the Koran. Or her advice that husbands love their wives as Christ loved his church (ick.)
The treatises are a catalogue of her beliefs that the laws of Montana and the United states should reflect "God's laws." Montana Taliban anyone? How long before adultery is punishable by a weak without food in the stocks? And divorce? Forget about it. We should probably go ahead and cancel the NFL on Sundays, too. (There is no mention of abortion or NFL in the bible, so both are clearly abominations.)
Does Bukacek have a right to believe this stuff? Of course, but she doesn't have the right to force them on the rest of us by permanently amending our constitution.
If Bukacek really wanted to decrease the need for abortion in Montana, she would join the mainstream and work to increase access to affordable birth control and medically accurate sex-ed to decrease unintended pregnancy in the first place. |
