DISQUS

scooter in brooklyn · 1 year ago

i believe i read somewhere else this morning that these regs also have a provision defining life as beginning at fertilization.

scooter in brooklyn · 1 year ago

here's the link:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/31/7431/84...

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

I've read that they now believe that life begins when you just look at each other before you do it--no kidding.

anarchy · 1 year ago

yet another reason organized religion should be outlawed, period.

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

They have totally sailed slap off the deep end and are now a tiny speck on the horizon.

Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago

Okay, I posted this last year but it's on topic....in 2001 I had a mild angina attack so I drove across the street to the hospital. This was in Fort Worth, the buckle on the Bible Belt. I was in the ER cubicle for about four hours that day and had my cell so I called my partner. He was over an hour away that day but got on the road as fast as he could. So...everything seems fine UNTIL this little fat white trash nurse's assistant wheels in her laptop to get my info....DOB, address, etc. She asks "next of kin". Well my daughter is in Amsterdam. So I said "Mike B.....e". She asked "relationship"...I said "partner"....she looked up from her laptop and asked "is he your BUSINESS partner?" And I said, "No, he is my domestic partner." She slammed her laptop screen shut and said, "My religion forbids me to deal with homahsechshuls." Well I was under stress because angina can lead to something more serious. I got up off the gurney, I grabbed the IV tree, and I went half bare assed out into the nurse's station and found the ER doctor who'd seen me. And I put on quite a fucking scene....a real faggot drama event never to be forgotten. It was awesome.

Okay all was resolved that day and my partner was allowed in to see me.

So I decided to have a bit of fun with this. I called a lawyer who does gay rights pro bono and I said, "let's nail this little bitch"

We did...she lost her job that week.

I win!

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

Glad you're still here and try not to let it get to you too much. I'm working at it.

anarchy · 1 year ago

that IS awesome! good for you!!

I'm sure that Jebus will watch over his homophobic
flock, so I won't worry about how that dumb bitch will
get by with no more jobby-job!

Indigo · 1 year ago

Way to go! DId you drop a house on her or was it enough just to pour a pitcher of water over her head?

OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago

Glad you made a fuss and won. However, "let's nail this little bitch" is so misogynistic...despise her for her homophobic hatred, but not her sex, please.

Mikki --SE Pennsylvania · 1 year ago

Yahhhhhhhhhh excellent! You go girl!!
I love it!

Mikki --SE Pennsylvania · 1 year ago

But what has happened to what I can only call professional professionalism. When I go to a pharmacy or a hospital or a doctor, I expect a professional competent in the area for which I am consulting him or her. I expect a diagnosis based on my symptoms and not related to any personal details that may have been mentioned. From a pharmacist, I expect to have my doctor's prescription filled as written with the only allowable questions perhaps involving other medications I may be taking with which the new one might intereact. I am NOT interested in the doctor or pharmacist's personal beliefs. If these people can not operate professionally with thier belief systems, then they should be struck off the roles of professionals and not be allowed to do business.

Kes · 1 year ago

PDF of the memo itself is available at http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/emailphotos/pdf/H...

What they're trying to do is label anything which stops a fertilized egg from implanting a potential abortifacient. There are already federal laws in place so that no federal funding can go to any company or organization which "discriminates" against people who refuse to provide abortion services if they have a moral disagreement with it, so this would expand that to cover people who don't want to provide anything that also fits under the new definition. It would cover most forms of birth control, including IUDs and Plan B.

It would also cover many hormones which MtF transsexuals take, including various forms of Provera.

It wouldn't cover situations dealing with a gay person having a heart attack or a Catholic at a Baptist hospital, though. It isn't a general "I'm morally against this so I don't have to do it" regulation.

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

Is it just me or does it seem like the country has gone insane all of a sudden?

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

You think it's bad now? Just wait until all those babies out there start going without.

Milli · 1 year ago

I've always wondered what these nutjobs would do if their loved one is being revived by a gay or pro-choice doctor or EMT? I mean do they check the sexual orientation and political beliefs of every single person they come in contact with? What if a pharmacist was gay and he or she was the only one available to dispense an emergency inhaler for their kid is who is having an asthma attack out in the car? Would they walk out? And what if this gay pharmacist declined to fill the prescription because that person is wearing a cross? Christianity can be considered morally repugnant by non-Christians and they can be denied services because of it, can't they? Discrimination is a two-way street and for these holier-than-thous idiots to assume that a gay, liberal, or proice-choice person will only be at the receiving end of this bullcrap is really arrogant .

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

What a gay firefighter. Would he refuse to rush in their burning house to rescue them because they were fundies? Etc.?

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

I give some tips on the type of clothing you might want to consider a couple of threads down. Think about it. If this economic thing is really happening, in the future, clothes might become really scarce, like before the industrial revolution. And expensive for what remains.

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

Consider now, buying and storing away.

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

They have to send tons of used clothes to Africa every year for this reason.

SteamingPile · 1 year ago

What if I believe all conservative Christians should DIAF? Would I be excused from having to save their lives in the ER, or would I get sued for my last farthing?

Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago

I screen my health care providers by announcing that I worship Satan right up front.

Still, in an emergency, one might not be able to do this.

What fools.

CaptainFrogbert · 1 year ago

Yeah, since I'm an EMT maybe the next time I have a critically injured patient at a motor vehicle accident, whose car is covered in religious right bumper stickers, I'll just refuse to pull them out and treat them because my "religion" forbids me from helping right wingers. Let's see how far that gets me (I'd lose my certification and my job). But if I'm a right winger and I refuse to treat gay people in the same circumstances somehow THAT'S God's work. Talk about special rights. These people literally think they OWN God. That God does THEIR bidding. That their voice is God's voice. Their blind unreasoning hatred is God's blind unreasoning hatred. It's never "What would Jesus do?" It's "Since I am Jesus' special, special friend, what would I do?"

Religious conservatives embrace a darkly corrupt spiritual evil.

and @ Boston Queer in Dallas: Ha ha ha ha! Yay for you! Well done, sir. Chortle. And I hope you're feeling better these days.

Ben Dover · 1 year ago

Whenever I find out that someone I deal with is a filthy neo-con republican I do everything I possibly can to throw every roadblock into their path. They pay more, there are always additional fees, regulations, time and effort involved, they are the last hired and the first to go. And if I find out they are bigoted against my gay brothers and sisters, it gets even worse.
And no, I do not feel the slightest bit of guilt over it. At all. Ever.

Indigo · 1 year ago

True that. Even more fun is to speak Spanish to them, smile brightly, and watch the fireworks.

Rab · 1 year ago

Shut down the fascists as soon as possible. Its a load of crap that any pharmacist can refuse to dispense birth control pills. If a person can't perform their job even if they feel personally they disagree with it should get another job. I work with repugs, can I refuse to do my job because I'm surrounded by repugs? I find them morally reprehensible, unredeemable, uncorrectable, anti-human, why should I have to work with them? Because I have to.

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

ditto

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

I don't appreciate my tax contributions go to their faith based pork.

Ben Dover · 1 year ago

OT, and I apologize, but read this article and then read the comments. Especially comment #4.

Sickening.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/jul/...

OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago

The hate out there has always been fueled by this corrupt regime.

And if McBush is elected, it will continue...so while people they don't approve of are homeless, starving, etc., no "food ministry" or other "faith based" outfit, profiting from the taxpayers, will help them.

Better stock up now on everything. Evil is ruling this country.

Zorba · 1 year ago

This regulation is morally and ethically repugnant. I cannot imagine refusing emergency contraception, for instance, to a rape vistim in the emergency room- this would apparently be allowed under the proposal. If you cannot perform all the functions of a job, you should not have that job. We mouth platitudes about how terribly the people (especially women) suffer in certain Moslem countries which practice extreme forms of Sharia law, but we ourselves are in danger of becoming a Christofascist country because we kowtow to the beliefs of the most extreme (supposedly Christian) religious nut-jobs.

OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago

Potentially, a janitor could object...

"Critics argue that the broad definitions of abortion and the types of workers who could object would cover everyone from the top doctor at a hospital to the janitor." Just what any woman would want--a janitor making her health care decisions, let alone a fundie doctor.

And those types would also seek to insinuate themselves in health care situations to push their agenda.

As an atheist, I suppose I wouldn't get treatment, either...

jr · 1 year ago

"we need to invade the middle east for not being theocracies while we turn our country into a theocracy"-repubs

Constant Comment · 1 year ago

Why the hell is Obama NOT addressing this? This is outrageous and he should be at the forefront protesting this. It speaks volumes if he is not.

osage · 1 year ago

Republicans tacitly welcome homophobes, misogynists, racists, anti-Semites and messianic fundamentalist nut jobs into their party and inherently incorporate their values into their moral fabric and political agendas. As long as you give your money to and vote for a Republican, you can be the biggest scumbag who ever lived and you will feel among like-minded friends who accept you and love you for who and what you really are......no matter how twisted, hateful or inadequate you may be.

bunnyjump · 1 year ago

Jebus, I hate these white trash religo-nazi types. Get the fuck out of my business!

Never trust anyone who sees "god" in food or stains. And never, never trust anyone who doesn't like a cocktail every now and then.