Obnoxious Bitch
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Breaking Commandments is OK, if it’s “for the children!”
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Unless, of course, your neighbor is Planned Parenthood, or a pregnant minor seeking an abortion.
An Indiana mother recently accompanied her daughter and her daughter’s boyfriend to one of Indiana’s Planned Parenthood clinics, but they unwittingly walked into a so-called “crisis pregnancy center” run by an anti-abortion group, one that shared a parking lot with the real Planned Parenthood clinic and was designed expressly to lure Planned Parenthood patients and deceive them.
The group took down the girl’s confidential personal information and told her to come back for her appointment, which they said would be in their “other office” (the real Planned Parenthood office nearby). When she arrived for her appointment, not only did the Planned Parenthood staff have no record of her, but the police were there. The “crisis pregnancy center” had called them, claiming that a minor was being forced to have an abortion against her will.
The “crisis pregnancy center” staff then proceeded to wage a campaign of intimidation and harassment over the following days, showing up at the girl’s home and calling her father’s workplace. Our clinic director reports that the girl was “scared to death to leave her house.” They even went to her school and urged classmates to pressure her not to have an abortion.
The anti-choice movement is setting up these “crisis pregnancy centers” across the country. Some of them have neutral-sounding names and run ads that falsely promise the full range of reproductive health services, but they dispense anti-choice propaganda and intimidation instead. And according to a recent article in The New York Times, there are currently more of these centers in the U.S. than there are actual abortion providers. What’s more, these centers have received $60 million in government grants. They’re being funded by our tax dollars.
A bill has just been introduced in Congress to stop the fraudulent practices of fake clinics, but it desperately needs more support. Tell your representative to take a stand: anti-choice extremists must not get away with this any longer!
People wonder why I’m so hard on Christians… the story above is just one example of the things that prompt me to rail against the Christofascist hypocrites who claim the moral high ground. Again we see that no underhanded deed is evil in the sight of the Lord they claim to follow, if it can be even remotely justified as being “for the sake of the children!” They will toss aside one of the Commandments they claim as the foundation of all human morality (which apparently American Christians will never remember unless they’re plastered on every school and government building in the country), usurp parental rights, and employ mafia-style tactics in order to further their agenda of controlling a woman’s body. “Family values,” my fat, white ASS!
I’m so glad my tax dollars are supporting groups that consider MY right as a mother to take my teenaged daughter for medical treatment both she and I agree is necessary as secondary to the need for all people to bow to the wishes of this God character, whose “mind” they claim to know - and in whose existence I fail utterly to believe.
I find nothing so depressing and hopeless as the thought of a woman (and in particular a teenaged girl) bearing a child before she’s ready. At this time in history, it simply should NOT happen. We have the technology to guarantee that every child born is both wanted and loved… what we don’t have is comprehensive, REALISTIC education; and more sad still, our society has politicized the issue of a woman’s right to choose the number of children she will bear as well as when she will do so, using religion as justification to limit the methods that make it possible. Shame and fear are the tools employed to keep women in check, which is why it is so important to be open enough in our education and public dialogue to remove the shame associated with our bodies, and to stop falling prey to fear of some sort of divine retribution for standing up for our right to do whatever the hell we want to with them.
Write to your representatives NOW. These lying hypocrites must be stopped…
FOR THE SAKE OF THE CHILDREN!!!!!
Saturday, April 22, 2006
Lyle vs. Warner Bros. - update
More on the lawsuit I bitched about here and here. Thankfully, it ended well and is another victory for Free Speech, though I doubt most Americans even knew about the case… much less gave a flying fuck.
From XBiz News:
Calif. High Court Rules Obscene Speech Not Always Workplace Harassment
By Rhett Pardon
Friday, April 21, 2006SAN FRANCISCO — In a ruling that could help protect adult entertainment companies from lawsuits, the California Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday that obscene speech is not always workplace harassment.
The justices agreed with Warner Bros. Television Productions that explicit comments in staff meetings during the production of “Friends” TV scripts were part of the creative process and, therefore, the studio and its writers could not be sued for workplace harassment.
Some of the comments queried were relative to the defendants’ own sexual experiences, the making of sexually explicit drawings in an erotic “coloring book” one of the defendants kept on his desk, speculation about the sex lives of the actors on the show, relation of sexual fantasies, repeated use of the “F word” and a Yiddish word for penis, disparaging remarks about women’s breasts, and simulated masturbation, among other things.
Amaani Lyle, 32, claims she was constantly subjected to comments and jokes made by the writers and producers during meetings.
But the justices thought different. Sometimes vulgarity is not just acceptable but necessary in the workplace, they said.
Lyle, who is black, worked for the show for four months, as a writer’s assistant. Producers of the show say she was fired because she could not type fast enough and that dialog developed during meetings was often missing as a result.
California Justice Marvin Baxter, who wrote for the majority of the court, said Lyle had no case for sexual harassment claims because she could not show that the offensive speech was directed at her or at other women in the workplace and because “considering the totality of the circumstances, especially the nature of the writers’ work, the facts largely forming the basis of plaintiff’s sexual harassment action ... did not present a triable issue whether the writers engaged in harassment ‘because of ... sex.’”
The case is Lyle vs. Warner Brothers Television Productions, No. S125171.
I rarely get the luxury of gloating, so I’m going to savor this… bwahahahah!
update: 7/11/06 - since the spammers have been hammering this entry with trackback and comment spam, I’m turning it off. Stupid fucking cocksuckers who can’t peddle their shit the right way. Die you fucking douchebags!
Thursday, April 13, 2006
Atheists Turn the Tables on Christians
Beyond Belief Media and Brian Flemming, the filmmaker who gave us one of the best movies of all time, The God Who Wasn’t There, has launched a campaign to bring the truth to churchgoers. According to their press release of April 11th:
Hollywood—April 11, 2006. Declaring War on Easter, Beyond Belief Media has launched a preemptive attack on the Christian holiday, the company announced today. “Operation Easter Sanity” has already begun.
Using its documentary THE GOD WHO WASN’T THERE as the chief weapon, Beyond Belief Media is covertly planting DVDs of the film in churches throughout the United States. The popular movie, currently ranked #1 on Amazon.com’s independent documentaries list, is critical of the irrational beliefs of Christians and asserts that Jesus Christ did not exist.
A total of 666 DVDs will be hidden like “Easter eggs” in sanctuaries, church yards and other holy areas by Beyond Belief Media’s national team of volunteers. The DVDs will be slipped into hymnals and other locations where they are likely to be discovered by unsuspecting worshippers.
Some DVDs will be planted by undercover operatives among actual Easter eggs at churches holding egg hunts on Easter Sunday.
“People go to churches to hide from the truth,” explained Beyond Belief Media president Brian Flemming, a former Christian fundamentalist. “At no time is this more apparent than Easter, when Christians get together to convince each other that a man died, stayed dead three days, rose from the dead and then flew into the air above the clouds.
“Our nonviolent campaign sends the message that nowhere in the country is safe from the truth. Wherever Christian leaders are indoctrinating children with 2000-year-old fairy tales, the truth may just find its way there.
“Our ‘War on Easter’ is of course completely without violence of any kind. Christians believe that beating a man to a pulp and nailing him to a cross somehow solves all the world’s problems. Beyond Belief Media does not.”More details as well as “battle reports” from field operatives are available at:
http://www.waroneaster.orgABOUT BEYOND BELIEF MEDIA
The mission of Beyond Belief Media is to provoke conversation about the dangers of religious belief.
A quick look at the comments from Christians on the War On Easter site illustrates that while they are happy that their brand of proselytizing is protected by the First Amendment, the Beyond Belief Media volunteers doing the same is somehow more along the lines of “a hate crime.”
Calling bullshit on delusional thinking is a hate crime? Wow… we’re living in fuckin’ Bizarro World!
I support the War On Easter. And for good measure, I’ll also take this opportunity to say I deny the Holy Spirit!
However, the most heinous of my sacrilege and blasphemy is the following admission: Marshmallow peeps are GROSS!!!
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