It is stunning how politicians who, in my view, are self-loathing closet cases are obsessed not only about gay sex, but also interring with the sex lives of virtually everyone. A case in point: failed presidential nominee Rick Santorum - Ken Cuccinelli is his equivalent here in Virginia - who isn't only anti-gay and anti-abortion. No, Santorum wants the right to limit access to contraception even to married women. Sex, in Santorum's sick and warped view, is only for procreation. One had damn well better not have sex for pleasure or enjoyment. The Raw Story looks at Santorum's rush to defend businesses - Hobby Lobby in particular, which imports the majority of its products from China where over 300 million abortions have been performed- who want to deny contraception coverage under to employee health insurance plans. Here are highlights:
Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum (R) on Sunday insisted that President Barack Obama was imposing his beliefs on corporations and preventing them from exercising their “right” to deny women contraception coverage in health care plans.
Last week, the Supreme Court agreed to decide if the corporation Hobby Lobby — which has Christian owners — had its rights violated by a mandate in the Affordable Care Act requiring most health care plans to offer birth control.
“I mean, the idea that the First Amendment stops after you walk out of church, that it doesn’t have anything to do with how you live the rest of your life, I don’t know very many people of faith that believes that their religion ends with just worship,” Santorum explained. “It ends in how you practice and live that faith.”
In a Sunday interview on CNN, former Gov. Howard Dean (D-VT) pointed out that he viewed the Vietnam War as “immoral” but had continued to pay his taxes throughout the conflict.
Dean, however, argued that the First Amendment allowed the “free exercise” of religion but did not allow companies to make health care decisions for others. “It can’t enable you to force your religious views on other people,” he said.
Dean, of course, is correct as to what the Founding Fathers intended. They also envisioned a nation where no one would be forced to adhere to a particular creed or denomination. This concept, of course, is anathema to the Christofascists who want a de facto established religion - i.e., theirs - imposed on all Americans. As for Santorum (the same holds for Cuccinelli), he needs to hire a gay escort and have wild gay sex and get over trying to regulate everyone else's sex lives.
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