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What’s Wrong With This Picture?

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From Sara Robinson at Orcinus: it may take a few years but the country is waking up to just how extreme the religious right is, and turning away in disgust. They’re no longer hiding their agenda — you might have noticed that they’re openly advocating making birth control illegal and wishing women didn’t have the right to vote. This is a good sign, believe it or not — the thrashing means that they know they’re losing, but being authoritarian and on The One True Path, they can’t admit defeat. So they just redouble the crazy.

From Tula Connell of the AFL-CIO (Via):

Since it was created in 2003, [Working America] has signed up more than 1.5 million members—and has done so by sending canvassers door to door, day after day in middle- and working-class neighborhoods where people are hungry to become part of a dynamic movement in which they can take action and make a difference.

Working America enables workers who do not have the benefit of a union on the job to join forces with 9 million union members in the AFL-CIO to work for good jobs, health care, retirement security and more.

The majority of Working America members identify themselves as politically moderate (54 percent), and 32 percent own guns. But when Working America canvassers come to their doors and discuss how the policies of the Bush administration affect them and their families, they make the connection—and divisive social issues like abortion and gay marriage that may have impacted their vote fade when compared with the benefits of voting your pocketbook.

Emphasis mine.

From a recent study: 95 % of Americans engage in premarital sex, and have for generations.

From survey after survey: 98% of American women will use some form of contraception during their lifetimes.

From the Alan Guttmacher Institute: 24% of all pregnancies in the United States that do not end in miscarriage end in abortion.

From the Pew Center: Americans overwhelmingly favor keeping abortion legal, and they’re in favor of some form of legal union for same-sex couples.

From Digby and Amanda: The Democrats are getting ready to throw women and abortion rights (and most likely gays as well) under the bus in order to chase the wingnut vote.

5 thoughts on What’s Wrong With This Picture?

  1. I think this will be filed in the section of my brain entitled “religion is dangerous and makes everyone crazy”. Again and again it is used as a defence argument by extremists who would otherwise be listened to in the way you listen to your eccentric great auntie Muriel every Christmas and then forget what she has said by boxing day.

    How do these people not only obtain followers but then make it into office? All religions breed extremism it seems.

  2. Women and homosexuals have been thrown under the bus by political groups time and again, in the hopes that a “broader” group of people will be supportive.

  3. I think this will be filed in the section of my brain entitled “religion is dangerous and makes everyone crazy”.

    That’s too bad.

  4. From survey after survey: 98% of American women will use some form of contraception during their lifetimes.

    Which probably have a margin of error of at least 3,so it’s conceivable that 101% of American women has used contraception at some point.

    But seriously, the true statistic from polls like these are clear as day : 90% + of fundamentalist religious conservatives are the worst kinds of hypocrites. No other way to do the math.

  5. One of the scariest things about the ever-rightward shifting of the religious right is that it makes the previous right-wing positions seem more like the center and the center starts looking more like the left.

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