Texas Will No Longer Take Sex Lying Down
I apologize for my absence yesterday. I’m babysitting two children this weekend and apparently “picking them up at preschool” and “feeding them” are considered more important than blogging. (Yes, some people actually do entrust their children with me, despite the fact that I make them watch Law & Order instead of Phineas and Ferb and fight them for the last ice cream sandwich.) My friends live in Westlake which means I’m fantasizing about being one of the beautiful people while driving around in my 2003 Honda.
In other news, Texas has decided to join six other states in a federal lawsuit to block the administration’s controversial mandate that employees of religious-affiliated hospitals and schools have access to birth control. Thank God. This will dissuade the teachers from having protected sex with their students. Now they’ll just have unprotected sex with their students. The lawsuit challenges the mandate on the basis that it violates First Amendment rights: Freedom of speech, freedom of religion and the freedom to require that your employees adhere to your religion.
As usual, Texas is in good company with Nebraska, Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma and South Carolina. Current law in Texas provides an exception for religious institutions in covering contraception. In a statement, Attorney General Greg Abbott called the administration’s mandate “nothing but a shell game…[trampling] the First Amendment’s freedom of religion and compels people of faith to act contrary to their convictions.” One could say that preventing access to contraception violates the basic personal freedoms in the Bill of Rights but then that would acknowledge that not everyone wants to live like the Duggars.
Abbott has tirelessly attorney general-ed for Texas in countless ways over the years, whether he’s ordering raids on neighborhood delis or going after common-law marriages or fighting such faulty science as “climate change.” We can only hope that his battle against birth control and safe sex for all will be victorious as well.
February 24th, 2012 at 12:45 pm
Where were all these willing teachers when I went to school? All I remember were teachers like Ms. Martin with her full dresses that fell just above her cankles. Talk about abstinence-based sex-ed.
When I see Abbott in his wheel chair, and during election times he always makes sure it’s prominently displayed, I remember that he won a large judgement against a tree-trimming service for negligence. After he got the AG spot he fought for “tort reform”. He’s our version of Clarence Thomas, who benefited from affirmative action and then worked to deny others the same right. Sleazeball doesn’t begin to describe Abbott but it’s a start.
eileen Reply:
February 24th, 2012 at 2:28 pm
Yikes! A little harsh…
lush Reply:
February 24th, 2012 at 5:31 pm
Or just harsh enough?
WUSRPH Reply:
February 24th, 2012 at 7:28 pm
The only similarity between Abbott and FDR is that they both used wheelchairs….The difference is that FDR learned from his tragedy how to care for others…Abbott only learned how to protect the big money folks…after he became one.
February 24th, 2012 at 1:51 pm
You’ll always be one of the beautiful people to us, Eileen
February 24th, 2012 at 3:15 pm
I’m betting the Catholic Church wishes Obama’s parents had taken birth control pills.
February 24th, 2012 at 5:08 pm
Somehow I doubt the AG’s office had to cut staff for the latest round of budget cuts.