Today's Cultural Warfare Update

Wal-Mart regional manager bans newspaper from Wal-Mart stores - tells editor to fire a critiical columnist if they want back in;

Influential Washington, DC attacks working women and GBLT-folk in speech, claims that women making more money than men creates lesbianism;

FotF on "Plan B," the emergency contraceptive, and whether it should be available OTC in the United States as in other countries - includes action item against (ACTION ITEM);

FotF attacks Democratic legislative attack on internet porn because they can't see how "another bill" is going to "solve" the problem;

FotF newsbrief: CDA upheld in art photography case;

FotF newsbrief: Bipartisan effort underway to protect property owners from local government seizure to benefit private companies, an effort I support;

FotF mocks ABC drama for casting a female president, implies it's part of an effort to elect Hillary Clinton in 2008;

FotF very upset with Senator Bill Frist for endorsing a bill to allow existing research funds to be used more broadly for stem-cell research - includes multiple action items (ACTION ITEM);

FotF promotes bipartisan bill to require photo ID, logbook signing for any OTC drug sale including psudoephedrine hydrochloride, because it's a useful ingredient in making meth - this is Sudafed and a big personal issue for me, because it's the only decongestant I've found that doesn't knock me unconscious, and it's important for me as someone with serious seasonal allergies;

FotF yet again - states seeing lots of anti-abortion legislation; "'The evangelical right is no longer just a fringe part of the Republican Party that can be mollified through symbolic and rhetorical gestures,' Seery said cheekily. 'They want results. It's payback time. Quid pro quo.'"

FotF: Maine anti-gay group gets enough signatures to put an anti-gay rights initiative on the ballot in November;

FotF, other fundamentalist groups draw up shortlist of bills for action in the fall; number one continues to be a Federal Marriage Amendment, but there are several others such as bans on stem-cell research;

FotF reports fundamentalist groups are upset that the malpractice award limitation bill includes doctors performing abortion, call it "pro-abortion" as a result since it doesn't specifically exempt "abortion doctors" - watching them spin on this is amazing;

This, on the other hand, is just full-bore _amazing_: FotF says malpractice award limits are good and important, _except_ when they apply to abortion-providing doctors, in which case they are "compromises on the sanctity of life and the dignity of the human person." In other words: ONLY FETUSES ARE PEOPLE;

Oklahoma Cherokee Tribal Council passes measure against marriage rights;

Concerned Women for America attacks birth control, "Are 'reproductive rights' replacing sound medicine?" - sure, go ahead, tell me they won't move against birth control as soon as they've managed to win against abortion, tell me that again;

CWA expresses its displeasure with Senator Frist's endorsement of stem-cell research funding;

CWA demand: RU-486 must be taken off the market immediately;

San Diego declines issue Pride Week proclamation - had done so for previous several years. CWA congratulates fundamentalist anti-gay-pride effort on getting it withdrawn this year;

Anti-gay "Article 8" alliance in Massachusetts mocks letting people with Gender Identity Disorder change their listed gender on driver's licenses;

Blogger report: Wisconsin legislature bans all forms of emergency birth control from being prescribed via student health services;

Washington, DC preacher above "apologises" for earlier comments, rants more about lesbianism in the apology; confusion abounds;

George Stephanopoulos interviews Rick Santorum, watch Santorum try to avoid any specifics on anything.

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