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Today's Cultural Warfare Update

spazzkat asked me just now while I was fiddling with the blinds in the living room if I'd been looking at "those sites" just now; I responded that I had, but that now "those sites" includes CNN.

Notable is that Focus on the Family seems to be heading harder into the political elements of sexual dominionism, now that they're feeling more confident about the Supreme Court and them and their allies are getting abortion bans passed. I've got two articles here, one from them, one that's a mixture of from them and about them, talking about how women exist to be "helpers" to men, and that equality in government and leadership is unnatural.

Here's today's news.

South Dakota law bans nearly all abortions;

Georgia attacks abortion rights, and makes it harder to get birth control;

Legislators in Tennessee issue a bill in both houses requiring notification of male before an abortion can be performed - regardless of state of marriage; violation carries $5K in fines for the doctor, $2K in fines for the woman involved;

Feministe commentary on Georgia's set of bills;

Dobson, guest Patterson: women exist to be "helpers" to husbands; any other role is against God; "Those who try to change God’s plan follow the familiar path of deception displayed by the serpent in Genesis"; this is apparently from last year, but it's timely;

Concerned Women for America "Abortion Lies v. Abortion Realities"; I would assume the "science" here is as bad as it is in Creationism;

Jerry Falwell attacks evangelical leaders saying global warming is a bad thing; calls their funding "blood-tainted";

Family Research Council cheers South Dakota abortion ban;

American Family Association pushes Dr. Kent Hovind's three-pronged attack plan against evolutionary theory;

Focus on the Family article on attempts to expand broadcast "indecency" rules to cable, and increase overall punishments for "indecent" material; includes ACTION ITEM to support the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act (S.193/H.R. 310);

New Jersey fundamentalist group to protest transgendered teacher's rehiring;

American Family Association cranky; Episcopal Church USA may promote a gay or lesbian priest to be Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of California;

AFA Newsbriefs: crankiness that a Presbyterian minister who provided same-sex marriages was acquitted by her church; also, publicity for Connecticut anti-contraception activists opposing a bill that would require hospitals to stock emergency contraception for rape victims;

Baptist Press bill on the South Dakota abortion ban; the bill is named "The Women's Health and Human Life Protection Act," which I find particularly galling since it carries no exemption for the health of the mother, but, well, what do you expect from these fucks;

Focus on the Family's coverage of the South Dakota abortion ban; the bill states outright that the rights of a woman and the rights of a single-cell embryo are equal; includes ACTION ITEM to thank the state's governor for signing it (Mike Rounds - R);

With anti-abortion legislation now going into law in some states, and with birth control under attack, Focus on the Family is moving even further to the fundamentalist; this story is about how parity for women in government is, and I quote, "contrary to nature, the natural family and the true desires and passions of most women";

Focus on the Family ACTION ITEM to write Wal-Mart condemning them for carrying Plan B/emergency contraception;

Article8Alliance: Marriage rights for same-sex couples is "demonic," as is repealing the sodomy law.

( Articles, press releases, excerpts - the usual )

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Not very much going on today. Too much bad politics, too many annoying news items, too much batshit insanity going on. I did measure for a cold frame for the cold-weather garden that I'll make out of PVC tomorrow. That should be simple enough to do, and should be something I can finish up before the cold weather gets here Wednesday or Thursday.

I also measured - I've got 30' of possible wall space for grapes. I won't use that much. I could do 26' if I used 10' lengths of 2x8s for the arbour mains, with 2' of overlap at the two centre posts, and 1' overhangs on the ends.

Efficiency and Ambiguity in an Adaptive Neural Code is short but dense and pretty difficult. I don't think I'm really getting that much out of it. I'll try again tomorrow when hopefully I may have more brain.