[Vision2020] Ellen Goodman on the Taliban wing of the RepublicanParty

[keely emerinemix]

The Religious Right rails against lifesaving vaccines and worries that its 
daughters will be led down the  road topromiscuous perdition.  And why?  
Because some women might decide that being sexually active is OK simply 
because a shot can make cervical cancer a non-issue.   And so the Dobsonites 
lament that a phenomenal medical advance will somehow muddy their message, 
exhibiting once again the clearheaded reasoning that made Gary Bauer such a 
formidable presidential candidate in the early 90s.

It's now so clear:  When it comes to cervical cancer, all that really 
matters is HOW SHE GOT IT.  Never mind that this vaccine will save women's 
lives; there really should be, according to the Callous and Oblivious 
Religious Right, a death penalty for extramarital sex.  For rape, even, and 
especially for sexual decisions made years before the virus is ever 
manifested.   And, just to cover all the bases, for conscious faithfulness 
to a straying spouse, or, worse, unwitting faithfulness to an adulterer.  
The CORR and the HPV both exhibit disdain and indiscrimination -- but the 
virus, at least, isn't considered to be on the side of righteousness.

How the "Christian" right can claim to be pro-life is utterly beyond me.  
The wage of sin is death, to be sure, but until the Dobson crowd starts 
praying for deadly disease to strike the greedy and the materialistic, the 
glutton and the couch potato, the racist and the sexist, the calloused and 
the cowardly, the violent and the grossly unmerciful and hardhearted 
Pharisees amongst us, I won't be according them the higher moral ground in 
this or any other debate.

Thanks, Scott -- and Lord, have mercy.

keely







From: Scott Dredge <sdredge at yahoo.com>
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Ellen Goodman on the Taliban wing of the 
RepublicanParty
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:48:53 -0800 (PST)

Apparently there is a new vaccine that is 100%
effective at preventing the virus that causes most
cases of cervical cancer.  The abstinence only crowd
doesn't like it.

As Ellen Goodman writes:

'I always thought it was a bit much to talk about a
'Taliban wing' of the Republican Party. After all, the
real Taliban stoned women to death if they had sex out
of wedlock. What sentence would our Taliban choose?
Cancer?'

Full Story at:
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/11/12/good_news_on_cancer_not_for_everyone/

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