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The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette covers the deplorable HPV vaccination rate, which is somewhere under 50%.

Here’s the short version: Parents can’t deal with concept that their kids might have sex,* just like their parents didn’t.

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*This has puzzled me for some time.

Why is it we say, “have sex,” like it’s a cup of coffee and a doughnut, when “sex” (you know, it) is something persons do, like bowling or golf (well, not like golf–sex can be entertaining–let’s say “like pool”)?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Via Raw Story, which has details.

Via C&L.

Tony Norman considers the much-married Kentucky court clerk Kim Davis, her enablers, and their symps, dupes, and fellow travelers. A nugget:

Once again, God was dragged kicking and screaming into the most common of debased religious fantasies — the one that imagines that God is just teeny enough to be reduced to the sum total of one’s own picayune bigotries.

Via Job’s Anger.

Southern Beale suggests that, as regards Kim Davis, many-time married opponent of gay marriage, the discussion is taking place on two different and unrelated levels:

Once again, liberals are arguing a point of logic and fact, while conservatives are arguing hurt fee fees about losing another battle in the culture wars. Look: the fight over gay marriage and the subsequent martyrdom of Kim Davis has zero to do with the Bible. It’s not about religion or theology. Like all culture war issues, it’s about conservatives’ lack of cultural relevance. It’s about how they’ve lost the culture wars and the poor dears just can’t deal with it.

Do please read the rest.

Truth is a concept that the right eschews. Leonard Pitts, Jr., sums it up (emphasis added):

The political right has long had a genius for wrapping noxious notions in code that sounds benign and even noble. The “Patriot Act,” “family values” and “right to work” are fruits of that genius. “Religious liberty” is poised to become their latest masterpiece, the “states’ rights” of the battle for a more homophobic America.

More Pitts at the link.

In related news, Badtux explains “reasonable accommodation.”

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John Romano reminds us of another time in which separation of church and state was an issue. A bit:

It is surely odd that presidential candidates today are arguing that religious beliefs should somehow supersede an elected official’s constitutional oath.

For 55 years ago this week, another presidential candidate had to swear the exact opposite to appease a group of skeptical Protestant ministers.

In 1960, the nation was gripped by the idea that a Catholic president might willfully ignore U.S. laws and instead follow the Vatican’s doctrines.

I guess how one some persons feel about separation of church and state depends on whose church is being separated . . . .

The Rude One points out that contemptuous of court Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis is, by her actions, attempting to impose Sharia Law. A snippet:

If you don’t get it, let’s make it clear: This is an attempt to enact fundamentalist Christianity as law. It is an attempt to make religious doctrine take the place of secular legal decisions. It is, in theory and operation, no different than the Shariah law that cowardly conservatives fear will overtake the nation, with Muslim Obama as chief mullah or some such shit. You can say you prefer your flavor, but it’s still motherfuckin’ ice cream. (Note: The Rude Pundit really wants some ice cream.)

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