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. . . is an oxymoron, as Colbert points out (video below the fold because it autoplays).

Hate sells. Conservatism sells hate, and conservatives eagerly buy it.

For the life of me, I do not understand how hate became a “Republican family value.”

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In related news, Steven M. tracks down those responsible for spreading rumors that the immigrant children are a bunch of Typhoid Marys. It’s the usual bunch of wingnut bigots and fear-mongers.

Image via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.

Via Kos.

Via Job’s Anger.

Rekha Basu considers the implications of the Supreme Court’s decision to green-light theocracy.

Let’s say that I’m an observant Hindu who keeps a strict vegetarian diet because my religion frowns on killing animals. And let’s say I own a software company that employs only vegetarians, because I don’t believe I should be forced to subsidize meat-eating with the money I pay in salaries. Could I get away with that that sort of discrimination?

Apparently I could, if you follow the U.S. Supreme Court’s logic in a ruling Monday that a company should not be forced to subsidize an activity that offends its owners’ religious beliefs.

Do read the rest.

Via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.

Afterthought:

What we do have is a country of muddled asses.

For Republicans, it’s not a quotation from the Bible. It’s a policy.

. . . or does it?

The definition of “consent” in Norfolk State University’s sexual misconduct policy consists of 166 words. The College of William & Mary uses 257 words to spell it out. It takes 438 at Virginia Wesleyan College.

Most of the verbiage appears to be about persons who are unconscious or (intimidated into being) silent and on how much struggling is “struggling enough.’

Words fail me.

Also, Fiori counts the corporate commandments.

The Booman nails the reason for wingnut joy over the Hobby Lobotomy (emphasis added).

. . . we need to look at this not from the perspective of whether or not the decision to have an abortion is moral or legal, but from the perspective that Republicans want women to get pregnant if they have sex because that will take away their autonomy and make them reliant on their families again. If they can’t risk pregnancy because of their economic insecurity, they will have to marry to have sexual relations. If they can’t get decent pay in the workplace, they can’t overcome their economic insecurity on their own.

This battle isn’t really over abortion. It’s over female equality.

What Juanita Jean said.

Southern Beale sees them coming. A nugget:

I know, it looks the opposite, but what have I said here a gazillion, bajillion times, folks? When religion gets forced on people by government or corporations, religion always dies. People don’t want this shit foisted on them. As I’ve said a thousand times before, the surest way to kill off religious belief is to declare a “state religion.” The bigger religion’s role in the secular aspects of life, the more people run away from it.

Be sure to read the FAQ.

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Chauncey Devega considers the Hobby Lobby decision, a repugnant act which enables persons who happen to be “employers” to impose their religious beliefs on persons who happen to be “employees.”

It is thoroughly a transgression of the United States Constitution on the part of those who are expected to uphold and interpret it, in that it allows the “establishment of religion” on the part of those who issue paychecks to others.

Devega points out that, by its own reasoning, the decision violates the establishment clause of the Constitution.

The Roberts and Scalia court is operating under an assumption that Christianity is the United States’ semi-official religion and that it should be legislated and protected in a way that other faiths are not. This is, of course, a misreading of the Constitution–despite what the deranged members of the Fox News Christian Evangelical Dominionist American public would like to believe.

Unintended consequences may lay bare the hypocrisy of the Right-wing and its agents on the Supreme Court.

How would conservatives and their agents respond if a company with Islamic beliefs (however defined) decided to impose its religious values on white, Christian, American employees?

I’m not surprised by the decision. The venality, politicization, and subservience to right-wing doctrine of the Roberts court has already been amply demonstrated.

I am disgusted. However many times someone enters an outhouse, the smell is always the same.

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F. T. Rea reminds us ignore the labels and watch the deeds. A nugget:

Let’s get real: regardless of their party labels, the truth is it was conservatives who worked to deny voting rights to citizens along ethnic lines in the Jim Crow era, and they‘re still trying to do it today. It was conservatives who opposed Social Security and Medicare when they were instituted. And, today whether they wear labels that say Republican, Tea Party or Libertarian, it’s conservatives who still oppose those programs. It’s still conservatives who scoff at protecting the environment, too.

. . . Labels come and go like other styles, but that wicked sense of entitlement hasn’t changed much.