Rhythmdvl, sure. Here’s one from Kansas, for example:
Where do I get my no-fault rape insurance? Is there an ACA-approved policy that covers that?
Only for legitimate rape.
Republicans say it’s discrimination to not let them discriminate.
I am tired of republicans. Clean your fucking house you stupid assholes. Fix this fucking bullshit. You are responsible for this hate.
In the future, you will be remembered no differently than the KKK. You fuckers are evil, and I am sick of it.
No big deal, you can take care of the formalities at any Vegas drive-thru rape chapel.
SMH. Assume for the sake of argument that you honestly believe that gay sex is sinful. (Or contraception is sinful, since we’re hearing the same arguments re ACA) No one in their right mind would extend that to mean that selling a bag of potato chips to a gay couple is sinful. Or covering contraception in your employees’ health care is sinful.
Lightning strikes!
The House Republicans appear to have finally had a good idea for once in their miserable brain-damaged lives. Whoda thunk it?
They passed the debt ceiling increase. And they passed it clean! No amendments! For a full year for a change, until May 2015 even!
True, they really didn’t have any choice any more. But that hasn’t bothered them in the past. At least for once they finally figured that out and chose to get it done and move on. There’s always still the ACA to work on repealing (again).
Give 'em credit for that at least. We don’t see such faint stirrings of intelligent life in the House that often these days.
Credit is due, yes. To Boehner and the 28 out of 232 House Pubs who voted for it. May the voters fire the other 204 in November. But they won’t.
Our ol’ buddy Ted Cruz, by threatening to filibuster the debt ceiling bill, conspired to shine a light on the 12 Senate republicans with 2 brain cells to rub together – the ones who voted for the bill. It’ll be interesting to see if this is a positive or negative thing for those 12.
That can be somewhat defended, and on non-partisan grounds. There is something of a tradition of protest voting on the debt ceiling, when one is certain that it will pass, one can indulge oneself in a display of courage/extremism. Dems have done it, often enough.
Nothing wrong with *kabuki *theater in politics, drama can outline and simplify the conflicts into digestible terms. So this kind of sturm and drama is legit, so long as there’s no actual danger of a seppuku scene with a real sword.
Thats what Boner was signifying with his speech of surrender, “We don’t have the 218!”. The Republicans who were afraid to vote Sane now could vote Batshit without any disaster being their fault.
Idaho bill would allow doctors to refuse to treat gays or lesbians on religious grounds - http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/12/idaho-bill-would-allow-doctors-or-cops-to-refuse-service-to-lgbt-people-on-religious-grounds/
The legislator says he wants to protect doctors from losing their licenses if they refuse to treat gay patients. Wouldn’t they still be liable to be kicked out of the profession by the AMA?
Uh, yeah…and wouldn’t that also be a violation of the Hippocratic Oath?
Do you need to be an AMA member to practice medicine?
I don’t think so. Physicians are licensed by state-level agencies. The AMA has some influence on their standards, but membership is not mandatory.
Is there any reason to believe that the nation’s doctors are extraordinarily homophobic?
Maybe only Idaho’s.
That Idaho bill article mentions a variety of licensed professions who would be protected from having to service teh gayz :rolleyes: . . .
. . . including police officers! :eek: Now that actually sounds scary too.
The two classic defenses of bigotry and intolerance are
- “It’s intolerant of you to not accept my intolerance!”
and - “What about my 1st Amendment rights to say ignorant and intolerant bullshit?”
Once any form of these come into play, one can feel comfort knowing the battle is in the end stages.
Permits? We don’t need no steeenking permits!
South Carolina’s governor thinks people should be able to carry concealed weapons without training or permits, because…I don’t know, the ghey?
Reading the text of the bill, it doesn’t appear to distinguish between same-sex and traditional marriage. It also appears to allow a conscience exception for any “sincerely held religious belief regarding sex and gender.” In short, it’s the worst-written piece of legislation I’ve ever seen. It would allow a doctor to refuse to treat a patient because she thought same-sex marriage was wrong. 
It doesn’t just apply to doctors, either, but to all “individuals or religious entities.”
The Hippocratic Oath doesn’t have any legal force. However…
State licensing boards do generally require physicians to treat patients as they come, though.