Thursday, August 15, 2013

Fatherly Nincompoopery

This Missouri law-maker is suing the federal government because health plans now include birth control.  And he doesn't want his daughters to take birth control.
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To which the simple answer, to me, is talk to your daughters and tell them not to take birth control.  Don't have sex before you get married - and, if you do, watch the calendar (rhythm is still kosher for Catholics, right?).
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Isn't this the absolute 180 degree opposite of what Republicans say they believe in - you know when they argue for the government not to interfere?  I mean the new regulations don't require his daughter's to use birth control.  No one is visiting his house and forcing them down their throats.  The plans merely provide the option of birth control.
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Just like plans MUST provide boner pills (something that Male legislators never seem to get upset about) - because they gave old age a new nice name like - Erectile Dysfunction; that doesn't mean you have to use them to get a woody.
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Maybe they need to give birth control a snappy name which makes old fat legislators feel better?  Maybe they could market birth control pills as a cure for "God's Punishment to Eve - for only nice women.".  Speaking of that, shouldn't those people who don't want to pay for birth control NOT get cancer treatments.  I mean God clearly wants you to suffer and die.  And survivor benefits to wives - shouldn't they be banned - doesn't the Bible say that the dead man's brother should take the wife as a second spouse.
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Or maybe we should let God and his laws stay in the religious realm.  And if you want to follow them, do so in peace.  You don't want to pay for your daughter's birth control.  I don' t want to pay for your boner pills (and he is a public legislator, so yes, the public is paying for his health insurance).  But sometimes we have to do things we don't like.  That whole render unto Caesar shit.