Reply #8: Here is an example of the type of religious extremism we have to fight.

[madfloridian]

If we keep tolerating this stuff, with no one speaking out...there won't be change.

A Florida lawmaker is refusing to vote for a bill to require hospitals to give contraception to rape victims. Why? He's a Christian.

Rep. Dennis Baxley, a leading conservative voice, said his belief that life begins at conception would preclude his support.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

Florida rape victims probably don't get the pill offered to them now, and there needs to be a law. Things like this are what all of our side needs to speak up about.

As Dean said above:

..."it seems to me that the right wing of the Republican Party preaches virtue on the one hand and intolerance on the other"