Conservative politicians who wield 'culture of life' like a deadly weapon

[struggle4progress]

<snip> They are also fond of punishment. In fact, if you look at the theme uniting the fundamentalist view of such diverse topics as abortion, gay marriage, capital and corporal punishment, stem-cell research, contraception, creationism, end of life issues and school prayer, you find the same thing: Those who disagree with them deserve to be punished.

It is in the nature of those who see themselves as saved or chosen by God to be intolerant of everyone else. It seems to them a kind of willful ignorance not to be able to perceive the revealed truth of God's plan for us when it is so clearly spelled out in the Bible.

Now that one of them inhabits the White House and Congress appears compliant to their wishes, they have only the judicial branch standing between them and the unified theocracy they long for.

Look at their spokesmen: our bellicose president, the ethically challenged Tom DeLay, the video-diagnosing doctor Bill Frist, the Thomas/Scalia supremes. They speak of compassion but endorse a state of perpetual religious war both at home and abroad. <snip>

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/04/03/INGN4C224H1.DTL

[Cha]

1. Culture of Fright is what it is!

The Orwellian "culture of life" can go take a flying fuck at the Moon!

[MikeH]

2. The Fundamentalist God Is Like Adolf Hitler

The fundamentalist God has a character like that of Adolf Hitler. Their God condemns people to hell for all eternity if, for whatever reason, they happen to miss out on, or never get around to accepting Jesus Christ as their savior in this lifetime.

[applegrove]

3. Sociopaths and power-hungry are always rule - makers. It is about

ego. I would imagine that an argument could be made that all the testosterone in the gangs, jails...has not done as much damage to the world as the sublimated testosterone in the MIC or the MBA schools. Though the first has been the danger within the USA... for most of the last 20,000 years it has been war and war managers and the rich covetous of more power and fewer rights for people (slavery) that has always been the big danger.

We truly are back in the 19th Century. Back with all their dangers too.

I do not see this present lot who work in the CIA or elsewhere as the real problem. The problem is the WH who likes the idea of 'torture' and abusing human rights when convenient. Hell if I was a career spook and all of a sudden found myself playing under the 'new rules' of this WH.. I'd quit.

Aggression is aggression. We spent 100 years dialing it down, now the WH dials it back up... according to the 'thinking' of a cabal of 15 sociopaths & neocons?. No way. FUCK YOU!

[Mist]

4. I think we should start calling it "the culture of SOME lives" n/t