After Telling Women, Gays How To Live, Oklahoma GOP Outraged At ‘Government Intervention’ In Divorce

[babylonsister]

Hypocrisy, thy name is? Republican!!

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/03/08/oklahoma-divorce/

After Telling Women, Gays How To Live, Oklahoma GOP Outraged At ‘Government Intervention’ In Divorces

Oklahoma flag The Oklahoma legislature is currently locked in a dispute over whether to tackle the state’s divorce rate, the third-highest in the nation. Although some Republicans are pushing the legislation, other conservatives are outraged at the “government intrusion” into their private lives:

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McDaniel noted that some of the strongest debates on the divorce measures are coming from within the Republican Party, many of whom are against the government intervention. However, some of their concern rings a bit hollow; some of these same lawmakers — including Osborn — have had no problem imposing “government intrusion” into women’s “private lives.” Last fall, the Oklahoma passed a law that would have collected personal details about every single abortion performed in the state and posted them on a public website. (The Oklahoma County District Court struck down the law last month because it covered too many topics for one piece of legislation.)

McDaniel noted that Republican lawmakers are now putting forth several anti-choice measures once again, as single bills. Just last week, for example, the state House passed a measure “that would require a woman be given a description of ultrasound images of her unborn child and be offered those images before getting an abortion.” Rep. Dan Sullivan (R), the sponsor of the abortion website legislation, opposed the divorce counseling bill in a Feb. 22 vote.

Oklahoma also bans same-sex couples from marrying — a clear “government intrusion” into private life that many Republican lawmakers seem to find perfectly acceptable.

Tony Perkins, president of the far-right Family Research Council, said that he endorses efforts to lower the divorce rate, as long as the government does not “mandate” them. “I prefer the carrot versus the stick,” said Perkins, who opposes marriage equality.

[sinkingfeeling]

1. I drove 140 miles yesterday to attend a funeral in SE Oklahoma. The 'town' was the most

pitiful place I think I've ever been. So much poverty. Yards full of trash. Skinny dogs with a dozen pups. Artificial flowers and blue jeans and hell and brimstone.

Oklahoma has a whole boatload of troubles.

[babylonsister]

2. So this is what the gop wants to concentrate on, instead of trying

to do something about the economic woes? I don't understand the gop emphasis here.

[atreides1]

3. The GOP emphasis is easy

Control, that's their emphasis.

[WhiteTara]

4. this is about power over, not empowering

some men must cut off the heads of others in order to become tall.
(Yogananda)

[fl_dem]

5. I have family in SE OK

Broken Bow, Idabel and Antlers and you have described the scenary perfectly. It is a shame that these people have no idea how oppressed they are as they have a church on every corner and Limbaugh channeled to them via 8 different stations.