...You decide that it's important to participate in civil disobedience and invite arrests over people's healthcare plans - WHICH THEY PAY INTO, THIS IS NOT FREE STUFF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE - covering birth control, when no major Christian political group has had civil disobedience actions over things like the gutting of the social safety net (Jesus was pretty big on that whole "take care of those in need" thing, IIRC), or unofficial wars and drone strikes (what was that whole "Thou shalt not kill" thing, again?).
...You then invoke the legacy of Dr. King to justify your bullshit: "Just as MLK was arrested for the rights of his fellow men, so we will stand." Motherfucker, NO. You are "standing" for the wholly-imagined "right" to control the bodies and healthcare access of other people. You are not standing for any kind of actual rights or freedom from oppression. How dare you try to link yourselves to him, as if you had anything in common?
...and you refer to your protest as "[laying] down our lives and our freedom so that future generations will have that freedom, and the liberty to practice their faith." Your lives are in no danger, you grandstanding shitheads. If you want to talk about people who are laying down their lives, where are your protests and civil disobedience about the shitty way this country treats veterans, the crap pay active-duty soldiers get that leaves many of them ON FUCKING FOOD STAMPS, the jobs bill specifically to help vets find work after they leave the military that Republicans shot down?
So, ActsFive29, as you begin your publicity stunt this evening, just remember: you are a terrible pack of lying liars who lie, and I'm pretty sure Jesus would be pissed at you for pretending this is what he wanted.
(Btw, does anyone know the source for their claim that they're having to pay a "$1 monthly abortion surcharge"? Where the fuck are they getting that idea? I am seriously confused. I mean I know they're talking out their collective ass as to what the mandate entails anyway - kids, it has NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU PERSONALLY, this is about the insurance companies and what they are required to cover as part of any plan they offer - but this is a new note of batshittery I haven't yet seen, so I'm wondering where it came from.)
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It's a willful misreading of things put in place to gather funds for insurance companies which choose to cover those services *and* are on state exchanges in states which allow them to cover those services. Since federal funds can't be used for abortion, they have to set up a separate account, and no less than $1 of monthly premiums must go into that account.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/mar/21/blog-posting/does-barack-obamas-health-care-bill-include-1-abor/
That's a better explanation, and covers another willful misreading some people have decided to pull out of their asses which says that abortions will only cost $1 under "Obamacare". As if that would be a bad thing. OMG a cheap health procedure?! SAY IT AIN'T SO!
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