MONEY IS POWER EVERYWHERE BUT IS NOT THE ONLY POWER

An article by Adele M Stan points out how little Catholic parishioners understand what the Bishops hierarchy does with their donations.  Most assume it goes to charity but the reality is that more government money (the tax dollars from Atheist to all religions) supports a greater majority of them.  She writes:  " Many of the Catholics that Holden spoke to for his report expressed dismay that the church is spending its political capital and parishioners' money to fight for antiquated and discriminatory notions of sexual morality rather than to defeat the death penalty or advocate for immigrants. At a recent meeting of progressive and liberal religious types I attended in Washington, DC, I heard the same complaint from the Catholics in the room."  For the article in its entirety, click here.

Written by Dominic Holden in the Stranger  he says:  "The American Catholic hierarchy is escalating a campaign against 
gay marriage—and progressive Catholic churchgoers are angry. 
Angry enough to leave. Angry enough to organize. Angry enough to stop tithing. How much money from that donation platter is going into the fight against gays and lesbians, anyway?"

When a religious institution works tirelessly to make laws that control the lives of all others, not of that religion, it shows its own weakness.  If its doctrines were relevant to 2012, they would no longer have to try to play political games with everyone's life. The current whining about contraception and gay marriage makes it very clear, the church is trying to cross the barrier of separation of church and state.  The brainwashed media, such as Chris Mathews, should recuse themselves from commenting their own opinions on these subjects and just report news.  For a business (which I consider all churches to be) to fill itself with pedophiles and then presume to tell the rest of us how to live our lives; which ignores current scientific research; which ignores the benefits of sex and the calming effects of the endorphins produced which can calm down elevated cortisol (the stress hormone) levels;

Working on a 2000 year old myth that God planned sex only for procreation, today's world knows the benefits to the human experience in terms of promoting health and calmness of mood from experiencing the endorphin rush that orgasm brings on.  If this was a sin, then there would be no 'nocturnal emissions' or 'wet dreams' experienced in sleep by both genders.  Nature has always known what is better for man (and woman) than celibate misogynists.

If the Teapartiers really want a less intrusive government, then get out of our bodies (I'm speaking to you in Virginia, especially) and sex lives.. Leave our health to physicians and ourselves, the governments should only see to providing insurance coverage to make a healthy population more possible.

TEAPARTY WOMEN GIVETHE FEMALE GENDER A VERY BAD IMAGE

Most people hear non-profit and don't realize that people are not all volunteers.  Many are highly paid and run non-profit organizations as their primary source of income.  Wikipedia writes:  Christine Therese O'Donnell (born August 27, 1969) is an American Republican Party politician who founded two advocacy organizations and has been an advocate for nonprofit clients and nonprofit causes for nearly 20 years.  She is currently being accused of mismanaging her campaign funds  For more on her, click here and click here. where you will re-read some of the craziest things she has said.  

Michele Bachmann, is another loose cannon.  A hint of her came out in an interview with Chris Mathews in  November 2010.  Click here.  Be sure to watch her on video in this post.   She behaves like a Joe McCarthy replacement in drag.  For whatever strange reason, Boehner has put her on the Intelligence committee.  As ridiculous as she was before her election, she did cite as the first order of business that taxes should not be raised (as part of her acceptance speech in November) loudly proclaiming that is exactly what the Democrats have in mind...raising taxes.

Timothy Dalrymple wrote  "Loser: Republican women, and women in general.:"   " Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman had a lot going for them: sophisticated, intelligent, competent, extraordinary experience as entrepreneurs and executives, with loads of money and strong connections in the business community.  At a time of financial peril, with California and Washington facing budgetary crises the likes of which we have not seen for a generation or two, with a maligned President of the opposing party — they still could not get elected."Angle and O’Donnell also lost, and their weirdness (together with that of Michelle Bachmann), played up ad nauseum in the media, arguably hurt the image of the conservative woman.  All were made out to be shrieking harpies.  2010 was billed as the rise of the conservative woman — and especially the conservative Christian woman.  Yet it was tough.  Angle lost by a surprising margin, O’Donnell lost by an unsurprising but very large margin, and Fiorina and Whitman also lost handily.  The Mama Grizzlies and the Mama CEO’s didn’t fare so well".  To read the entire Dalrymple article which is quite enlightening about feelings expressed and acted on about women, click here.

Clearly there are many men out there who believe most women don't belong in politics.  There is not a singular reason for that.   Some may be threatened, some women don't behave in a predictable 'old boy' manner, and some women prove they can do what men are unable to do in so many ways.