Looks like the official blogger of the Edwards campaign will need to do a whole lot of scrubbing if the wants to sanitize her history of hatemongering – especially directed against Catholics and other Christians. She certainly helps put the “ICK” in the DemocratICK Party.

Q: What if Mary had taken Plan B after the Lord filled her with his hot, white, sticky Holy Spirit?

A: YouÂ’d have to justify your misogyny with another ancient mythology.

Or this.

ThereÂ’s a pragmatic reason that the Vatican might be a little hesitant to come right out and say that thereÂ’s no limbo (definition here, for those who donÂ’t know much about Catholicism) is because the concept is wielded by everyday Catholics to explain where the souls of unborn babies go, which is just an extra way to guilt trip women who have abortions. But itÂ’s sort of a balancing act, as far as I can tell, because as most people understand it, unbaptized children go to limbo but when Jesus returns, they all get to go to heaven. So itÂ’s a way to guilt trip women who have abortions without casting god as such an uncruel monster as to throw souls into hell that never even had a shot at sinning. So thatÂ’s limbo: it sucks enough to make women feel guilty about abortion, but it doesnÂ’t suck so much as to run people off.

I suspect Pope Ratz will give into the urge eventually to come out and say thereÂ’s no limbo and unbaptized babies go straight to hell. He canÂ’t help it; heÂ’s just a dictator like that. Hey, fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, the PopeÂ’s gotta tell women who give birth to stillborns that their babies are cast into SatanÂ’s maw. The alternative is to let Catholic women who get abortions feel that itÂ’ll all work out in the end, which is just not doable, due to that Jesus-like compassion the Pope is so fond of. Still, itÂ’s going to be bad PR for the church, so you can sort of see why the Pope is dragging ass.

Which all brings me to recommending this great post by Austin Cline at Jesus’ General about why authoritarian types are so damn interested in cobbling people’s sex lives and meddling around in people’s private sexual decisions, like in this case why the Catholic church is so interested in making sure that people can’t make the perfectly sound decision to limit their family size while enjoying a healthy sex life—either you’re going to have to forgo birth control or you’re going to have to feel guilty to the point where you fear you’re casting babies into hellfire, by their standards. It’s a way to disrupt people’s lives so the church can get more control.

Oh dear – what a hateful bitch she is.

I wonder if the Edwards campaign really wants to be associated with the Know-Nothing wing of the DemocratICK Party that still espouses the same anti-Catholic hate that long-sustained the partyÂ’s paramilitary terrorist auxiliary, the Ku Klux Klan.

H/T Kathryn Jean Lopez

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