If you thought Rick Santorum was only obsessed with what goes on in gay people’s boudoirs, think again, sirs and madams. Do you know what the greatest problem facing America is? You may be surprised to find out that it’s contraception!
Rick Santorum pledged to repeal all federal funding for contraception, during a recent interview with CaffeinatedThoughts.com editor Shane Vander Hart, arguing that birth control devalues the act of procreation. “One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in this country,” the former Pennsylvania senator explained.
Rick Santorum will talk about the tough stuff Rick Perry won’t even touch with a ten foot cattle prod! Thank goodness we have a GOP presidential candidate who’s worried about whether couples are sticking with the rhythm method, or going off into the sinful world of condoms and birth control pills. Frothy continued:
“It’s not okay. It’s a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.”
People in the United States are having all kinds of sexy time fun, and they even have a “license” to do them! This is truly terrible. Would that we instead had a country full of whiny-faced sexually repressed scolds instead! Imagine how many wars we would start out of sheer sexual frustration. [I mean, on top of the wars neocons already start out of sheer sexual frustration.]
Think Progress points out that basically all women alive have used contraception at one point or another [they are the 99%], so I’m going to credit Santorum’s simple wingnut stupidity for this one.
Here is the video, which Think Progress instructs us to begin at the 17:48 mark:
You know what I’d like to see? A candidate who has the guts to promote a law stating that any politician promoting a law that seeks in any way whatsoever to interfere in the private activities between consenting adults shall be stripped naked, doused in boiling hot tar and feathers, and ridden out of town on a splintery rail.
Isn’t it time he focused on ACTUAL problems in the world, such as poverty and war? I’m getting tired of Santorum’s fixation on other people’s sexuality and reproductive choices.
a*****e! Is he trying to say that we should ONLY have sex when making kids? WTF? Even married couples need contraceptives so they can have kids when they WANT to have them. He would not be saying this crap if he was the one who had to carry the child. ARGH!
Why be surprised folks. This is the right-wing, roman catholic agenda fostered by the last two popes and all of their appointed minions in their bishoprics for the last 25 years. Frothy-mix is an uberCatholic of the Opus Dei, Blue Army type. Of course he is against contraception: The Popuses are! With all of the (due) attention given to Mitt’s mormonism and how it might affect our society, we’ve given the Gingrich/ Santorum/ Randall Terry catholicism an unfortunate pass.
I think an argument could be made too that Santorum in a subtle way (but of COURSE he doesn’t mean to) is encouraging anal sex (shudder). If the man is unwilling to ejaculate into the vagina because neither he nor she is using any form of contraception, then guess where else the man might want to stick his penis for the same sensation. Hmm, maybe this encourages oral sex too…so which is the lesser of the two “evils” for Santorum: couples using contraception, or couples engaging in anal intercourse because they aren’t using contraception.
I wouldn’t assume that all Catholic candidates are against contraception – at least if they practice what they preach. 99% of women have used some form of contraception in the US. So, Catholics may preach something from the pulpit and the Pope may say it, but Catholic women are certainly not practicing it.
To carry their argument to its extreme “logical” end, every ejaculation carries millions of human beings – don’t they have the right to be born too? I started wondering 20 years ago why such “body-controllers” didn’t start stripping women of all the eggs in their ovaries as soon as the woman was sexually able to procreate. That way, NO egg will be wasted in something as silly as a menstrual cycle.
A menstrual cycle which doesn’t result in impregnation is just denying all those eggs their right to be human beings, DAMMIT!
This story was on the Huffington Post also and I stated there that if contraception were not allowed, with the attendant rise in unwanted births, how many conservative republican wingnut types would be willing to PAY for the public assistance that many would undoubtedly need. Of course the answer is zero! They only care about controlling women and ‘protecting’ fetuses, once the babies are born it’s ‘you’re on your own baby, don’t expect me to pay anything for your care and upbringing’.
Sarah: I never said assume all catholic candidates are misogynist. But there is a large and growing portion of that denomination which has embraced the ultraconservative Legion of Christ, Opus Dei and Marian Blue Army craziness, that is diametrically opposed to anything progressive in terms of women, GLBT people or the disenfranchised. And they have money. Just because someone is a catholic and many of us know progressive catholics should not give them a free pass.
They cannot focus on the “real problems” because if you put them all together, they haven’t a single solution to any of the USAs problems. So, they have to focus on stuff that will inflame their base against the democrats, homosex’yals and those having more sex than they do. Oh, yeah, and protecting the “unborn” while murdering the already born.
So… many.. idiotic.. things.. said.. brain.. overheating..
What are his core values, he is asked. The FIRST place he goes is attacking gay marriage??
He wants to destroy everything that gives help to the less fortunate in society including health care, welfare, food stamps? Monstrous.
There is nothing to be said about his views on contraception tat has not been said above. But then he has the temerity to talk of STD’s almost immediately after! His idiocy seems to know no bounds.
I had to stop at the point where he proposed education be devolved to states and curriculums be decided by parents! Being a parent does not automatically qualify a person in child development and education. I have come across many bad, ignorant and downright stupid people who happened to be able to procreate, and I would balk at the very idea of them having a hand in my child’s schooling.
I know he is not taken very seriously by most, but these views are prevelent amongst most of the other candidates on the ticket, and the prospect of one of these cretins having any chance of sitting in the oval office is one which I find very alarming indeed.
Isn’t it time he focused on ACTUAL problems in the world, such as poverty and war? I’m getting tired of Santorum’s fixation on other people’s sexuality and reproductive choices.
You’ll note that he’s made attempts to link the economy to the “breakdown of the family” that he imahgines.
“Most Presidents don’t talk about those things.” No santorum, Sherlock. It’s probably because they don’t want to be laughed at. Now I know how Alaska felt. I wish this buffoon would shut the hell up and stop embarrassing the Commonwealth because these articles always have to mention “former Pennsylvania senator.” “The dangers of contraception …” He needs to be institutionalized.
This man wouldn’t know an actual, real-time, national problem if it f*****g hit him square in the face. He is soooooooo absolutely certain that he has his finger squarely on the pulse that his delusions as the only savior available to us are solidly set in his mind. I find myself wondering if he ever ponders the fact that he is so terribly obsessed with sex, sexuality, sexual practices, sexual privacy, sexual desires, needs, and NOW making sure that when you stick it to your woman, you want to make as sure as you can that she gets pregnant. HE IS A CLOWN (a very sexually repressed clown) OF THE FIRST ORDER. Please, sir, do us a favor and just go away. PS: I love the picture of his demonstrating his “style” eating that corndog. He does know how to take it!
I’m constantly amazed at how much control the proponents of “individual freedoms” want to exert over the lives of others.