Retarded Religious Right-Wingers of the Week

An HPV vaccine is in the works which would dramatically reduce cervical cancer, but the religious right is apparently against it:

"Giving the HPV vaccine to young women could be potentially harmful, because they may see it as a licence to engage in premarital sex," Maher claims

How brilliant is that? Abstinance education doesn't work, and might actually make matters worse because they tend to engage in riskier behaviors like anal sex, and yet they want to pile on and shun a possible cancer prevention agent in the name of their ridiculous jihad. They will not settle for anything less... see here

On to the next thing... Have you ever heard of the Dominionists? These guys are bat-shit crazy:

"Our job is to reclaim America for Christ, whatever the cost," Kennedy says. "As the vice regents of God, we are to exercise godly dominion and influence over our neighborhoods, our schools, our government, our literature and arts, our sports arenas, our entertainment media, our news media, our scientific endeavors -- in short, over every aspect and institution of human society."
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He takes particular aim at the threat posed by John Lennon, denouncing "Imagine" as a "secular anthem" that envisions a future of "clone plantations, child sacrifice, legalized polygamy and hard-core porn."
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Cass also presents another small-town activist, Kevin McCoy, with a Salt and Light Award for leading a successful campaign to shut down an anti-bullying program in West Virginia schools. McCoy, a soft-spoken, prematurely gray postal worker, fought to end the program because it taught tolerance for gay people -- and thus, in his view, constituted a "thinly disguised effort to promote the homosexual agenda." "What America needs," Cass tells the faithful, "is more Kevin McCoys."
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Sears argues that the constitutional guarantee against state-sponsored religion is actually designed to "shield" the church from federal interference -- allowing Christians to take their rightful place at the head of the government.
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The most vivid proof of the Christianizing of Capitol Hill comes at the final session of Reclaiming America. Rep. Walter Jones, a lanky congressman from North Carolina, gives a fire-and-brimstone speech that would have gotten him laughed out of Washington thirty years ago. In today's climate, however, he's got a chance of passing his pet project, the Houses of Worship Free Speech Restoration Act, which would permit ministers to endorse political candidates from their pulpits, effectively converting their tax-exempt churches into Republican campaign headquarters.

Hmmm... looks like Walter's folks have jumped the gun a little. Yeah, I know I have posted on that already, but it is so retarded it makes it into this post.

While we are on that topic, John also points out that a Catholic Bishop in Toledo is against a measure that would extend the statute of limitations for victims of child sexual abuse... why? Well, we gotta protect all those buggerin' priests, now don't we? Yipee! More reasons to never be a Catholic!

Finally, what would all this be without good ol' Pat Robertson?

Federal judges are a more serious threat to America than Al Qaeda and the Sept. 11 terrorists, the Rev. Pat Robertson claimed yesterday.

"Over 100 years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings," Robertson said on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos."

Wait a second! I actually agree with that last statement! Only I guess Pat isn't referring to my idea of what that loosely-termed "consensus" is...

I can't leave you like that, can I? Ok... here is a bit of good news to help.