Slight of Hand

Okay, this is a good one. The Democratic machine is bringing in the re-enforcements and trotting out the sympathies for all the discussion on Contraception and the government involvement. Rick Santorum has made a point of bringing up this social issue as a freedom of religion debate. Pres. Obama and his apologists have countered that this is a poverty issue, that the government should provide a means for the "poor" to have access to contraception, therefore they are requiring insurance companies to pay for patient's contraceptive costs, like it is a prescription or something. Self-insured employers, like the Catholic Church oppose contraceptive practices and feel that it is not the government's place to force policies on an employer that are contrary to the religious beliefs of the employer especially if it is a Church. The White House and the Democratic machine have been trying to pull the discussion away from the 2nd Amendment argument and more towards the poor and affordability argument. The have even demonized Mr. Santorum as anti-women's health (who would have thought that contraceptives made women healthier - "Vitamin S"?...for Sex). Anyway, the Catholic and other church don't want to be mandated to provide something that is against their beliefs....kind of like making the Rainforest Alliance buy S.U.V.s for their company vehicles (which I think they do voluntarily and hypocritically). Again, this is not an issue about women's health or the poor...it is about the government forcing someone to do something they don't believe in...aren't they pro-choice, meaning allowing options for all the consequenses?

So they march the Georgetown Co-ed in front of the congressional committee hearing to give testimony in support of their (the Democrats) argument. The actions of the polititians in this respect is reprehensible, in taking advantage of a young women that was willing to represent their position, but opening her up to public scrutiny without a full vetting of her testimony....sloppy, sloppy, sloppy.

In the game of propaganda the end justifies whatever action needs to be taken.  With that course doesn't an effort like that de-legitimize the point that you are trying to make?  If you can't make a logical and thoughtful justification of your point, then you are just trying to push a lie.  Where does a lie take us?  Down a dead-end road; game, set, match.

Maybe we need to examine where we are going and what are people's motives.  If a movement is purely political, it is more often the result of a pushing a lie to make a point, no common sense, no conscience...but of course, this is just an observation....