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Did you know that if you are a Christian you are exempt from the taxes, penalties and regulations imposed by the recently enacted health insurance law ? All you have to do is to affirm a statement of Christian beliefs and pledge to follow a code that includes no tobacco or illegal drugs, no sex outside of marriage, and no abuse of alcohol or legal medications and pay a monthly fee to join a religious health care sharing ministry plan, a plan that specifically does not guarantee the payment of your medical bills in any fashion and holds members solely responsible for payment of said bills. And the reason for this exemption? According to the spokeswoman for the Senate committee responsible for writing much of the legislation, lawmakers granted the exemption out of respect for religious freedom . So, to recap, if you're a religious person the government trusts and respects you enough not to oversee or regulate your health insurance decisions, no matter how misguided they might be or

NYDailyNews.com Here's Rev. Stephen Broden , in all his glory: "We celebrate our history, but our future is in jeopardy as a genocidal plot is carried out through abortion," said the Rev. Stephen Broden, an official with the anti-abortion group Life Always. ... "Our message is one that's provocative," he said. "It's true and it's accurate and it's real." Because nothing's more true and accurate than declaring that the melanin content in the cells of certain pregnant women renders them incompetent to make their own decisions, and puts a serious damper on their ability to figure out genocidal plots and walk and chew gum at the same time. And here I thought just being a uterine container made you the lowest of the low. I stand corrected. Rev. Stephen Broden is here to demonstrate that there are always new and improved ways to degrade you. UPDATE: The ad has been taken down . No word yet on what happened to Rev. Stephen Broden's bel

Army Maj. Gen. David Quantock , the commanding general at Fort Leonard Wood, calls a press conference and declares the Army to be a culture intolerant of sexual assault and sexual abuse of any kind . Okay, except as far as I know chaplains are still part of the Army: Seventeen current and former service members who say they were raped or assaulted by fellow soldiers said they filed the federal class-action lawsuit to force the Pentagon to change how it handles such cases. One of the plaintiffs was a former Army sergeant who claimed that when she approached a chaplain at Fort Leonard Wood to discuss stress related to running into a service member who had allegedly raped her in the past, the chaplain told her that "it must have been God's will for her to be raped" and suggested she attend church more often. Assuming the sergeant's charges are true, the chaplain's action is anything but intolerant of sexual assault and abuse. Irrespective of personal religious belief

The language of HB 1171 has been changed. The new version (old version here ): 1 FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to provide that the use of force by a pregnant woman for 2 the protection of her unborn child is an affirmative defense to prosecutions for certain 3 crimes. 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA: 5 Section 1. It is an affirmative defense to a prosecution for homicide as defined in § 22-16-1 6 or assault as defined in § 22-18-1 or 22-18-1.1 that the defendant is a pregnant woman who used 7 force or deadly force against another to protect her unborn child if: 8 (1) Under the circumstances as the pregnant woman reasonably believes them to be, she 9 would be justified under § 22-16-35 in using force or deadly force to protect herself 10 against the unlawful force or unlawful deadly force she reasonably believes to be 11 threatening her unborn child; and 12 (2) She reasonably believes that her intervention and use of force or deadly force are 13 immediate

A question for the voters of South Dakota: Did you change your state's motto to "Legalizing Domestic Terrorism and Proud of It" while the rest of the country wasn't looking? And now bask in the glory that is State Representative Phil Jensen and his grotesque lies and disturbed fantasies (really bad form emphasis mine): I just had a spirited conversation with the bill's chief sponsor, State Representative Phil Jensen, and he defended the bill, arguing that it would not legalize the killing of abortion doctors. "It would if abortion was illegal," he told me. " This code only deals with illegal acts . Abortion is legal in this country. This has nothing to do with abortion." HB 1171 : FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to expand the definition of justifiable homicide to provide for the protection of certain unborn children. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA: Section 1. That § 22-16-34 be amended to read as follows: 22-16-34.

"Was I really raped if my skull wasn't fractured in the attack?" "Will I be allowed to set foot inside the ED if there's even the slightest chance that my mere pregnant presence could perturb an employee?" When these are legitimate questions you have to ask yourself if you're a woman of reproductive age in today's America, it's likely you won't have much time and energy left over to ponder the nonsensical restrictions on the sale of ECPs , like Plan B One-Step, and the FDA's ongoing contempt of court. So here's an update on the latest developments: Teva, the manufacturer of the emergency contraceptive Plan B, announced that they filed an over-the-counter application for Plan B One-Step with the Food and Drug Administration this week. The application requests that the agency make the emergency contraceptive available without a prescription for women of all ages. This development comes on the heels of the Center for Reproductive Rights

Soon Arizona lawmakers will force every last person in the state to become an INS enforcement official, including the people who are in the country illegally.

Islamic officials in Malaysia, fighting the righteous fight against Valentine's Day : KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) – As couples around the world ready for Valentine's Day, Islamic officials in Malaysia have warned Muslims against celebrating something "synonymous with vice activities." The warning follows plans announced last week by several Malaysian states who are planning a crackdown on "immoral acts" during Valentine's Day as part of a campaign to encourage a sin-free lifestyle. "In reality, as well as historically, the celebration of Valentine's Day is synonymous with vice activities," Wan Mohamad Sheikh Abdul Aziz, head of the Malaysian Islamic Development Department (JAKIM), which oversees the country's Islamic policies, told state media. ... JAKIM officials will carry out a nationwide 'Mind the Valentine's Day Trap' campaign, he said, aimed at preventing Muslims from celebrating the day. Nasrudin Hasan Tantawi, head of the Isl

Cut Family Planning by $317 and WIC (a program which provides nutritional support for women and children) by $747 million. And just so that foreigners don't feel left out, cut Global Health and Child Survival by $783 million. Phew, good thing there's no connection between having unprotected intercourse and pregnancy, between pregnancy and having children, and between children and having to, you know, feed them. Or how about cut Public Housing Capital by $1,072 million and the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program - Contingency Fund by $390, Community Health Centers by $1,000 million, the CDC's Immunization and respiratory Diseases by $156 million, Public Health Preparedness and Response by $269, and flu funding by $288. Because when you spend all your money on rent and can't afford to pay the heat bill or pay for a flu shot or an inhaler and you become sick, you don't need no stinkin' Community Health Center to catch the illness early on and treat it. Best