Pledge of Sexllegiance
Just when you thought the GOP couldn’t get anymore embedded in the 12th century, they come up with something that takes serfdom to a new level. To be a candidate for the Republican party in Chastity Belt Laurens County, South Carolina you must sail fifty hail Marys and recite the following:
- You must favor, and live up to, abstinence before marriage.
- You must be faithful to your spouse. Your spouse cannot be a person of the same gender, and you are not allowed to favor any government action that would allow for civil unions of people of the same sex.
- You cannot now, from the moment you sign this pledge, look at pornography.
This is no joke – comedic gold, but no joke.
You thought nuns were uptight because they pledged away sex. Just wait til you meet a Republican from Laurens County.
Where does the former governor of South Carolina fit in – Governor Don’t Cry For Me Argentina
“Sex is dirty and should be confined to airport restrooms.”
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While the crew here at MPS is getting all in a tizzy about those wacky, awful, nasty Rethuglicans, here’s what our nice, sweet, entirely sane liberal Democratic Administration is up to:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/holder-us-can-lawfully-target-american-citizens/2012/03/05/gIQANknFtR_story.html
via Washington Post: AG Holder Says US Can Lawfully Target American Citizens Abroad
The U.S. government has the right to order the killing of American citizens overseas if they are senior al-Qaeda leaders who pose an imminent terrorist threat and cannot reasonably be captured, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said Monday.
“Any decision to use lethal force against a United States citizen — even one intent on murdering Americans and who has become an operational leader of al-Qaeda in a foreign land — is among the gravest that government leaders can face,” Holder said in a speech at Northwestern University’s law school in Chicago. “The American people can be — and deserve to be — assured that actions taken in their defense are consistent with their values and their laws.”
Holder’s discussion of lethal force against U.S. citizens did not mention any individual by name, but his address was clearly animated by the targeting of Anwar al-Awlaki, a senior figure in al-Qaeda’s Yemeni affiliate. Awlaki, who was born in New Mexico, was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen in September.
Since that operation, the Obama administration has faced calls to explain the legal framework behind its decision to target Awlaki and to release at least portions of a classified memorandum by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel that contains its evidence, reasoning and conclusions.
Holder’s speech represented the administration’s most elaborate public explanation to date for targeted killings. And it followed a prolonged internal debate about how to inform the public about one of the most extraordinary decisions a government can take without explicitly acknowledging the ongoing classified drone program…
So, Mike, does that mean that if Laurens County ever gets control of a Predator they will start snooping on pledge signers to see if they’re looking at porn, and zapping those who are, claiming their “spontaneous combustion” was the will of god?