Every time I decide to sit down and write an article about something uplifting I make the mistake of first picking up the newspaper for inspiration. When will I ever learn?
Is it possible that Christine Flowers, the columnist (I’ll use that term very, very lightly) for the Delco Times is having a secret affair with Donald Trump? At at the least, wants to get appointed onto his cabinet? Maybe the position of Mistress of Moral Decency?
Okay, while neither of those is true, you can’t help but wonder. The landmark decision regarding abortion in Ireland is worse that the Roseanne remark? Okay, where do I start?
First, make no mistake about it. The decision last week in Ireland had as much to do with the Catholic Church as it did with women’s rights. Here is an organization (organized being the key word) that had controlled women for hundreds of years. Men, controlling women, during many a time when women supporters held the church together. Women were told what they could do and not do. They were shamed, cast out, and told they were, “going to hell” for their life choices. All the while being told they had no place whatsoever in the running or the teaching of the church. No, that high duty fell on the shoulders, and the groins, of men.
These men ran the church. And ran women into the ground. Did you read this week by the way, yet another multi-million settlement made by the Catholic church regarding years of priest abuse on minors? And dozens, yes, dozens more still in the negotiation process.
This is all about control, men’s control over women and their fear of losing that control. You had your fun boys, the jig, sorry to use the Irish term, is up.
Now women have the choice to do with their bodies what they wish. If there is an almighty, it is their decision and their eternity to deal with, not Christine’s, Trumps, nor anyone else’s.
Yes, there needs to be strict laws regarding abortion. And that needs to be regulated. By women. Men should have zero say in the matter. They create the problems, they rarely find ways to resolve them.
If you support this president on any matter, you support a sexist, a bigot, a literal form of human garbage. If that is where you decide to stand in line, you had better be concerned about your own eternity as opposed to the millions of women who waited years for theirs. What Roseanne said and did, and that fact that not EVERY person in the country came out against her emphasizes the fact that racism is tolerated on too many levels, in too many places. But a columnist not of color would fail to understand that. She’s too busy using racism as a means to promote a pro-life agenda. Beyond pathetic.
It wouldn’t bother me so much except that she has a public forum to do so. So do I, I realize that, but it’s likely I’m only getting my message out to 4 or 5 people, while she probably reaches…well, dozens, on any given day.
Racism is wrong on any level, and on every level. But a large percentage of this, “Great” country fails to recognize this. We have a sitting president who uses that to his advantage.
Thank, “God” for the Bill Mahers of this world. For the Rachel Maddows, for the Keith Olbermans of this world. People who are not afraid to step up and shout at the lunacy of this administration.
I’ll give Christine credit, she’s not afraid to step,up and voice her opinion as well. Why should she be? She’s got God on her side. The same God that allowed the church to grow, to manipulate, to control, to pay off, to molest, to reassign, to settle lawsuits. Good to be a winning team.
Trapped in a Happy Life 