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Rush Limbaugh, with an assist by the Sons of Jacob serving in the Senate, laid bare the misogynistic bent of the modern GOP and their unhealthy projection of their own perversions on women the nation over this week:

(NY Daily News) — Rush Limbaugh ratcheted up the rhetoric Thursday in the debate over requiring health insurers to cover contraceptives, saying women who want coverage should should make sex videos. His comments followed his attack on Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke, whom he called a “slut” on Wednesday for testifying on Capitol Hill in favor of the idea.

Such a terrible, evil, rotten sluuut. So awful and immoral that … Rush, the married lover of Viagra and presumably birth control — as four marriages have failed to produce a single child — and by extension anyone who agrees with his, umm, position, would like to whack off 24/7 to a vast selection of these slutty bitches in hot, one-on-one action available for free on youTube …

So far not one elected Republican politician has denounced his broadcast. In fact Republicans doubled down on Rush’s tirade.

(Link) — In an election-year battle mixing birth control, religion and politics, Senate Democrats narrowly blocked an effort by Republicans to overturn President Barack Obama’s order that most employers or their insurers cover the cost of contraceptives. The 51-48 vote on Thursday killed a measure that would have allowed employers and insurers to opt out of portions of the president’s health care law that they found morally objectionable. That would have included the law’s requirement to cover the costs of birth control.

That same bill would have allowed an employer to choose health insurance plans denying care for any condition, for any reason, as long as that reason is couched as a religious or moral objection. Need a blood transfusion? Better hope there’s not a Jehovah’s Witness on the board of directors. In fact, there wouldn’t even need to be a Witness anywhere in the company, employers could deny everything from antibiotics to surgery simply by claiming it violated their conscience. How much money might employers save if they suddenly found diabetes, heart disease, or cancer morally objectionable?

Most people fighting the GOP on this are quick to point that it’s not a religious issue, that religion is being misused as cover for a War on Women. But this ignores an uncomfortable fact: fundamentalist Christianity, like fundamentalist Islam and many other faiths, is explicitly anti-democratic, at least if you believe women should have a vote, be able to own property, choose who they marry, or divorce abusive husbands. Fact is the GOP base is simply following that hard-line Old Testament religious mandate when they vote against women’s rights.

Any women who votes for these bozos is probably too far gone to save and may be absolutely out of her fucking mind. And GOP guys, it may be pointless to mention facts, but the last time birth control was illegal, there was no such thing as genetic testing and court mandated child support. Then again it wouldn’t take a theocracy long to strip those laws and ban genetic testing. After all, it’s the always women’s fault, and babies are always a blessing; any women should consider herself lucky if God-eh rewards her with the miracle of birth for her flagrant sin, or for asking to be raped. Just ask any Handmaid in Gilead.