**Mike Rounds asks Priest if Virgin Mary was Raped

Mike Rounds, Governor of SD, is pondering and thinking about the Rapist Rights Bill the SD Legislature just passed. The wingnut loons answered prayers are putting Mikey in a bind. Does he eat everything they shovel his way or not?

Well, He just has to find out if God raped the Virgin Mary. That will provide the theological basis for SD supporting Rapist Rights and treating women as nearly worthless chattle, good only as reproduction machines betting on hitting the Jesus bonus on the reproductive powerball lottery. Speaking of lotteries, how about that Million dollar bribe the anti-women's righters are promising to pony up to fight for their lunatic legislation? Ok, Mike, I wanta buy a vowel and a subsection of a new law. Umm . talk to the lawyers, they are looking for another lawyer's subsidy law. Hey, guess what? Wild Bill Janklow is back in the legal saddle. Whooopppeeee!

Another pop song comes to mind. "Son, Don't take your gun to town". For legislatures, it might be "Don't take your God to Town". The founders of this country had a lot of knowledge of the problems with mixing god and government. Right now, the marchers in the streets of Baghdad busy shooting each other in the head and blowing up each others holy sites indicate the problems with mixing gods and government. Onward Moslem soldiers marching as to war. With the sword....oops Martin Luther would not approve.

Keywords to remember with "South Dakota", "Legislative Bribes", "Legislative Lunacy", "Rapist Rights", "Theocracy" And, holding that god-awful mixture together is the fundamental principle, "No matter how egregious the governing error, It's OK if you are Republican."

***Stay tuned even if "follow the money" is not your favorite game---Doug Wiken

Comments

[Tharris]

It's a sad day when a rapist has more rights than his victim. If I were a young woman in college in South Dakota, I think I would consider taking my job skills to a state where my rights as a human being are more respected.

If any South Dakaota woman reading this is a rape victim, know this--you don't have to stay there. There is nothing illegal about you leaving the state to get an abortion. If you can't afford to leave, then there are other alternatives--many domestic violence centers in other states would most likely be happy to give you safe shelter. You don't have to resign yourself to being victimized for life by both your attacker and the South Dakota legislature.

I will never buy another thing that comes out of South Dakota...I cut up my Citibank credit card today. I won't buy from Iams or Gateway. The only thing the idiots in power understand is money...and that's how we are going to have to sqeeze them.

[sschartman]

Thank you for providing the perfect phrase to frame this issue. A complete ban on abortion is a protection of "Rapists' Rights." This isn't pro-life, it's pro-rapists, pro-fathers-who-abuse-their-daughters. South Dakota is declaring that girls and women are 2nd-class citizens and their right to not be victimized is less important than the rights of criminals. How very sad it is that the South Dakota legislature believes all sperm is Divine.

[Erin]

Give us more names of businesses to boycott! Where can we have bumper stickers made?

[Sam]

Found this in a BBC article:Could this be the end of Roe v Wade?
By Clare Murphy
BBC News

"If states can decree that life begins at conception, they might also be able to use state custody laws to curtail the movements of pregnant women," William Baude argued in a recent New York Times editorial.

"Once Roe has been overturned, a state may be able to place an unborn child into protective custody, forbidding their mothers to take them across state lines."

[sammi]

Um... this bill is not about giving rights to rapists or discriminating aginst women- many women are pro-life. Plain and simple, it is not right to murder an innocent child for the crime of their father. This bill is about protecting the innocent children. Pregnancy can be perfectly safe if the woman recieves quality prenatal care- and that's where government funding should go.