{"id":18960,"date":"2010-10-19T11:00:55","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T17:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=18960"},"modified":"2010-10-19T11:00:55","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T17:00:55","slug":"hitting-new-highs-or-lows-in-right-wing-apocalyptic-zaniness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/19\/hitting-new-highs-or-lows-in-right-wing-apocalyptic-zaniness.html","title":{"rendered":"Hitting new highs (or lows) in Right-wing Apocalyptic Zaniness"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can understand the anti-abortion sentiment backing Colorado Amendment 62, the “Personhood” amendment (more info here<\/a>). I disagree with it, and I think the nature of the amendment itself is highly flawed, but I can understand how thoughtful people, considering fetuses to be fully vested human beings, would attempt to write that into the state constitution so as to stop abortion.<\/p>\n

What I don’t understand is this:<\/p>\n

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I could write all day about the goofiness here — the idea of Obama as the “Angel of Death” whose administration is focused solely on cheap abortion for everyone; the idea of a conspiracy of “Men in Black Robes” who “hated traditional American values especially life and liberty;” the idea of a multi-billion dollar “abortion industry” (the only industry, apparently, that the GOP doesn’t avidly support no matter what — maybe it should join the US Chamber of Commerce) — but mash it all together and … yeesh.<\/p>\n

As a commercial to encourage support of protecting and cherishing life, it pretty much sucks. It does a mich better job as an expression of rabid fearmongering and anger-stoking. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can understand the anti-abortion sentiment backing Colorado Amendment 62, the “Personhood” amendment (more info here). I disagree with it, and I think the nature of the amendment itself is highly flawed, but I can understand how thoughtful people, considering fetuses to be fully vested human beings, would attempt to write that into the state … Continue reading “Hitting new highs (or lows) in Right-wing Apocalyptic Zaniness”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2010"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30020,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/29\/colorado-personhood-comes-up-short-for-the-november-ballot.html","url_meta":{"origin":18960,"position":0},"title":"Colorado Personhood comes up short for the November ballot","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 29-Aug-12 1:15pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Have to say I'm pleased by this, both because it means we won't have this on the ballot yet again (plus the finite chance that it could have passed), and because it indicates there's not enough support out there for them to have made it happen.I do expect a nasty\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":23461,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/05\/when-the-catholic-bishops-arent-behind-your-anti-abortion-measure.html","url_meta":{"origin":18960,"position":1},"title":"When the Catholic Bishops aren't behind your anti-abortion measure …","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 5-Nov-11 12:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Granted, part of their motivation is that it possibly makes their own anti-abortion measures look bad, but in part it's because ... well, it's a crappy, overreaching, hubristic, theologically dubious, constitutionally questionable proposal. #ddtb Embedded Link Mississippi Catholic Bishop, Religious Leaders Denounce Personhood Anti-Abortion Bill This Tuesday, Mississippians will vote\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12851,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/17\/colorado_ballot_initiativ.html","url_meta":{"origin":18960,"position":2},"title":"Colorado ballot initiatives","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 17-Sep-08 11:42am","format":false,"excerpt":"BD notes the current array of ballot initiatives coming up here in Colorado this fall. 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