Ahhh, nothing wakes me up like the smell of wingnut in the morning.

Focus on the Family founder James Dobson is one of those crusty old historical revisionist fundiecons who thinks the way forward is to regress.  Like many on the right, he’s a gay-hating, anti-intellectual xenophobe who has the gall to suggest/holds the delusion that Christians are being oppressed and their values diminished.

Today I read that he has attacked Barack Obama for “deliberately distorting” the bible and having a “fruitcake interpretation” of the constitution.  Actually, the full quote is that Obama is “deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own worldview, his own confused theology.”

What the crispy crap?  Hey, that sounds familiar!  Kind of like supporting wars in the middle east as a way to hasten Armageddon, or suspending your literal interpretations of God’s direct words to allow yourselves to support the death penalty, or telling each other to be Christ-like, yet vote for the political party who is traditionally hostile to the poor and consistently favors the rich.  Somebody’s theology is confused indeed.

At least he appears to understand that the bible is indeed something to be interpreted by using the word “understanding,” though “traditional” is highly subjective.  He goes on to say “[Obama] is dragging biblical understanding through the mud,” confirming yet again what we already knew about fundamentalist mindset:  only my interpretation is the correct interpretation.

In light of that, it’s not so difficult to understand their fascist tendencies, considering their refusal to tolerate disagreement, let alone dissent.  I won’t even bother with his statement about constitutional interpretation.  The common fundamentalist delusion of authority with regards to anything constitutional would be comical if it weren’t so damn scary.

Dobson apparently didn’t have much of a defense for his opinion, since he changed the subject by reminding everybody that Obama is pro-choice and abortion is the only issue that matters, pay no attention to that man behind the curtain, OBEY, all your base are belong to us, etc.   Cheap.

My wife was looking for some pictures to see how far along our baby may have gotten by now and had this to say about her google experience:

OMG.

I hate “googling” pictures of babies at 4, 5, 6 weeks gestation…and keep finding Christian extremist websites of abortions. If I wanted to see a motherfucking abortion, I would have looked that up!

I don’t get heavily involved in the abortion issue; arguing the issue is almost always a lose-lose situation. I personally could never abort, and I don’t like it, but I’m not about to tell somebody they can’t do it because they’re going to burn in the fiery pits of hell. I just don’t like finding pictures of severed arms and legs when I’m trying to find out what my child might look like.

To the extreme religious zealots that push this shit on *everyone* whether they’re pro-life, pro-choice, or somewhere in the middle–fucking get your point across some other way. I’m not offended by bumper stickers that say “Abortion stops a beating heart,”–I have to agree with that sentiment–but when you shove pictures of that shit in my face when I’m just trying to do research, yeah, it fucking offends me.

Sorry. Must be the pregnancy hormones. That just eats my ass. I know what an abortion is. While I’m expecting a child, though, I don’t want to see pictures of that, especially when I didn’t look that up. Fucks.