Taking Your Right Wing Politics Too Literally

Evidently there is a gentleman running for the Senate in Idaho who has legally changed his name to Pro-Life.  Please take a moment to let the enormity of this man’s idiocy sink in.  Here I thought that the Midwest had the market cornered on fundamentalist nutjobs, and that the Pacific coast would be free of this sort of dumbassery.  Pro-Life will be running for the Senate seat being vacated by Larry “wide stance” Craig (R- ID), the rabidly anti-gay crusader who was discovered hitting men up for oral sex in a Minneapolis bathroom.  I guess religiously motivated hypocrites and nutjobs grow as prolifically as potatoes in Idaho.

From the candidate:

“I think it’s just and I think it’s proper to have Pro-Life on the ballot,” he told the Idaho Press-Tribune of Nampa. “If I save one baby’s life, it’s worth it.”

Yes, putting the slogan “pro-life” on the ballot box is going to make young potential mothers between the ages of 18-29, who as a voting bloc are notorious for their 100% attendance at the polls, think twice before they decide to hobble themselves with a pregnancy that they don’t want or can’t handle because a strawberry farmer from Backwater Idaho’s all-loving invisible friend in the sky will send you to hell for destroying a fertilized egg.

Pro-Life doesn’t stop the crazy there, however:

He says he will run for the highest state office on the ballot every two years for the rest of his life, advocating murder charges for doctors who perform abortions and for women who obtain the procedure.

Why stop there?  If we’re going to go down the road of religiously mandated murder charges then we might as well round up every guy who has ever masturbated.  That’s billions of potential humans who are being killed according to the narrow religious definition of life.  We should probably also grab any woman who uses birth control or anyone who purchases a condom, because it’s a well known fact that Trojan brand and Ortho Tri-cyclen are long-running government-sanctioned mass murderers that would make Hitler and Stalin look like kittens in comparison.  And it goes without saying that anyone who uses the morning after pill should probably just be sentenced to death on the spot so we can stop the moral threat that birth control poses to society as a whole.

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