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You can't make this shit up...
Yesterday Amanda Marcotte tweeted about religious employer exemptions for prodiving birth control, saying “Really, it’s no different than claiming a religious exemption from paying your employees a minimum wage.” Clever, but that’d never actually happen, right?
Right…?
The Church of Scientology in Australia has asked the Federal Government for an exemption to the Fair Work Act so they do not have to pay workers the minimum wage.
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Well done, Republicans!
Amanda Snarcotte* FTW:
Blunt amendment. Let’s take a tally of how that worked out for you.
1) It kept contraception on the radar, which gave the mainstream media plenty of time and opportunity to make it clear that Rick Santorum is an anti-contraception nut who, if elected, would almost surely do everything in his power to keep women from getting access to contraception.
2) It forced Mitt Romney to set the land record in flip-flopping, first defending a woman’s right to use contraception and then back-tracking and saying, no, actually, you think her employer should get a vote when it comes to how she conducts her private sex and reproductive life.
3) It revealed to the world that your party thinks it’s appropriate to exclude female voices from a discussion about women’s health care.
4) It set your most popular spokesman, Rush Limbaugh, on a multi-week rant about how 99% of American women are “sluts” and “prostitutes”.
5) It’ll probably be a factor in Scott Brown and Olympia Snowe’s seats turning blue.
6) It made those in the media who apologize for your anti-choice views realize that actually, this really was about sex all along and had nothing to do with fetuses.
7) It made you the butt of jokes from “Saturday Night Live”, “Funny or Die”, Jon Stewart, and Stephen Colbert.
8) And then the amendment that all this effort was put behind died with a whimper on the Senate floor.
*I say with affection.
Genderqueer with a touch of happy humanism.
