Time Religion Reporter Complains Conservatives Hypocritical on Taxpayer Funding for Planned Parenthood
On Friday afternoon, Time magazine religion reporter Amy Sullivan briefly blogged her complaint about what she sees as hypocrisy from conservatives who oppose federal monies for Planned Parenthood but support federal support for faith-based initiatives.
"Money is Fungible," blared her April 8 Swampland headline. Well, "[o]bviously," she agreed, then carped that:
Except when it's a grant to a religious organization, in which case it's obviously tightly segregated in order to prevent the appearance of government-funded religion and therefore the furthest thing from fungible. If only Planned Parenthood would hire some church treasurers to replicate that nifty accounting system for them, this whole silly argument could be solved.
Sullivan's lament is telling: The Time magazine religion reporter is much less scandalized by direct taxpayer aid to a major abortion provider than federal aid that flows to religious charities that don't have blood on their hands.
If Sullivan is truly concerned about such hypocrisy, maybe she'd favor voucherizing both the money that goes to Planned Parenthood and monies that go directly to religious charities. That way recipients could shop around for social welfare services and taxpayers wouldn't directly shovel money to controversial organizations.
Of course, given how most liberals are grousing over a D.C. schools voucher plan that was hammered out in Friday evening's eleventh hour budget deal, I highly doubt that sort of compromise would be palatable to Sullivan.
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How about this...
Submitted by c5then on Mon, 04/11/2011 - 11:35am.
Let's get the Federal Government out of the business of funding anything but those Federal Government departments and agencies that are directly related to it's duties and responsibilities as delegated to it in the Constitution!
If Planned Parenthood wishes to provide charitable healthcare to poor women, then I applaude that goal and they should raise the money privately and go forth and be charitable.
Before we have the argument about how much money the Federal Government ought to be spending, we need to have the argument about what in fact the Federal government out to be doing at all. The Constitution lays out some very specific and dileneated duties for the Federal Government. Some others are more vague and up to interpretation and then everything else is specifically reserved to the States or the People. Let's start there and see what happens.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
Up Down Vote coming up! May
Submitted by MaximusBraveheart on Tue, 04/12/2011 - 11:47am.
Up Down Vote coming up! May help in 2012 election. PLEASE write your Senator TODAY to vote against Federal funding of PP!!! Have them on the record for 2012!
snip: Good article!
While pro-lifers lament Planned Parenthood wasn’t defunded in the final 2011 budget, Harry Reid and Barack Obama threw 7 Senate Democrats under the bus in the process.
Reid and Obama agreed to let the Senate have an up or down vote on defunding PP. We already know such a vote will fail, since 41 Democrats signed a letter on April 4 saying they’d oppose such a measure, making it bullet-proof.
But House Majority Leader John Boehner’s strategy is to force so-called Democrat moderates to go on the record, potentially getting ammo for the 2012 elections.
Read more at: http://www.jillstanek.com/2011/04/under-the-bus-the-planned-parenthood-c...
-- Maximusbraveheart -- Is TRUTH knowable? Moral Relativism is the abandonment of Truth. Truth is knowable. Truth conforms to Reality. Reality is observable by evidence & witness in this day & from history. Relativism is Sesame Street play land.
The Left Makes Social Issues Relevant
Submitted by rogue operator on Mon, 04/11/2011 - 12:01pm.
The left decries "social conservatives" for intending to legislate morality, but supposedly "tolerant" lefties set the right up for 'reaction' by politicizing what should rightfully belong in a civil society. Conservatives are forced into using government as a means of self-defense to protect their culture from being destroyed. This is inherently destabilizing in a free republic. Issues that should be decided by individuals voluntarily exercising their rights in a civil society become "policies" co-opted by leftist interests, which use American taxpayers' funds to attempt to undermine the nation's Judeo-Christian morality and pro-capitalist culture.
IMPLEMENT the Democratic "CODE."
Submitted by MaximusBraveheart on Mon, 04/11/2011 - 12:29pm.
Use their own Marxist engineered economic collapse plan against themselves! Pass a law that enforces the Democratic "CODE." Any person voting Democrat MUST adhere by law to the party plan of 75% taxation. All assets over $1M shall be confiscated. All homes over $250K must be sold and the profits spread to the poor. This will be strictly enforced by those DEMs benefiting from redistribution. The money will then be redistributed to DEMS only, such that the mean "income" of everyone is in a very tight slot. They can have all the "plans" and "ObamaCare" they want! Go to it! NOT to DO IT would by hypocritical.
It will be heaven on earth for them right? PLENTY of money to go around!
-- Maximusbraveheart -- Is TRUTH knowable? Moral Relativism is the abandonment of Truth. Truth is knowable. Truth conforms to Reality. Reality is observable by evidence & witness in this day & from history. Relativism is Sesame Street play land.