Our first contender:
Cardinal George Pell, had some interesting comments with regards to the survivors of the church sex scandal:
World Youth Day (WYD) has again been overshadowed by the Catholic Church's handling of sexual abuse cases, with Cardinal George Pell accused of holding up compensation claims, after a WYD coordinator said victims were “dwelling crankily… on old wounds".Yep, that sounds like being a dick to me.
In that context, the next offender is probably tame. After all, blaming victims for their grieving and suffering is pretty high on the dick-o-meter, I am not sure what you would need to do to supplant that on the old meter, but I am sure it involves kittens. The problem is that the sheer perfidy (see you can use it in a sentence!) of the current administration seems to know no bounds and just needs to be commented on.
Our next entrant the Bush Administration:
Don't let the title of the article fool you. I know abortion is a hot-button, morally weighty issue, but this is just ridiculous.
Money Quote:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Family planning groups and at least one member of Congress objected on Tuesday to a Bush administration memo that defines several widely used contraception methods as abortion and protects the right of medical providers to refuse to offer them.
The proposal would cut off federal funds to hospitals and states that attempt to compel medical providers to offer legal abortion and contraception services to women.
The proposal circulated to media defines abortion broadly to include many types of contraception, including birth control pills and intrauterine devices.
(emphasis added mine)
I am sorry, but I thought the goal was to lower the number of abortions. I can not for the life of me see how restricting the use, sale, or distribution of birth control will magically cause that to happen. Not to mention how exactly is an IUD tantamount to abortion? I am going to need that explained to me. This argument is like the intellectual equivalent of a praline and dick flavored pizza. It just does not make any sense. Also I notice that condoms are not on the list.
Control of woman's reproductive rights has been one of the prime reasons, women have enjoyed some of the social, economic and creative progress in the last two centuries. This prudish, puritanical streak our society has really needs a swift kick in the nuts. Women's groups and people who are fans of women should ask McCain and President Bush about this every time they ask to take questions. I am a supporter of birth control and I endorse its continued use. Its neat.
Just to be clear though, make no mistake I don't in anyway seek to establish an equivalence between these two topics. Insulting people who have been sexually abused, and chiding them for not getting over it, is borderline evil in my book. Especially when you are responsible for doling out their compensation. Just had to point out the hypocrisy on display here.
That being said, the Bush Administration collectively, and presumably individually, are a whole gaggle of dicks.
-cheers
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