Your party considers your body to be nothing more than a baby factory, or so says Rick Santorum, who is now on record stating that Birth Control is “Harmful to our country“.

(click the link, watch the video, be amazed)

This video has to be seen to be believed. Rick is trying very, very hard to make his patriarichal, puritan views on sexuality and women sound like reasonable, moderate positions. He’s affected that bullshit “stern, caring, awkward pressing his views on people” pose that Republicans have grown very good at, even trying to make it appear as though he’s merely going to scold us for using birth Control. You know, “Even though I consider the very existence of X to be the worst threat in history, I have no intention to take X away.” Don’t believe it peoples, the key phrase is “unnatural Birth control.”

The simple fact is that the vision for America held by these people is a damnable, hellish place, the sort of society that all religious governments ultimately create, and just the sort of thing our Founding Fathers fought so hard to prevent when our constitution was written. Upcoming elections are turning into referendums on the right to privacy, sex, and personal freedom, and there can be simply no compromise on any of this.

While Democrats increasingly cower before the republicans who hate them, the religious right and the conservative movement is making their medieval views on science and sex sound downright mainstream. Our so called liberal representatives painfully obfuscate their support for such basic human rights, and naively seek compromise positions on the most intimate and basic freedoms we have, apparently believing that this will somehow get them elected. Of course, the fact that this has been a losing strategy for almost 20 years is lost on them, but so it goes.

We on the left need to proudly assert our support for women’s rights, sexual freedom, and the freedom of Women to have the same right to pleasure without threat of physical pain that men do. We need to admit to ourselves that our vision of the future is simply incompatible with theirs, and the only course of action is to fight, hard, to drag these freaks kicking and screaming into the future whether they like it or not.

There can simply not be a compromise postion on the most basic rights and freedoms we have, not if we want to live in a free society. As far as I’m concerned, either you support these rights, including the right to fuck and even abort, enthusiastically, or you may as well concede their abolition right now.

Until we assert, without embarassment or apology that we support these freedoms unconditionally, we will continue to lose. It’s your choice America – freedom or theocracy. What will it be?

Found via Atrios