This Bitch:GOP Rapist John Jessup

Just days after being elected to his local County Council, John Jessup—a current GOP Commissioner for Hancock County’s District 1—pleaded guilty in a Nevada sexual assault case.

Jessup pled guilty to one count of attempted sexual assault as the result of a plea deal that lowered the charge from a Level A felony to a Level B felony—which is punishable by up to 20 years in prison. He was recently elected to the Hancock County Council as one of three Republican candidates. He received over 15,000 votes while both Democrat challengers barely cracked 10,000 each.

Jessup has been held in Las Vegas since June 26 after being arrested in Hancock County and extradited to Nevada. He was granted house arrest on August 10 after posting a $100,000 bond and has been staying in the area as his case progressed.

The arrest stemmed from a reported sexual assault of a woman in January after she and Jessup had a drunken night out in Las Vegas. The victim alleges that Jessup forced her to drink excessive amounts of alcohol before taking advantage of her in his hotel room and sexually assaulting her.

Witnesses who were with Jessup and the victim corroborated the woman’s story, adding that Jessup said “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas” multiple times throughout the night. At the time of his arrest, Jessup allegedly told police there was “nothing criminal” about what he’d done, describing the incident as a “f***ed up, drunk night.”

Hold on to that admission ...

A jury trial in Jessup’s case was originally scheduled to begin in late February but that trial was canceled following his plea deal; Jessup will be sentenced in April 2025, and while his attempted sexual assault charge is a probational offense, he said he expects the Las Vegas prosecutor to ask for prison time:

“We’ll be arguing for probation while the prosecution will argue from eight to 20 [years]. I didn’t have much of a choice today, it was either take the deal or go to trial … The other deal that was available for me today was to take four years in prison.”

Hancock County Republican Chair Janice D. Silvey says Jessup is planning to resign from the council as soon as he is officially sworn:

“It’s been my greatest honor serving the people of Hancock County and I’m deeply, deeply ashamed and profoundly sorry for the shame that I brought to the county,” Jessup said.

Quick to take a plea and quick to resign; huh. That seems odd until you hear the full story …

One of Rachel Jessup’s fondest childhood memories was going to the polls on Election Day with her dad, John Jessup. She began going to the polls with her dad when she was in kindergarten:

“‘Please vote for my daddy’ is what I used to say to voters. I was a typical 5-year-old kid who idolized my dad, and as I got older I always supported his political runs because I was his go-to person going to the polls with him. I was a daddy’s girl.”

Rachel, now a 22-year-old college student, is trying to forget Jessup, a man she now calls “John” instead of “Dad.” Rachel is John Jessup’s youngest biological daughter and is the woman Jessup is accused of sexually assaulting during that drunken night in Las Vegas in late January. Jessup had taken his daughter there to celebrate her 21st birthday.

Yes, he sexually assaulted his own child and after being accused of the crime called it no big deal and was elected to office. But is that really so odd, electing a rapist to county council after you elected a rapist President?

This Bitch needs a good long lockup.

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Random Musings

Carlos teaches a class after work on Thursdays, so I usually get home from work myself, make a little dinner, peruse the interwebz, and then go pick him up around 8PM.

Last Thursday was no different except ... as I got into my car, I did my usual routine, I clicked the garage door opener, I turned on the car, I fastened my seatbelt and turned on some tunes; and then I did something different; I got my cell phone from the center console to call Carlos and tell him I was on my way.

Then I back out ... and the automatic garage door opener either decided to only open the door part of the way or it decided to open the door all of the way and then lower it as I was backing out.

Crash.Shatter. Luckily, it was just the rear window and no damage to the car or the door. And luckily we have very good insurance which covered the replacement window for no charge, and it was replaced at home while we were at work on Tuesday.

And an upside? Well, apparently there’s a glitch in the Saturn VUE wherein the cargo door will not open using the keyless device. And, get this, there is no way to open the cargo door without the keyless device. There is no hatch button inside the car; there is no button on the inside of the cargo door; and there is no lock in the door in which to insert a key. We have researched how to fix this issue and it’s quite complicated except ...

For some reason when the window in the cargo door was replaced now the door opens again with the keyless device.

At least for now ... so I’m still calling it a win-win.

In New Hampshire, it’s perfectly legal for a man to marry a 13-year-old girl and now, thanks to the state’s GOP for voting down a bill to raise the marriage age, it’ll stay that way.

The current legal marriage age allows 13-year-old girls and 14-year-old boys to marry as long as they have consent from their parents and a judge signs off on it but still, why would lawmakers wish to keep that on the books?

They want to help soldiers. What the what?

The GOP argued that the age increase would block young soldiers from getting married and providing military benefits to their partners or children. Others said the change could lead to more single-parent households.

Hey GOP? If you wanna help soldiers, howsabout helping them not to go to war, or, failing that, helping them when they come back home, wounded and battle scarred, to assimilate back into public life? Howsabout fixing the VA?

Asshats; the lot of them.

You just can’t make-out anywhere these days.

Timothy and Noah were “passionately making out” near an apartment complex dumpster when they were interrupted by the complex’s assistant manager. So, the two men, startled out of their ardor, punched her in the head before she could escape to her car. One of the men banged on the windows and threatened to kill her.

The two men were arrested, of course, and told police officers they were high on pot and mushrooms.

Poor Timothy and Noah Batz ... same last name? A married couple?

Nope, they’re brothers. And now I need a Silkwood scrubdown.

Last Friday it was a glorious 85 degrees in Smallville. The azaleas were blooming, the trees were leafing out, the daffodils were pushing up from the earth.

Sunday it was 25 and it snowed. Not a lot, i know, but still ...

Good thing there’s no such thing as Climate Change, eh, GOP?

Newly out and proud It Boy, Colton Haynes is now newly out and proud engaged to be married, to his boyfriend, florist to the stars, Jeff Leatham.

Leatham popped the question while the two men were in Los Cabos, Mexico, and had a little help from ... Cher! Leatham began the romantic moment with a video from Cher singing their favorite song after she said to the happy couple:

“So, I got you babe! Alright, this is for you, you know what it is, you know what you’re supposed to do now and this is gonna be the best thing ever and you have to call me to tell me how it worked out, alright!”

That video was followed by video messages from their family members and close friends, and after Colton said “Yes!” there were fireworks set to Bruno Mars’ ‘Marry You’ as the couple danced.

This was my proposal: Carlos looked at me and said, “We oughta get married, you wanna?” And I said, “I guess so, what’s on TV?"

Or something like that.  I kid, but congratulations to the happy couple!

So, suddenly he’s everywhere and I don’t know who he is ... Jai Courtney, top. He’s an Aussie actor best known for action films, sci-fi and looking like a brick sh*thouse. I’m intrigued.

I’m also intrigued by Trevante Rhodes, bottom, one of the stars of Moonlight and a star of a new Calvin Klein underwear ad.

I’m just plain intrigued ... and a little hot’n’bothered.

Take note of the above map ... if your state has a red X in it, then there will be major local, state or federal elections this year, and this is where the Resistance comes together.

You know what to do ... send _____ a message that his election was a mistake and We The People are no longer playing.

Check out vote411.org and vote, dammit.

The other morning, Minister of Propaganda Kellyanne Conway was on GMA and was asked this question:

“Do you believe Obama wiretapped _____ Tower?”

And she responded like this:

“There are all kinds of ways to surveil people.”

I shrieked—it was early in the morning so, yeah, I shrieked—at the TV:

“ANSWER THE QUESTION!!!!!”

Later on that morning, I asked Carlos:

“Do you want to ...”

blibbety-blah-blay-blue I have forgotten what I asked him, but I remember his reply:

“We could.”

I said:

“What kind of answer is that to a Yes or No question?”

“I’m just saying, we could ...”

I realized I’m married to a Kellyanne Clone.

I’m having her deprogrammed as we speak.

So, that movie theater in Alabama that won’t show Beauty and the Beast because of The Gay is not alone; now the entire country of Malaysia, through their film censorship board, announced that they would like Disney to cut the “gay” scene because in Malaysia scenes promoting homosexuality are forbidden.

Disney said, “No.”

Good on the Mouse.

Joe Barton, a Republican ... because of course ... from Texas ... because of course ... was holding a Town Hall in his district recently when one of his constituents asked if Barton would work with Rep. Jackie Speier, a Democrat, to sponsor legislation combating violence against women; Barton is a Republican who voted against the Violence Against Women Act. The constituent said:

“Given your voting record opposing legislation protecting women from violence, will you make a commitment to us today, make a promise that you will reach out to Congresswoman Jackie Speier and work with her to see this bill successfully through Congress?”

Barton said he voted ‘No’ because he believes violence against women is a “state issue, not a federal issue” and that was met with a chorus of boos.

A man in the crowd stood up and shouted:

“Violence against women, that’s a national issue! That’s an issue that impacts everyone everywhere, not only in this country, but everywhere!”

And Barton, pointing his finger at that man, yelled:

“You, sir, shut up.”

That did not make his audience happy:

“You don’t tell anybody to shut up! You work for us!”

Not for much longer, I hope.

A Duggar Relative Is Heard From: Anyone Would Molest A Child ... Given The Chance

As the story of Josh Duggar, child molester, pedophile, his sister Jessa Duggar’s father-in-law, Michael Seewald, also came out in defense of Josh.

He actually says that it’s only consequences that keep any and all of us from molesting other children, and family members. Seewald then went on to actually praise Josh’s parents, Jim Bob and Michelle for their handling of the situation — by avoiding it at all costs, teaching their son to lie about it, teaching their children — and four of Josh’s victims —to lie about, and allowing a pedophile to sleep in the same house as his victims.

Michael Seewald adds that “we should not be surprised” that this happened in the Duggar home because of humankind’s “sinful nature” because it’s only the “mercy of God” that keeps people from molesting children.

And he gets even more disgusting, because he says we should all be thanking God if we have been spared having one of our siblings sexually abuse us while we slept:

“Many times it is simply lack of opportunity or fear of consequences that keep us from falling into grievous sin even though our fallen hearts would love to indulge the flesh. We should not be shocked that this occurred in the Duggar’s home, we should rather be thankful to God if we have been spared such, and pray that he would keep us and our children from falling.”

We should not be shocked that this occurred in the Duggar’s home? We should not be shocked that a brother molested four of his own sisters and a stranger? We should not be shocked that his parents covered up his crimes? We should not be shocked that the only police officer told after the crime was a family friend who basically said, ‘Meh,’ and moved on? What the Hell kind of world does this man, and the entire Duggar family, live in that this kind of behavior is not something shocking?

I find it shocking that Michael Seewald thinks the only thing that keeps people from becoming pedophiles and molesters and child abusers and forcing an incestuous relationship on their own sister, is the fact that God might punish us … or that there isn’t anyone around to molest.

Seriously? Why any child, of any age, is left in that house, where child molestation is treated as an ‘Uh oh’ is unfathomable; and why that family still seeks to defend the actions of a pedophile is beyond reprehensible. But Michael Seewald believes God has forgiven Josh:

“I want to say that the Seewald family stands with the Duggar family in solidarity. I want to say to Josh, hang in there, the shame you feel is legitimate, yet Jesus took your shame as he was punished in your place.”

Good, let’s “punish” Jesus for Josh Duggar’s sins, and let Josh Duggar, his parents, the authorities in Arkansas, the Duggar’s church, and that scam of a rehabilitation center, get off with no punishment at all.

Take that show off the air and put that entire family out of business.

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Did Our Fight For Marriage Equality Result In Legalizing Polygamy?

Well, the wingnuts were right after all.

Remember when the fight for marriage equality began and all those folks — like Frothy Mix Santorum and Mike Huckleberry Hound — came out swinging that if we were to allow The Gays to get married it would open the floodgates for people to have multiple spouses — polygamy — and people to marry their children, their dogs or houses or books or lamps?

It’s happened.

Last Friday a federal judge overturned much of Utah’s law banning polygamy, proving Santorum was right that —

What? The overturning of the law has nothing to do with marriage equality? In fact, it really has nothing to do with marriage at all? Sister Wives say what?

Yes, Sister Wives; the Utah case involved a suit filed by Kody Brown and his “wives” — Meri, Janelle, Christine, and Robyn — all featured on the TLC “documentary” Sister Wives. Brown’s argument was that Utah’s anti-polygamy laws infringed upon his Mormon religious practice — his religious freedom — and the privacy of him and his wives.

Well, District Court Judge Clark Waddoups — a George W. Bush appointee … so all y’all wingnuts can save your Thanks Obama for another time — agreed, though the decision still says it is illegal in Utah to be legally married to more than one person at the same time.

So, what exactly was overturned?

The polygamy laws in Utah go far beyond limiting an individual to only one marriage license, the statute also prohibits “cohabitation,” referring to any situation in which a married person “purports to marry another person or cohabits with another person.”

See, even though Kody Brown only is legally married to just one of his wives — he has had “spiritual” commitment ceremonies with the others — the  fact that he has a living arrangement that includes other individuals he refers to as wives — deemed “religious cohabitation” in the Mormon context of multiple marriages — was a violation of the law.

So, you see, Kody Brown is not going to be able to marry anyone else unless he divorces the one wife to whom he is legally wed.

And though conservatives may try to continue demonizing The Gays by claiming polygamy is part of the slippery slope of same-sex marriage, polygamy is actually the result of the very same “religious liberty” that people like Santorum and Huckabee claim marriage equality infringes upon.

The Gays and their fight for equality did not bring on the legalization of polygamy, or bigamy, or incest, or marrying an inanimate object … though Karen Santorum might be hard-pressed to prove she hasn’t done that.

Just sayin’.

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Every Child Needs A Mother and Father

Sarah and Jonathan Adleta

So, the latest news out of Russia is the push to stop gay couples, or even gay singles, from being parents; no adoptions, ever! And, there seems to be a threat that if a gay couple, or a gay single, has a child, that the government might try to remove that child from the home. This all feeds off that old anti-gay chestnut that conservatives, Republicans, religious zealots, and rightwingsnuts like to spin, that ‘ever child needs a mother and a father.’

I wonder how those folks would feel about Jonathan and Sarah Adleta.

A former Marine, one of Jonathan Adleta’s dreams was to have a daughter, and when he did he would have sex with her. Yes, he longed for that day, and when his girlfriend, Sarah, became pregnant with a daughter, he said he would only marry her if she allowed him to have sex with his child. And she said okay. Later, when the Adleta’s had a son, Sarah was expected to have sex with him.

Every child needs a mother and a father.

In court, Sarah Adleta testified that when she began dating Jonathan in 2008, he would tell her stories of fathers and daughters having sex, and when she became pregnant he told her they would marry only if she allowed him to do the same.

Sarah said she felt uncomfortable with the idea and hoped Jonathan would lose interest, but went through with the wedding and the child abuse anyway, because, she said, she loved him and needed the financial security he provided.

So, basically, for a roof over her head, she let her husband sexually abuse her child.

In 2009, Sarah Adleta became pregnant with their son, and the couple married the next year. Adleta was deployed to Afghanistan soon after, but when he returned, the family moved to California, where he was stationed, and it was there that he told his wife, again, that he would be having a sexual relationship with their daughter.

And he did; and she did, too.

But I guess not even child molesters are safe from divorce and in 2011, Jonathan and Sarah Adleta split up; she moved back to Central Florida, though she continued to let her ex-husband have a sexually inappropriate relationship with their daughter over the internet.

But, that wasn’t enough for Jonathan, and in 2012, he found himself another girlfriend, another mother who allowed him to have sex with her daughter. That girlfriend — Samantha Bryant — whom he met online, testified in court that she watched Adleta have sex with her child, and even took pictures of the abuse.

Bryant — who has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting her own child, and allowing Adleta to do the same — also testified that Adleta asked her to write fantasies about him having sex with his daughter and her daughter, and she did; in fact, she took it a step further, and, she says, at his request, she also began sexually molesting her own child.

Then, last December, Samantha and her two children spent Christmas — a nice family holiday — in Oklahoma with Jonathan and Sarah Adleta and their two children. Sarah Adleta said that, while there, her former husband sexually abused their daughter in his bedroom and called her in to watch.

"She seemed very resistant."—Sarah Adleta, speaking about watching her child being raped by her father

And she testified that the girl seemed "really upset" and "frightened" but she didn’t try to stop it; she stood and watched.

After the family Christmas, Sarah and the children returned to Florida, but then Jonathan suggested she find another man to sexually molest their daughter so the girl would become comfortable with the sex acts, and then maybe she wouldn’t be so frightened and upset when she was being raped by her father and other men.

Sarah found Aaron Dixon — a North Carolina man who was later arrested on child-sex charges in an unrelated case — and part of their internet ‘dating’ routine was to have Aaron watch her, via Skype, while she had sex with her own children.

Sarah Adleta has pleaded guilty in May to two charges of sexual exploitation of a minor — her son — and faces up to 30 years in federal prison; Jonathan Adleta was found guilty of two child-sex charges and faces ten years to life in prison.

Like I said, there are many people who say every child needs a mother and a father, and there are some who think that the Adleta’s are better qualified to be parents that a loving gay couple. And I know that not all straight parents are like this, that people like the Adletas, Samantha Bryant, and Aaron Dixon, are not the norm, but hearing stories like these, on the heels of hearing people say that a gay couple cannot adequately love, nurture and parent a child, infuriates me.

Now, if you’re like me, you’ll need to take a minute, or maybe longer, to go scrub the filth of this story out of your mind. And come back later, when I'll have a Trio of Good News Stories.

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PS The title of this post was taken from Joe.My.God, where I found the link, and Joe blatantly stole it from Dan Savage.

Pregnant As A Result Of Rape And Had An Abortion? You Could Go To Prison For That In New Mexico

Cathrynn Brown: The Face of Crazy

Earlier today, we talked about the Sate of Crazy, aka Arizona, but now we’ll turn our attention to their neighbor, Friend In Crazy, aka New Mexico.

A Republican lawmaker, and woman, state Representative Cathrynn Brown, introduced a new bill last week that would legally require victims of rape to carry their pregnancies to term in order to use the fetus as evidence for a sexual assault trial.

Yes. You get raped, and wind up pregnant, you must have the baby because it’ll be Exhibit A in the trial of your rapist….if he’s caught.

Brown’s House Bill 206 would charge a rape victim who ended her pregnancy with a third-degree felony for "tampering with evidence."

The bill says, plainly:

“Tampering with evidence shall include procuring or facilitating an abortion, or compelling or coercing another to obtain an abortion, of a fetus that is the result of criminal sexual penetration or incest with the intent to destroy evidence of the crime."

A woman who is raped, and has an abortion, would face up to three years in prison for terminating the pregnancy. Way to make the victim the criminal, Cathrynn.

Of course, since the Democrats have a majority in both chambers of New Mexico's state legislature, the bill has very little chance of surviving, but, still, it points out the lengths to which the GOP will go to control what a woman does with her own body.

Now, Cathrynn Brown, after the story broke and people everywhere began asking what kind of crazy fuckmonkey would propose such legislation, backtracks a bit, now saying the goal of the bill is to punish the person who commits incest or rape and then procures or facilitates an abortion to destroy the evidence of the crime.

Except, the bill, in Brown’s own language, plainly states “tampering with evidence shall include procuring or facilitating an abortion.”

Now, it make also state that it also means someone who coerces another person into having an abortion, but it’s clear she also meant the victim of rape is a criminal if she terminates the pregnancy.

New Mexico? If you’re listening, maybe you ought to rethink re-electing Ms. Brown. She clearly belongs in the Arizona state House.

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The Height Of GOP Stupidity, Part Four: The GOP Platform Calls For Constitutional Ban On Abortion

Well, well, well, in the wake of the Todd Akin mess-which includes the Paul Ryan mess--on abortion, and a woman's right to choose, comes word that the 2012 Republican Party platform includes support for a constitutional ban on abortion without specifying exclusions in the cases of rape or incest.

Yes, rape, illegitimate, forcible rape.

According to CNN, the GOP platform states: 

"Faithful to the 'self-evident' truths enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, we assert the sanctity of human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed. We support a human life amendment to the Constitution and endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment's protections apply to unborn children."

That's the GOP, less concerned with the economy, but very concerned with the choices women should be allowed to make for their own health and well-being. 

The height of stupidity.

And here are some more GOP lies and stupidity regarding women and the fact that many in the GOP think they need to be controlled and told what to do:

• Earlier this year, a New Hampshire lawmaker came up with a new reason the government should not require health insurance companies to provide contraception. Representative Jeanine Nadler, a Republican of course, said, "As a man, would it interest you to know that Dr. Brownstein just published an article that links the pill to prostate cancer?"
• Also in 2012, the New Hampshire House in 2012 passed a bill to require doctors to tell women seeking abortions that the procedure can cause breast cancer.
• GOP mouthpiece drug addict, and blowhard, Rush Limbaugh showed he has no understanding of how birth control pills work when he attacked Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown law student barred from testifying as a Democratic witness at a congressional hearing about the Obama administration's contraception policy. He called her a “slut” for needing birth control: "She wants to be paid to have sex. SDhe’s having so much sex she can't afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex." 
• And that bastion of intellectual depravity, Rick “Frothy Mix” Santorum also weighed in on the subject. Warning about the “dangers” of contraception.
• Terri Proud, a Republican state legislator in Arizona sent an email to her constituents saying she wanted women who were considering abortion to be forced to watch the procedure first: "Personally I'd like to make a law that mandates a woman watch an abortion being performed prior to having a 'surgical procedure.
• Just before Idaho's Senate passed a mandatory ultrasound bill in March, the bill’s Republican sponsor, Senator Chuck Winder, made some inane comments about abortion and rape: "Rape and incest was used as a reason to oppose this. I would hope that when a woman goes in to a physician with a rape issue, that physician will indeed ask her about perhaps her marriage, was this pregnancy caused by normal relations in a marriage or was it truly caused by a rape. I assume that's part of the counseling that goes on." 
• Former GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum made prenatal testing a campaign issue when he said the tests are designed to "cull the ranks of the disabled in our society" by encouraging abortions: "Amniocentesis does, in fact, result more often than not in this country in abortions. That is a fact.” Well, not so much; more than 90% of amniocenteses tests result in normal diagnoses, and half of fetuses diagnosed with severe abnormalities—some 5% of those tested—result in abortions being performed.
• When GOP asshat Rick Perry was running for president, he was blasted by his fellow Repugnants for signing an executive order mandating the HPV vaccine for young girls, and misinformation quickly spread.
• Batshit crazy Republican, and blatant liar, Michele Bachmann insinuated that the HPV vaccine causes mental retardation.
• The debate over the Obama administration's contraception policy yielded some puzzling claims about birth control and Plan B. House Speaker, and Republican crybaby, John Boehner urged his colleagues to reverse Obama's mandate for health insurance coverage of "abortion-inducing drugs."  And, yet again, Michele Bachmann weighed in, calling Plan B an abortion pill when she lied about Obama making the drug available over-the-counter: "The president can put abortion pills for girls 8 years of age, 11 years of age, on the bubblegum aisle." In fact, contraceptives, emergency or not, prevent pregnancy. They don't cause abortions.
• The Arizona Senate passed a bill in March to protect doctors from "wrongful birth" lawsuits—effectivley allowing them to withhold information that may lead a patient to get an abortion. Kansas lawmakers have considered similar legislation.

So, you think the GOP has the best interests of women in mind, or are they, mostly men, and a few batshit crazy women, trying to control what woman can, and cannot do, regarding their own health and their own bodies?

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Those Wacky Catholic Priests

Well, as in most cases, there's good news and there's bad news.

The good news? At least the Reverend Michael Manning wasn't raping children.

The bad news? Manning has confirmed to the San Bernardino Sun that he and Nancy Kotowski had been having an affair. The newspaper allegedly had possession of letters that indicated Manning ended the affair some two years ago. 

So much for that pesky vow of celibacy.

Still, I guess, in this case, there is badder news.
Baddest news?
Worse news!

Michael Manning is the first cousin of Nancy Kotowski's mother, making them second cousins.

Manning has taken a leave of absence from the ministry, saying, "The reality is I was living two lives: one as a priest who was vowed to celibacy and another life as a sexually active man in our sexual intimacy...The burden of deception in hotels, and with the community with whom I work and live has become overwhelming."

Kotowski. the Monterrey County Superintendent of Schools, says she and Manning once considered getting married, but, in the end, the Reverend opted to end the relationship so as to not continue violating his priesthood and sinning. 

Apparently, however, the two are still an item, as Kotowski admitted that they are now celibate, in support of Manning's vocation. "It's a struggle, but we know God is calling to us, so we honor that."

I guess when they first started schtupping one another, God called, but they were busy sneaking into hotels under assumed names.

Good Catholics. Good.

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Just a Thought: Indiana Congressman Thinks Women Lie About Rape

Up in Indiana, when the Legislature isn't voting to ban the already banned gay marriage, the Indiana House is also considering what would be one of the nation's most restrictive anti-abortion laws. The new bill will ban all private insurance coverage--I'll say it again, private insurance coverage--from paying for an abortion, and it would require abortion providers to tell women that the procedure carries a risk of breast cancer--although the American Cancer Society says there is no evidence of a link between the two--and that a fetus can feel pain.

Women will also be told that there are couples "willing and waiting" to adopt children and that those couples might pay for prenatal care and childbirth. And abortions would be illegal after 20 weeks, except to preserve the life of the woman.

But, before the law was passed, it's sponsor, GOP asshat Representative Eric Turner, objected to what he called a proposed "loophole" in the law, whereby in the cases of rape and incest, the victims of those crimes could proceed with terminating their pregnancy. In fact, Turner went so far as to say that women will fake having been raped in order to get free abortions:

"I just want you to think about this, in my view, giant loophole that could be created where someone who could--now I want to be careful, I don't want to disparage in any way someone who has gone through the experience of a rape or incest--but someone who is desirous of an abortion could simply say that they've been raped or there's incest."

Yes, Eric Turner thinks all women are so cavalier about abortion that they will blatantly lie about being raped, or being the victim of incest, in order to get an abortion.

This sent one of his colleagues, Congresswoman Linda Lawson--who was a sex crimes investigator for the Indiana police for six years--into a rage: "Women don’t make this up! My Goodness! This is the state of Indiana!"

Now, women in Indiana do not have the right to decide what to do with their own bodies. The Legislature has decided that Indiana women will have to pay high out-of-pocket costs for abortions, even if the procedure is necessary to save their life or the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest. 

How have we come to the point where a politician can call half the people, half the voters, in his state, liars? How is it that we've come to the point where women, all women, will stand by and let men dictate what they can and cannot do in terms of their own bodies?

Women are not so cavalier about abortion that they simply schedule it as part of their day. They don't squeeze it in between shoe shopping and Cosmos with the girls. I have known women who've chosen abortion, for their own personal reasons, and not one of them came to the decision lightly, or without careful thought. And not one of them ever felt the need to lie about their reasons for choosing to end a pregnancy. And not one of them, after the procedure, went out to celebrate.

How is it that politicians don't see this? Mainly because it's male politicians, who seek to control their women, all their women, of their state.

Once again, I'll say it: if the situation were reversed, and men were the ones who got pregnant, we wouldn't be having this discussion, because men would never let anyone, even a wingnut like Eric Turner, tell them what they can do with their own bodies.

Not Exactly California Dreamin'

Mackenzie Phillips on NOprah. What a mess; a train wreck, from which I could not look away. Drugs. Sex. Rock'n'roll. Incest. it was all a bit too much. Apparently, under the influence of drugs, a lot of drugs, Mackenzie Phillips and her father, John Phillips, began a ten-year consensual sexual relationship.

Ick. I'll get that out of the way early on.

The "relationship" ended when Mackenzie became pregnant and didn't know if the father was her boyfriend or her father.

Now, I don't use drugs. Never have. So I can only imagine what mass quantities of heroin and coke and, well, god knows what else, will do to you, and allow you to have done to you.

Is Mackenzie lying about the incest to make some coin on a book? Only she knows.

And that goes for the incest as well. Only she knows.

A couple of her father's ex-wives have come forward to speak up for John Phillips, who passed away a few years back. They stand up for him by calling him a drug addict and a degenerate, but state quite firmly that he never had sex with his daughter.

How do they know? This isn't something you speak about over dinner. it isn't "Pass the peas and, oh, by the way, I'm schtupping my daughter." It isn't like that at all.

So the ex-wives should keep quiet and speak only to what they know.

I'm not saying Mackenzie Phillips is telling the truth, or even that she's lying to sell a couple of books. I'm saying the only people who know whether or not this happened are Mackenzie Phillips and her father.

Sadly, he isn't here to dispute anything.