Rush Clears Up Show's Sponsorship

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

Media Matters has been bragging about getting 30 or so companies to "drop" their sponsorship of Rush Limbaugh's radio show over his comments about Sandy "It's Pronounced Fluck!" Fluke and the MSM has been wetting itself with the prospect of hushing Rush forever. I've even sent some angry grams at a couple of the so-called boycotting companies since I had been a customer. Here, Rush says, "Not so fast."

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/03/07/clearing_up_misinformation_on_our_sponsors

Actually, I'm not sure which is worse, withdrawing sponsorship out of intimidation or pretending to withdraw sponsorship just to score brownie points with leftists who don't care about women, but do want to shut up an effective voice for conservatism during an election year.

Comments

[farchivist.livejournal.com]

it has to do with her demanding that the government force a Catholic institution to cover birth control and morning after pills - things they have religious objections to.

Here's what I don't get and what completely floors me. Here in Georgia, we have many such Catholic institutions in the state, including several Catholic-run hospitals. We also are the seat of the archdiocese; we have an Archbishop that governs the northern half of GA.

In 1999, the GA state government passed and signed into law the exact same contraception mandate that Obama has proposed. So here in the state of GA, all Catholic institutions are required to make sure birth control and morning after pills are covered in the insurance - there are no religious exceptions allowed in the state law. The Catholic Church here in GA has NEVER challenged the law and has abided by it.

So I'm confused; why does the RCC not protest the law on the GA state level, but on the federal level? I wrote the Archdiocese about it, but they have not responded yet.

[kimana83.livejournal.com]

That's a good question. If they haven't protested it, then shame on them for not being consistent with their beliefs.

Politics-wise, though, that doesn't *really* bother me, even though I think it's dumb, because it was mandated on the state level. States have the right to do just about whatever they want with their citizens. (This is why although I dislike Romneycare, it doesn't entirely bother me politically, because it was on the state level.) The federal government does not.