Team Sarah - riding the rails for the prevaricator Palin

Would you believe Team Sarah has about 70,000 members? Would you believe there are that many dumbass nogoodniks who have actually joined together to support Sarah Palin?

I guess these people constitute the famous "base" that wants to put Sarah in the White House. Yikes!

According to the Anchorage Daily News, Team Sarah, which is "a social networking site" has been actively working to derail the nomination of Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas as Obama's secretary of Health and Human Services.

Why would they want to do that? You would think that if they really cared about his country, they would work with Obama to bring about change for the better even if they didn't agree with him on all the issues.

But these are the nogoodniks who don't care about our country. They are issue-driven and the rest by damned. And the issue for Team Sarah and so many others on the fringes of the right, is abortion.

Sebelius, they think, is too liberal on abortion. My god, Sebelius even believes that the government should keep its goddamn hands off a woman's body; that a woman should have a choice in the most personal matter of abortion!

Which brings up another interesting point. These Palinites are the nogoodniks who meet in faux tea parties and scream, like the governor of Texas, that the government is taking too much control of their lives, and then they turn right around and want the government to outlaw abortion for everyone.

Makes no sense. The government isn't telling anyone they MUST have an abortion! If a member of Team Sarah doesn't want to have an abortion, that's just fine and dandy. No one says she must.

So why do they insist on controlling the choices of all the other women in the country?


GOD TOLD THEM TO DO IT! AND GOD WANTS SARAH PALIN IN THE WHITE HOUSE! THE THIRD WAVE IS MOVING ALONG! SARAH WILL GET RID OF ALL THE DEMONS CAUSING ALL THE TROUBLE IN THE WORLD WITH THE HELP OF THE KENYAN NUTCASE, MUTHEY. SARAH WILL RID US OF THE WITCHES WHICH STIR UP THEIR EVIL BREW OF SECULARISM AND ABORTION!

And won't it be wonderful?

Actually, no. It would be, if it happened, hell on earth!

The archbishop and the governor

[Photo of Joseph Naumann from Catholic.org]

Once again, in recent days, we have seen a Roman Catholic archbishop flex his godly muscles in an attempt to extort piety from one of the Roman Catholic faithful.

First of all, we should note that according to the most recent polls, Catholics by and large, view things like abortion, birth control, homosexuality, sex outside of marriage, gambling, etc., in a more liberal fashion than their non-Catholic neighbors.

Secondly, it is important to reiterate that studies have shown at least 25% of Roman Catholic priests/seminarians are homosexuals, and some insist the figure is probably closer to 50%, in spite of the fact that the Church considers homosexuality a "disorder," and believes homosexuals should not be priests.

Thirdly, we cannot forget that literally thousands of Roman Catholic priests have abused little children, both boys and girls, for decades. The Roman Catholic bishops and other poohbahs have known all about this abuse, but instead of reporting it to the authorities, they deliberately covered it up, and then fought every attempt to bring it to light and take appropriate action.
They didn't even remove these pedophile priests from the ministry. What they did do was move them from one parish to another, without informing the parish leaders or telling them that they should watch their children as they had a predator priest in their midst.


With those three points before us, we can now consider the case of the Archbishop of the Kansas City, Kansas, archdiocese, one Joseph Naumann.

Naumann is pissed off at the governor of Kansas, Kathleen Sebelius, who is a member of the Roman Catholic Church. Sebelius, you recall, has been nominated by President Obama to head up the Department of Health and Human Services.

[Rightwingnuts everywhere are up in arms about Sebelius and have innundated our Senators with dire warnings of disaster to come if they dare vote in her favor!]

The reason? Abortion, of course. Sebelius is pro-choice and thinks women should be able to choose relative to abortion without government interference or priestly dictates. Thus, she has seen fit to veto at least a couple of bills which would restrict abortion rights in Kansas.


The Archbishop is unhappy because Sebelius won't kiss his ring on this issue. According to Joshua Holland at Alternet, the archbishop was interviewed by Catholics for Faith and Family. In this intervew he explains his efforts to get Sebelius to toe the party line.

For example, the Archbishop conducted a "long dialogue" with Sibelius after which he wrote her a letter telling her she must not partake of the magical cracker. She did it anyway, and some dipshit priest tattled on her to the Archbishop.

So Naumann "went public," and told the whole world that the governor had been banned from the altar until she accepted the RC teaching on abortion.


I don't know that Governor Sebelius intends to do. Probably the same thing that John Kerry and Joe Biden do - ignor the rantings of the hyper hierarchical keepers of the keys to the Kingdom.

Also, consider this: Forty percent of American Catholics reject the official Catholic teaching on abortion! They simply don't hear the rantings of their skirted pontificators of piety, having recognized long ago that many of them don't have a clue as to what real life is all about.

What is especially poignant about all this is the fact that an archbishop of the Roman Church, in spite of the fact that 25-50% of the priests of the Church are in flagrant disobedience of the church's teaching on homosexuality, and in spite of the fact that the church has disobeyed the law and its own teachings by protecting thousands of pedophile priests, believes he has some moral authority to exert over the governor of Kansas or anybody else.

In his view, Governor Sebelius is unworthy to take Communion at the altar of a Roman Catholic Church where the odds are about even the priest is a homosexual, or in some cases, a pedophile, because she rejects the right of a church run by celibate (more or less) men to tell women what to do with their bodies.

There's something radically wrong with that picture.

Maybe there are too many archbishopricks in the Roman Church.