While speaking at the California ProLife Legislative Banquet last week, California Assemblywoman Shannon Grove (R) suggested a theory that the state's worst drought in 1,200 years may be divine retribution for California providing women with access to abortions, RH Reality Check reported.
“Texas was in a long period of drought until Governor Perry signed the fetal pain bill,” she told the audience. “It rained that night. Now God has his hold on California.”
Actually Grove is conflating two diff rent events, the bill she speaks of was signed in 2013, while the drought that devastated Texas was in 2011 and Rick Perry's attempts to pray away the dry did nothing to alleviate the drought in Texas:
In the four months since Perry’s request for divine intervention, his state has taken a dramatic turn for the worse. Nearly all of Texas is now in “extreme or exceptional” drought, as classified by federal meteorologists, the worst in Texas history.
Lakes have disappeared. Creeks are phantoms, the caked bottoms littered with rotting, dead fish. Farmers cannot coax a kernel of grain from ground that looks like the skin of an aging elephant.
Of course facts don't matter when you have an agenda that you believe is backed up by your holy book.
Here was perhaps the best response to Grove from the Facebook page of Pro-Choice Kern County:
I am confused by your post. While Texas was in a drought, the onslaught of rain in May creating all the flooding eliminated the drought throughout the state. There is no longer a drought but it has more to do with climate change and nothing to do with abortion, god, bibles or guns.
ReplyDeleteShe's talking about California.
DeleteBackground sounds of feeding chickens!
DeleteAnd Perry is no longer governor. A bigger idiot named Abbott is.
ReplyDeleteIf gays cause earthquakes and abortions cause drought -- what do the ravings from this moron cause? palm plants on one's face
ReplyDeleteas one sighs, "Gawd."
These people get elected, in droves. It shivers me timbers to think one of them could be president!
They are zombies in disguise ,we are doomed if continue to be elected.
DeleteOh, if I were only an abortion-having gay woman---I could rule the world!!!
DeleteDamn I miss the good ol days of witches and witchcraft. Someone got pissed off and went out and found a witch who put a spell on a person. And Christians used to fear them! Where the hell did the witches go? Of yeah, that was fake too, just like religion!
ReplyDeleteI would imagine witches went underground as being tinder for a flame gets old fast.
DeleteShocked I tell you that this didn't come out of Sarah's mouth... oh well just enjoying the jealousy that oozes from her every pore when she speaks of Hillary Clinton. She can only dream of a crowd like that these days... it can't be taken as anything other than pure Jealousy when she speaks of the "anointed one" She can only dream...lol
ReplyDeleteWhen one starts from the premise that "I am RIGHT" or "this Book is always RIGHT" then one can point to anything, everything and say "SEE?"
ReplyDelete...as long as you twist the logic hard enough, that is.
Anyone with an imagination can make shit up. Only those with a similar agenda as this Evangelitard Lady would believe her deluded ramblings of "How Climate Thingies Work". This idiot doesn't have the good christian republican conservative common sense just to blame everything bad that occurs on Obama. What kind of a leader does she think she is? She's trying too hard.
DeleteLove the t-shirt!
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting Gryph!
Neanderthal views...LOL...apparently, she isn't evolved enough yet to try to perform rain dances to solve her plight....oh yeah....I guess dancing is forbidden according to these fundamentalist morons.
ReplyDeleteHer Religilous BS makes as much sense as the rest that the fundie Repugs spout. And Fornicating with one's neighbor's husband must be done under the bed covers with lights off in the room. Otherwise, a pregnancy can occur with a child born approx. 9 months later who is bald, naked, and toothless.
DeleteWhy is it so impossible for these people to even consider the possibility that their GOD is speaking to them? Maybe he is pissed that they refuse to be good people who follow his Golden Rule and tolerate others views and beliefs? Maybe he can't believe how they are ruining his gift to them -- earth and nature and all his other creatures? Isn't it possible that IF there is a God he is mad as hell at all the deniers and he is trying to wake them up?
ReplyDeleteThat's just so "Zeus". Like a big sky daddy throwing lightning bolts at us mere humans, like in a cartoon. Yawn!
ReplyDeleteSen. Lindsey Graham has just introduced a bill in the Senate to limit abortions to 20 weeks. All the GOP clowns agree with him.
ReplyDeleteWe must stop this insanity, and the MEN who think they can tell women what and how they should care for their bodies, and their souls.
No one has an abortion without reason, and without the sense of loss. It's not a frivolous action. But it is a medical process that involves a woman and her doctor. No one else. And no one else's religion can dictate what anyone else can do with his or her body.
Otherwise, let's have a bill that requires a man to wait 72 hours, have an ultrasound, then explain why he wants a Federally funded prescription for Viagra. And guarantees that he'll pay all the costs of a pregnancy if one develops from his
medically induced priapic condition.
so true 7:16, thanks! These religious frauds chap my hide when it comes to a woman's private bodily autonomy. God didn't create Viagra, and if there was a God, he clearly dictated that men lose their virility at some point in time, so Viagra is against God's will. If there was a God.
DeleteEspecially at 20 weeks. A woman who has an abortion then has liekly had an amniocentesis that came back with reslts that there are chromosonal abnormalities that will either make the fetus non-viable or cause a birht defect. that she and her family cannot or do not want to care for. No one should be compelled to put thier labor into that which they do not want - or to labor to produce for someone else.
DeleteShe looks like Victoria Jackson's sister. Just missing the hairbow to channel aliens.
DeleteGood idea, 7:16. But I don't think that legislation would affect Sir Lindsey Closetcase.
DeleteAMEN!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteSo according to her, the torrential flooding in Texas that took 23 lives and caused over a billion dollars in property damage is what happens when God is no longer angry at us? This Texan would like her to STFU, please.
ReplyDeleteVery well said, 7:23am!!
DeleteA lifelong Houstonian
At least LGBTs are off the hook this time.
ReplyDeleteHOW can anyone in this day and age of science refer only to stone age writings and beliefs when trying to explain something SCIENTIFIC? There is something fundamentally wrong in their brains. And since the water is drying up at a phenomenal rate in CA, it can't be in the water...
ReplyDeleteWhy is it that an omniscient all-powerful God has the emotional intelligence of a 3-year-old? Seriously, when my son throws a fit because we do something he doesn't like, we tell him to stop it, and use his words--talk it out. But apparently, according to Shannon Grove God would rather throw a fit when something doesn't go his way. How does that make any sense?
ReplyDeleteShe goes back and forth so much it puts a crick in my neck! Dizzy damn broad!
ReplyDeleteA being that created himself, the universe, and everything in it must surely have better communications skills than that.
ReplyDeleteShe need some kind of intervention, sadly not the divine one she's looking for. Gotta pity the lady. Going through life stupid, brainwashed and confused is caused by Abortion, also, too!
ReplyDeleteIn a similar vein, someone paid clear channel money to put up a poster of (in my best roseanne roseannadanna voice" A teeny little white girl in a an adorable pink outfit with a band around her head with THE cutest EVER totally awesome looking tiny pink flower. The words along the side, big bold letters "I hear my mama sing before I was born" And contact information for "Saving the life of your unborn" through the love of Jesus Christ.
When she was born, did the doc say "Can you name that tune in four notes?"
God'll make it rain by piloting a plane and seeding the clouds. Don't complain about mudslides and floods. The last time God made it rain, it rained for forty days and forty nights, killing all but two of each species because someone built a spaceship till the flood was over. I read it somewhere, next to a story about a baby with three heads. Oh Wait.....
What happened to the Cynical Uneducated Narcissistic Trollop poster?? And my 2nd question is why does Gryphen post these stupid side stories to give the impression he is pro choice? Anybody with a brain the size of Sarah's know that he ain't that liberal no sireee!!
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