Forcing the Issue, Part II

THOSE BLOOD RED STATES never relent, nor cease to amaze. Persistently, inexorably, like green slime creeping across a parking lot after an industrial accident,Christian dominionsts, among other far right extremist lunatics, fight on, onward Christian soldiers. (Fortunately this far right wave is doomed to dissolution, thank goodness). Take Arkansas, for instance. (You might prefer to leave it after reading this). In 2015 the Republican controlled state legislature pulled one of these religious fanatical stunts, and voted to erect a big rock with the Ten Commandments written on it in the parking lot near the capitol building. Then, they did it. Erected the written upon rock. Within twenty four hours somebody drove a car into it at high speed and destroyed it. It was rebuilt, like the temple in Jerusalem. Then, of course, began an eruption of lawsuits,in defense of constitution and country. Seperation of church and state, first amendment. The ACLU, among other freeedom fighting organizations in defense of American values, hopped on. And, incredibly,there they remain to this very day. In court, grinding away in the snail sluggish legal system, creeping, like green slime across a parking lot. The rock with words similarly stands erect, by court indulgence, and is going nowhere, fast. Presumably somebody is keeping an eye on it, perhaps a local unit of The Proud Boys", maybe the KKK, or some other of the innumerable far right extremist white Christian hate groups with which America the beautiful and especially dixieland is infected and festooned. But it doesn't end there. Oh noo..its gets better, much better. In the year and a half since the morally superior so called "pro life" movement succeeded in eliminating women's reproductive freedom from the constitution, many blood red states have essentilly banned abortion, from sperm cell to full fetus. Arkansas is among these, shockingly. Back onto the stage come strutting our conservative Christian extremist neo-fascists, proud of their authoritarian perfidy, as always. A bill is circulating like blood, creeping like or proverbial green slime into and through the Arky state legislature, by now an even more extremist organization than before. Another bad bill. A bunch of bible bangin' Trumpers, to wit, including the governor, who vigorously endorsed and supports the great insurrectionist-in-chief, dirty Don, are back in action. Trump, and Jesus, two peas in a pod. Christian America, crusading. The proposed bill would erect another monument on the same parking lot near the Capitol; a monument - get this - to the banning of abortion. No, I am not making this up. I couldn't. Nobody could. Whether said monument would consist of another rock with words, perhaps the abortion ban law itself inscribed, or a proud pregnant woman chiseled in granite standing defiantly holding a cross and confederate flag and wearing a red MAGA ball cap is, at press time, uncertain. How to revent some deranged baby killer from "Planned Parenthood" from driving a pick up straight into the granite lady's bloated belly has neither, to our knowledge, been discussed. But, of certain things we can rest assured. One, assuming that this lunacy comes to term, to fruition, as in Arkansas it ceratinly seems likely to, once again, the lawsuits will erupt, and begin their green slime creep into the well litigated and repeatedly appealled future. Secondly, a whole lot of women, progresive women, pro choice women, women who have endured emotionally painful abortions over the last fifty years - will have their say.