I’ll start with a quote from an article I read:
Minnesota Senator Al Franken–over the objection of fully 30 Republicans–authored and passed legislation Wednesday restricting military contractors from bidding “if they restrict their employees from taking workplace sexual assault, battery and discrimination cases to court.” Yes, they had to pass a law for that.
The whole situation that prompted this legislation sickens me, and good on Franken for working to correct it.
What I’d like to comment on is this paragraph:
The Senate voted for the amendment 68-30. The 30 Senators that think Halliburton subsidiary KBR ought to be allowed to deny its female employees access to the legal system when they are raped by its male employees are, naturally, all Republican and include: Jones’ Senator John Cornyn; the philandering Christian John Ensign; noted prostitution enthusiast David Vitter; gynecologist and anti-abortion advocate Tom Coburn; personhood-for-fetuses advocate Sam Brownback; women’s “health” advocate John McCain; and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
I’m definitely in the pro-life camp. I do think it’s a fair question, however, to ask why someone who wouldn’t want a raped woman to abort a baby why they also wouldn’t want the woman to be able to pursue justice for being raped in the first place. And I don’t even want to get started on the damage done when someone can be labeled a “philandering Christian.”
Nonsense like this is why I no longer support either political party. You can see how your senators voted here. I intend to ask Georgia’s senators why they voted against this amendment.
