Gah

I started reading this article on Salon about the anti-contraception movement and had to stop. Things like this scare the crap out of me.
Seriously.
These people want to codify their religious beliefs as law. I am sure that if they met me, they would not regard me as an actual person – I strongly suspect that most forced-birth, anti-contraception proponents are borderline sociopaths. They must be – either that or they are hopelessly ignorant.

It grieves me terribly that there are people like this out there and they are actually making inroads.
I am strongly tempted to follow the example of the Flying Spaghetti Monster‘s creator and put together a movement to show how ridiculous they are. A movement, for example, to force Wal*Mart and the other big-box stores to let their Hindu employees refuse to sell meat, and their anorexic employees refuse to sell food at all, and their anti-gun employees to refuse to sell weapons/ammo, etc.
But the underlying thing here, the thing that makes stories like this raise the hairs on the back of my neck, is that these people are crazy and they are persueding our legislators to adhere to their craziness! They are the equivalent of the Taliban but they think that because they are “right” and are following the “right God” that it’s okay. The founding fathers must be spinning in their graves.
I feel terribly, terribly hopeless. I live in a generally pro-choice state. My senators, for the most part, are aggressive when it comes to the ideals I hold dear. But they’re in the minority. Other than persueding my liberal friends who live out of state not to move to Canada but to stay here and keep voting liberal, what on earth can I do? Give money to causes I support, I suppose, but that seems like the bare minimum (and I already do this when I can).
It just makes me feel so angry and so sick and so hopeless.