My point is that a large proportion of powerful conservatives are Catholics (who let their beliefs influence their decisions) and a large proportion of powerful Catholics are conservative.

Most of the people I know are Catholic. I am the only Democrat in that group. So....statistics might say otherwise but I think a lot of people who know Catholics know many who are also Republicans.

I actually hope this continues but I’ll be very honest, the rhetoric around here is very very very vocally for Catholics to make Pro-Life their single platform. And if IL can have a Rep Gov in 2015, anything is possible with Chicago Catholics.

You’d be surprised, based on my Catholic college. There’s a fair amount of liberals with the Catholic church, but it’s a very conservative institution.

That was my point, you don’t need to condescend to me.

Every Catholic I knew growing up was a Republican. The current church leadership is very conservative, especially when it comes to women’s issues. Denying that is silly. As is denying that this sort of shit is very much in keeping with Republican dogma.

Meaning most Republicans aren’t Catholic and wouldn’t support this? Or that most Catholics are Democrats and wouldn’t support this?

Tell that to my Republican/Catholic family. Now, having said that, Catholics are rarely the science deniers Evangelicals are.

Actually there is. At least at the hierarchy level. The current USCCB is seriously conservative and that is trickling down to the masses. The catholic vote used to be pro-social justice and heavily titled toward union/blue collar issues. This is no longer the case.

And thank god we’re lucky enough to have this vacuous Fox drone and her eagerness to keep women more accomplished than herself in check. Remember not to get too big for your britches, ladies!

THIS. If shit hits fan, she would be cowering behind them.

I would like to think that they did want to do that but their dads were all like,” Man...sure wish I had a boy so they could be an Army Ranger!” all passive aggressive like and they were like “fuck this! I’ll show dad!” then did it just to piss him off.

No. How fucking dare she imply that these two soldiers, graduates of West Point, an MP and a helicopter pilot, who worked so incredibly hard to even get the chance to attend Ranger school, and then completed it against all odds, how fucking dare she even think they should just shut up and go away and do ladylike…

Those poor delicate, emotional men. They need to be protected!

Let’s also keep in mind that these are ARMY RANGERS. They are badass human survival machines, and she's worrying about them getting a sad?

All it would take is one brave, strong, psychopathic woman!

Does she think these women were going ‘oh, I wanted to be a beautician, but this job meant fighting for equality and female empowerment!’?

there seems to be this sense that men can’t have anything to themselves anymore

They can keep their penises to themselves. That would be grand.