Komen says it's not about politics. Oh?

SINCE ENDING ITS support of Planned Parenthood, the Susan G. Komen Foundation for the Cure has been spinning its reason as a simple act of playing by its rules. In short, the Komen leaders insist that politics has nothing to do with its decision. That quickly recalls Seinfeld's George Costanza's excuse that "it's not a lie if you believe it."

Until now Komen has worked closely and nobly with Planned Parenthood in helping to fund breast cancer screenings. However, it has been no secret that anti-abortion groups have been trying to destroy Planned Parenthood with their congressional surrogates, wrongly accusing PP of providing abortions with massive federal funds. If you follow the sequence of how this latest monstrous event came about, check this:

(1)In April 2011, Karen Handel, losing runoff Republican candidate for Georgia governor in 2010 (endorsed by Mitt Romney and Jan Brewer!) became senior vice president of Komen, continuing her pro-life campaign stance to rid Komen of Planned Parenthood

(2).In September, Rep. Cliff Stearns, the anti-abortion congressman from Ocala, Fla., announced that his subcommittee would investigate Planned Parenthood, demanding all of the foundation's records and those of all of its affiliates..

(3)Not long afterward, Komen rewrote its rules and denied funding to any organzation being "investigated" in Congress, while rewarding Stearns and the pro-lifers.

(4)Komen announces that it would have no further dealing with Planned Parenthood and even rejected any appeals for further discussion by the latter.

(5)Komen releases a formal statement, saying: "Grant-making decisions are not about politics - our priority is and always will be the women we serve. Making this issue political or leveraging it for fundraising purposes would be a disservice to women."

(6) Political and religious conservatives shouted "Yippee". Tony Perkins, the oft-quoted president of the Family Research Council, said it was about time that Planned Parenthood stop making a profit from abortions - which, of course, works for the Family Council's anti-abortion profit-making game.

(7)Not about politics? Make me laugh.

P.S. Planned Parenthood has received more than $400,000 in fresh contributions since Komen put a hit on it. You can add to that amount. I just did.

UPDATE: Now make that $650,000!

It was no more than, eh... a sexual massage

I AM HERE TO TO warn you that since homosexuals took over the island of Lesbos and possibly Michelangelo's paint brush centuries ago, the crime rate involving gays in America has risen 2,386 pct.! Whoa, there. That's not true, of course, but I am rehearsing for a possible job on Fox News or James Dobson's Family Research Council. The latter outfit may be more immediately available since its co-founder, George Rekers, a fiercely anti-gay Southern Baptist minister, was widely reported to have been traveling around with a 20-year-old male prostitute that he acquired from a source called Rentboy. Com. Rekers denies the unflattering details of the story. On the other hand, the lad says he gave Rekers sexual massages. In fairness, for some people, that might mean nothing more than a finger flip at 20 paces.

But I was going to talk about Peter Sprigg, a senior fellow for policy studies at the very same Family Research Council. Sprigg, also an ordained Baptist minister, has been loudly pestering sensible people on national broadcasts with the idea that gays are criminals who are "trashing" democracy and, to say the least, ought not to be bothering straight soldiers honorably serving on active duty.

Although I have found no evidence that Sprigg served in the military, he seems to be dispensing a lot of inside wisdom on the system.

I've made a note to remember this the next time one of these whirlybirds flies off the handle about gays on TV. I stuck it in my hypocrites file.

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