Clinton’s election in 1992 was accompanied by the first rollout of anti-sex fervor to manipulate elections, dividing to conquer such pernicious forces as women and gays from the rest of the electorate to win elections for Republicans.  Here in Oregon, we had a stunningly sweeping and un-American ballot measure that would have essentially mandated discrimination against gays in every area of life and two draconian measures against abortion on the ballot that year, championed by a ragtag group of misfits who finally had found a way to make a living selling hate and sexual frustration to the rubes, the Oregon Citizen’s Alliance.  Founders Lon Mabon and the even spookier Scott Lively, allied with disturbed redneck politicians like Marylin Shannon and Eileen Qutub scooped up tons of money and bedeviled gay and women’s groups in Oregon for years, foreshadowing the eliminationist and hate-mongering that would become the right’s stock and trade from those days on. They eventually lost a case they supported surrounding “The Nuremburg Files,” a righty website that kept a tally of which targeted doctors had been righteously eliminated, of which there were several.  Luckily, most of them collapsed under the weight of their own corruption and court defeats and are irrelevant now, but lo and behold, Miss Lively (not to be confused with Miss Congeniality…) is now in Uganda promoting, with evident success, persecution of gays.  Join the Nazis and see the world, I guess.

The anti-sex movement is sort of like a balloon; squeeze it here and it bulges out there, though, as we’ve been seeing just lately with this, the fourth right-wing act of terrorism since Obama’s election. (Pittsburgh, Little Rock, Wichita, where was the other one?)  Clearly, people who are obsessed with other people’s sex lives are crazier than most, but isn’t it kind of dangerous for a political party and the vast majority of its spokesmen to speak of political disagreements in terms of how much those people who believe differently ought to die?  I mean, there are plenty of my fellow Americans that  I don’t like, but I’m completely okay with the fact that they are allowed to live.  I just don’t invite them over.  I guess that’s what makes me a liberal.  Righties take a different approach, as we see.

When they aren’t dehumanizing Muslims, calling Supreme Court nominees “racists,” randomly picking countries that ought to be bombed, they’re calling some midwestern physician who deals with one of the most stressful and difficult types of practice, “Tiller the Baby Killer.”  Of course, the peculiar pathologies that allow these vermin to to treat other human beings this way, conveniently enough, blinds them to any sense of responsibility for the eventual and increasingly inevitable slaughter of their targets.  One can hear the orchestra swelling to the strains of that hit tune,  ”No one could have predicted….”  Maybe Bill O’Reilly should get Condi on and they could do a little duet.

We have a terrorism problem problem in this country, alright.  Too bad we’re fighting it “over there.”  I wonder who the next victim(s) will be.