A reality based independent journal of observation & analysis, serving the Flathead Valley & Montana since 2006. © James Conner.
Montana Democrats are gleefully lying about Greg Gianforte again. Montana Democratic Party spokesman Jason Pitts’ email yesterday called Gianforte a “New Jersey billionaire” and “dark money king.” Gianforte earned the “dark money king” appellation, so congratulations to Jason for using it. But an application of sudden blunt force to Jason’s southern exposure, and the southern exposures of his bosses, for the billionaire lie — a lie he and his bosses know is a lie.
I almost missed Jason’s press release, incidentally. It ended up in my junk filter file — and I have my junk filter turned off. That’s sort of a cosmic comment on the New Jersey billionaire horse manure.
I thought we were past this medieval cruelty, but I was wrong. An 88-hospital chain of Catholic hospitals, Trinity Health, just filed a court document saying, reports the American Civil Liberties Union:
…that because of religious exemption laws, its Catholic affiliation allows it to violate the law and refuse to provide pregnant women with emergency medical care.
In response to a lawsuit we filed against Trinity for systematically refusing to treat pregnant women in emergencies, the hospital giant recently submitted a brief that argues (incorrectly) that state and federal law allow Trinity to “refuse to allow abortions to be performed on hospital premises,” in the context of emergency miscarriage treatment when the woman’s life or health is at risk.
That church’s bishops shouldn’t practice medicine. And given their cruel righteousness, they shouldn’t practice religion, either.