The Idaho House just passed a sweeping anti-abortion bill that grants no exceptions for rape, incest, severe fetal abnormality or the mental or psychological health of the mother. As if to avoid any question of the religious basis for the measure, the sponsor state Rep. Brent Crane, R-Nampa, explained to the House that this was God’s will.
Senate Bill 1165 bans abortion after 20 weeks on grounds of fetal pain. Crane invoked the “hand of the Almighty” and “His ways are higher than our ways. He has the ability to take difficult, tragic, horrific circumstances and then turn them into wonderful examples.” The measure passed on a 54-14 vote and now heads to the governor’s desk.
These measures have proven costly to the state. In the 1990s, the legislator passed an anti-abortion law and “spent nearly three-quarters of a million dollars” unsuccessfully defending the law.
Here is the information on Crane from the House website:
Born 07/02/1974 in Nampa ID; graduated in 1992 from Nampa Christian High School, received a B.A. in Political Science with emphasis in Public Administration from Boise State University 2005; Protestant; Vice President of Crane Alarm Service; family: wife Rochenda, son Keaton and daughter Riley.
Source: Spokesman
anon nurse:
:=)
eniobo,
Thanks for the nod. No strangers here…
Hi, eniobob.
anon nurse:
Hello stranger.
…and I do believe he’s sporting a toupee…
rafflaw,
Ask and ye shall receive …
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You are right about the divine sense of humor, Buddha!
Stamford,
It reminds me of the sperm song in the Monty Python movie, The Meaning of Life.
“These measures have proven costly to the state. In the 1990s, the legislator passed an anti-abortion law and “spent nearly three-quarters of a million dollars” unsuccessfully defending the law.”
And I hope the state has to shell out another few hundred thousand – if not a few million – defending this bullshit law.
“I think women in Idaho should make male masturbation illegal …”
Actually, rafflaw, this isn’t a bad idea … I mean, all those unborns dying slow and painful deaths, suffocating in tissues and old gym socks …
GODDAMN IT!! @!&**#%@$?%@#!*&?, $#@&^%^%$%&, &!!##@#&^#!!!!!!
Please excuse me while I go scream until my head explodes …
If there were a God, he would squash Brent Crane like a bug.
You’ll notice that he never said that god would turn those tragedies into something good, just that he could if he wanted.
This guy’s god is a dick.
It’s amazing that Brent Crane still believes in God after God made him grow up in Nampa, Idaho (and gave him a defective brain)(and made him a Republican)(and made him wear a bad tie).
Leave the lime Green tie alone…
eniobob,
They are communing with kay….that says it all…
“explained to the House that this was God’s will”
Where are these people who talk like this getting their short wave radios from ?
raff,
If so, then there is proof positive that God has a sense of humor. And the joke is on Crane.
“Lime sherbert green”
Ugh.
Buddha,
God told him to wear that tie for the picture!
Lime green with blue and white stripes?
What kind of fashion criminal would wear that tie?
I just hate it when the religious fanatics get elected anywhere. Since when do men get to decide what women can do with their bodies? I think women in Idaho should make male masturbation illegal and punishable by being placed on a wooden raft and pushed out to sea, because the hand of God told them it would be the correct punishment.
It it will withstand what scrutiny test..such as rational basis….I bet Scalia even see’s this one coming…