Saint Augustine Quotes

The King abdicated and became the Duke of Windsor. The surface reason was so he could pursue his love for a divorced woman. However, Edward was very sympathetic to and supportive of English and European Fascists like Hitler and WWII with Germany was imminent and the king’s views and relationships would have been very awkward. His younger brother, who became king, was a democrat.

Commenting on the Senate debate over the confirmation of John Tower as Secretary of Defense, where the nominee was accused of being a womanizer and a heavy drinker:

Jackson's Secretary of War, John Henry Eaton, 1790-1856, had been having an affair with a married woman with a proclivity toward promiscuity. Her husband committed suicide and Eaton wished to marry the lady, but did not wish to bring any scandal to Jackson's administration. He consulted the President. He did and there was a huge scandal. It split Jackson's cabinet and ended with Jackson replacing the entire cabinet except the Postmaster General. Vice President John C. Calhoun's chances for the Presidency died as he and Jackson broke over this scandal.

Many whites applauded his views when they corresponded to Christian mores of the time.

He was referring to Sandra Fluke, a student at Georgetown University, a Catholic school whose health plans did not cover birth control pills. The Heath advisory committees had concluded that birth control pills were a critical element of women’s health. Congress was debating a rule that would exempt religions from having to provide birth control as a part of their health insurance if it was against their beliefs. However, universities, hospitals, museums and civil activities run by churches were not exempt, Ms Fluke testified before Congress that her birth control pills cost her much money out of pocket. Many conservatives throughout the country opposed the requirement, some on religious conscience grounds and others like Limbaugh who opposed because they opposed birth control itself. So Limbaugh concluded that since with insurance paying for birth control for women, the women were getting paid to have sex. Therefore Ms. Fluke was a prostitute and a slut. There was a national outrage over Limbaugh’s statements and many conservatives, especially those running for office were put in an awkward position. They realized the inappropriate logic and use of language and the meanness that Limbaugh exhibited, but with few exceptions they were afraid that if they opposed him publicly, Limbaugh would retaliate on the airways and he was the major Republican spokesman at the time. Although not a politician, he was in many ways the leader of the party. However, this time his mean, twisted, venomous, attack had gone too far. It was not a politician he had attacked this time; just an innocent young student. A number of his sponsors dropped him.

This quotation is the basis for the insistence of fundamentalist Muslims on the separation of the sexes, in stores, schools, restaurants. In the most extreme case the Taliban of Afghanistan would not allow female doctors or nurses to treat males or work in a hospital. Women were not even allowed in the hospital and many died of medical neglect.

3rd Earl Russell of Kingston. At the time, adultery was actually a criminal offense in England and most States in America

He dispatched the army to eliminate sin.

Planned Parenthood was at the time one of the most respectable, non-profit organizations. They never advocated or taught homosexuality, adultery, or bestiality, but the did teach and advocate birth control which made them anathema to some religious fundamentalists.

He was addressing the politically active organizations which claimed to represent Evangelical Christians in National Politics, but who were active supporters of Donald Trump, even after Mr. Trumps’s own recorded words and the testimony of a number of women made it clear that he was a sexual predator.