JEEBUS AND THE REAL AMERICA

Glenda Beck has found a niche that should bring him tens of millions of dollars for the foreseeable future: pandering to Fundie rubes.  He's already decided to accept the noted fraudster David Barton and today he's been going on about how this Presidential election is really a choice between Good and Evil.

Fortunately, there are enough non-Jeebus people still in responsible positions:

Bush-Appointed Judge Upholds Obama Administration’s Birth Control Coverage Rules
By Ian Millhiser posted from ThinkProgress Justice on Oct 1, 2012 at 6:20 pm

On Friday, Judge Carol Jackson, a George H.W. Bush appointee to a federal court in Missouri, rejected a Catholic business owner’s challenge to the Obama Administration’s rules requiring employer health plans to cover birth control.

[Federal religious freedom law] is a shield, not a sword. It protects individuals from substantial burdens on religious exercise that occur when the government coerces action one’s religion forbids, or forbids action one’s religion requires; it is not a means to force one’s religious practices upon others.

Already, [plaintiffs] pay salaries to their employees—money the employees may use to purchase contraceptives or to contribute to a religious organization. By comparison, the contribution to a health care plan has no more than a de minimus impact on the plaintiff’s religious beliefs than paying salaries and other benefits to employees.