Social conservative performance artist and Official State Homophobe Richard Ziser has filed an initiative to outlaw abortion and limit "end-of-life decisions," Ralston reports.
Good. Brian Sandoval, Downy Suekanian and the rest of Nevada's Republican wannabes needed something they could strongly get behind so as to show voters who they really are. Now nobody can say that the GOP is just the party of no! Ziser is giving them something they can be "for."
And nothing makes Nevadans happier than a creepy churchy zealot calling for government control over their bodies and their lives.
Reading the initiative, it sounds as if Ziser is calling for the repeal of a marriage being only between a man and a woman! "Person...liberty."
The initiative is overboard and covers more than one subject and thus unconstitutional.
Posted by: dave404 | 10/21/2009 at 04:41 PM
You should be able to abort a fetus up until the time it graduates from college.
And I agree with Ziser that it should take more than waking up with a few battle-hogs to make an "end-of-life" decision. You should begin by quitting drinking. But we tried to pass a constitutional amendment on that and it didn't work too well.
Posted by: Goldy | 10/21/2009 at 04:55 PM
Speaking of creeps who use Bible-thumping & lies to enforce their Medieval religious dogma on the rest of us, check out the trailer for this new documentary which shows just how the Mormons deviously put millions of their secret dollars behind the anti gay-marriage campaigns across America.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MchC55BUzsk
Posted by: RussBBinVegas@aol.com | 10/21/2009 at 09:26 PM
It's not about an issue... it's about getting white ringers to the polls.
Posted by: Sara Painin | 10/22/2009 at 07:35 AM
Sara P,
You nailed it. But this time, we nail the issue to them. With so many new comers to Nevada from California the old rules no longer apply in SN. This will be the election where the Northern Nevada tail stops wagging the Southern Nevada dog.
Reapportionmet, redistricting and a failed Republican Party and all they have in their trick bag is ABORTION. They will be stunned little sheep 11/2010.
Posted by: VegasTeaRoom | 10/22/2009 at 08:38 AM
"Richard Ziser has filed an initiative to outlaw abortion and limit "end-of-life decisions"
what does the homophobe have to say to,
Vitter
Ensign
Gagnon
Foley
Haggart
Craig
oh yeah, I forgot, God wanted them to keep their zippers undone and to solicit men's room sex. Hypocrite does not begin to adequately describe this homophobic asshole.
Posted by: Rich | 10/22/2009 at 09:44 AM
Gleaner got this one right. This thing should have come gift wrapped with a bow on top.
Posted by: Ha | 10/22/2009 at 10:12 AM
The latest polling data, admittedly a few years out of date, showed 2/3 of republicans in Nevada supported freedom of choice on this issue.
But that was, IIRC, from the early 2000s before the republican party was taken over entirely by folks like, say, Richard Ziser. So now I suspect only about 1/3 of them support freedom of choice, but 1/3 of them have also become Democrats because of right-wing hard-liners like Ziser.
Recall that when he ran in 2006, Jim Gibbons was nominally pro-choice. As is Brian Sandoval.
Posted by: Gus | 10/22/2009 at 10:40 AM