Due to unforeseen computer problems, the relaunch of this blog has been delayed.  I will have a system reliable enough to start daily posts with in the week.  Tentatively, I am looking at Memorial day to begin daily posts, although chances are good that I will start sporadic updates as soon as my new pc is up and running.

Until then, here are some poor, persecuted Christian teenagers, courtesy of Dispatches from the Culture War.

I have helpfully marked our winner in this picture, so no one confuses the years biggest douche with any of the guys in the picture mocking him.  Ahem….Trigger warning….

Since I am a stickler for truth in advertising, I suggest that he replace the “You deserve rape” sign for one that reads “Beware: I am a potential rapist who can not be trusted to control my own actions.”  Now I understand that that may be a little bit wordy for a sign, so instead maybe he can get it tattooed on his face?

Seriously, if there is any justice in the world, this douche will never get another date, let alone ever get laid again.

Hat tip to the Wonkette for the original pic.

Oh, yeah.  And the new Foster Disbelief will have much more on male privilege, misogyny, rape culture and feminism as well.

While the areas of Pennsylvania surrounding Pittsburgh and Philadelphia are progressive, the vast land between the cities can be as red as the deep south; hence the term, Pennsyltucky.  The part of PA in which I reside is overwhelmingly republican and Christian, and the newspaper that arrives on my doorstep each morning reflects the community.  So when a national or state-wide story is reported on in a questionable way by the Altoona Mirror, expect to see a post here at Foster Disbelief.

For example….

Dropping of Plan B restrictions divides medical community

Well, maybe not the whole community, but it definitely divides Dr. Shaun Jester from the community.

Dr. Shaun Jester, OB-GYN at Nason Hospital, Roaring Spring, said a judge shouldn’t be allowed to practice medicine and the hormone could hurt young girls whose bodies aren’t developed enough to handle Plan B.

“I believe, personally, the motive is political,” Jester said, adding that if he can’t buy cough syrup without a driver’s license, there’s no reason why a young pubescent girl should be able to buy hormones over the counter.

Jester said the political motivation is tied to the Affordable Care Act, often called Obamacare. He said the law’s proponents hope emergency contraceptives and, eventually, medications like birth control, will be made available over the counter.

Of course!  How could we have missed out on Obama’s devious political schemes?  That’s why the Obama administration overruled the FDA when they originally decided Plan B should be over the counter.  Or something.  Wonder what other brilliant musings Dr. Jester has for us all?

Jester cited lawsuits filed by Hobby Lobby’s evangelical Christian owner, who sued over a federal mandate requiring employee-provided insurance to cover birth control. He said some doctors and insurance companies invoke a right of conscience in refusing to prescribe medicine that violates their own religious, moral or ethical beliefs.

Once certain medications are over the counter, “there’s nothing to stop the right of conscience,” he said.

Oh, so once certain medications are over the counter, there is no way for you to force your religious and moral beliefs down other peoples throats.  Got ya.  Abortion sense….tingling.

“In medicine, the term abortion can apply” only after an egg, fertilized with sperm, is implanted in a woman’s uterus,” Jester said. Anything that happens before that “doesn’t count.”

But the medical definition doesn’t state that life hasn’t begun, he said, and if someone believes a fertilized egg is a person, then it’s an abortion to prevent an egg from attaching to the uterus.

“You just can’t call it an abortion,” he said, “but it causes a layperson’s definition of an abortion.”

Correction.  It causes the anti-abortion zealot layperson’s definition of abortion.  Cause I am a layperson and it doesn’t sound anything like an abortion to me.  No more than any other form of hormonal birth control sounds like abortion.  Hmmm.  I wonder what Dr. Jester thinks of those?  We already know what Hobby Lobby thinks of them.  Slut pills.

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Of course, any newspaper in a red city is going to get letters to the editor, so there will be a Altoona Mirror Letter to the Editor of the Week here at FD.  I’m tempted to start this feature today, but relaunch is only a week away.  Patience.

In the days leading up to the first of May and the relaunch of the blog, I will be occasionally previewing some of the new features that will be appearing here at Foster Disbelief.

There will always be a healthy dose of items pulled from other sources and presented with that special Foster-type snark, so don’t worry, the Wait, What?!? of the day isn’t going anywhere.  But I would like to be more than just another blog collecting things from other sites.  What does that mean?  Original content!

Woot.

One upcoming type of 0riginal content will be reviews and deconstructions of apologetics and other various Christian books and publications.  Like what, you ask?

The Case for Easter by Lee Strobel

God Is a Matchmaker: Seven Biblical Principles for Finding Your Mate by Derek and Ruth Prince

I Believe In The Historical Jesus by I. Howard Marshall

Can America Survive? 10 Prophetic Signs That We Are The Terminal Generation by John Hagee

Foster Disbelief:  Torturing himself for your reading pleasure!

More details on other upcoming features and changes in the coming days.

Greetings!

Foster Disbelief will be returning to the intertubes soon, with the targeted date for relaunch being May 1, 2013. 

More information in the coming weeks….

You’re welcome.  Hat tip to the Wonkette: