Compose your own, but here are a few ideas
NEWS FLASH: McMorris Rodgers, under pressure, has rescheduled her “Conversation with Cathy” for next week. Put it on your calendar.
WHEN: Aug 31, 2022 / 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM PT
WHERE: Spokane Convention Center, Centennial Ballroom, 202 West Spokane Falls Boulevard
I hope that someone will record and post this highly unusual event—McMorris Rodgers appearing in Spokane in the early evening (rather than midday in an outlying town) to attempt answers to a few written questions carefully screened by her staff. Perhaps she will surprise us, but I doubt she will risk another performance like her attempt, captured on video, to avoid saying that she believed or denied Trump’s Big Lie about the 2020 election.
Besides the obvious Big Lie question here are a few other potential lines of inquiry, questions one might pose on Wednesday. :
- You have made the point many times that you believe that human life begins at conception and that abortion should be illegal. Now that the Supreme Court has finally overturned Roe v. Wade, will you reaffirm your commitment to voting for a federal law and/or a Constitutional amendment to ban abortion? Can we count on you to continue to work tirelessly to pass laws that elevate the right to life of a single cell over the right of a woman to control her own medical decisions?
- If you or your daughter were impregnated by a rapist should it be your or your daughter’s legal obligation to carry the resulting fetus to term in recognition of its right to life? If so, can we count on you to vote for a law that would force other women to give birth to a rapist’s baby?
- You consistently co-sponsor federal legislation that would make it legal for a mass murderer to obtain a silencer to muffle the sound of gunshots. (“Hearing Protection Act”). How many more innocent lives are you willing to risk to appease the NRA and relieve shooters of the need to wear ear protection?
- When asked what you believed was the age of the earth, 6000 or 4.5 billion years, you responded, “The account that I believe is the one in the Bible that God created the world in seven days.” A sentence or two later you said, “And I do believe that we need to…ah…know what the science is, respect the science…” The science of paleontology clearly demonstrates that massive dinosaurs once existed. Since in your view all the species were created in the first seven days, does that mean that humans and dinosaurs once walked the earth together instead of existing millions of years before humans appeared? Or:
- Perhaps a better question is Bob Gilles’ original: “Do you believe the earth is more like 6000 years old or four and a half billion years old?” It might be followed by “It is an either/or question, Cathy.” (Note that Bob Gilles posed his question as a man who once taught at Gonzaga Prep and worked with the Salvation Army and in a Dominican Orphanage, a man who lived his life in a manner consistent with Christian teaching—just not the Fundamentalist variety that dominates the mind of McMorris Rodgers.)
- Which creation story in the Book of Genesis do you believe, the Chapter 1 version in which God created both man and woman on the sixth day and declared them good or the Chapter 2 version in which on the first day Adam was created by God from dust, Eve from one of Adam’s ribs, and after Eve ate of the Forbidden Fruit, God declared them cursed rather than good?
I was taught never to discuss religion in polite company, but when I’m deciding for whom to vote to represent me I think it is important to screen out those with rigid Fundamentalist religious views that preclude comprehending and acting upon the science upon which our continued existence depends. McMorris Rodgers says she (and we) need to “know what the science is, respect the science”, but, thanks to her Fundamentalist education and continued adherence to all its limiting principles, she is ill-equipped to either “know” or “understand” even the basics of how science works.
Keep to the high ground,
Jerry
P.S. For additional ideas for questions visit BigLieCathy.com and scroll to the bottom of the first webpage.