The right wing war against women’s rights gets even uglier

Republican Mike Hogan, running for mayor of Jacksonville, Florida, told an audience in a Catholic Church Monday night that he wouldn’t bomb an abortion clinic, “but it may cross my mind.”

The audience laughed and applauded.

Hogan, a Baptist, said he will be “loving” the day that the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the Roe v. Wade decision allowing abortions. He told the audience of about 100 people at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church that “it was an awful decision by an awful court.” Hogan added that the only thing he wouldn’t do was bomb an abortion clinic, then the law-and-order advocate added, with a laugh, “but it may cross my mind.” The Mandarin crowd applauded.

After this disgusting remark, Hogan was confronted — and, of course, he said he was just joking.

After the forum, Hogan told The Times-Union he was simply joking about even thinking about bombing an abortion clinic. “If I’ve got to measure everything I say, I mean, I’m not going to be politically correct,” Hogan said. “That was a joke. This was an audience for this. This is a Catholic Church. I guarantee you they are 110 percent pro-life.”

Wow. So now a Catholic Church is the perfect place to make “jokes” about committing terrorist acts?