WHAT SEEING FLUKE AS A SLUT REALLY MEANS. Calling a woman a slut and a prostitute only because she sustains healthcare for women is erasing the constitutional violation against the equality of women in this country that religious organizations are responsible for. Refusing to pay for health care, leaving it a province of health insurances is a violation of the separation of church and state, since religious organizations employ citizens, whether or not they're co-religionists. If anything, the choice of taking or not contraceptives should be the individual's moral or personal choice,made under the advice of a competent doctor, not a dictat mandated from a religious institution from above, which now carries the same import as a law, and that law is one against reproductive rights. Calling Fluke a slut and a prostitute is slander and, due to Limbaugh's position as radio host, harmful to Fluke professionally as well by polarizing future employers, also a recent development in Supreme Court decisions on hirings by religious institutions, for one, and possibly a future trend for discrimination in others, so it's not only an effort to inhibit a person from functioning in defense of herself, but also classist discrimination meant to impoverish women. If the advertizers pulled out, they did so also for self-interest: they could have been sued for constitutional violations, as the AFL-CIO and Southern Poverty Law Center have done in countless cases before, which would have proven a more effective technique than Steinem and Fonda supporting the classist FCC by wanting it to uphold its rulings on offensive language, since that language is also used as a kind of shorthand to criticize behavior that is also inhumane and unconstitutional. For that matter, Maher's advice on going easy on Limbaugh just is a go ahead for harmful unconstitutional behavior as well.