The Republican presidential hopefuls took to a Fox News stage last night to debate our nation's most pressing issues. And, not surprisingly, gay marriage came up.
When asked about his opinion on the matter, Senator Sam Brownback offered a long-winded, short-sighted and all around absurd explanation.
Read it and weep at his idiocy, after the jump…
…I think this is important for us to rebuild the family structure. In countries that have redefined marriage, where they’ve said, okay, it’s not just a man and a woman, it can be two men, two women, the marriage rates in those countries have plummeted to where you have counties now in Northern Europe where 80 percent of the first-born children are born out of wedlock. We don’t need more children born out of wedlock; we need more children born into wedlock between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
When you do these vast social experiments — and that’s what this is, when you redefine marriage. It’s a vast social experiment. They’re not done in isolation. They impact the rest of the culture around you. When you take the sacredness out of marriage, you will drive the marriage rates down. And currently in this country, currently we’re at 36 percent of our children born out of wedlock. You can raise a good child in that setting, but we know the best place is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
Do we know that? Really? Because we've heard differently: there's no negative correlation between a child's development and their parents gender. What's more, we were under the impression that gay marriage is not harming other countries' marriage rates. Oh well, we'd expect such skewed logic from a man who doesn't believe in evolution.
No wonder he got booed.
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Queerty, please don't call it "gay marriage," as if any marriage of Nicole Kidman, Liza Minnelli, Renne Zellwegger or Mrs. Larry Craig.
It is "same-sex marriage" or "marriage equality."
When did the republicans EVER report facts accurately and WHEN did the media EVER bother to challenge them on their distortions?
Some liberal media, BAH!
"we need more children born into wedlock between a mom and a dad bonded together for life"
Uh divorce is still legal in the US Senator.
Instead of fighting for same-sex marriage, why don't we fight to criminalize divorce? Make it illegal and force all divorced couples to get back together again. The government already has practice at ripping gay families apart so they shouldn't have any problem with it.
That logic pisses me off and I don't think the numbers are accurate. Come on people, how many people do YOU know whose BIRTH parents are still together? Struggling, I came up with three and two of those are in the South.
Also, DIVORCE… JACKASS! Consider: Most children are NOT raised in a wedlock of parents "bonded together for life." Indeed, the kind of "marriage" we are living with is NOT about being "bonded together for life" because most hets get married TOO FAST to know whether they want to be "bonded together for life" and once they have been together and see the person they are with outside of that particular brand of heterosexual brainwash perfume, they chase down the court and get the hell out of it.
Why is he talking about marriage as a "supposed to be" institution instead of the institution it is? Why is he convinced there is only one way to raise children? And while it is good of him to nod towards single-parent households in a kind of throw-away fashion, what he doesn't understand is that the way it USED to work was that the whole neighborhood looked after all the kids and had the authority to tell a child to stop or what-have-you if the primary parent was not around.
… and that isn't even talking about gay families.
I am so annoyed with this kind of logic. If Republicans take the white house 08…. *steams*
Brownback is one of a growing number of christian totalitarians with clout in Congress. He’s happy to be seen that way and bears watching because he's adept at constantly repeating violently antigay, racist, anti-female, antiabortion, anti immigrant and prowar views. Joseph Goebbels first perfected the use of the 'Big Lie" that Brownback is using.
Brownshirt, er Brownback, is sure to attract those in need of a Fuehrer. He’ll keep the idea of what happened in the camps on a backburner for now, but sooner or later he’s going to say ‘up the chimney’ and mean it.
Sam's closetometer reading just jumped precipitously.