There’s a new pledge in Republicanville, “The Marriage Vow: A Declaration of Dependence upon MARRIAGE and FAMILY” (emphasis in the original), and Michele Bachmann is the first to sign! Most of the pledge is typical Christian-Conservative, but this part is both crazy and offensive:
Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA’s first African-American President.
Wow! Never mind that slave families were routinely broken up and sold off – and murdered, raped, and abused. This statement is beyond offensive.
BTW, she’s also signed onto banning porn and calling homosexuality a choice.
The ninth step calls for the banning of “all forms” of pornography. The pledge also states that homosexuality is both a choice and a health risk. You can read all the details of the pledge here.
Know what else is a choice? Religion.
Update: She’s also a real ‘merican:
CARL QUINTANILLA (CNBC): Does it strike you that as the unemployment rate goes up that your chances of winning office also go up?
MICHELE BACHMANN: Well, that could be. Again, I hope so.
Priceless.