NEWS: Republican Presidential Candidate Michele Bachmann Signs Pledge Supporting Ban on Porn, Abortion, and Suggests Black Families Were More Functional Du

CULTURE: Republican Presidential Candidate Michele Bachmann Signs Pledge Supporting Ban on Porn, Abortion, and Suggests Black Families Were More Functional During Slavery

by Damon Martin

Republican Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann doesn’t like porn, abortion, or promiscuity. She hates it so much, she's signed a pledge to prove it! The essence of the pledge is that the candidates who sign it must commit to upholding the oaths contained within should they make it to office, which means Bachmann is now 100% committed to ending both abortion and pornography (it'll be interesting to see how she'll legislate against promiscuity - will sex before marriage become a custodial offense?).


On Friday, Bachmann put her signature on 'The Marriage Vow - A Declaration of Dependence upon Marriage and Family' a two-page document authored by Iowa pastor Bob Vander Plaats.

Vander Plaats is actually trying to get all presidential candidates to sign his wacky pledge, which calls for a ban on pornography, and contains verbiage condemning gay marriage, while also suggesting that the African American family unit was better off during slavery.



Yes, you read that correctly. Here is the bullet point from the pledge that points to the success of the 'nuclear family' with mom and dad both present, which more African Americans had during slavery.

Nothing says love and compassion like comparing the family unit of today – which encompasses millions of strong, viable single parent-led households – to the rosy family unit of yesteryear in the good ol’ days of slavery.

Back to the pornography portion of the manifesto that Bachmann signed up for. It reads like an archaic text (not that unlike the Bible) with regards to how sexuality should be treated under conservative law.

Stolen innocence? It's almost like Vander Plaats was reading directly from Bristol Palin's new book Not Afraid of Life. And the fact that “pornography” and “infanticide” sit together in the same sentence, without and level of distinction between the two, would be funny if it wasn’t so tragic (or maybe it’s the other way around). It also begs the question, what kind of porn have Plaats and Bachmann been watching?

One of the funniest parts of the pledge reads:

Let's just dissect that one for a moment.

The pledge wants the candidate to stand up in 'fierce defense' of the First Amendment with regards to free speech, yet virtually every case that has come in front of the Supreme Court regarding the curtailment of pornography has been overruled precisely because of our inalienable right to free speech.

The First Amendment protects everyone's rights to free speech and expression of ideas, whether they are popular or unpopular. It protects the religious right that wants to speak out against abortion and gay marriage the same way it protects the producers and distributors of pornography. The First Amendment doesn't discriminate, unlike the pledge that Bachmann just signed.

And just to throw out the point about the adherence and defense of 'faithful heterosexual monogamy,' I guess there's a reason fellow Republican candidate Newt Gingrich won't be signing Plaats' presidential promise.

By aligning herself with the pledge, Bachmann has once again stepped so far to the right that she's almost guaranteeing herself a Donald Trump like exit from the actual presidential race -- but, hey, it's amusing to watch it unfold.

As Bill Maher once said so eloquently about the candidate from Minnesota:

People like Bachmann are absolutely infuriating. They completely deny the validity of any lifestyle besides their own, discarding those lifestyles as anything except a deliberate affront to their own. Gay people aren't gay because they're gay, they're gay because they want to tear down marriage. Porn isn't enjoyable for its own sake, it exists solely to 'steal innocence', whatever the hell that means. It is the political equivalent of wanting something your sibling has solely because they have it.

The irony, of course, is that they're hard at work converting their own lifestyle into an assault on everyone else's. Freedom doesn't mean freedom, it means that they get to do what they want and everybody else gets to conform.

Rolling Stone recently ran a pretty interesting piece on Bachmann. It's worth a look.

Oh my.

In France, one of the front line political fight is legalization of homosexual wedding. Until this evening, I thought the opponents to these unions were too close-minded.
I notice we don't have the worst...

Regions and the decisions based on them cause to sigh. Could be worse though, they could advocate strapping a bomb to their chest and sending them to the "smut peddlers"...I could also be on fire...

Wow I need to sleep. That should be Religions...cause me to...please don't stone me.

D.

I don't know if this has been mentioned on the boards, but seeing Michelle Bachman's name made me think of it.

Hilarious

This isn't about religion. This is purely a southern strategy nod to the racists in the tea party.

Notice that there is no mention of solutions or actual issues presented about supposed broken African American families, which might be just as distasteful, but at least it would represent a point of view and a political idea. The paragraph about slavery is a clear "The president is a black man. I'm not." statement. Nothing less. The fact that the mainstream press hasn't lambasted her (and anyone who signs the "pledge") over this is a real sign that the conservatives right now have not only won, they've destroyed the left in this country. We're so far right that John Boehner is a moderate.

Bachmann Batshit Overdrive

Allow me to submit: Bachmann Stomach-turner Overdrive

Wouldn't any kid be more likely to be part of a 2 parent family in 1860, regardless of colour? Divorce was pretty rare back then, and women less likely to have a child out of wedlock, what with them being property and all.

Well there goes my excitement at her running. Unbelievable.

Wait... you were excited about her running?

I admit I didnt know much about her. Not excited anymore.

When i saw the title off this thead a part of me thought it was a joke. Banning of porn? The fuck century is this women living in? I don't even want to read what she she said about slavery...

It is hilarious to watch the various talking heads on the tv machine try to talk about her as a serious candidate, while she pulls shit like this. It is like half (or more) of the GOP candidates have forgotten they need more than the deep-Right to win. Do they think, when the general election comes around, that we're going to forget the year-long attack on anyone who disagrees with their ideology?

Yes.

That's all I needed to hear. I hope someone hits this ignorant bitch with a truck.

Man...after a lifetime of dealing with shit like this as a black man that's pretty much the only alternative left for people like that. And as a woman, she really ought to know better. What If someone got on T.V. and said life was better for women when they were forced to stay in the kitchen and sew all day? You can just as easily (and as ignorantly) say that the independent woman is as responsible for the break up of familes as black people. F.U.C.K .H.E.R.!

I didn't say kill her. I just said hit her with a truck. People can survive hit and runs..

And her remains should be killed, along with her family.


There is some serious irony in his post, given some of his comments in the past. I almost can not believe what I am reading from him.

You kinda should just stop.