Ah, that shining example of moral profundity, Randall Terry - homosexuality is wrong, but cheating on one’s spouse (as Terry reportedly did) is hunky-dory.
Wish I’d known a few decades back that one is allowed to choose moral absolutes at whim - I wouldn’t have wasted all those years in Sunday School. . . .
You only have to know one thing to know that Dr. Dobson is completely fucking insane: He truly believes that the Christian faith is the basis for a healthy family.
There are about 660 million families in China and India who would like to say otherwise. Give or take a few tens of millions.
Probably 1 or 2 people in secular households in Europe that might have a few bones to pick. Not to mention Muslims. Or should we not get Mr. Dobson started on them?
I’m sure you didn’t mean to suggest otherwise, but a Christian faith can form a basis for a healthy family. It’s clearly not the only way to have a healthy family, of course. Or a guarantee of a healthy family.
Of course it CAN, but according to Dobson and his evil ilk, it is the ONLY way to have a healthy family. And his definition of healthy includes (presumably) women submitting to their husbands, and parents hitting their kids with rods or belts or something for punishment. (A rare swat on the rear with a hand is one thing, but when objects are involved that crosses the line IMO.)
Also, praising (or at least condoning) people who murder doctors who perform abortions along with the nurses and receptionists who work at the clinic is apparently okay.
No kidding. I think Schlafly has five or six children and one of her sons is gay. Or let’s say one of her sons has come out as gay. I dunno about the others.
Since Phyllis has come down on the side of “I don’t want no homos teaching my kids” and I believe all her children were marched off to parochial school at the age of 6 (she doesn’t believe in kindergarten, either) it does make one wonder whether there were any indictments for child molestation in that particular parish… :eek:
True, I guess I wasn’t very clear. I read some of his stuff in a child psych class (comparative reading, I’m pretty sure the prof thought he was nuts, but he is rather influential in certain communities) and it honestly scared me. This is a man who thinks terrorizing a little dog is a funny story, and that the best way to get your kids to obey you (which is the most important thing a kid can do, because God says so) is to use fear and pain.
His reasoning concerning using – say, a rod – is that the child will supposedly associate the pain with the rod, not with your hand. I’m thinking kids aren’t that dumb. If Dad is using a rod, Dad is hitting them, not the rod.