Having stopped gay marriage and already figuring on an early win against abortion rights in this country, what do you suppose is next up? I had guessed they’d go after access to birth control by unmarried/childless women. I wasn’t quite right — it’s cohabitation, divorce, and deliberate childlessness.
Memo: Monday, tomorrow. Passport office.
It’s a done deal. The terrorists have already won. The Taliban is here.
It’s going to get worse.
Be prepared.
Yeah, good luck getting politicians to go farther in defense of marriage. How many of them have had affairs? It’s just not gonna happen.
One thing did bug me a bit.
From the article
Well, I guess Henry VIII is right out. :rolleyes: I do wish that the religious would stay the hell out of textbooks. They can’t all be religious schools.
From your link:
Honey, ain’t nobody going to get rid of “cohabitation, casual divorce, and deliberate childlessness”. The gummint will waste a certain amount of taxpayers’ money on programs and speeches criticizing them, but they are far too intrinsic a part of the lives of the political and economic elites, of all political stripes, to be actually legally restricted in any way.
Prof. Christensen is right, but not in the way he’d like: namely, the gay-marriage bans are futile and will eventually be brushed aside. Your “Christian Taliban” (or what Molly Ivins calls “Wahhabi Baptists” :)) is far from a done deal.
Link isn’t working for me for some reason, even though it obviously works for others.
This: http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/10240201.htm?1c
has the same quote from Christensen, is it the same article?
Actually, this could backfire on them. Hard.
There’s already division within the Republican party over the influence of the Moral Fascists (a phrase I prefer over any with “Christian” in it). Are the Cato Republicans gonna go for this kind of blatant social engineering? The Moral Fascists are in a position to rip the Republican party apart by taking a mandate they don’t really have and beating their party over the head with it.
And just how many Republicans have had divorces? Or deliberately don’t have children? Or have been 100% faithful to their spouses?
(or, for that matter, any other political group?)
Why not? Why shouldn’t they all teach that good old religion, here in Jesusland? Now that God Himself has anointed our blessed leader to restore the True Christian America[sup]TM[/sup] why should religion not take its rightful place in the curricula of a backsliding nation? Don’t you know that over 50 percent of Americans believe in creationism, or that it is the most likely explanation of our existence? Then shall not the majority, triumphant in its moralism, grind down the amoral minority, drive them from the temples of learning, smash their false idols of science and reason, train up their children in godly ways of faith and obeidence to the wise and noble rulers who guide their every step along the way to a country where Christ rules every heart, where the infidel is cast out into utter darkness, where sinners and their foul desires pollute the eyes no more, where
:: bucketful of icewater lands ::
Wha…? Oh, sorry. I was just working on my camouflage for life under the New Unworldly Order and got carried away.
It’s going to happen.
It’s gonna be fun to watch.
I’m very curious what legislation they want put in place against deliberate childlessness. If you have no kids after a certain amount of time in a marriage, and don’t have a note from you fertility doctor, they’ll fine you? Put you in jail? Force you to adopt?
I know the country’s more socially conservative than it should be, but wtf?
Deliberate childnessness? What are they going to do, make us pay more in taxes than people who have children?
Oh, wait…
May I ask the OP what on earth the mentioning of the Taliban in the thread title and in the OP has to do with this subject?
Same question counts for the member who brought up both the Taliban and the Wahabbi doctrine.
Salaam. A
Maybe they’ll pass a “forced fucking” law. Once a week and old priest and a young government employee will come to your house to make sure that you and your spouse are having proper intercourse.
Don’t worry. They won’t be in the room with you. They’ll be on the other side of the mirror. 
It’s an unfavourable reference to theocratic rule. And a joke, since the comparison is hyperbolic.
Aldebaran: May I ask the OP what on earth the mentioning of the Taliban in the thread title and in the OP has to do with this subject?
Same question counts for the member who brought up both the Taliban and the Wahabbi doctrine.
What jjimm said. It’s a facetious comparison of the American fundamentalist Christian right wing with fundamentalist Muslim sects like the Wahhabites and theocratic organizations like the Taliban.
How about government matchmakers? If the folks in Washington want me married so badly, how about introducing me to some women folk? How about free classes and therapy to improve the social skills and visual cue interpretation ability of those who need it?
As part of my work, I’ve been encouraging struggling communities to make their communities more appealing to single professionals. The population will fall, but the tax base will remain stable, with potential decreases for spending on schools, roads (about 4 vehicle trips per day versus 10 to 12 for a couple), public safety (fewer police calls), water consumption, and sewage processing. A household with children is a tax burden on most communities, because they usually use more services than what they pay for in taxes. Guess I’m wrong, though.
:dubious: I’m trying to figure out what they find so wrong with “deliberate childlessness.” wtf? Any guesses?!?!?!?
My sentiments exactly.
I’m as pissed as anyone else at the legislation of morality in the US government and the anti-gay bullshit. On the other hand, I think it’s sort of almost an insult to anyone who actually has to live under Islamic fundamentalist government to compare the Taliban to the US.
Ask any refugee (Russia, Africa, the Middle East or elsewhere) if they think America and the Taliban are very close in terms of government. I don’t think you’d hear the opinions of the O.P.
I’m sure it’s because of that Bible verse that says something like “Go forth and multiply”.
Birth control. Condoms, rubbers, pills (before and after), inter-uterine devices, jells and barriers – anything that interferes with or lowers the odds of conception in copulative roulette.