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Good for the kid. I'd hope that Bachmann might be ashamed, but I don't think she has that capacity, being devilspawn and all.
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/20...osexuality.php
Using children to confront political candidates with awkward questions is often an embarrassing exercise for all involved. This instance is no exception, but it’s highly watchable.
Michele Bachmann had a rough encounter with an 8-year-old at a signing of her book Core of Conviction in South Carolina on Sunday. The child, Elijiah, whispered his line to Bachmann while his mother stood beside him.
“Ms. Bachmann, my mommy’s gay but she doesn’t need any fixing,” the child said.
Good for the kid. I'd hope that Bachmann might be ashamed, but I don't think she has that capacity, being devilspawn and all.
I doubt you even know her position on sexuality. She had a good interview with glenn beck this morning.
i honestly this that is disgusting anytime kids are used for their parent's political views.
It's not a political view, it's a human rights view.
human rights as in how?
As in how preferential treatment is given to select (heterosexual) consenting adult couples based on religious standards on marriage.
Bachmann is a lying , but that doesn't mean you can use kids to lob bombs on her. The fact that the moment was so far from organic means that it doesn't even count as a GOTCHA! moment. It's a stupid, useless, and inconsequential moment caught on video and I want to slap that mom for putting her obviously socially awkward child up to it.
Eh, I'd usually be pretty opposed to something like this, but it's not like the kid was used to argue for mommy's right to have an abortion, or to pay lower taxes, or to copy baseball games without the express written consent of Major League Baseball.
Basically, the message instilled in this kid is "Your parents are normal and you should not be ashamed of them." It's one thing to pawn your kid off on a message that wouldn't otherwise be consequential to him until later in his life, but this issue will be relevant to him while he's growing up.
Eh, I'd usually be pretty opposed to something like this, but it's not like the kid was used to argue for mommy's right to have an abortion, or to pay lower taxes, or to copy baseball games without the express written consent of Major League Baseball.
Basically, the message instilled in this kid is "Your parents are normal and you should not be ashamed of them." It's one thing to pawn your kid off on a message that wouldn't otherwise be consequential to him until later in his life, but this issue will be relevant to him while he's growing up.
Spurminator feels twice as strongly about this as the rest of us.
Last edited by Drachen; 12-06-2011 at 01:01 PM.
My initial reaction was one against it but Spurm brings up a good point.
I just wish gay people whould stop choosing to be gay..
Too much free time this morning. Gotta argue about something.
So you want a federal law forcing churches to marry same sex couples?
What is wrong with states allowing something no other generation in 5000 years of recorded history to do, as a sign of our more progressing and enlightened culture?
How is that going against human rights?
lol
too much free time this morning. Gotta argue about something.
He is saying that preferential treatment is given by government based on religious traditions and this should be changed to reflect that whole equality thing we were founded on. Not that the government should force a change by religious ins utions.
No. No one wants that. Churches can and should be allowed to turn away any couple seeking marriage that they don't feel comfortable with.
Huh?
"Human rights" generally implies equality.
Only the Church of the Eternal Straw Man.
what government programs exactly are we talking about?
Do you want a blanket change in all government programs?
Seriously?
Sounds like it.Do you want a blanket change in all government programs?
Your troll makes better posts.
Which one?
People are basically saying that religous people shouldn't be forcing their beliefs on anyone else. That's what Judeo-Christianity is all about. That's one of its tenents, to try to shape the world in terms of Judeo-Christianity. The fact that they have that liberty is what this country is all about.
tbh, fear of the gays is gayer than the gay.
They have the liberty to force their beliefs on other people and take away their liberty!
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