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Bill Maher: Republican Indiscriminate Spawning Is Killing The Environment
On his HBO program Real Time, Bill Maher called out Republican breeders for killing the environment with their Bible based overpopulation strategy.
Here is the video:
After showing a picture of Jon Huntsman and his family, Maher said, “Gov. Huntsman here is supposed to be the moderate conservative. The one who cares about the environment then why did he stop after two kids? We live on a sick and tired planet. The human race is now consuming every year what it takes 1.3 years to restore. How is having a large family a badge of honor? If we want to prevent living in a nightmare world with people fighting over water and food and God knows what else, we have to discourage indiscriminate spawning. Starting with calling out these nauseating freaks, the Duggars, who have 19 children so they’re adorable, and their television show is called 19 Kids and Counting. If they had 19 cats and counting their show would be called Hoarders.”
The answer why so many Republicans and people like the Duggars have so many kids can be found in Sarah Jones’s recent interview with Quiverfull walkaway Vyckie Garrison,
Vyckie Garrison: Political domination is a core principle of the Quiverfull worldview. Quiverfull’s proof-text, Psalm 127, promises that the man whose quiver is full of arrows “will not be ashamed, but will speak with the enemies in the gate.” We were taught that in Bible times, the city gate was the place where male leaders made decisions regarding local government.
The whole point of having a quiver full of babies is to
1) out-populate the “enemy,” that is, the godless, liberal, lesbian feminists, and
2) launch those many arrows “straight into the heart of the enemy.” And by that, we meant that our children would grow up to be leaders in all the major institutions of our society: Faith, Family, Education, Art, Business, Media, and Government — this is known as the “Seven Mountains doctrine.”
The extremist fundamentalists and Mormons that make up the GOP field see a large family first in terms of their religion, then as a political statement. These people are expressing literally trying to over populate and outnumber those who disagree with them. Since the official Republican position on climate change is to deny that it is occurring, the environment is not a concern to them.
Now that the Republican Party has been hijacked by religious extremists, family size is important because it demonstrates the candidate’s commitment to God. The contest to outdo each other on family size at the last Republican presidential debate was all about appealing to fundamentalist GOP primary voters.
What started out as a riff on Bristol Palin’s new book, soon found its way into a serious subject. Bill Maher had it partially right when he talked about the presidential candidate family size as it relates to symbolism of commitment to the Bible and the anti-choice position on abortion, but there is a deeper motive to the desire of many who support the Republican cause to have large families.
Extremists are out to overrun “the enemy” through overpopulation. The breeders are breeding their own little political army, which they will use to fulfill their dream of America as a nation governed by the Bible.
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13 Responses to Bill Maher: Republican Indiscriminate Spawning Is Killing The Environment
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Diane
Jun. 25th, 2011 at 4:57 pm
Children that are hammered with their parents’ dogma typically wind up rebelling and going in *exactly* the opposite direction.
Don’t give up hope. In twenty years, we may see a LOT of “recovering” Republicans announcing they’re gay, Pagan, Muslim, Democrat…
Tina
Jun. 26th, 2011 at 6:44 am
Sure hope you are right with that statement.
This over population by right wing extremists have had me spending many a sleepless night.
Reynardine
Jun. 25th, 2011 at 6:03 pm
The obverse of breeding lots and lots of the “right kind” of children is wiping out as many as possible of the “wrong kind”. These same people obsessed with Biblical passages about “quivers full of arrows” I doubt not dwell as fondly on passages of slaughtering the sucklings, dashing out the brains of the little ones, and ripping open the pregnant bellies, of “heathens” and “sinners”. Children are no more than tools or hostages to them: tools through which they themselves can dominate their women and their world; hostages through which they can inflict “revenge” on the “enemies of [their version of] God. They treat their own children with the same brutality when they are “disobedient”. I understand that many of these sorts believe the population should be a tenth of what it is… through the extinction of all those “wrong people”. We’ve been there and done that a few times in the 20th century. I’m hoping against hope we can keep the 21st century cleaner.
Older_Wiser
Jun. 25th, 2011 at 6:45 pm
I’d just hate to be Michelle Duggar’s obstetrician. She is obsessed, and I think her last 3 kids were caesarean because she couldn’t deliver normally. I’m truly surprised her uterus held up through those last 3 deliveries.
These people want to crowd everyone else out, and use far more resources than they’re entitled to. I don’t care if they “can afford” all those kids or not. They’re greedy but they don’t think it’s a sin. Funny kind of “christians” aren’t they?
Cathy
Jun. 25th, 2011 at 10:31 pm
So agree
I Am Woman
Jun. 26th, 2011 at 4:48 am
Actually they can’t afford those children. Monetarily perhaps but not emotionally, have you ever watched 19 kids and counting? I have because it is kinda like watching a train wreck waiting to happen. I truly feel so sorry for those children especially the girls. In some ways the Duggars are nothing more than child abusers with their own TV show on how to be a child abuser and get away with it under the guise of religion..but because they are doing under the guise of religion no one dares to say a word..sad.
Terry C - NJ
Jun. 26th, 2011 at 6:45 pm
The older girls get stuck with raising their younger siblings….so basically they’re being trained to follow in their mother’s sick footsteps.
They won’t know any other life.
Terry C - NJ
Jun. 26th, 2011 at 6:44 pm
The last one was born WAY before she was supposed to. Physically and mentally, she’s not out of the woods yet.
Do her media whore parents care? Nope. They’re already talking about Number Twenty.
Floyd M. Orr
Jun. 26th, 2011 at 12:46 pm
Outstanding article! Population has been our #1 problem for a long time, but these religious extremists have been fighting this message tooth and nail. The most unfortunate thing for all of us is that Wall Street loves their message because breeding equals consumers, and the money mongers especially love the easily controlled breeders with an authoritarian mindset. Welcome to The Marriage Made in Hell. The antidote: Paradigm Shift.
Reynardine
Jun. 26th, 2011 at 1:36 pm
Needing consumers is exactly why Rosie the Riveter was manipulated, maneuvered, and even forced to go home, tie on an apron, and have four children, and except for a brief period as a teller, nurse, cashier or teacher, her younger sisters knew almost no other life for the next two decades. But we were using up irreplaceable resources like that: everything from ore to fossil fuels to fertile farmlands, and the generation that followed could not have continued with the same lifestyle if it had wanted, though in the Reagan area and after, they were encouraged to imitate it on borrowed money, plundered resources of other nations, and “living for success”. The hordes we are supposed to be engendering now will be too impoverished to furnish any consumeristic spur to the economy. What they are there for is to provide cheap labor and cheaper lives, while the consumer class will be the growing middle management of Asia (until it is their turn to be sacrificed). This is what C. Wright Mills called “endocolonization”.
Terry C - NJ
Jun. 26th, 2011 at 6:41 pm
He forgot something.
Keeping the wife constantly pregnant keeps her “in her place” because women are just supposed to be baby machines and nothing more, according to these “religious” types.
Terry C - NJ
Jun. 26th, 2011 at 6:42 pm
According to the right wingers, overpopulation is a “liberal myth.” You know, like global warming.
anne vinsel
Jun. 30th, 2011 at 12:13 am
at least one of Huntsman’s kids is adopted, just sayin… and the older kids are accompanied by their spouses, so it’s not as many as you think