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Romney, Perry, and Bachmann Declare That All Men (And Women) Aren’t Created Equal
It is important to know that prospective presidential candidates have taken a stand on issues that are crucial to the well-being of the American people and the continued security and prosperity of the nation. National defense, economic stability, prosperity for all citizens, and public safety are all imperative to ensuring that America can escape the second-rate status Republicans are bent on preserving. Each of the potential Republican candidates for the presidency have thus far demonstrated that they will go farther in dooming America to a painful demise than the Bush-Republican era and that includes transforming America into a theocracy to satisfy Dominionists. On Friday, Rick Perry joined Michele Bachmann and Willard Romney in signaling their intent of taking a stand on an issue of national shame that is meaningless and does absolutely nothing to help this country or its citizens.
Perry signed the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) anti-gay pledge that furthers discrimination against gay people who want to marry the person they love. It is no shock to anyone that Perry, a devout Dominionist, signed the pledge that forces ancient Jewish laws on every person in America, or that he feels it is important to deny gays the same rights as heterosexual Americans. The anti-gay NOM pledge, although disgusting on its face, contains language that portends disastrous consequences for America should one of the Republicans ever reach the White House as more than a visiting bigot.
The NOM pledge is a five-point outline for discrimination and oppression that, if carried out, will begin America’s march toward theocracy and along the way will cost American taxpayers their freedom as well as their tax dollars. There is nothing in the pledge that will help the economy, create jobs, provide for national defense, or help Americans feel secure now and in the future. What the pledge does ensure is that a Republican president will preside over a 21st Century Christian Inquisition and Crusade that harkens back to the Salem witch-trials.
The NOM pledge is made to the American people and first on the list is a promise to “support sending a federal constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman to the states for ratification.” The NOM definition of marriage is a reworded scriptural reference (Genesis 2:24) that god used to join mythical Adam and Eve together. The problem with the NOM definition is that it has no business being in the Constitution as an amendment because the bible is not the Constitution regardless what NOM or Dominionists say. There is also the problem with Perry and Bachmann who champion state’s rights and yet promote a theocratic edict at the federal level that shows the level of hypocrisy Republicans are famous for. If a Republican president or Congress did send a constitutional amendment to the states that was from the bible, it would violate the 1st Amendment, but once the Dominionists begin replacing the Constitution with the Christian bible, it will be irrelevant.
The second part of the pledge says that a Republican president will, “Nominate to the U.S. Supreme Court and federal bench judges who are committed to restraint and to applying the original meaning of the Constitution, appoint an attorney general similarly committed, and thus reject the idea our Founding Fathers inserted a right to gay marriage into our Constitution.” Perhaps the fine bigots at NOM do not realize it, but there is no right to gay or heterosexual marriage in the Constitution, but there is the 14th Amendment that guarantees equal rights to all citizens. Whether or not they realize it, when Romney, Bachmann, and Perry signed NOM’s pledge, they signed on to dismantle the Constitution the Founding Fathers devised as well as two-hundred years’ worth of amendments.
The third part of the pledge is not new and says, “Defend the federal Defense of Marriage Act vigorously in court.” As frightening and outrageous as the first three parts of the pledge are, it is the fourth that should frighten the life out of every American. It says, “Establish a presidential commission on religious liberty to investigate and document reports of Americans who have been harassed or threatened for exercising key civil rights to organize, to speak, to donate or to vote for marriage and to propose new protections.” It has long been a practice of religious zealots, and now Dominionists, to claim that people who do not agree with the bible’s edicts are harassing Christians and the pledge makes it part of the law.
The claim from same-sex marriage opponents is that allowing gays to marry is an attack on traditional marriage. There are no threats or attacks on traditional marriage or its advocates, and yet the scare tactic gained traction with California’s Proposition 8. During the campaign to ban same-sex marriage, hourly television ads from Mormons and Catholics claimed gay marriage threatened traditional marriage. In California, many residents with yard signs urging a no vote on Prop 8 were accosted by religious bigots for waging war on traditional Christian marriage. Every December conservatives resurrect the notion that there is a war on Christmas because Jews and Atheists do not celebrate the Santa holiday. Now, if Willard, Richard, or Michele is elected president, there will a war on gays and the people who support their right to marry the person they love.
The NOM pledge is more than just an attack on gays; it is a first step towards an attack on the Constitution and non-Christians who reject replacing it with the Christian bible. The Dominionists’ war on secularism has been in the works for decades and the fear of same-sex marriage is an opportunity to dismantle the Founding Fathers’ original intent that “all men are created equal.” The pledge’s demand that a Republican president establish a commission on religious liberty is the start of an Inquisition, and for the first time it is in writing in the NOM pledge. The only threats or harassment have been from Christian fundamentalists who have harassed, beat, and murdered gays for existing. If Americans elect Romney, Perry or Bachmann as president, they can count on an all-out attack on liberty and freedom the Founders promised for all Americans. Besides the impending McCarthy-esque Inquisition, American taxpayers will be forced to pay for a constitutional amendment process and a commission of religious bigots to investigate and track down freedom-loving Americans who disagree that only heterosexual couples have the right to marry.
The upcoming presidential election is shaping up to be a referendum on whether or not Americans choose to remain a representative democracy or a Christian theocracy. Americans should beware though, because throughout history and up to today, when religious fanatics take over a government, bad things happen and Christians are historically the most ruthless, bloodthirsty fanatics of all. Dominionists are a serious threat to our country, but now the threat is expressed in black-and-white in the National Organization for Marriage pledge for Republican presidential candidates, and once they are established in every level of government, same-sex marriage will be the least of the problem. Americans better be prepared for an Inquisition that will make the Salem witch trials and Taliban-ruled Afghanistan look like a Sunday picnic, and any American who doesn’t believe it should read the NOM pledge that Willard Romney, Michele Bachmann, and now James Rickie Perry have signed; and be afraid.
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14 Responses to Romney, Perry, and Bachmann Declare That All Men (And Women) Aren’t Created Equal
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Sally
Aug. 27th, 2011 at 10:57 am
This should terrify all of us who truly value this country, the Constitution, and freedom. We are indeed under attack from within.
Anklejive
Aug. 27th, 2011 at 11:29 am
Willard! So much more creepy than “Mitt”!
jk
Aug. 27th, 2011 at 11:42 am
It is absolutely mind blowing that the major contenders in a US Presidential election can pledge to “establish a presidential commission on religious liberty” and not face public outrage. Are people asleep at the wheel? Do they not recognize the implications?
DannyEastVillage
Aug. 27th, 2011 at 12:13 pm
The corresponding 17th Century papal bureaucracy was known as the Holy Office of the Inquisition.
Pat Padrnos
Aug. 27th, 2011 at 12:39 pm
Perhaps this sounds extreme – but these people are reminding me of the folks in the Jeff’s compound. Brainwashed. How in the hell do people get this way – I guess years of indoctrination.
Suzanne
Aug. 28th, 2011 at 10:45 am
The problem is that most people don’t really believe these people are a threat. I’ve been saying that they are a threat for many many years and it falls on deaf ears. If these people get elected, everyone else will be screwed! I am not a christian and don’t believe in their brainwashing schemes, and if they are elected I will be one of the first people to go because I stand for everything they don’t. They really want 100% control of everyone in this country and they will use whatever tactics they can in order to achieve this. That’s why it is imperative to everyone person who is a citizen of the United States to make a stand and vote at the next election to be sure we don’t fall victim to this otherwise we will go back to the dark ages.
Oldsun
Aug. 27th, 2011 at 12:53 pm
Nom nom nom nom nom nom LOL.
Craig Stellmacher
Aug. 27th, 2011 at 1:17 pm
“Not all cultures are equal…”–Michele Bachmann
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n...
A Walkaway
Aug. 27th, 2011 at 2:49 pm
“Not all cultures are equal…”–Michele Bachmann
ROFLMAO!!!
Boy, does she need to go to school. Talk about ethnocentrism!!!
Anne
Aug. 27th, 2011 at 2:54 pm
In some ways, Willard is the most dangerous since he presents a facade of moderation. The truth is that he goes whichever the wind blows and will adopt an idea that he has to know has no grounding in reality. Why anyone at this late date would consider any of the GOP candidates who have at least a fighting chance at the nomination as presidential material is beyond me. Every day, they show their true reactionary colors, and unfortunately, there is a substantial group of Americans who are dumb enough to buy the steaming pile they are trying to sell. Some of these same folks think of them as sticking it only to those of us they consider “others” while being in denial about how these same policies will affect them as well. In addition to being anti-poor, anti-working class, and anti-racial/religious minorities, the GOP is also anti-woman.
Brown cow
Aug. 28th, 2011 at 9:22 am
If the Conservatives want to use the Bible to define marriage, then they are going to have to allow incest. Without incest the human race would have began and ended with Adam, Eve, and their children. How are they going to explain that ?
vjack
Aug. 28th, 2011 at 10:36 am
I applaud your willingness to call out this dangerous form of Christian extremism. Too few are talking about it, and we ignore it at our peril. I just wish we had a genuine progressive to support in 2012. After Obama allowed Dick Cheney to escape punishment for war crimes and has since governed like a Republican, I’m just not sure I can bring myself to vote for him a second time.
Shiva (Moderator)
Aug. 28th, 2011 at 10:44 am
I sincerely dout he has governed like a republican. Dont fall for the crap being put out he caves in. While Boehner brags he got 98% of what he wanted, he also got hosed by Obama in the debt reduction.
SinghX
Aug. 28th, 2011 at 8:15 pm
I realize that most of the article on NOM is about attacking the gay community however, woman are on the chopping block too if this thing comes to fruition. And, the subjugation of women by the Christian Reich is on the move! A movement that is “populating” faster than any of Mitt’s relatives, is the christian fundamentalist movement called “Quiverfull”.
The “Quiverfull” movement professes that having christian arrows in a christian quiver allows christian’s to fire at will…such peaceful people, always looking for ways to make friends and create goodwill on earth…I digress. The movement is all about women being subjugated to patriarchy in order to have more babies than is possible for one woman to feed, diaper, raise…the Duggars belong to this group.
The Quiverfull movement advocates not allowing children, especially females, out in the real world; their fearless leaders (Josiah Botkins and John Douglas) specifically states that girls are to be insulated from anything outside their home and prepare them only for their duties in life; the kitchen.
The bastard calls the kitchen, “a laboratory”, trying to make it sound cool and exotic. The girls are to be home schooled, but guess what? The group “brags” about 9 year old girls raised in their home school system who can’t read, but knows how to change diapers and cook. They call these girls “spiritual warriors” for the family, keepers of the faith.
Of course, the women are married off “as young teens” and are to make lots of babies to keep the house full of spiritual warriors. They call women who follow their teachings as “faithfulness”. All that really means is that a female must obey because that’s the only reason the movement keep her around and feeds her; to breed her. Now, in reality, there is no such word as “faithfulness”; the word faith, according to Webster’s, means “allegiance to duty or a person” and, in this case, to both; the patriarchy and the kitchen.
“Faithless” means you are a traitor; that’s the double whammy that makes fundamentalist women not just subjugated, but slaves to a male master…
one who will hunt them down if they escape.
Now, the movement admit that lots of girls have “escaped” (their word, not mine) and some have been excommunicated, but the escapee’s are sometimes “caught” and are drug back home by their fathers…lovely peaceful people, don’t you agree?
And do you know what they call this little “keeper’at’home” system?
Multigenerational faithfulness. I don’t think so; actually, this is what is known as, multigenerational trauma. That’s where “trauma-drama” is played out through a variety of forms via abuse, addiction, rape, authoritarianism etc., in order to dominate/control family members, especially females, from leaving the loop of abuse and insanity.
Most fundamentalist woman are victims of some kind of multigenerational trauma, like the women of Warren Jeff’s compound. If they leave how can they survive as they have no skills out side their “kitchen”? When they do leave, and have some kind of survival skills, they live with low-self esteem, damaged mental mechanism, little to no social skills or self-preservation instincts to keep themselves safe from further predatory humans.
Margaret Atwood’s “A Handmaiden’s Tale” is scary enough as fiction–if the Christian Reich gets one of their party members in high office, you can bet on who the “quivers” are going to be aimed.