Some Examples:
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2010/09/29/tall-tales-antichoicers-tell
The (Tall) Tales Anti-Choicers Tell
By Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check
September 29, 2010 - 7:00am
There are two major stories anti-choicers/abstinence-only folks tell. There’s the one they tell when the audience is one perceived to be both powerful and somewhat reasonable and non-misogynist. In this story, they oppose reproductive rights and education, not because they are anti-sex and anti-woman, oh no! They claim it’s because they support health! They don’t think women are smart enough to handle reproductive rights, and so they want to take them away for their own good! They don’t promote these things because they think sexual women are evil and should be punished. They’re skeptical women really like sex anyway, and argue women only see sex as a means to the motherhood and marriage ends. And if women themselves disagree, well, a little force is for their own good. Feminist even!
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Now we have some pretty stuff from the Gothardites to horrify and amuse.
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/10/3/162448/231/Front_Page/Dan_Webster_s_Religious_Guru_s_Advice_For_Women_quot_Like_Sharia_Law_quot_Says_Noted_Author
A snippet
Bill Gothard and "Biblical Stoning"
As I describe in my Alternet story, Alan Grayson's GOP Opponent Directly Tied to Christian Group That Wants Permanent Subordination of Women, according to the Vice President of the Chalcedon Institute, before the institute's founder, father of Christian Reconstructionism R.J. Rushdoony, died, Rushdoony nearly struck a deal with Gothard that would have allowed him to distribute Rushdoony's Institutes of Biblical Law book, a template for implementing Biblical law in government.
Rushdoony was a virulently racist Holocaust denier who believed in Geocentrism, the proposition that the Sun, and all the heavens, rotate around the Earth, which is the center of creation.
Although the deal fell through because the two men held clashing positions about divorce (Gothard wanted to ban it altogether) they otherwise were in agreement including, apparently, on R.J. Rushdoony's vision of instituting stoning as a form of capital punishment for murder, adultery, homosexuality, idolatry, apostasy, and witchcraft.
Asked about his 1996 trip to Korea with Bill Gothard, Daniel Webster told the Florida Gainesville Sin, for an August 5th, 1996 story, "I respect (Gothard) as much as anybody. I wouldn't have gone [with Gothard to Korea] but he wanted me there."
Interviewed for a February 16, 1997 story from the Florida newspaper the St. Petersburg Times, Webster stated, on Gothard, "I enjoy the advice he's given. I think it's been a major part of my life. I'm not ashamed of that. What he has said I believe to be the truth."
SAY WHAT??
Please please please think twice about that GOP Tea Party candidate!!! The freedom you save may be your own!!
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