The GOP concept of marriage: Any uterus will do

[sheshe2]

You see, “traditionally” women were property; they pretty much belonged to their husband. And as property, they couldn’t inherit a dime. In the old days it was all about the kids. If you had a farm, or an empire, you needed a son to take over some day (to hell with the daughters). The wife was important as an incubator, and your daughters were relatively useless, unless you could sell one off and get a decent dowry in return.

So when you hear conservatives, like the National Review’s Mona Charen, talk about the traditional reason behind marriage — the children — she’s half speaking the truth. The traditional purpose of marriage was “male children.” Wives were tolerated as necessary, and little girls were mistakes.

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At its core, Charen’s argument doesn’t make sense, unless you come to terms with the fact that conservatives, at least the ones running the GOP, are simply mean. They don’t like gays, they don’t like change, and they see their world, in which women, and blacks, and gays, and immigrants, “knew their place,” receding fast. So, understandably, they’re grasping at whatever last straws they can. (It’s for the children! Who we’d rather leave in an orphanage, or on the street, than let a gay couple adopt!)

Charon, you may recall, was the ancient Greek ferryman who transported the souls of the dead to Hades. The GOP’s modern-day Charen is ferrying the soul of the Republican party to a similar demise. At some point, Republicans need to clean out their political closet and jettison the haters. The gays have already won this battle. The only question remaining is how long the GOP hemorrhages votes until it recognizes that fact, and moves on.

Read More: http://americablog.com/2014/10/pity-spouse-conservative-says-marriage-kids.html

[treestar]

1. The tough part of being conservative

Is that you know on some level you will lose. The clock is never turned back.

[BlueJazz]

2. Republicans are the poster people for the Dunning–Kruger effect. Most right-wingers who happen to..

...come into my life simply astound my soul with their lack of awareness of their ignorance.

I've seen them make fun of "Nerds" I've known (high IQ) and I can only think: You stupid Fucks..you have NO idea how much you don't know.

[hifiguy]

3. Marriage was a mechanism for the orderly transfer

of property and determining the "legitimacy" of heirs. Anyone who has read any legal history knows that. Conservatives are, as usual, as wrong as wrong can be.