Presidential candidates Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum have signed a bizarre, extremist pledge dreamed up by Bob Vander Plaats, the failed Iowa candidate for governor who successfully spearheaded the push to remove judges who voted for equality from the state's supreme court. On the surface, the pledge is a vow to oppose marriage equality, "all forms" of pornography, and Sharia law, and pledge fidelity to their spouses. But, this hideous document goes much further. According to
Think Progress: – HOMOSEXUALITY IS A CHOICE: The preface to the pledge reads, “Social protections…have been evaporating as we have collectively ‘debased the currency’ of marriage…in complete absence of empirical proof, that non-heterosexual inclination are genetically determined, irresistible and akin to innate traits like race, gender and eye color; as well as anti-scientific bias which holds, against all empirical evidence, that homosexual behavior in particular, and sexual promiscuity in general, optimizes individual or public health.” Footnote 8 reiterates this notion. [This is complete horseshit and ignores all evidence to the contrary.]
– HOMOSEXUALITY IS LIKE POLYGAMY, ADULTERY, POLYANDRY: Vow 4 requires the candidate to pledge “Vigorous opposition to any redefinition of the Institution of Marriage…through statutory, bureaucratic, or court-imposed recognition of intimate unions which are bigamous, polygamous, polyandrous, same-sex.” – HOMOSEXUALITY IS A PUBLIC HEALTH RISK: Footnote 4 claims that homosexuality causes shorter life expectancy and a higher probability of a long list of sexually transmitted diseases. The Leader has previously compared same-sex marriage to second-hand smoking. [This is horseshit that Vander Plaats has made up, like every other so-called fact and statistic in this document.]
– SEX IS BETTER AFTER MARRIAGE: Vow 5 requires the candidate to support the notion that “married people enjoy better health, better sex.” [More horseshit that Vander Plaats made up].
– PORNOGRAPHY SHOULD BE BANNED: Vow 9 stipulates that the candidate must “support human protection of women and the innocent fruit of conjugal intimacy” and protect them from “seduction into promiscuity and all forms of pornography…and other types of coercion or stolen innocence.” [Is "promiscuity" now a form of pornography?]
– REJECT SHARIA ISLAM: Vow 11 requires the candidate to reject Sharia law. [Notice how Vander Plaats cleverly ties Sharia into the dreated homo agenda.]
But, the passage that's getting much of the attention, is this one:
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Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA's first African-American President."Got that? An African-American child born into slavery is better off than an African-American child living today with a single parent. His premise that children born into slavery were more likely to be raised by mothers and fathers is horseshit that Vander Plaats made up, just like all the other horseshit in this pledge. Families were ripped apart by slavery; children stolen from parents and husbands from wives. This is a stunningly ignorant, racist statement from a little nobody from nowhere who is unable to deal with his issues as an adult and instead dreams up paranoid delusions. The fact that he's gone so far with his lies is a mark of how far to the right the GOP has become.
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and Santorum both signed the pledge. None of the other candidates have done so. Vander Plaats has given them a deadline of August 1. This means that Bachmann is on record saying that:
African-American children born into slavery were better off than African-American children born today.
Homosexuality is a choice, we live a shorter lifespan, and are a public health risk.
Michele and Marcus Bachmann have great sex. Seriously. That's what she signed.
And she's surging in the polls.
