Family Research Council Head Wants Unmarried People To Be Punished For Having Sex

[babylonsister]

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Family Research Council Head Wants Unmarried People To Be Punished For Having Sex (AUDIO)
2013/03/13
By Wendy Gittleson

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Tony Perkins, the head of the Family Research Council, thinks the war on women doesn’t go far enough. He wants to extend it to men. In his latest rant, he didn’t call women “sluts” for wanting to have sex outside of marriage, but he did say that all single people should be punished and shamed for succumbing to their desires.

At issue was the 41-year-old Supreme Court ruling, Eisenstadt v. Baird, which gave unmarried people the right to purchase contraceptives and to have intercourse. Of course, young people have been hooking up since long before 1972, but the availability of contraception has meant fewer unplanned pregnancies which has led to fewer abortions and fewer of what Perkins would probably call, “bastard children.”

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Why, you may ask, should we care what an insignificant man like Tony Perkins says about birth control? We care because the Family Research Council specializes in opening doors. Today, Perkins’ views are extreme. Tomorrow, a GOP Congressman will utter similar words, over which the media will be aghast. Then the American Legislative and Exchange Council will sponsor some bills in states, but because they’re in legalese, they won’t seem quite as bad. Then Paul Ryan or another Catholic member will introduce bills in Congress and then the Supreme Court will get a chance to rule again. We already know how Justice Scalia feels about birth control. He believes that there is no right to privacy in the Constitution and that beyond even Eisenstadt v. Baird, which gave single people the right to birth control, Griswold v. Connecticut, a 1965 ruling which gave married people the right to birth control, was a mistake.

[Ilsa]

1. It's a shame Ted Nugent

Hasn't mistaken Perkins for a feral hog.

What a pig.

[sendero]

2. Not surprising..

.. because IMHO the whole "pro-life" movement has little to do with babies and a lot to do with sex.

Since these folks don't have the GUTS to act on their natural impulses, they want to punish those who do.

[liberal_at_heart]

5. not even as much to do with sex as power and control

they want to control people. Sex is only one facet of people's lives they want to control.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Somebody should get busy digging into his premarital past...

And uncovering and publicizing all his sexual escapades.

He is a douche.

That is all.

[xxqqqzme]

4. Where's a

scarlet letter when you need one?



I am so abso-fucking-lutely fed up to here w/ these self righteous, empty headed blowhards. Fed up w/ all the RW nonsense. Fed up w/ these self anointed Christians repeating 'God's' message. Fed up w/ the hate they promote and spread. Fed up w? never a kind or soothing word for the families living in poverty; the homeless; the lost; the sick; or the broken.

Be gone!

[quaker bill]

6. Because we have done so well in the drug war

it is time to move on to new fronts. THe problem with sex is that you cannot be busted for simple possession. We are born with all the parts needed. Criminalizing birth control would make for a lucrative black market.

[curlyred]

7. Aren't there something like 25 people that are members of this group?

Seriously. Why so much credibility?

I know. Mainstream media. Nuff said.

[shenmue]

8. What an idiot

Good grief.