Mitt Romney's Advice to College Grads: Start Having Babies as Soon as Possible

[babylonsister]

I'm forever grateful we dodged this...

Mitt Romney's Advice to College Grads: Start Having Babies as Soon as Possible
For "Children are a heritage of the Lord, and the fruit of the womb is His reward."

—By Kathryn Joyce
| Thu May. 2, 2013 3:00 AM PDT


"Get married, have a quiver full of kids if you can." That's the commencement advice Mitt Romney delivered this past weekend to 110 new graduates of Southern Virginia University, a largely Mormon school near Lynchburg, Virginia, where many students volunteered with Romney's failed presidential campaign.

Family-values talk at a Latter Day Saints school is hardly surprising, but perhaps some of Romney's scriptural citations were. In a speech peppered with admonitions that graduates should marry and start families young, he dropped in a Biblical reference, Psalm 127, more often associated with another religious tradition: the
Quiverfull movement.

In that Christian community, the verse Romney chose—"Children are a heritage of the Lord, and the fruit of the womb is His reward. Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them"—has become almost synonymous with an absolutist rejection of all forms of contraception or family planning, and an embrace of what believers describe as "biblical patriarchy." Quiverfull adherents have as many children as God will allow, describe their offspring as "arrows" in a divine army, and follow rigid gender roles in the home, where men are the spiritual leaders and women the submissive helpmeets.

Though the Mormon Church is not officially anti-contraception, Romney's use of biblical language most often associated with anti-birth control fundamentalists is consistent. For years, conservative LDS leaders have partnered with right-wing evangelicals and Catholics on precisely this sort of "pro-family" issue. In one right-wing coalition, the World Congress of Families, a Mormon think-tank leader coauthored a statement of "pro-family" principles, "The Natural Family: A Manifesto," that echoes Romney's language.

more...

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/mitt-romney-quiverfull-fundamentalist-family-planning-advice

[alsame]

1. Also too, try to be born

into a politically well connected and wealthy family so that you can afford lots of help with all those kids.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. and don't forget, medical care!

n/t

[LondonReign2]

3. Overpopulation: It's What God Wants

n/t

[Initech]

4. A quiver full? Who still talks like that?

Is Moneybags McGee living in the 14th century or what?

[TlalocW]

7. These people

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiverfull

TlalocW

[Recursion]

13. Tons and tons of people. There's even a bunch of "Quiverful Courtship" dating sites

But it's not "dating", you see: it's "courtship". Sigh.

[Initech]

15. Really?

[Sheepshank]

5. For anyone that doubts he would have ruled with a theocracy in mind

...they are only fooling themselves.

[tularetom]

6. WTF is a "quiver" full of kids?

Sort of a dopey expression.

[babylonsister]

8. From the article...

Quiverfull adherents, see family planning as women taking unlawful ownership of a body that rightfully belongs to God.

Kinda creepy if you ask me.

[Recursion]

14. It's a dog whistle

You didn't hear it because you weren't supposed to.

[tarheelsunc]

9. Not hard to understand his aims.

The more kids Mormons have, the more Mormon kids that are born, and the more Mormon kids that are born, the faster the religion expands.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

10. He forgot to caution "only if you belong to the 53%"!! If not, to hell with you.

[liberal N proud]

11. Imagine what America would be like with him president

[n2doc]

12. "And then, when your kids grow up, have them join the military

So my buddies can send them off to die. "

[Enrique]

16. is it ok for Mormon moms to be stay-at-home moms?

do they need the "dignity of work" or is that just for black moms.

[Quantess]

17. So glad he's not President today.

We dodged a real bullet, there.

[smirkymonkey]

18. +10.000, you're not kidding.

The guy is a major mental case.

[Aristus]

19. I've called them a creepy fertility cult before...

And I stand by that assertion.

What a disgusting collection of yutzes...

[Honeycombe8]

20. What stupid advice to give grads who may not be able to find jobs...

Not only will they not be able to support themselves, they'll have a quiver full of kids they can't provide for, either.

So do they go on Medicaid and food stamps? Doesn't that make the quiver part of that evil 47%...the takers?

He's so full of it. He has NO IDEA what it's like to be a normal person. Idiot.

[ellie]

21. Whatever, loon.