Lindsey Graham foe: Children-loving women cause divorces (Politico, not the Onion)

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Det Bowers, a pastor challenging Lindsey Graham in the South Carolina GOP Senate primary, once blamed women for causing most divorces — even when husbands are unfaithful to their wives.

During a sermon on the Book of Peter delivered at the Christ Church of the Carolinas, Bowers said it was an “abominable idolatry” when wives love their children more than their husbands, arguing that’s what causes divorces most of the time. He added that in the “vast preponderance” of situations where men are adulterous, women are to blame because they have showered too much emotion on their children instead of their husbands.

“And yet, I find that in about 95 percent of broken marriages, though the husband’s the one that ran out on his wife, the wife loves her children more than she does her husband,” Bowers said in an audio recording obtained by POLITICO. “That is an abominable idolatry.”

Bowers added, his voice rising: “Do you hear me ladies? It is an abominable idolatry to love your children more than you love your husband, and it will ruin your marriage. And yet you blame it on him because he ran off with some other woman! He did run off with some other woman, and you packed his bags. All of his emotional bags, you packed for him. Is that true in every case? No, but it’s true in the vast preponderance of them.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/04/lindsey-graham-det-bowers-south-carolina-senate-2014-elections-106007.html

Gotta love them pro-life Christian family values!

Betty Bowers was not available for comment.

[seabeyond]

1. coddle that ego women. at all cost, even the expense of the kid, coddle mans ego. or else.

and they say we are the weaker sex.

bah hahahaha

[okaawhatever]

2. I thought gay people getting married was what ruined heterosexual marriages. Are the Republicans

going to add a children provision to their Defense of Marriage Act? Geez, maybe the REAL problem with Republican marriages are men like this, and the women who marry them.

[marions ghost]

3. More like men dumping the children

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[Enrique]

4. rofl at Betty Bowers

how perfect is that.

[Squinch]

5. Men blaming their failed marriages on their children. Charming.

No. The marriages of this moron's followers fail because they are so astonishingly stupid that they follow this moron.

[LeftyMom]

6. Idolatry? So he's saying that husbands are gods?

[LittleBlue]

7. Deranged batshittery