TYT: GOP Nominee Is Against Dirty Fornicators

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'89 Thesis A Different Side of McDonnell
Va. GOP Candidate Wrote on Women, Marriage and Gays


At age 34, two years before his first election and two decades before he would run for governor of Virginia, Robert F. McDonnell submitted a master's thesis to the evangelical school he was attending in Virginia Beach in which he described working women and feminists as "detrimental" to the family. He said government policy should favor married couples over "cohabitators, homosexuals or fornicators." He described as "illogical" a 1972 Supreme Court decision legalizing the use of contraception by unmarried couples.

The 93-page document, which is publicly available at the Regent University library, culminates with a 15-point action plan that McDonnell said the Republican Party should follow to protect American families -- a vision that he started to put into action soon after he was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates.

During his 14 years in the General Assembly, McDonnell pursued at least 10 of the policy goals he laid out in that research paper, including abortion restrictions, covenant marriage, school vouchers and tax policies to favor his view of the traditional family. In 2001, he voted against a resolution in support of ending wage discrimination between men and women.

In his run for governor, McDonnell, 55, makes little mention of his conservative beliefs and has said throughout his campaign that he should be judged by what he has done in office, including efforts to lower taxes, stiffen criminal penalties and reform mental health laws. He reiterated that position Saturday in a statement responding to questions about his thesis.

"Virginians will judge me on my 18-year record as a legislator and Attorney General and the specific plans I have laid out for our future -- not on a decades-old academic paper I wrote as a student during the Reagan era and haven't thought about in years."

McDonnell added: "Like everybody, my views on many issues have changed as I have gotten older." He said that his views on family policy were best represented by his 1995 welfare reform legislation and that he "worked to include child day care in the bill so women would have greater freedom to work." What he wrote in the thesis on women in the workplace, he said, "was simply an academic exercise and clearly does not reflect my views."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/29/AR2009082902434_pf.html

[WillParkinson]

1. I believe people can change their views, and often do...

Democrats have done it - recently with regards to gay marriage.

That said, however, they were also asked pointed questions about it. The same needs to be done here. What does he now believe?

[MNBrewer]

2. Which democrats have changed their minds on gay marriage?

[WillParkinson]

4. Senator Chris Dodd, State Senator Kirstin Gillibrand

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=94140058371

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2009/01/gillibrands-gay-marriage-evolu.html

[ScottLand]

3. Keep Virginia for lovers!

Just give this guy a show on FOX, preferably in place of Beck.

[Zerne]

5. The last thing we need is someone who doesn't believe in the separation of church and state!

Unfortunately I think too many Repubs already don't.

[Wizard777]

7. Obama hasn't evicted the office of faith based initiatives from the White House.

So much like that guy. We have a lot of work to do in our own party FIRST. As a Priest I firmly believe in the separation of Church and State. The church and state working together can only be a deal with the devil that will require both Church and State to compromise their beliefs and the practice of those beliefs. If they don't destroy each other in the process. Once they have consolidated it will be much easier for the devil to destroy them both.

[MajorChode]

6. "detrimental to the family" is GOP code for bigotry

Much like "state's rights" were when the Civil Rights Act was signed and throughout the "Raygun era".

The GOPhers berated Hillary endlessly for her thesis trying to tie it to communism when you'd have to be a complete fucking moron to make such a connection(which also helps greatly if you're a GOPher). Had McDonnell stood up at the time and said that was bullshit, I might be ready to offer him a bit of sympathy. As it stands now, he was caught espousing views that were clearly misogynistic and bigoted, and there's no real reason to suspect those views are any different now, especially since he belongs to the party well known for misogyny and bigotry. Trying to say it was purely an academic exercise insults the intelligence of a drooling idiot.

Fuck him and the horse he rode in on. I'll stand on the sidelines cheering as his political career swirls the drain. He might have been able to get away with that shit in GA or some other backwards state, but not VA. He's fucked.

[Turbineguy]

8. 20 years.

Having gone to a school where the predominant views were decidedly racist, misogynistic and homophobic myself, I'm for keeping an open mind. Of course, in our case, we were all children then. Nobody was 34.

[Seldona]

9. That is why I could never be a republican.

I thank dog everyday for dirty fornicators. They do to, they just won't admit it. Can I get an AMEN Mr. Vitter!

ROFL!!!