The Strange Sexual Obsessions Driving the Tea Party Movement

[marmar]

CounterPunch, via AlterNet:




CounterPunch / By David Rosen

The Strange Sexual Obsessions Driving the Tea Party Movement
Much of the Tea Party agenda is driven by white Christian America's deep-seated fears of sex, race and interracial "pollution."


Tea Party advocates and rightwing media pundits were gleeful in the aftermath of this week’s primary election results. They were buoyed by their candidates’ strong showings throughout the country against the Republican establishment, particularly in Delaware and New York. The November election will determine whether the Tea Party will take control of the Republican Party and pull the Congress even further to the reactionary right.

Amidst all the victory hoopla, stories about the questionable sexual- and race-related attitudes and behavior of two of the Tea Party’s principal proponents, Delaware’s senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell and New York’s gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino, have garnered as much notoriety as their often-questionable policy pronouncements.

Delaware candidate O'Donnell proposed in a 1996 MTV program and again in a 1998 article, “The Case for Chastity,” that masturbation is sinful and that looking at pornography is equivalent to adultery. She proudly declared:

When a married person uses pornography, or is unfaithful, it compromises not just his (or her) purity, but also compromises the spouse's purity. As a church, we need to teach a higher standard than abstinence. We need to preach a righteous lifestyle.

She has apparently not revised or repudiated her position in the intervening years. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/sex/148223/the_strange_sexual_obsessions_driving_the_tea_party_movement/

[nc4bo]

1. Any mental health specialists on this board?

They (those talking loudest about others sexual activities) are uncomfortable with their own sexuality or, at the very least, sexually oppressed themselves.

Or perhaps they are just plain old ordinary Republican hypocrites. :shrug:

[n2doc]

2. "as a church"

What, is she her own church now? This gets stranger and stranger. Where is Hunter S Thompson when we need him most?

[madrchsod]

3. well we do have the rude one`s take on the ice queen.

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/

[mstinamotorcity]

4. What they are doing is not strange

They have always known the Christian wing of the country likes to preach one thing while clandestinely doing another. They know that most individuals who are raised in under faith based traditions are their most likely supporters. They don't care what your lying eyes are telling about the truth.

[woodsprite]

10. OMG - I just read that first line as "the Christine wing". n/t

[mstinamotorcity]

15. my point

As frooty as that woman is she has a wing in the Psch ward

[boobooday]

5. Being so loudly and righteously against deviant sex

Gives one an excuse to talk about deviant sex all day. Even more than the so-called deviants do.

If you can't do it, you can at least get your ya-yas by discussing how it is being "crammed down your throat" (one of their favorite expressions).

[immoderate]

16. Standard xtian marketing strategy.

They can talk about sex all they want, because they are righteous, and sex is evil. No matter that you are stimulated, that's more proof of your sin and guilt. If you disagree, you are a pervert, obsessed with sex and controlled by the devil.

--imm

[greenman3610]

6. Join "National Rub one out to a Picture of Christine O'Donnell Day"

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=158016804225275

[truth2power]

9. You all gotta read the comments on that Facebook page....

:rofl: :rofl: :silly:

[saltpoint]

7. Yep. One of the long-standing raps against the fundamentalist

worldview is that it is anti-pleasure.

Not just regarding sexual pleasure, but any ol' pleasure there is.

Recommended.

[Buns_of_Fire]

8. Such things compromise our Purity of Essence.

We must always be on guard against corruption of our Precious Bodily Fluids.

[Octafish]

11. 'I do not avoid women, Mandrake. But, I... I do deny them my essence.'

Oh.

[Evasporque]

14. LOL!!! Col. Jack Ripper!

[Blue_Tires]

19. greatest line from the greatest movie

[theothersnippywshrub]

12. I can't believe an article like this omits any mention of Paladino's fondness for bestiality. n/t

[Blue Owl]

13. She's the Homecoming Queen at her own Purity Ball

n/t

[Karenina]

17. I wonder if Bill Maher diddled her.

:silly::evilgrin::silly:

[Buns_of_Fire]

18. After reading some other threads, it's looking like he diddled EVERYBODY.

He's just one diddlin' fool, I guess.:evilgrin:

[Karenina]

20. Zappa, "Dancing Fool"

In my generation we called it the "horizontal bop."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qXnojmQz3I&feature=related

[w8liftinglady]

21. as a bartender when I was in college-I can verify...there are some really deviant

sexual obsessions from the right wingers.I'll spare the details,but most feel the need to be "Punished"...