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Posted on 01/01/2014 1:15:32 PM PST by SeekAndFind
We already knew he was racist and homophobic. Now it emerges that he thinks girls should marry at 15 or 16.
Know what? If you had told me, a month ago, that the Christian Right would have a strong reaction to a bearded religious zealot in a headscarf urging men to take child brides, I'd have believed that. And I would have believed that the man's family would go on Fox News to defend him, but I would have assumed they were doing it from a bunker somewhere, with voice filters and behind a screen … not in the studio on New Year's Eve.
Yet this is how things are playing out in the aftermath of footage showing Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson advising young men to "marry … girls when they are about 15 or 16", after, of course, "making sure she can cook a meal". "You need to eat some meals that she cooks. Check that out," he said to an audience at a Christian retreat in 2009. "Make sure she carries her Bible," he added. "That will save you trouble down the road."
I suppose it depends on how you define "trouble" – Robertson implies that it has to do with the little lady (or, better said, barely pubescent child) wanting some kind of monetary compensation for her labor ("you wait until they get to be 20 years old, the only picking that's going to take place is your pocket"). It also depends on which version of the Bible she has. Better hope she skips the part where it says, "there is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ!" Actually, there a bunch of sections you should edit out.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
These are the same people that would allow a 5 year old a sex change or a 13 year old an abortion, or give birth control with out a parents consent
Bottom line: do not let the devil wheedle you into slipping in how you characterize a sui generis event. Warning appears taken. Don’t forget.
We already knew he was racist and homophobic.
You already “believed” he was these thing because it fits your political world view.
He is actually neither that I can see.
I think this says all anyone needs to know.
“Cox was an editor of the progressive online magazine Bad Subjects. Later, she was an executive editor of Suck.com, where she wrote under the pen name Ann O’Tate”
RE: It’s my understanding that the author either misunderstood what Robertson said, or has intentionally misstated what he said.
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Go to this YOUTUBE VIDEO and judge for yourself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FDhCxER2fqM
The Guardian is Britain’s version of the old Soviet Pravda.
My father was 19 and my mother was 14 when they married.......married 58 years until his death.
He’s a very cool guy. Before he proposed, my husband asked my father for his permission to marry me. It was our 30 year anniversary in November. :)
Geez, liberals. Make up your freakin’ minds. One minute, 15 or 16 year old girls are mature enough to decide to have relationships with teachers in school, get abortions and morning after pills with no parental notice or consultation, and have condoms distributed like party favors at school, and in the next minute, they’re “barely pubescent”.
She will have to actually run in order for that to happen.
I haven't seen the slightest bit of evidence of that but now I know Ana Marie Cox is a lying sack of dog crap.
The problem with that is that liberals sequester their minds in a self-imposed lock box and only act and speak from the collective hive mind of liberal-Progressive-communist talking points issued on a daily basis. Self analysis or analysis of the party line is outside the box they keep their brains in.
Ann Marie Cox, you show what’s wrong with Liberals, especially Euro-Libs. Ms Cox, go F yourself.
20 seconds after Anal Marie Cox clubs Phil Robertson senseless and dumps the body in the river over the "marrying girls at 15 or 16" strawman, she'll pump out a column defending "inter-generational love", both hetersexual and homosexual versions.
She'd defend pedophiles to the death, in other words - but only if they're wearing the Red jerseys of Team Commie.
Nope - they're on her team - Team Commie.
Conservative should mean Christian but even Rush Limbaugh is scared to death to make that connection.
I was conservative long before I was Christian. Well, except for the pro-life part. Maybe I was just a libertarian-leaning capitalist-constitutionalist. Close enough?
The only thing good about any conservative platform plank comes from the bible.
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