Posted on 01/09/2009 8:10:32 AM PST by lewisglad
Plus the baby at an age where he'll sleep through the ceremony.
Read the title again. Other than the Spears bimbos, who were mentioned, none of the people you listed are teenagers.
So when Bristol runs for office, don't vote for her.
Mom can't force her 18 year old daughter to get married, nor should she.
To some degree, we are all judged by the actions of our progeny. At least in a gross way, it is a pretty good indicator of how well we have transmitted our values to our children, isn’t it? Isn’t that the whole basis of our belief in the nuclear family? Here, you are acting as if it were irrelevant.
How many conservative right-wing religious American parents who claim they are pro-life would announce to the world in 2009 that they would prefer their daughter not have the child or prefer she give the child up for adoption? Not very many or none at all. Before 1960 it was a different story among those who claimed they were conservative and religious. Then a bastard would bring disgrace to the family. It was more important for the family that the child not be born.
The relevant part is that Bristol didn’t kill her baby; Mom did a great job.
All people everywhere all over the world judge others all day every day. All societies and all cultures do the same all day every day all over the world. You are judging lady lawyer with your post.
“Plus the baby at an age where he’ll sleep through the ceremony.”
Now, that’s funny.
Here in Oklahoma, the unwed teenage mother-to-be is given a rent-free apartment and all the welfare they can handle. What an incentive to get pregnant.
“The relevant part is that Bristol didn’t kill her baby.”
That is A relevant point — not the only relevant point.
That is the case I was trying to make.
What do you mean by "bastard"? Out of wedlock or unknown daddy? If the first... you are plain wrong. It was one of the most normal things for a young couple to marry AFTER she got pregnant. Why do you think so many folks married in their early 20's back then? This was one of the reasons. A baby WITHOUT known father is a different thing... but this is neither the case with Bristol, nor is this the question discussed here. So what's your point? Levi and Bristol are Tripp's parents and conceived before marriage. This happened countless times among "religious, conservatives" in the 1950s and 60s.
Reading the title of the thread is always helpful, even if you can't read the actual article itself.
When considering Sarah Palin for public office, it's the only relevant point for me. Sara walks the walk and apparently so does her daughter. Bristol has shown more courage at 18 than most of us have in our whole lives. How much simpler would it have been to abort her little boy? Instead she is subjected to a vicious media and judgmental bloggers who all seem to think she should be burned at the stake.
I'd be proud to be her Mom.
Given the fact that I have attempted to argue facts and ideas, while you constantly resort to ad hominem, I think my parents would stand up to scrutiny pretty well.
Last thing they would have thought of was killing a baby. The Sicilain mobster next door didn't kill babies either, and the 88 or 9 different Indian tribes represented among the closest neighbors, the artists, chemical engineers and so forth ALSO didn't think highly of the practice of killing babies.
They all seemed pretty ordinary folks to me ~ except one guy who was in his 40s and his mother never did marry his father and he was upset, but she did marry another guy and had a bunch of kids and they were happy with it.
I think the people you have in mind were NOT traditionalists ~ but rather folks who'd gotten a little bit of education and only recently relocated from farm life to city life and thought they were being watched all the time.
Real city folk (who mostly came from primitive villages) didn't particularly care whether you watched them or stuffed your head in the toilet for that matter.
This has nothing to do with sense of shame ~ 'cause nothin' more shameful than killing a baby ~ but rather a sense of "putting on airs" as they used to call it.
Too bad she (and her boyfriend) didn't use better judgement.
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