Bachmann Stands By Marriage Pact That Links Slavery to Black Family Values

Fox News ^ | July 9, 2011 | Stephen Clark

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Bachmann Stands By Marriage Pact That Links Slavery to Black Family Values
By Stephen Clark
Published July 09, 2011

Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is standing firm behind a pledge she signed Thursday that promotes marriage and social conservative values, but includes a passage that suggests black families were in better shape during slavery.

The Family Leader, an Iowa-based conservative group led by Bob Vander Plaats, issued the pledge formally called, "The Marriage Vow – A Declaration of Dependence Upon Marriage and Family."

The two page document condemns gay marriage, abortion, pornography and infidelity. But perhaps the most controversial part is found in the preamble where the state of the black family in the slave era is compared to today.

"Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA's first African-American President," the document reads.

Click here to read the document.

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Nothing inaccurate at all, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a stupid thing for a Presidential candidate to sign.

Damn stupid thing to sign. It will be mis-reported ad-nauseum. It implies whites want to roll back to slavery "for the children", or could be so mis-represented.

Michelle, you're wonderful, but you are not the on for 2012.