Posted on 07/09/2011 10:06:40 AM PDT by ejdrapes
Bachmann Stands By Marriage Pact That Links Slavery to Black Family Values 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.
By Stephen Clark
Published July 09, 2011
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I have had enough of this Bachmann bashing!!! This woman has “raised” 23 foster children + 5 of her own! MB and her husband operate a NOT FOR PROFIT counseling service. If you have no money not a problem they do it out of the goodness of their heart.
Before you bash them, try and imagine the cost of putting 28 children through College/University and grad school. And her husband does not charge for his Christian counseling.
MB is a selfless woman that only cares about others. Money is not of any importance to her or her husband...
After learning of their “Righteousness” I find I can only admire them.
Exactly! Very well stated.
Why don’t you two geniuses follow the links in the article and read the citations?
I did, and I pointed out that the document sourced doesnt have any data pre-1880, so there is no way to make a factual claim.
That’s all well and good, but it is not the issue at hand. You can bash someone for their stupidity and still think they are doing God’s work in other areas.
You are quite right, Yaelle. Personally, I don’t think politicians should sign pledges. None of them. No matter how swell they seem, it’s pure, out and out pandering. And I would say the same thing if it was Sarah Palin or octomom. No pledges, no time.
But one does not use the term slavery. One reason being that the civil rights crowd consider it to be their possession. The especially Problem I have with this wording is, however, is that it implies that there was something positive about the institution of black slavery. Slavery in any form is nothing but captivity.
Stop it. She did NOT rear 28 children. She provided a time limited home for foster children, all teenage girls, for which the bachmanns were paid by the day with funds from the state. Most only stayed a couple of months. You are hysterical.
Slavery was on the way out in 1860. The statement is true, and is a condemnation of single parents NOT a defense of slavery. Sheesh.
There were at least 57,000,000 “stupid” people in 2008 that voted for a real racist.
I guess Thomas Sowell is not to be believed? I seem to recall he suggests that bad as slavery was —no American black can honestly say their life would have been better had it not been for slavery?How many Africans brought to America as slaves-or born into slavery here - went back to Africa and the life they lived prior to slavery?
Stretch the continuum. What the overriding point is the blacks have suffered familial breakdown and failure, culminating in single parent households, greater today than any time in history. Its this failure which has generated the black flash mobs with no regard for the law... coincidentally, all supporters of Obama. Conversely, Obama relates to them.
You are right, Michelle Bachman is a raving racist lunatic. On to the next conservative candidate.
I'm a very legitimate conservative POV, one touted by black conservatives for years.
And, obviously, the statement is true. More than two-thirds of black kids are born out-of-wedlock. Far more than that had mothers and fathers in the home during slavery.
I don't believe it's anything more than a fine point that some of us are making.
No one's saying that we should fearfully coddle the left. Far from it. I think I've plainly indicated that the wording in the pledge (regarding black families under slavery) is accurate, but that it's needlessly provocative.
You’re not kidding. Fox Radio news is terrible. On any political story they always give the long sound bite to the Democrats and then quickly summarize the Republican position. I am getting so sick of it.
Looks like they set a trap for her and she fell into it.
I don't know what POV stands for. Please explain?
Resorting to hyperbole and switching the subject when your facts dont exist?
Point Of View...
Do you have any stats to back that up?
And how could slaves have more of anything in a “home,” when they didnt have a home?
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