Hey, hey, hey do you know what's really behind the riots in Baltimore? Gay marriage.

Texas Rep. Bill Flores

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

Republican U.S. House Representative Bill Flores of Texas argued this week that violence in Baltimore could be linked to the legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States. 

On the Wednesday edition of the Family Research Council’s Washington Watch radio program, Flores told FRC President Tony Perkins that crowds of conservatives were showing up at the U.S. Supreme Court to urge justices to support the “rights of tradition marriage.” 

Perkins suggested that the government was just creating more problems for itself as courts throughout the nation continued to rule that LGBT people should have equal marriage rights. 

“A lot of these problems are created by the breakdown of the family, which the redefinition of would only accelerate,” Perkins opined. 

“You’re exactly right, Tony,” Flores agreed. “Let’s talk about poverty for instance… The single best indicator of whether or not a child is going to be in poverty or not is whether or not they were raised by a two-parent household or a single-parent household. And so the breakdown of the family has contributed to poverty.” 

“You look at what’s going on in Baltimore today, you know, you see issues that are raised there,” the congressman continued. “And healthy marriages are the ones between a man and a woman because they can have a healthy family and they can raise children in the way that’s best for their future, not only socially but psychologically, economically, from a health perspective.”

Makes perfect sense.

The only good kind of parenting is the parenting done by a man and a woman, married during a Christian ceremony in an honest to goodness church, who are raising their child to be a God fearing clone of themselves.

Anything else leads to rioting, the rejection of Creationism, and "gasp" homosexuality. (And not the good kind with just two ladies either.)

So clearly the problems with police brutality, and minorities being arrested in far larger numbers than their white counterparts, has nothing to do with racial injustice, and is only the byproduct of single parent families, and not enough Jesus in their lives. 

It must be incredibly comforting to always see every problem as black and white, and to believe that through some divine intervention you happened to have been born in a place that allowed you to have been indoctrinated into the right religion.

Sarah Palin to speak at Values Voters Summit at the end of this month in Washington D.C..

Courtesy of Yahoo News:  

FRC Action is pleased to announce that Governor Sarah Palin is confirmed to speak at this year's Values Voter Summit. Along with the Governor, other confirmed Values Voter Summit speakers include Governor Bobby Jindal (R-La.), Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Governor Mike Huckabee, Senator Rick Santorum, Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.), John Fleming (R-La.), Frank Wolf (R-Va.), Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, General James Conway (Ret.), Erick Erickson, Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, Star Parker, the Benham Brothers, and Duggar Family, among others. 

Family Research Council Action President Tony Perkins made the following comments: 

"We are pleased to announce that Governor Sarah Palin has been confirmed to appear at this year's Values Voter Summit. Governor Palin has always been a steadfast supporter of natural marriage and every human's right to life. She not only 'talks the talk' but also walks by her convictions. We are proud to stand with the Governor and are honored to have her presence, for the first time, at the Values Voter Summit," concluded Perkins.

Apparently the "values" that the Family Research Council believe representative of their kind of politician includes drunken brawls, domestic violence, and threats of retribution.

Who knew?

That kind of made me wonder if Perkins and the FRC knew about Palin's recent family values demonstration in Anchorage, so I sent out a tweet, to sort of bring them up to speed.

Hey you can too!

Here is the Twitter account for the FRC.

And the Twitter account for Perkins.

I am sure they would LOVE to hear from you, about what an upstanding citizen, Christian role model, and loving parent that Sarah Palin truly represents.

Family Research Council senior fellow on allowing single people to have sex: “Functioning societies don’t do that, they stop it, they punish it, they corral people, they shame people, they do whatever."

Courtesy of Mediaite:  

While guesting on Washington Watch Monday afternoon, FRC senior fellow Pat Fagan argued that the 1972 Supreme Court court case Eisenstadt v. Baird, which overturned a Massachusetts law banning the distribution of contraceptives to unmarried people, is quite possibly “the single most destructive decision in the history of the Court.” 

Fagan was accompanied by ever-so-thoughtful evangelist and FRC head Tony Perkins. 

In Fagan’s mind, that Court decision effectively told all single people that they have “the right to engage in sexual intercourse.” Never mind the fact that, well, they kind of do have the right — you know, consenting adults and whatnot — because Fagan remembers when society used to have laws forbidding such sin. 

“Society never gave young people that right,” he continued. “Functioning societies don’t do that, they stop it, they punish it, they corral people, they shame people, they do whatever. The institution for the expression of sexuality is marriage and all societies always shepherded young people there, what the Supreme Court said was forget that shepherding, you can’t block that, that’s not to be done.” 

By giving an implicit seal of approval on premarital sex, Fagan said, the Court was “brushing aside millennia, thousands and thousands of years of wisdom, tradition, culture and setting in motion what we have.”

“Functioning societies don’t do that, they stop it, they punish it, they corral people, they shame people, they do whatever." That may be perhaps the most honest description for the function of religion that I have ever read.

By the way, the "thousands and thousands of years" he is referring to, is thousands and thousands of years of the Christian oppression of human sexuality. Not "wisdom." The entire religion is essentially set up to police the sexual conduct of human beings.

Just ask the Hawaiian people, or native Americans. They were people whose sexuality was as open and natural to them as eating or breathing. That is until they were introduced to the idea of shame, and were told that every terrible thing that befell them in life was the direct result of their "sins against God." And those sins were more often than not of a sexual nature.

The idea that the most basic function of humankind, our sexuality, is something that these people feel they have the right to control, is to me repugnant and, dare I say it,  evil.

The thing that Christianity fears the most is sex. Especially the sexuality of females.

Do you think they persecuted women as witches because they thought they were agents of Satan?

Fuck no, they persecuted them because their feared the power of the feminine, and they wanted to crush ANY sexuality not given the stamp of approval by the church. That goes for unmarried sex, gay sex, and, for quite a long time, sex between the races or between Christians and other religious faiths. Regardless of whether they were legally married or not.

Our most primitive religions were based either predominantly on the female deity, or the worship was spread evenly between male and female gods. Simply put, Christianity could not abide that.

Just imagine how different, how much more free, our country could have been without these puritanical sexual standards having been used to oppress us for lo these many years.