Ric Santorum Disses All Married Couples, Straight As Well As Gay

[crabby_lioness]

Ric Santorum, a Republican presidential candidate who is not afraid to admit in front of a national audience that he doesn't understand the difference between a dog, a child, and an adult, or between a parental relationship and a marital relationship, has said some incredibly offensive things about gay married couples.  So offensive, in fact, that it's possible many people have missed his other offensive statements against straight married couples.

Ric Santorum opposes birth control even when used by married couples because it is "disrespectful" of women and families and so "hurts" women and society.  Think about it.  If a particular straight married couple honestly decide that they would make terrible parents and choose not to have babies and not to inflict their complete lack of interest in children or child-rearing on the next generation, Santorum thinks they are being "disrespectful" of children and families.  Really.

More commonly, if a married couple who want to have children choose to delay pregnancy for a few years in order to increase their own maturity and/or achieve a more stable financial base for their family, Santorum thinks they are "disrespectful" of women and families.  Honest.

Or if a married couple with children decide to limit the number they have so they can spend more time parenting the offspring they've already got, Santorum believes they are "disrespectful".

It's worth noting that the reason birth control was sought after in the first place was to prevent married women from dying in childbirth after their uterus ruptured from too many pregnancies, a horrible but common occurrence 100 years ago.  Santorum apparently thinks dying in childbirth is more "respectful" to women than living to care for the children they already have (or doing whatever else they choose to live for).

Of course without birth control more married women would die in childbirth and leave behind more orphaned children, significantly raising the number of single parent households in America.  Their surviving children would suffer all the problems associated with being brought up in a single parent family; but hey, they would belong to "respectful" single parent families!  Better be brought up in a "respectful" single parent family where the mother died trying to give birth than to be raised by two loving parents who "disrespected" the mother by not risking her health.

So to all the gay people upset about what Santorum has said about gay couples, You Are Not Alone.  Santorum doesn't just hate all gay married couples.  He hates all married couples, period.  There's only one thing you can say about a man who tries to win the Presidency of a country where over 90% of people marry with such an attitude.  Jesus, what a moron.

Comments

[eumenidis.livejournal.com]

Not a moron, a would-be totalitarian despot; his ideas are pure fundamentalist Catholicism, including the notions that limiting the number of children in a family, let alone choosing to be childless, is "disrespectful" & "hurts" women & children. Those views only makes sense in the context of Catholic doctrine, & the most charitable thing I can say about that is that they're clinging to ideas that were arrived at during the late Roman Empire & reflect the social views & understanding of biology at that time.

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

You're being far too charitable. In The Pill: A Biography of the Drug That Changed the World Bernard Asbell devotes a chapter to how The Second Vatican Council was going to give their blessing to birth control until they heard Catholic married couples whose honest opinions they had sought out describe consensual sex as the most profound spiritual experience of their lives, which brought them far closer to God than anything they had ever experienced in church. THAT was when the Catholic Church decided that from the viewpoint of an authoritarian religion birth control was a Completely No Good, Very Bad Thing.

[kiev4am.livejournal.com]

Interesting! I did not know that piece of Catholic Church history, but it doesn't surprise me one bit.

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

It's a great book, read it if you ever get the chance. Asbell was a English professor who believed historical non-fiction could be just as engrossing as the most outlandish thriller.

[qara-isuke.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I am not surprised by this. People who fail to realize how much politics are involved in religion really are fooling themselves. Too many doctrines and policies that shape organized religion come about strictly for reasons of political power, and have nothing at all to do with faith or God.

I will admit this is one reason I have never really found myself drawn to organized religion. There's a part of me that distrusts it.

[eumenidis.livejournal.com]

Reeeaaally. I wasn't aware of that; I can sure see why the Vatican would consider it threatening for the laity to experience closeness to God in each other's arms rather than in church. What a bunch of power-crazed, perverted old sociopaths they are.

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

Not to mention the headlines. Church Quizzes Couples About Their Sex Lives would have been a sure winner if it had gotten outside The Catholic Register.

What a bunch of power-crazed, perverted old sociopaths they are.

Sometimes I just want to shorten that to "evil".