Brains: Autocratic Attacks On Human Sexuality

[elfs]

Colorado state senator Dave Schultheis (R) recently said of an HIV prevention program:

What I'm hoping is that yes, that [child] may have AIDS, have it seriously as a baby and when they grow up, the mother will begin to feel guilt as a result of that. The family will see the negative consequences of that promiscuity and it may make a number of people over the coming years.. begin to realize that there are negative consequences and maybe they should adjust their behavior.

As Brad Delong put it: "The Pro-Life Movement: Childern Of Sluts Must Die!"

This comes a week after Colorado state senator Scott Renfroe (R) said of a domestic partnership bill:

Obviously we have sin – we have murder, we have, we have all sorts of sin, we have adultery, and we don't make laws making those legal, and we would never think to make murder legal.

As if equating homosexuality with murder weren't enough, he made his point clear by reading aloud in session the passages of the bible that call for the death penalty for homosexuality.

Meanwhile, down in Texas, a survey of sex education in that state shows curricula full of crackpot claims, misinformation, and outright lies that more or less guarantees Texas its place as one of the states with the highest teen pregnancy rate in the nation.

Comments

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

The same book of the bible, Leviticus, gives the same penalty for people who were cotton/poly blend clothing or eat shrimp.

This is why separating church and state is such a good idea.

[mundens.livejournal.com]

I think the separation of church and state goes nowhere near far enough, they should be divorced, and the church should be given a restraining order and be forced to pay child support!!

re: Schultheis

[hydrolagus.livejournal.com]

That's sick in so many ways.

[rapier.livejournal.com]

I promise my state is not full of religious kooks! Just ... mostly full.

[mikstera.livejournal.com]

Would I be going too far if I said the naked bigotry and ugliness we see today is just the heart of the Republican Party without the sugar coating of skilled rhetoric it once had?

One wonders what the leadership of the Republican Party thinks of what these two Senators had to say... Would they be aghast, or would they nod sagely while saying "Well yes, it's just common sense." ?

I want to believe that these two Senators aren't representative of their party... I really, really do.

[hydrolagus.livejournal.com]

I don't think they're representative of their party, but I think they're representative of some of the difficulties the Republican Party is having--on one side you have those guys rattling on about sin and God, and on the other you have some comparatively calm people who would like the Party start focusing more on things like economics and foreign policy.