Children, Warehouses, Conservatives, ‘Defend Marriage’

[87GT]

THIS IS YOUR BRAIN.

 

THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON IOWA. ANY QUESTIONS?

 

 

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/28/king-warehouses/

 

The Iowa Independent’s Lynda Waddington caught up with Rep. Steve King (R-IA) at the so-called “Judge Bus” tour — a campaign urging Iowa voters to oust three Iowa Supreme Court judges who overturned an Iowa statute banning same-sex marriage in April 2009. King has long argued that judges shouldn’t “legislate” from the bench, and said that he feared the court’s decision would turn Iowa into a “gay marriage Mecca.” Yesterday, at a bus stop in Cedar Rapids, IA, he told Waddington that if conservatives don’t restrict marriage to one man and one woman, children will be taken away from their parents and to be raised in warehouses:

 

“I think that if we can’t defend marriage, that it becomes very hard to defend life,” King said. “Marriage is the crucible by which we pour all of our values and pass them on to our children, and that is how the culture is renewed each time. So, if we lose marriage — for instance, if our children are raised in warehouses, so to speak. There have been civilizations that have tried to do that. The Spartans did that. They took the children away and taught them to be warriors. It’s a good way to defend a country, but not much of a way to run a civilization.

 

“So, I’m afraid if that happened — if we lose the marriage, we lose the home, we lose the nuclear family then we can’t teach our values. We won’t be able to teach our faith. We won’t be able to teach life. We won’t be able to teach our Constitutional values either. That’s why I’m afraid it’s going to be very, very difficult to defend life.”

 

As the Wonk Room notes, Washington, DC, Iowa and the remaining four states that have expanded marriage rights haven’t constructed child-only warehouses. All the research about same-sex parents suggests that their families are very similar to those with different sex parents. (HT: Right Wing Watch)

 

 

 

THIS IS IOWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[sol740]

I can't find the words.

[unfunnyryan]

what the fuck did i just read

[El Karacho1647545492]

what, you guys didn't grow up in a warehouse? where my fellow warehouse kids at?

[87GT]

If I ever have kids I am sending them to a warehouse for real.

[Dr. Pomade]

I just picked up my son from the warehouse. He worked third shift last night. What did I miss?

[Otis Nice]

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