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This Is Important, You Should Know About It of the Day: Republican presidential nomination hopeful Michele Bachmann is the first candidate to sign the “pro-marriage” pledge of conservative Christian group The Family Leader.
According to the Des Moines Register, those who sign “The Marriage Vow” [pdf] agree “to personal fidelity to his or her spouse, the appointment of ‘faithful constitutionalists’ as judges, opposition to any redefinition of marriage, and prompt reform of uneconomic and anti-marriage aspects of welfare policy, tax policy and divorce law.”
The vow also affirms the signee’s belief that homosexuality is a public health risk and a choice, and on par with polygamy and polyandry.
Worse still is the vow’s shocking suggestion that children born into African-American families under slavery were better off than they are today because they were “more likely to be raised by [their] mother and father in a two-parent household.”
And, finally, for good measure, candidates who sign the pledge must also make a point of rejecting Sharia law.
A spokesman for Rep. Ron Paul has expressed reservations on behalf of the congressman, while Tim Pawlenty’s spokesman said the former Minnesota governor was reviewing the document. Most of the other candidates refused to comment on their plans; only Jon Huntsman has stated (through an aide) that he will not sign the pledge as he “never signs any pledges.” Family Leader CEO Bob Vander Plaats — who was state chair of Mike Huckabee’s Republican presidential campaign in 2008 — said his organization will only support candidates who sign the pledge.
(NB: It should be noted that the controversial passage in the pledge that refers to the “protection” of women and children from “all forms of pornography” may not be a call for the outright banning of porn as some assert, but is certainly worth questioning.)
[dmr / tp / wonkette / mediaite / photo: politico.]
Related: Bachmann compared same-sex marriage to Pearl Harbor in 2004.
You’re not Summer and I’m not that guy that was obsessed with Summer for 500 days. I’m more of a Frodo Baggins. Ha, who are we kidding, I’m the fat hobbit.
“Story of A Girl and A Crane”, oil on canvas by Hu Jundi
Pablo Neruda, Black Pantheress (via looking-into-the-abyss)
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I love April
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Playing With Food of the Day: Brock Davis says: “I couldn’t build a tree house for my son, so I built him a broccoli house instead.”
[brockdavis.]
I always knew broccoli stalks were just tiny trees.
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?
Human memory? Trying to convince my mother that I could take a bath by myself… but I begin crying when I realize I have entered the bath with socks still on my feet, “I did it wrong, I did it wrong!”
most perfect song ever
all the other songs can just go home
Ready to dance to this.
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Cannot sleep and cannot dream;
there is a field, a balmy night,
a buxom maiden gripped by fright.
Daisy turned in and princess turned out,
the night queen arrives with all her fire
and burns until her passions retire.
Treading through the charred remains
cauterized, smoldering, nothing real left
The field, the daisy, the princess, bereft.