The first Republican Presidential debate of the 2012 campaign race was last night. The candidates of the party who are against big government when it comes to their pocketbooks but support government's involvement in determining the nation's morals. We like the government to step in and say no to a homosexual couple trying to marry, or a college kid playing online poker in his dorm instead of pledging, or a cancer patient who finds a tiny bit of relief while smoking cannabis, or a 16 year old girl who was raped by a thug with AIDS who might decide not to give birth to a child with terminal illness from the day she was born. Other than that we don't need the government involved in our lives.
Now, the most hypocritical candidate who seems to contradict herself the most, so far, in my opinion is Michele Bachmann; so there's a good chance she will move up in the polls very rapidly. Last night, for one, we heard her say that as president she would support changing the Constitution to define marriage as only between a man and a woman, but she wouldn't go into states like New Hampshire and make them change their laws regrading same sex marriage. So, we know she wants to amend the constitution to no longer leave it up to the states which is how the issue is handled right now. But she claims she also wants to leave it up to states like New Hampshire. She makes a great deal of sense. She believes in the 10th amendment, but she doesn't.
We also got to hear some of her reasoning behind not allowing homosexuals to marry if she were to become president. (Besides the apparent reason that in her party you have to at least pretend like you hate the gays) She affirms that the best way for a child to be raised is by a father and a mother. Because it's common sense that a homosexual couple can have children and that's the primary reason they want to be recognized as a person and marry....... Oh yes, that's right, they could adopt. But we now know how horrible of parents homosexual couples, so let's leave them in the orphanage. Let's leave them in the adoption centers. It's what the kids would want. I know it's what the kids need, because Michele Bachmann said so.
We do know that the success rate of a man and woman marrying each other is very high right now. About 50 to 55 marriages out of 100 won't end in divorce. That's pretty amazing. That's like 90% right? So we know if a man and woman marry each other; they will most likely stay together long enough to raise their children through adulthood. And they will do a damn good job at doing it because there is one man and one woman raising the children. It's so traditional. As a child I would have definitely preferred to be raised by a drug dealing pimp and his favorite trick rather than a male English professor and a male Zookeeper. Now as an adult, I feel like I might prefer to be raised by the professor and zookeeper; but I know it would have been horrible because Michele Bachmann said so.
I'm so inspired by people like Michele who will stand up to the gays, and the single mothers, and the single fathers and tell them they aren't doing a good enough job raising the children. They should have been more traditional; then they would be able to provide the childhood their kids deserve.
To sum it up what I learned from Michele Bachmann last night is:
1) One man + One woman = Dream Team Parenting
2) We should leave the gay marriage up to states, but we shouldn't leave it up to states.
3) God has probably forgiven Michele for her divorce, because she still seems pretty traditional.