Conservative Group Removes Slavery Line from "Marriage Vow" Pledge

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Conservative Group Removes Slavery Line from "Marriage Vow" Pledge

After public outcry about a line in their "Marriage Vow" pledge that made controversial claims about African American children perhaps being better off during slavery, the Family Leader apparently decided to drop that line over the weekend.The conservative group's vow, which

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[chicaintcheap]

lol at "can be misconstrued". How about "offensive and ignorant as fuck"?

[applegnat]

Any negative feelings. I see.

[salienne]

I find it really telling that Bachmann and Santorum signed it with this line still there. (And will continue to harshly judge anyone who signs it even with the line gone.)

[poetic_pixie_13]

I'm sure the Family Leader, Bachmann and Santorum still don't see what's wrong with that line. Note how they say that the line can be misconstrued, not that the line itself is racist, disgusting bullshit. They still think it's true, just don't want the headache of defending it.

[sephirajo]

Don't you know? They're such progressively MORAL and RESPONSIBLE people. Such people could NEVER be racist dipsticks. /sarcasm mode

The sarcasm out of me, I agree with this.

[thelilyqueen]

Precisely. I don't think their attitudes (assitudes?) have changed one bit; they just are finding it politic to do some damage control.

[chasingtides]

I don't understand why conservatives think "two parent household" is inherently better than any other family structure

[poetic_pixie_13]

And I don't see why, even if you couldn't understand it, you would pull out this racist fuckery.

I just see it as old-school colonialism and White Man's Burden. They have to 'raise up' those unruly black and brown people, whose disproportionate rates of poverty and crime are due to things like single-parent households (which are horrible and wrong and anti-apple pie). In some twisted way it's their method of addressing the issues that exist within these communities, instead of looking at a deeply racist society and traps of poverty and history.

[popehippo]

^^^

[salienne]

This is a really good analysis.

It also points to how simplistic their reading of current societal struggles is, and the fact that this sort of warped reading is considered a mainstream view is terrifying.