Apparently Liberalism is like premarital sex, and conservatism is like... I don't know, it all freaks me out too much to wade through the entire gross metaphor, but here's Grover Norquist on Brownback, Huckabee and Hunter, the "principled" conservative Republican second tier. They still aren't conservative enough for Norquist:
"Mr. Norquist said he remained open to any of the three candidates who spoke to the council or to Mr. Romney. He argued that with the right promises, any of the four could redeem themselves in the eyes of the conservative movement despite their past records, just as some high school students take abstinence pledges even after having had sex.
'It’s called secondary virginity,' Mr. Norquist said. 'It is a big movement in high school and also available for politicians.'"
Anyway, the whole virginity pledge and second virginity crap is really awful. I suppose I'd be against it anyway, but the fact is it just leads to a lot more anal and oral sex. Shakespeare's Sister has great stuff to say on how much it devalues the pledgers. There used to be a pretty sick video on YouTube about the "Purity Ball" where daughters pledge to their fathers not to have sex until marriage. I think the video's gone, but here's the website.
"I pledge to remain sexually pure...until the day I give myself as a wedding gift to my husband... I know that God requires this of me... that he loves me, and that he will reward me for my faithfulness."
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Regarding those Purity Balls that our government is helping fund....
It's interesting to note that many if not most of the churches promoting this idea are Reconstructionist denominations. Reconstructionism is a rapidly growing and arguably heretical sect of Christianity (due to the fact that its adherents follow the teachings of John Rousas Rushdoony and Gary North in addition to and often instead of those of Jesus Christ) and their goal is to eventually take over America and install their brand of faith as the state religion.
Father-daughter dances are a fine thing, and so is teen abstinence, but here are a couple of websites that will show you what ELSE many of these type of folks believe:
http://0rz.com/?vDVsP
http://0rz.com/?vcDYg
http://0rz.com/?NsCrB
And, here is a link for VisionForum, a HUGE promoter of the Father-Daughter retreat concept and one of America's leading homeschooling curriculum companies. VisionForum is run by Doug Phillips, son of ex-Reagan cabinet member Howard Phillips and pastor of Boerne Christian Assembly, a hyper-patriarchal Reconstructionist congregation where women are relegated to virtual slavery in their own homes, denied higher education, are not permitted to participate in prayer in the church services, make prayer requests in church, or even receive communion unless it is served to them by their husband or another male member of the congregation.
http://www.visionforum.com/
The Phillipses are quite the father and son team, too -- Howard Phillips is the founder of the Constitution Party, whose 2004 presidential nominee was League of the South member Michael Peroutka. While the Constitution Party courted the votes of the League of the South (identified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center) and other neoConfederate groups in 2004, Howard's son, Pastor Doug, was hard at work garnering the Christian vote, encouraging his congregation to vote for Peroutka and warning them that they were not spiritually "at liberty" to vote for the Bush or Kerry because of their unBiblical stances on key issues.
And our government is funding father-daughter dinner dances for these groups. Sweet.
Thanks for the links.
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