The pre-dinosaur-era Family Research Council believes sexually-active unmarried people should be punished
The far right-wing Family Research Council has shown their true colors yet again, those of: Lunacy, denial, ignorance, narrow-mindedness, and cavemen. Not only have they come after gays' sex and marriage rights, but they're now coming after single people's sex and birth control rights, regardless of their orientation.
Tony Perkins - the head of the Family Research Council - had senior FRC member Pat Fagan on his radio show, where Fagan said the following about the Supreme Court's 1972 decision when it overturned a state law that banned unmarried people from purchasing birth control:
"The court decided that single people have the right to contraceptives. What's that got to do with marriage? Everything, because what the Supreme Court essentially said is single people have the right to engage in sexual intercourse. Well, societies have always forbidden that, there were laws against it. [...]
It's not the contraception, everybody thinks it's about contraception, but what this court case said was young people have the right to engage in sex outside of marriage. Society never gave young people that right, functioning societies don't do that, they stop it, they punish it, they corral people, they shame people, they do whatever. The institution for the expression of sexuality is marriage and all societies always shepherded young people there, what the Supreme Court said was forget that shepherding, you can't block that, that's not to be done."
I can see Fagan and other members of the Family Research Council replacing the caveman on GEICO commercials - "It's so easy, a member of the Family Research Council can do it!"
Fagan is partially right about something - it's not about contraception to he and his brethren; it's about a sense of power and control. With different kinds of people's rights ever evolving, including women's and gays', along with the fact that a growing number of people are doubting organized religion, Tony Perkins, Pat Fagan and company are feeling progressively more helpless and want to do everything in their power to bring these trends to a halt so they can maintain a sense of power and control. Good luck with that. As a 2009 study conducted by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy found, a whopping 80% of unmarried evangelical Christians reported being sexually active. What is it you feel society should do to these sexually-active unmarried evangelical Christians again, Mr. Fagan?
"...Society never gave young people that right, functioning societies don't do that, they stop it, they punish it, they corral people, they shame people, they so whatever..."
Ah, yes, that's right. Once again, best of luck with that, and I look forward to seeing you on the new GEICO commercials - "It's so easy, Pat Fagan can do it!"
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/03/13/1714551/frc-premarital-sex-punish/
http://www.thenationalcampaign.org/fogzone/PDF/FogZone.pdf
Tony Perkins - the head of the Family Research Council - had senior FRC member Pat Fagan on his radio show, where Fagan said the following about the Supreme Court's 1972 decision when it overturned a state law that banned unmarried people from purchasing birth control:
"The court decided that single people have the right to contraceptives. What's that got to do with marriage? Everything, because what the Supreme Court essentially said is single people have the right to engage in sexual intercourse. Well, societies have always forbidden that, there were laws against it. [...]
It's not the contraception, everybody thinks it's about contraception, but what this court case said was young people have the right to engage in sex outside of marriage. Society never gave young people that right, functioning societies don't do that, they stop it, they punish it, they corral people, they shame people, they do whatever. The institution for the expression of sexuality is marriage and all societies always shepherded young people there, what the Supreme Court said was forget that shepherding, you can't block that, that's not to be done."
I can see Fagan and other members of the Family Research Council replacing the caveman on GEICO commercials - "It's so easy, a member of the Family Research Council can do it!"
Fagan is partially right about something - it's not about contraception to he and his brethren; it's about a sense of power and control. With different kinds of people's rights ever evolving, including women's and gays', along with the fact that a growing number of people are doubting organized religion, Tony Perkins, Pat Fagan and company are feeling progressively more helpless and want to do everything in their power to bring these trends to a halt so they can maintain a sense of power and control. Good luck with that. As a 2009 study conducted by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy found, a whopping 80% of unmarried evangelical Christians reported being sexually active. What is it you feel society should do to these sexually-active unmarried evangelical Christians again, Mr. Fagan?
"...Society never gave young people that right, functioning societies don't do that, they stop it, they punish it, they corral people, they shame people, they so whatever..."
Ah, yes, that's right. Once again, best of luck with that, and I look forward to seeing you on the new GEICO commercials - "It's so easy, Pat Fagan can do it!"
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/03/13/1714551/frc-premarital-sex-punish/
http://www.thenationalcampaign.org/fogzone/PDF/FogZone.pdf
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