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Offline formerlurker

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Conservative group backtracks on marriage pledge slavery language
« on: July 10, 2011, 04:38:53 PM »
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Conservative group backtracks on marriage pledge slavery language

By MAGGIE HABERMAN | 7/9/11 8:55 PM EDT Updated: 7/10/11 11:55 AM EDT

A social conservative Iowa group has retracted language regarding slavery from the opening of a presidential candidates'  pledge, amid a growing controversy over the document that Michele Bachmann had signed and Rick Santorum committed to.

The original "marriage vow" from the Family Leader, unveiled last week, included a line at the opening of its preamble, which suggested that black children born into slavery were better off in terms of family life than African-American kids born today.



Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/58631.html#ixzz1RjzGKtL7

"Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA?s first African-American President, " read the preamble.

What in the hell where they thinking?   BS for everyone involved in this genius piece of work.
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Re: Conservative group backtracks on marriage pledge slavery language
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2011, 09:59:53 PM »
They were thinking that truth is truth, facts are facts, and no good comes from shading the truth or hiding the facts; therefore, that no evil could come from telling the truth and publishing the facts.

What they failed to take into account was the presence of those who have gained, and who retain, personal power, prestige, and wealth by shading the truth and hiding the facts, and that they react rather badly when anyone points them out.
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Re: Conservative group backtracks on marriage pledge slavery language
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2011, 10:48:15 PM »
And the character assassination of Michele Bachmann continues unabated...
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Re: Conservative group backtracks on marriage pledge slavery language
« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2011, 05:41:43 AM »
Quote from: ExGeeEye on July 10, 2011, 09:59:53 PM
They were thinking that truth is truth, facts are facts, and no good comes from shading the truth or hiding the facts; therefore, that no evil could come from telling the truth and publishing the facts.

What they failed to take into account was the presence of those who have gained, and who retain, personal power, prestige, and wealth by shading the truth and hiding the facts, and that they react rather badly when anyone points them out.

In the world of politics deflection is the name of the game.  One sentence off?  and it is the one sentence and not the message on the entire piece that is discussed.

This is just stupidity. 
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