SC Republicans must sign "Pledge to pre-marital abstinence, no porn" to run as a republican

[Renew Deal]

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Along with opposing abortion and supporting the right to have guns, you must pledge abstinence before marriage, be faithful to your spouse and you cannot look at pornography.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/03/05/south_carolina_county_gop_requires_pledge_to_run.html

[Lasher]

1. Ha ha ha ha ha ha

[NightOwwl]

2. OK which DUer posted this comment over there

"But if you take it in the butt hole, it's not sex," say many southern Christian bible-thumping GOP types.

[33Greeper]

3. Does.....

sex with animals count?

[Turbineguy]

4. But

they lowered the age of eligibility to 2 years old. So this can work!

[Are_grits_groceries]

5. That would have put Sanford in a pickle.

Half the leadership is gay and that wasn't mentioned.

If the ones who violate this pledge have to resign immediately, you will be able to hear crickets in the Statehouse.

[izquierdista]

6. Authoritarians and their pledges

They should all be written on soft paper so at least you can use it to wipe your ass.

[gratuitous]

7. How are they going to police this pledge?

I'm thinking they're catering to liars. I recall Jesus saying something along the lines of committing adultery in one's heart. Will that be pledged, as well? Because it seems to me they're setting an impossibly high standard here, one that they'd like to believe they're all adhering to (unlike those rutting swine in the other party), but which in reality they're all transgressing to greater and lesser degrees.

Free party motto, courtesy of me: Be an insufferable hypocritical prig! Join the South Carolina Republican Party!

[SCantiGOP]

24. if you go all the way to the newspaper link

The very last part has the county chair admitting that you can't stop someone from filing if they meet the legal stipulations. Like most of the GOP shit this is purely symbolic and designed to exclude the impure from the party.

[gratuitous]

25. Another unenforceable rule

I'm so old, there was a time when reasonable people were running things, and they knew that setting up unenforceable rules were doomed to failure, and only fostered contempt for the rules and the rule-makers. Apparently, no such person is in charge of these folks in South Carolina.

[arcane1]

8. Every person who signs this is a liar

Guaranteed!

[GodlessBiker]

9. Sounds like Sharia Law to me.

[mainer]

10. Why don't they just go whole hog and demand no birth control?

Since they want the rest of the nation to follow their example.

[Initech]

11. They apparently didn't see the abstinence episode of Seinfeld

[sinkingfeeling]

12. So it looks like Democrats will be running unopposed in SC.

[xchrom]

13. How are they gonna check? Nt

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

14. How far away are we from laws requiring female sex organ amputation by these freaks?

After all, the female's sexual pleasure involves equipment completely separate from procreation whereas in men it's all combined. The authoritarian patriarchs must find that unGodly.

[lumberjack_jeff]

15. Only liars and wierdos need apply. n/t

[Are_grits_groceries]

16. That's the entire GOP/Tea Party with a few Dems. nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

17. How many pledged so far? Four, maybe?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

18. And, never, ever, touch certain parts of your body.

“Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you’re going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.” - Butch Hancock

[FSogol]

21. Love that quote. n/t

[FSogol]

19. Is there an exception for hiking the Appalachian Trail?

[RandySF]

20. No porn?

That disqualifies me, then.

[ladywnch]

22. and if you break your pledge??????????????

........well, we'll all be very disappointed in you.........followed closely by a stern finger wagging and a wringing of hands


I love all these pie crust promises


you wanna get my attention with all these 'pledges'.......add the lines, "I further pledge that should I be found to have violated this pledge I agree to a mandatory 10 year prison term"...THEN I'll take your ridiculous pledge seriously.


How many of those 'abstinence only promise' teenagers wound up pregnant? Same idea......easily made, easily broken.

[longship]

23. Gotta believe in "Jeebus is Lawd"

I imagine that's the unwritten part. Of course, they'd find out one way or another.