Right-Wing Nut Has The REAL Reason They Want To Roll Back Women’s Rights, And It’s Sick

[Panich52]

he Heritage Foundation’s Ryan T. Anderson is the right’s new face against marriage equality, and he blames widespread access to contraception and women’s rights for this whole marriage “mess.” According to his line of thinking, the whole “mess” with marriage equality started with the sexual revolution, when women began to muddy the institution of marriage.

Right Wing Watch reports that Anderson was speaking with Patrick Coffin, of Catholic Answers. In response to Coffin’s question about contraception and the LGBTQ movement, Anderson said:

“Yes, the sexual revolution explains quite a bit of this. We only arrived at the place where we are today, in 2015, at the cusp of a potential Supreme Court case redefining marriage everywhere because we’ve had a culture since the ‘60s, since the sexual revolution, that has largely made a mess of human sexuality, the family and marriage. It’s only after a generation or two of premarital sex, non-marital childbearing, the hookup culture, pornography, no-fault divorce, that you’d then be at the point of saying, ‘Oh, yeah, marriage has nothing to do with men and women.’”

So, basically, the women’s liberation movement is responsible for this. We need to roll back women’s rights in order to fight against the “homosexual agenda.” Could this be why conservatives are so hell-bent on rolling back access to contraception in the name of their religion? If they score that victory, then they’re paving a path away from LGBTQ equality, too.

In other words, it’s further evidence of what we always knew about conservatives. They want to take us back to a time when women were barefoot and pregnant, and in the kitchen; and white, straight men ruled the home, business, and the country.

Right Wing Watch correctly points out that the fight for women’s equality and the fight for LGBTQ equality go hand-in-hand. The American Association of University Women (AAUW) says that one can’t be a feminist, and homophobic, at the same time. Marginalizing LGBTQ women doesn’t empower any women at all, and ignoring them means ignoring systemic discrimination against them, and more broadly, against all women. To empower women, we must empower all women, not just straight, cisgender women.


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[niyad]

1. well,l this is hardly surprising, is it? we have known all along that their hatred for women

borders on insanity.

the fear of the "vagina dentata" is alive and well.

if only women were as powerful as these nutjobs fear we are.

[Demeter]

3. Actually, we are

and they damn well know it.

There's no way to get Jeanie back into the bottle, either.

[Dawson Leery]

2. The RCC and Evangelicals pose a threat far greater than anything

ISIS can make.

[niyad]

4. have been saying that for ages (referencing all terrorist groups)

[Novara]

5. Isn't that the truth?

They know the only way they can keep us down is by controlling us, and it's a zero-sum game to them. If they allow us our freedom, they assume they lose something. It's childish and it always has been. It's also projection - they assume that if women were in equal numbers in business and politics, that we'd crush them down. The opposite has been shown in cultures where women have more equality - everybody benefits.

But here we go again - it illustrates the right's obsession with sex, and especially gay sex. It wasn't the sexual revolution that is helping LGBT equality; it's women's equality and vice versa. Women wanted autonomy, not just sex, in the early Women's Revolution. We wanted jobs and the right to own our own checking accounts, a voice in government and business.We wanted not to be discriminated against, the same thing all people want. The same as the Civil Rights movement. It isn't about sex.

They're so childish.

[ladjf]

6. Mr. Anderson is mind-numbingly ignorant. nt