Michele Bachmann just signed a pledge illustrating her commitment to hating gay people and sexual freedom forever and ever, amen. It's a little confusing to parse, mostly because some of the language and allegories used will make you step back from your desk in horror/bewilderment/frustration. Seriously, I don't know who writes this stuff, or what candidates like Bachmann have to gain from signing it.
Take, for example, the claim that children born into slavery were better off than children born now in a single-parent household or worse, to gay parents. "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," the text reads. Yeah, it's that bad. Conservatives harp so hard on the "mother and father" point that they'll actually go so far as to claim that it's better to be a slave child with a mommy and daddy than it is to be a American child in the present with just one mother or two fathers. Pretty disgusting stuff, especially considering how often slave families were broken up as children or parents were sold to different households. Does anyone proofread this kind of stuff before it goes out? And how on earth do people still call foul on those who claim that the Tea Party harbors racists? What is going on? What year am I living in?