Sen. Jim DeMint: Gays And Unmarried, Pregnant Women Should Not Teach Public School
In addition to reiterating anti-choice talking points on abortion and backing "traditional marriage," according to the Spartanburg Herald-Journal, the senator went further and "said if someone is openly homosexual, they shouldn't be teaching in the classroom and he holds the same position on an unmarried woman who's sleeping with her boyfriend -- she shouldn't be in the classroom."
Controversy over DeMint's position on this issue first arose in 2004 during a Senate debate, when he was asked whether he agreed with the state party's platform that said openly gay teachers should be barred from teaching public school. DeMint said he agreed with that position because government shouldn't be endorsing certain behaviors.
"(When I said those things,) no one came to my defense," DeMint said on Friday in Spartanburg. "But everyone would come to me and whisper that I shouldn't back down. They don't want government purging their rights and their freedom to religion."
There are so many things wrong with his statements that I don't even know where to begin criticizing them.
We are to infer from the Senator's comments and the comments supporting him that there is no morality in being Gay. No morality in being an unwed mother. And, further, those 'types' of people should be barred from their professions as teachers.
Nothing wrong with that....those are his opinions...
We have heard from some here that they equate drug use, drunkenness and criminal behavior with homosexuality and unwed motherhood.
You'll probably find those behaviors more often associated with each other than not...
My question is, why is such ignorance celebrated as moral?
What ignorance...?
What right do such bigots have to claim a moral high ground?
So you claim to have the moral high ground....how so?
How can these bigots profess Christianity and then pray the Lord's Prayer "forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us."?
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