This is from the other day, but I missed it. Here’s Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association hate group, letting us all know that women are only qualified to be president if there are no suitable men available.
What if God can’t find any men?! Did he look behind the couch? What about in the garage?
What a pig. I like how he felt the need to let us all know that he’s not even speaking “for” the American Family Association in this instance, even though, as Jeremy points out, he’s speaking as “a paid employee of the American Family Association, on the AFA’s airwaves, to the AFA’s audience, in audio hosted on AFA’s website.” Uh huh.
O.O
Scary.
When is this guy going to do us all a favour and have a stroke?
I’m still laughing. SOOOOO….if God can’t find a man with a spine and balls (I really like the way he phrased it – “testicular fortitude”!), he’ll send a woman to do the job. (Preferably one with balls!) There are actually female believers out there who will agree with this sanctimonious throwback. Wow!
Apparently, Pilate was a socialist……
I’m not sure how to respond to that.
Peter, are you in the UK? You spelled ‘favour’ in a most unamerican way. :)))
I said in a post from several days ago that most wingnuts would be mega uncomfortable with a president who had XX chromosomes instead the requisite XY. :P
Gary (NJ)
Ah, busted.
I am indeed a Brit, which is why many of my comments seem to be posted at some ungodly hour in the morning – they’re just quiet periods at work! I find myself inexplicably passionate about the American Gay Rights Movement, I suppose because the British one is so darn dull! There was recently an uproar because a gay couple were refused a double bed in a bed & breakfast owned by an old christian couple. Theat’s about incendiary as it gets over here!
I think you are spot on with the underlying misogyny of the right. Conservatism is the effort by
white heterosexual males to desperately cling on to their social hegemony. The resurgence of the right since the eighties is simply the manifestaion of their panic over their perceived loss if this.
How is New Jersey by the way?
PH
There are no wors for this. Really. What century is this “man” living in? God, get a grip!
Bryan, I want to show you something. Take my hand and come with me. Don’t be shy; I’m only here to help. There, that wasn’t so hard. Let’s go outside.
Isn’t this weather beautiful? I’ve brought you here point some things out to you. You see those big, noisy metal things whizzing by with people inside? I know they look like monsters, but they aren’t. Those are called automobiles.
Look up in the sky. You see that shiny thing that appears to be leaving a trail? No Brian, it’s not one the Four Horsemen. Please try to pay attention. That’s called an airplane. It carries people in the sky over great distances. No Brian, not angels, peo–ple. Let’s move on.
Do you see that man who appears to be talking to himself? Bryan, don’t be silly, he’s not possessed by demons. In fact, he’s not even mentally ill. Do you notice that thing in his ear? It’s called a blue tooth. It is connected to a cellular phone, which he uses to talk to real people hundreds of miles away. How is that possible? Well, a cell phone uses part of the electromagnetic spectrum invisible to the naked eye to–you know what, never mind.
I can tell you are getting frustrated, so let me get to the point. We live in what’s called the twenty-first century. Reality is very different than what you seem to think it is. Women are not inferior to men. They are not property. They have the same rights and responsibilities. In fact many of them have even held public office. No it’s true!
Benazir Bhutto, Golda Meir and Indira Gandhi are but a few of the many women of who have held the highest office of actual countries! One very famous woman former prime minister is Margarete Thatcher. You would like her: you two have so much in common. And believe it or not, our own country the office of secretery of state has been occupied by a female for the past ten years!
Even in the 16th century, which is where you appear to be from, women had actual power. Unlike her modern day equivalent, Queen Mary of England actually held political power. No really, she could behead people and everything!
Oh Bryan don’t cry. I know this is upsetting, but you are going to have to face the fact that the real world has never conformed to your sad, misguided little belief system. It’s not your fault your slower than the rest of the class and you got held back a few centuries. There there, dry those tears. You just need to grow up a little. I’m sure you’ll bloom some day. Until then, the rest of the adults will be waiting.