None of it is about the children they claim to protect or the goodness they claim to bring. It’s all about the maintenance of an image.

If you look at Sarah Palin, it doesn’t take a genius to see that there is actually some sort of a twisted pride there there surrounding the abject miss-parenting of her little kids. (Who are basically just starving for the love their completely weird family obviously didn’t have):

They drowned their kids in judgment, made them props in some sort of religious/political/narcissistic drama, didn’t teach their kids about birth control (Soundly condemned such actually) and didn’t market abortion an option (The only thing they did right).

So, their little girl (almost inevitably) manages to have a child out of wedlock with a guy who seriously was raised to be the emotional/verbal village idiot (This is how desperate their poor little girl was) and Palin can then flaunt it as some sort of badge of how pro-life and righteous she is.

The irony is that the Republican party is so self absorbed and blind that they will likely end up being led by this idiot.

You and I stand back and look at the years it takes to change any of this sort of thing and shake our heads — but in that parallel universe, it makes perfect sense because all of the agents invested in the maintenance of that image have to find a new way to spin their story about the righteousness formerly evidenced by the enforced behaviors…

God forbid that Palin should stand up and say:

“You know, I think we should teach children that they are valuable and special and can find love in other ways — while acknowledging that the needs for love some children feel from their homes are so great that they may still make dumb decisions. We need to acknowledge such by also teaching them about reproduction, safer sex and condoms…”

If she did, how could she ever be holier then Thou?

Cal

“School sex ed is still considered by most of them to be a front for planned parenthood and an attempt to GET teens pregnant.”

Kinda like how people were saying, essentially, that the HPV vaccine for young girls = a LICENCE for them to have sex.

“After hearing the announcement about the dress code change at a Tuesday staff meeting, Focus employees erupted in applause, and some women gave President and CEO Jim Daly a standing ovation, Focus spokeswoman Lisa Anderson said.”

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“Daly said the change has been in the works for a few years.”

A few years? Why does it take a few years to change a dress code? One email oughta do it….

And then there’s Bible School dress codes – don’t even get me started….

It’s hardly just one guy…

For example: Focus on the Family just today managed to find it in their hearts to allow female employees to no longer wear skirts to work. (I gotta hand it to them for at least joining 1985, but, — thank God — without the spandex…)

There is a large subset of Evangelicalism that is terrified of sexuality in EVERY form and seeks to manage it even to the level of aggressive dress codes.

School sex ed is still considered by most of them to be a front for planned parenthood and an attempt to GET teens pregnant.

It’s like a parallel universe…

Cal

…”to suggest a sexual teaching guide (with [GASP] pencil diagrams) was not leading a couple into pornography”

Gee wonder what this same person would have thought of sex ed classes…..and the video we watched in high school that showed an actual birth…