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Mike McManus, a Religious Right activist and founder of the group Marriage Savers, appeared on the Family Research Councils show Washington Watch yesterday to share with guest host Craig James his plan to increase the countrys marriage rate.
McManus told James that the government should simply tell single mothers who cohabitate with a partner that they will lose government support if they dont get married. Uncle Sugar should cut women off, he said, unless they get married, in which case they will continue to receive benefits for at least two years.
When James asked why politicians arent taking up his proposal and are instead focusing on issues such as same-sex marriage, McManus said that gay people are a small segment of the population who dont even want to be married.
One point seven percent of Americans are gay or lesbian, and we just cant be intimidated by this tiny percent, McManus said. Its a tiny fraction of gays who want to marry in the first place, so why are we intimidated by this? We need to simply stop arguing with these gays and simply focus on what can we do to strengthen traditional marriage. http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/right-wing-activist-no-government-aid-single-moms-who-cohabitate
xfundy
(5,105 posts)Start with outlawing divorce. See how far that gets ya.
longship
(40,416 posts)That will go over well, too. I imagine.
Love these folks who argue for the return to Biblical principles. If people knew what they really wanted, we'd all either tell them to STFU, or we'd just laugh at them. I prefer the latter, with a heavy dose of ridicule, which is all they deserve.
City Lights
(25,171 posts)Fuck them up, down, and sideways. Gawd, they make me sick.
Smithryee
(157 posts)dembotoz
(16,864 posts)i mean as she became sicker keeping her medicare was damn important....
she was a single mom--she was my mom
and she was on gov aid--soc security and medicare....
If we had been forced to get married i am sure there would have been some other legal problems.........
but damn those churchy folks must be right.....
i would have hoped i would not have needed the but sometimes ya never know around here.