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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSC Republicans must sign "Pledge to pre-marital abstinence, no porn" to run as a republican
Along with opposing abortion and supporting the right to have guns, you must pledge abstinence before marriage, be faithful to your spouse and you cannot look at pornography.
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/03/05/south_carolina_county_gop_requires_pledge_to_run.html
Lasher
(27,637 posts)NightOwwl
(5,453 posts)"But if you take it in the butt hole, it's not sex," say many southern Christian bible-thumping GOP types.
33Greeper
(188 posts)sex with animals count?
Turbineguy
(37,365 posts)they lowered the age of eligibility to 2 years old. So this can work!
Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)Half the leadership is gay and that wasn't mentioned.
If the ones who violate this pledge have to resign immediately, you will be able to hear crickets in the Statehouse.
izquierdista
(11,689 posts)They should all be written on soft paper so at least you can use it to wipe your ass.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I'm thinking they're catering to liars. I recall Jesus saying something along the lines of committing adultery in one's heart. Will that be pledged, as well? Because it seems to me they're setting an impossibly high standard here, one that they'd like to believe they're all adhering to (unlike those rutting swine in the other party), but which in reality they're all transgressing to greater and lesser degrees.
Free party motto, courtesy of me: Be an insufferable hypocritical prig! Join the South Carolina Republican Party!
SCantiGOP
(13,873 posts)The very last part has the county chair admitting that you can't stop someone from filing if they meet the legal stipulations. Like most of the GOP shit this is purely symbolic and designed to exclude the impure from the party.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I'm so old, there was a time when reasonable people were running things, and they knew that setting up unenforceable rules were doomed to failure, and only fostered contempt for the rules and the rule-makers. Apparently, no such person is in charge of these folks in South Carolina.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Guaranteed!
GodlessBiker
(6,314 posts)mainer
(12,029 posts)Since they want the rest of the nation to follow their example.
Initech
(100,102 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,473 posts)xchrom
(108,903 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)After all, the female's sexual pleasure involves equipment completely separate from procreation whereas in men it's all combined. The authoritarian patriarchs must find that unGodly.
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)FSogol
(45,526 posts)FSogol
(45,526 posts)RandySF
(59,224 posts)That disqualifies me, then.
ladywnch
(2,672 posts)........well, we'll all be very disappointed in you.........followed closely by a stern finger wagging and a wringing of hands
I love all these pie crust promises
you wanna get my attention with all these 'pledges'.......add the lines, "I further pledge that should I be found to have violated this pledge I agree to a mandatory 10 year prison term"...THEN I'll take your ridiculous pledge seriously.
How many of those 'abstinence only promise' teenagers wound up pregnant? Same idea......easily made, easily broken.
longship
(40,416 posts)I imagine that's the unwritten part. Of course, they'd find out one way or another.