Astounding ignorance: "Handicapped Children Are God's Punishment to Women"

[Triana]

Virginia Delegate Bob Marshall of Manassas has found a new explanation for why there are disabled children in the world -- apparently they are God's punishment to women for abortion.

On Thursday at a press conference to urge the state to end all funding to Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia, the Staunton News Leader quotes Marshall:

"The number of children who are born subsequent to a first abortion with handicaps has increased dramatically. Why? Because when you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children," said Marshall, a Republican.

"In the Old Testament, the first born of every being, animal and man, was dedicated to the Lord. There's a special punishment Christians would suggest."

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http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2010/02/22/virginia-delegate-handicapped-children-are-gods-punishment-women

[Adsos Letter]

1. ...

:banghead:

[peggygirl]

17. This is why I can never vote for a Republican. They are the higest order of

ignorance, fabrications, lies, distortions, mean-spirited-ness, and evil!

[timtom]

2. If one is in politics as a career

then one should make no proclamations about "God's punishment" or intent, or will.

That one should quit the world of politics and become a cleric.

[Triana]

10. that would be the sensible thing to do...but...

we have this sickening toxic soup of religion + state in this country that defies separation of the two. :-\

[autorank]

3. k*r He'll find about the "wrath" that awaits this type of vile statement.

Nobody should be this stupid, but this guy is! k*r

[BanzaiBonnie]

4. Just imagine, some think they are a blessing

because they are children.

[Bucky]

5. Trying to understand how these people think is how God punishes newspaper readers

This kind of thinking is like word scrabble.

God punishes women for abortions with handicapped children.       or...
Abortions are how women punish God for handicapped children.      or...
God is how handicapped children punish abortions for women.       or...
Womean are how abortions punish handicapped children for God.


I could go on. I won't.

     

[opihimoimoi]

6. Bob Marshall has a "Handicapped Brain"....Flawed Rationalization is a Major Clue

The GOP amazes as it clings to OBSOLETE CONCEPTS in this day and age...out dated and out of touch.

[Triana]

9. obsolete concepts....

... = barbaric knuckle-dragger ignorance. It's beyond obsolete. It's downright neanderthal!

[opihimoimoi]

21. Bully Neanders = Australopithecus = Lucy = Dumb as they come..

[TexasObserver]

7. How does he answer for Isaac and Jacob, both younger brothers?

In the mythology Christianity follows, often the younger brother, not the older, reigns supreme.

Ismael was displaced by Isaac.

Jacob was the younger, but he stole the birthright of Esau, his older twin.

When the Angel of Death was (allegedly) sent to Egypt, it was the first born who were killed.

[Uzybone]

8. like Bill Maher says, there is no difference between Democrats and Republicans

[Demeter]

11. It's Hatred of Women--Not Ignorance

Ignorance would not draw any conclusions.

[Triana]

12. I can't disagree with that statement

Not at all.

[raccoon]

23. ITA--our society is still very judgemental and condemning of any woman daringto be sexual. nt

[mrcheerful]

13. Damn it I wish they would make up their freaking minds for the last 50 years

the religious brain dead claimed handi capped kids were caused because one or both parents offended god by breaking one of his rules so god, being all wise, decided the best way to punish the wrong doers was to make their kids suffer through life with disabilities. Which also showed you that christians were good god fearing folks because every child wasn't born with sever handi caps :crazy:

[ccharles000]

14. what an asshole

[baldguy]

15. If you needed proof that there is still evil in this world...look at Bob Marshall.

[Dorian Gray]

16. Oh wow.

The ignorance and the assholery are astounding.

I can't believe that someone would say something of this nature.

[NickB79]

18. Maybe he was conceived with a weak sperm?

[athenasatanjesus]

19. Thank god we have Sarah Palin

She will put this guy in his place I'm sure of it.

[mwb970]

20. Unless what he said was "satire". /nt

[fasttense]

22. So that means Sara Palin must have aborted her 1st child.

Boy, God was really slow on the uptake with her. She had 4 healthy normal children prior to her punishment. Seems very strange.

This guy is off his rocker. Besides the passage he is partially parroting applies to Israelis not Gentiles. The man does not know his theology. Jesus died for all our sins, once and for all. So, even Sara's sins have been forgiven and there is no need for God to punish her, if she's a true Christian.

[Odin2005]

24. There are no words...

:grr:

[Political Heretic]

25. Melissa Harris-Lacewell's challenge to Marshalls understanding of "theology" was awesome.

If you missed her on Rachel Maddow, you missed out. :)

[Triana]

29. Well daggone I'd like to see that.

If anyone knows where it is on YouTube. IF it's on YouTube.

[bullwinkle428]

26. Paging Sarah Palin to the white courtesy phone!

[MountainLaurel]

27. Marshall has "apologized"

Virginia Del. Robert G. Marshall apologized Monday to people with disabilities for remarks suggesting that women who have abortions risk having later children with birth defects as a punishment from God.

snip

Marshall said his broader point on Thursday was that he had collected a substantial amount of published medical research suggesting that abortions raise the risk of miscarriage and birth defects in subsequent pregnancies and that those findings echoed the Bible's teaching that abortion is wrong.

"The point is, there are profound consequences to the act of abortion," Marshall said.

Late Monday, his office released a formal apology. Addressing the story that his office said had "conveyed the impression that I believe disabled children are a punishment for prior abortions," Marshall explained:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/22/AR2010022204512.html

[Triana]

28. He "apologized" by re-asserting the same idiocy that he blurted the first time?

:rofl:

[MountainLaurel]

30. Well, of course.

Didn't expect a Republican to admit they were wrong, didja?

[Roon]

31. He should be protested and engaged everywhere he goes..

He should be heckled and challenged on camera. I think a couple of weeks of this will get the message across.