Red Sex, Blue Sex [Hypocrit Gang Bang]

in case i haven't mentioned it, I CANNOT WAIT FOR THIS ELECTION TO BE OVER. my election anxiety has reached such levels that i can't even read an article about britney spears being crazy without drawing a parallel to sarah palin or that quack nancy pfuckingsucks.

this article is the latest of many that has me heated. in a seriously brief summary, it's an in-depth look at some of the most important issues of the conservative party's base, and how they are blatantly critical of "liberal extremists'" views of said issues. i especially enjoy the parts about how the evangelicals criticize the left for their liberal views on sex education, and how it leads to teen pregnancy; yet in a recent study of states teen pregnancy rates, red states had the highest rates of teen pregnancy. but i'm sure it's not because republicans can be whores too, rather because democratic teen-whores go tramping to red states to pop their wombs and fuck up their statistics before tramping back to jersey. (that's a really good right wing theory, just typing it makes me feel all dirty and republican-y.) my summary does the article no justice. it's lengthy, but worth a read.

In early September, when Sarah Palin, the Republican candidate for Vice-President, announced that her unwed seventeen-year-old daughter, Bristol, was pregnant, many liberals were shocked, not by the revelation but by the reaction to it. They expected the news to dismay the evangelical voters that John McCain was courting with his choice of Palin. Yet reports from the floor of the Republican Convention, in St. Paul, quoted dozens of delegates who seemed unfazed, or even buoyed, by the news. A delegate from Louisiana told CBS News, “Like so many other American families who are in the same situation, I think it’s great that she instilled in her daughter the values to have the child and not to sneak off someplace and have an abortion.” A Mississippi delegate claimed that “even though young children are making that decision to become pregnant, they’ve also decided to take responsibility for their actions and decided to follow up with that and get married and raise this child.” Palin’s family drama, delegates said, was similar to the experience of many socially conservative Christian families. As Marlys Popma, the head of evangelical outreach for the McCain campaign, told National Review, “There hasn’t been one evangelical family that hasn’t gone through some sort of situation.” In fact, it was Popma’s own “crisis pregnancy” that had brought her into the movement in the first place... {con't}

[via thenewyorker]