Fischer: "The American Standard Ought to be a Minimum of Three Children per Married Couple"

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Bryan Fischer, the issue analysis director for the American Family Association who's made outlandish, theocratic statements in the past such as advocating no government services for "out of wedlock" children and demanding a ban on mosques is now calling for married American couples to have at least three children per family: (via Right Wing Watch):

We want married couples to have more children, not fewer. Our problem is not that married couples are having too many kids, our problem is that they aren't having enough.

Our fertility rate right now is barely at replacement level, and that's with 40% of our children born out-of-wedlock -- bastards, to use the quaint and correct term (dictionary: bastard: a person born of parents not married to each other). That’s not name-calling, it's telling the truth.

Umm, so I guess that's why conservatives are opposed to abortion? Besides the Biblical passages that Fischer cites (see link), maybe in the world of Fischer and sheeple Christian conservatives there does not exist a concept called "overpopulation."

I wonder if Fischer says things like this as if he seriously wants an America like he envisions...everyone on the block is a lifelong married couple with three BIOLOGICAL, obedient, Jesus-worshiping children. Or, is Fischer just writing out deranged fantasies? And I wonder what Fischer would have to say about Jon & Kate Gosselin, the Duggar family, and the Octomom.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Ugh! What an irresponsible position to take in light of over-population.

[FiveGoodMen]

2. Once again, the monster rears its head.

Stop xtianity before it kills us all.

[Swede Atlanta]

3. Asshat

They don't understand that we are overpopulating the planet, i.e. we don't have the resources to support that kind of population growth.

I think much of this is driven by the fact they know that projections are that America will be a non-caucasian majority by 2030 and that globally 65% of wealth will be in Asia by 2050.

This it their last gasp. But God never instructed them to abuse the planet for their own personal objectives. Oh, I forgot, they invoke God's name, but never follow his rules.

[Ophelia Keith]

4. Irony

Republicans must be missing the irony gene. Assuming for the moment that we will resolve the overpopulation issue, Republicans constantly and consistently oppose measures that would make having more children affordable for families. France is enjoying great success with some social programs they've initiated to increase the birth rate, but it comes at a cost to private enterprise. Generous maternity and paternity leaves, incentives payments, housing subsidies and the like. Do Republicans ever wonder how some socialist countries still manage to have powerful economies if socialism is so bad for business?

Also, Republicans constantly and consistently oppose measures that would enable us to have renewable energy, efficient agriculture and green building technologies that would allow ten billion people to live on the planet with relatively low environmental impact. We could conceivably lower the consumption rate of Westerners in general and Americans in particular, continue to have babies, feed and house them and not drive the rest of the planet to extinction. As it is 90% of the population only lives on 10% of the land. It's the stripping of the remaining land of its minerals and resources that is killing everything. Petroleum is our Achilles' heel and until we learn to do without it, we are going to have huge problems.

So in effect, we have Republicans insisting that we have babies, sabotaging our ability to pay for them and destroying the resources that we would need to sustain them. And they say conservatives have no sense of humor!!


Ophelia

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