Lawmaker: Disabled kids are god's punishment

By GottaLaff



Yesterday I posted about a Utah law that criminalizes miscarriage. Yes, you read that right.

Seems Big Government is fine and dandy when it comes to eliminating abortion rights, despite the fact that freedom of choice is, you know, legal.

Apparently, that's hard for one Virginia lawmaker to accept:

RICHMOND – Western Prince William Del. Bob Marshall, R-13th, says disabled children are God’s punishment to women who have aborted their first pregnancy.

This doesn't sound like a guy who likes kids. Love the blastocyst, hate the child.... I wondered if any moms will ask him why he considers their son or daughter a punishment. Or any son or daughter.

“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.”

How Christian of him. How loving toward his fellow human.

I don't think Mother Nature would appreciate his attitude.

Delegate Brenda Pogge, R-Williamsburg, has joined Marshall in co-sponsoring a budget amendment to eliminate state funding for Planned Parenthood. [...]

The press conference was held by a group called Virginia Christian Action. Its members presented a petition calling on Gov. Bob McDonnell, Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling and Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to stop funding for Planned Parenthood. All three top officials are Republican.

The petition was signed by a number of prominent Christian leaders, including the Rev. Jonathan Falwell of Lynchburg and the Rev. Pat Robertson of Virginia Beach.

Remember, Pat R. was the same dingbat who refused to let me use the words "toilet paper" in a joke for a ventriloquist's dummy that I wrote for his Family Channel a few years back.

Now that's a guy whose judgment we can all trust.

Here's another one:

[Dean Nelson, executive director of the Network of Politically Active Christians] suggested that the organization be called “Klan Parenthood,” saying that the group’s founder, Margaret Sanger, made racist comments in the 1930s and that the organization has shown a “willingness to take donations from people who are racist.”

How Christian of him.

But Jessica Honke, director of public policy for Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia, said the only state funding Planned Parenthood receives is from Medicaid reimbursements.

[The Rev. Joe Ellison, vice president of the Council on Biblical Principles] said he was “declaring war against Planned Parenthood.”

Conservatives seem to have a real obsession with violence. I'm no expert on religion, but my guess is that Jesus would not approve.