To: Brumar89 who wrote (618812 ) 7/11/2011 11:58:42 AM From: tejek Read Replies (1) | Respond to Your kissing cousins provide a much bigger threat; to whit:Family Leader walks back bizarre slavery claim continues to push something called “The Marriage Vow: A Declaration of Dependence Upon Marriage and Family.” It’s the latest in a series of pledges Republican presidential candidates are expected to sign if they hope to earn votes from far-right social conservative leaders and activists.There’s quite a bit wrong with “The Marriage Vow,” but one of the more striking issues is the fact that it makes the case that slavery was bad for African-American families, but at least the children of slaves grew up in two-parent households. The suggestion that African American babies may have somehow been better off under slavery touched off sharp criticism from liberals and commentators, who noted that U.S. slaves had been forbidden from marrying and were often sold at auction and separated from their family members. As apologies go, this isn’t exactly impressive. The problem isn’t that the group’s language could be “misconstrued”; the problem is that the group’s argument was ahistorical gibberish. That said, what about the two Republican presidential candidates — Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum — who already signed onto the ridiculous pledge? As Faiz Shakir noted, Bachmann “is now claiming that she never agreed with the anti-slavery language,” though she never raised any objections and
