Conservative ‘marriage pledge’ group apologizes for slavery reference after Bachmann signs it

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/conservative-marriage-pledge-group-apologizes-for-slavery-reference/2011/07/09/gIQANT3C6H_story.html

By Sandhya Somashekhar, Published: July 9

A socially conservative group has apologized for including a passage about slavery in a pledge it asked the Republican candidates to sign as a prerequisite for the group’s endorsement in the presidential race.

Rep. Michele Bachmann had been the first GOP hopeful to sign “The Marriage Vow,” which included in the introduction a section that lamented that “the Institution of Marriage in America is in great crisis.”

One piece of evidence it offered was the claim that a black person born into slavery “was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA’s first African-American president.”

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.

I don't want this to drop until she's done a full mea culpa for lending her name to that hate-filled screed, and since we know that an apology is definitely not in the forecast, that means it will never be dropped.

Fuck Bachmann and fuck every ReTHUG.
They would all love to reintroduce slavery - check their private prisons.

Read here that slaves in 1860, in today's dollars, were worth 200G.

No one I know would pay 200g for me. I feel so worthless... because I'm free?

Nice.

What's being said here is that nothing is more important than a mommy and a daddy when it comes to raising children. Not finances. Not domestic harmony. Not a supportive family environment. Not good schools. Not being slaves or free. And sure as hell not a mommy and a mom or a daddy and a dad. No, only a mommy and a daddy will do, and that's all that matters. So what if the daddy goes off on a toot every weekend (and any weekday that ends in a "y") and cuffs the mommy around? There's a mommy and a daddy! That's all that's necessary.

They split up families and often sold the children

What we got here is a failure to communicate.