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I’m so sick of rule of the wingnuts. In legislatures around the country, low-life teabaggers, bigots, know-nothings, and deeply insecure individuals managed to get elected. Now they are empowered to be full-out womb controllers, to attack the rights of low-wealth residents to vote, to rile up fear of black and brown people…the list goes on and on.
A lot of this is about stopping the clock and trying to wind it back – they are alarmed about a society that has been undergoing changes that rock their foundations. Their reaction? Prey upon voters’ general apathy about elections and the people they choose to govern, and try to pass laws like this one — criminalizing families that are different — as in not the (rapidly disappearing) traditional nuclear family (Christian) structure. Wisconsin state Sen. Glenn Grothman is a sick man, but it’s dangerous to just classify him as a whackjob.
A third of Wisconsin parents are single parents, but this law affects even more than that. The way the law refers to “nonmarital parenthood” also makes this applicable to non-married couples, including same-sex couples. S.B. 507 reads:
Section 1. 48.982 (2) (g) 2. of the statutes is amended to read: 48.982 (2) (g) 2. Promote statewide educational and public awareness campaigns and materials for the purpose of developing public awareness of the problems of child abuse and neglect. In promoting those campaigns and materials, the board shall emphasize nonmarital parenthood as a contributing factor to child abuse and neglect.Section 2. 48.982 (2) (g) 4. of the statutes is amended to read: 48.982 (2) (g) 4. Disseminate information about the problems of and methods of preventing child abuse and neglect to the public and to organizations concerned with those problems. In disseminating that information, the board shall emphasize nonmarital parenthood as a contributing factor to child abuse and neglect.
Look at this sh*t – Grothman’s “How The United States and the State of Wisconsin are Working to Encourage Single-Motherhood and Discouraging Children in 2-Parent Families.” Is this what the voters in Madison believe?
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He’s nuts. I just read his comments on the ACA decision, and it’s clear that Clarence Thomas is his hero.
He’s doubly nuts.
Republicans and baggers are a threat to all life on the planet. Anyone that votes for a Republican likely has an unconscious death wish.
I wonder how they would get along in what used to be common before WWII. The extended family with at least one grandparent there to “help” things along.
Some how I don’t think any of these bullies would have put up with that very long.
The term “useful idiots” was coined for a reason.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/07/06/executive-order-assignment-national-security-and-emergency-preparedness-
I’d really like to rip the voters of Grothman’s district a new one, but I’m afraid that the voters who live in my State Senate district are just as mean and stupid: in 2010, they elected a Tea Partier who, despite never having taken a course in law in his entire life, holds himself out as an expert on the Constitution.
And the Democrats in Washington think they can find “common ground” with the likes of them.
Pass that law in Alaska and put Bristol Palin in prison!
Barack Obama and the Democratic caucus had the opportunity to make the Republican party irrelevant, but they short-changed the stimulus bill and bowed down to Republican demands repeatedly. The result is that the Republican party is not just crazier than ever–which was bound to happen–but STRONGER than ever.
The Democratic party is irrelevant.
Trust me on this, but my childhood would have been much less traumatic and I would have not been so abused and neglected had my father been taken away in hand cuffs and left my mother to raise us in his abscence. What’s Grothman going to do next – ban divorces? They’re going tyo need to hire half the state as social workers to keep an eye on the other half of the state.
Yesterday in Afghanistan, the Taliban shot dead a woman accused of adultery. 150 men witnessed this and cheered. (Of course, the man she supposedly had sex with goes unpunished.)
We can now know where Wisconsin Republicans are going with this.
It’s about ignorance and not feeling connected to one’s fellow humans, beyond a very small subset of them.
These are the folks who’d think The Handmaid’s Tale was describing a Utopian future — at least where white males were concerned.
Glen Grothman (R-Pantysniffer) is a vile and nasty excuse for a human being. Don’t blame the Madison voters for him.
They voted him in. Wasn’t he a target also for recall but won?
They get their way because NOBODY stands up to them and says NO, Hell NO!
Old white racists have nowhere to escape to. They are cornered in their little suburban homes, all the while worrying themselves into a smaller and smaller corner. The tipping point has come and they will no longer be in the majority. This makes them crazy, stupid and dangerous. They are perseverating their way into their own personal armageddon and are quite willing to take us all with them.
Jeez, my sisters kids were being abused on account of their father being killed in an accident?
Grothman’s district is in southeastern Wisconsin, and includes the city of West Bend, other parts of Washington County, and parts of Fond du Lac, Dodge, Sheboygan, and Ozaukee counties.
The closest this district comes to Madison is about 40 miles.
Maybe it would be better if you and Pam got your facts straight, and not blame Madison voters for something over which they have no control.
Clearly your sister should have sought refuge with her late husband’s brother, as the Book commands.
What is up with these people who think Atwood was writing a how-to manual in The Handmaid’s Tale? How mean were the women in their young lives to warp them so? What’s their proposal for dealing with the one-third of Wisconsin parents who are single parents? Shall we institutionalize their kids and imprison the parents? I mean, that’s what we do with abusers, right?
Bunch of Nanny-State Intrusive Big Government morons. Despite their claims to the contrary, they clearly want to get the Government into every part of our lives that is private.
This.
And, yes, the voters in those areas are that bad. There is some really vile, sickening wingnut in the triangle between Green Bay, Madison, and Milwaukee. Trust me, I work with many of these mouth-breathers every day.
This was Joseph McCarthy’s base, and is still the base of the Republican Party in Wisconsin. Basically, if you draw a north-south line through the state about 30 miles east of Madison, the area to the east was primarily settled by Germans, mostly Roman Catholics, and the area to the west by Protestants from Norway and Sweden. The Germans joined the Republican Party and never really left it; the Scandinavians became Progressives in the LaFollette Era and gravitated toward the Democratic Party starting in the 1950s.
Hang in everybody. These are older screwball teaparty types. Soon they will have strokes and go into coma’s and we will be done with this insane temporary philosophical intrusions into our lives.
People are surprised? This is the perfectly logical extension to their favorite argument for denying us marriage rights.
It’s getting a to be a big race and fight to the top of the Pile O’Crazy for these people, isn’t it? They used to just compete over who is the most patriotic or who is the most religious but now they seem to have added crazy to the list of what they consider to be competitive sports.
Although they’re getting closer each day, I can’t wait until they cross the line into certifiable-land and get put into a state run “cuckoo’s nest” type institution.
Oh that would have been special: he’d been placed in a psychiatric nursing home years prior and remains there to this day – ten years after her husband’s death.
My, oh, my. I’m a badger, and ashamed that this thing is a part of my state senate. Oh well. But, we might have a solution for him that would make us happy. If we legalized gay marriage, we’d have more parents married, now wouldn’t we? Think he’d go for it?
At least they are finally becoming consistent with the “protect the family” thing. It made no sense for them to only focus on gay families, but neglect others that deviate from their “two opposite-sex spouses” standard.
This is a pretty old story, maybe 2 months ago. It went nowhere, since it was nuts. Not sure why it is here, now, unless this site just looks for stuff to fire up its readers.