Robert McCain Fine With Pregnancy Among Religious Teens -- Just Not Minority Teens
A study that's set to appear in an upcoming issue of the journal Reproductive Health which indicates that religious communities tend to produce higher teen birth rates is prompting the usual nonsense from the usual quarters. Former Washington Times editor Robert Stacy McCain, for instance, finds it suspicious that a journal on reproductive health would publish a paper on a matter of reproductive health; clearly, an ulterior motive is at work:
The objective of this study? To convince college-educated middle-class people that religious faith is the No. 1 force for evil in the modern world. "OMG! If we let our daughter go to church, kiss Vassar good-bye!"
Like everyone associated with the Washington Times, McCain knows that each and every study resulting in data that could be potentially inconvenient in relation to the tenets of scattershot conservatism are conceived and implemented in service to atheistic materialism, which is how he is able to discern the politics and character of any researcher in the world with just a cursory glance at a third-party summary of their yet-to-be-released paper. He is a very talented fellow. I'm going to stop being sarcastic for a second here even though refraining from sarcasm in a situation such as this causes me actual physical pain.
McCain takes a risky approach to dismissing the findings as not only politically-motivated, but also irrelevant -- he actually gives us an example of a woman who found herself pregnant at the age of 13, this being Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry Tudor. The fact that a member of the royal family of England had a son who did something swell, he implies, indicates that teen pregnancy is no big problem, because, hey, Henry Tudor.
My four or five regular readers will not be surprised that I have taken the liberty of Googling around a bit to see what The Other McCain actually thinks about teen pregnancy when he's not trying to downplay its importance in defense of the religious. And anyone familiar with people like McCain will be similarly not-so-astonished to learn that he does indeed worry about teen pregnancy rates when it is black and Hispanic mothers who are getting pregnant, having scolded the New York Times for not sufficiently highlighting the "demographics" of a study on the subject done just last year. Of course, there are "demographics," and then there are "demographics." Likewise, there are "respectable commentators," and then there are "people who used to serve as editors at the shittiest national paper in the country."
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Spot on, Barret, spot on.
I'm extremely impressed the so-called pro-life and anti-abortion movement has managed not to be called out, LOUDLY, on their double standard and the true meaning behind their phony movement. Their interest has only and always will be focused on stemming the decline of caucasian population. For years I have been asking people around the country has randal terry or these protests even been seen in predominantly ethnic neighorhoods. I haven't heard a yes in 10 yrs of unofficial polling. No one's chaining themselves to clinic doors in Roxbury or Watts, unless it's a stray believer on their own mission to save unborn brown babies. The same people who claim to want every child to live are the same people fighting health care for every pregnant woman, WIC and sChip. Yeah, they're pro-life all right, depending on life.
FYI. McCain goes by his middle name, Stacy. I had to think for a second who Robert McCain was.
See Barrett Brown's Profile
Thanks for the heads-up; I should have checked first.
Teen pregnancy is never a good idea in a modern society, regardless of race. It can be dangerous to the mother, and the mother in turn, is rarely equipped to handle the 24/7, demands of parenthood. If you add the educational loss and resulting economic suffering, not to mention the usual absence of a father to this situation, the outcome rarely is good for anyone... Two parent families with mature adults as the parents is not a religious issue, it is for the betterment of society..E
That would be the same Washington Times that's owned by the Unification Church (aka the Moonies).
Uh, Margaret Beaufort was MARRIED, although she was widowed before Henry was born. She also never had any more children, even though she was married at least two more times, which kind of implies that there was some damage done when an extremely small 14-year old gave birth.
As for her son, despite being an effective king, in some ways Henry VII was even creepier than *his* son, Henry VIII.
100 years from now, the demographic in this country (if it still exists) and the rest of the world will be VERY different. Our future survival depends upon the continuation of our evolution as a species. The more we hybridize (mix it up) the better we will be for it. Imagine a world with so many varying shades of gold/brown
singermuse-----I say "AMEN!" to that!
Not going to happen as long as there is a religious right wing, clinging to the pure white species.
hopefully as the "pure white" folks disappear, so will the religious right....
The good news is that the religious right wingers are part of the dieing paradigm. That's why they are so frightened. They are dinosaurs looking into the face of their own extinction. There's a great book by Bishop Spong: Why Christianity must change or die. Those who do not embrace change, not mere "tolerance" but real acceptance, unable to see the Divine in all of us, their days are numbered. They have long since ceased to really know or have the ability to emulate the Jesus they profess to worship. Even the Reverend Billy Graham said that these folks have turned the Bible into a fetish, preferring the words in a book to a living faith in God as they so misunderstand Him/Her/It.
Those "Pure" whites will be in such a minority in the world - that they will be considered the "exotic" ones. Plus inbreeding will lead to deformities and other health problems the "hybids" simply don't have. Guess they won't be so "superior" in the future society. LOL!
They will be a minority.
I think you are right, but it won't take 100 years.
Remember that wonderful 1998 movie of Warren Beatty's, Bulworth? Here's his speech about the economy and finally ... how we solve the problem of race and our willingness to be distracted by it. (warning -- obscenity) http://www
I had forgotten how wonderful that movie was.
That was a great movie! One of Beatty's best.
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