South Carolina Republicans Lead the Way

[Satchel]

..... Odessa bouffant curls, hoop skirts and sex laws for candidates:

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Before you can join the Laurens County Republican Party in South Carolina and get on the primary ballot, they ask that you pledge that you’ve never ever had pre-marital sex — and that you will never ever look at porn again.

Last Tuesday, the LCGOP unanimously adopted a resolution that would ask all candidates who want to get on the primary ballot to sign a pledge with 28 principles, because the party “does not want to associate with candidates who do not act and speak in a manner that is consistent with the SC Republican Party Platform.”

Among the principles, according to Vic MacDonald & Larry Franklin of the Clinton Chronicle, is standard fare like opposition to abortion and upholding gun rights, as well as “a compassionate and moral approach to Teen Pregnancy” and “a high regard for United States Sovereignty.”

But then they get even more specific. From the Chronicle:

You must favor, and live up to, abstinence before marriage.

You must be faithful to your spouse. Your spouse cannot be a person of the same gender, and you are not allowed to favor any government action that would allow for civil unions of people of the same sex.

You cannot now, from the moment you sign this pledge, look at pornography.

 

[Ag with kids]

Looks like I'm not gonna be able to run there.../ifap.to

 

[Larry T. Spider]

Good thing there isn't a polygraph involved.

 

[ShinerTX]

Satchel, while I'm excited as hell to see you post a link, the idea behind a link is to attach one that is relevant to your post.

 

[huisache]

Sounds awful good to me. Do we get to stone harlots or banish folks who eat crustaceans? There is a pledge to uphold all the laws in Leviticus, no? Well, I aint signing up then.

 

[Knoxville-Horn]

Well, I'm out.

 

[NEWDOC2002]

A Link

I think this is link meant to be posted. It's kind of a DIY reference.

 

[ProdigalHorn]

Leading the way for whom? Is this a trend?

 

[Satchel]

Yeah. The South Carolina GOP is leading the way back to the future. It's been in all the papers.

 

[ShinerTX]

Just not in the paper you linked.

 

[ProdigalHorn]

I've seen some whacky stuff. Haven't seen any examples of them "leading" anything.

This is a county of 48,000 people. Why exactly am I supposed to see this as representative of where the GOP is headed?

 

[Satchel]

The South Carolina GOP is a metaphor for the backward thinking that engulfs today's Republican Party... a longing for yesteryear that will prove to be its undoing.

 

[ProdigalHorn]

LOL I guess if you just keep repeating plattitudes it eventually has to count as an actual answer, huh?

 

[Satchel]

A porn promise? Seriously?

 

[ShinerTX]

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[Satchel]

Historians like to refer to it as the calm before the storm.

 

[Crockett]

I think we found the place for Tim Tebow and A.C. Green to launch their political careers. Typically you want your candidites to be magnetic, persuasive and attractive -- generally the kind of folks most at risk of temptation during the years of elevated hormoes.