Comments on: Mark Morford’s Bad Taste

By: mccannta

mccannta — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 03:35:57 +0000

S.F. Chron Reporter: “God Does Not Want 16 Kids”

Discovery Health Channel – Spencer Tirey A conservative Christian husband and wife were the subject of a insulting article written by Mark Morford at the San Francisco Chronicle. The wife was targeted by this so-called journalist, because she has just…

By: Mike's Noise

Mike's Noise — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 22:19:27 +0000

Christophobia

There is a psychosis that seems to infect secularist intellectuals and political liberals. The farther left you are, the more likely your chances of developing a serious manifestation. The psychosis is christophobia, what I call the unreasonable fear o…

By: Ernest S.

Ernest S. — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:39:53 +0000

a homosexual liberal who hates God, Christian families, and moral values – there’s something you don’t see every day!

By: trr

trr — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:30:05 +0000

Morford is seriously deranged.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 20:11:29 +0000

Morford simply repeats the language of disgust and revulsion that is actually fairly common in radical feminism when talking about childbirth and children. And, common too in the gay male culture. It isn’t simply that they are disgusted by large families, but by the very idea that women breed babies. Morford and his ilk find children revolting — pretty amazing to think that the sexual revolution has led us to such a place.

By: Jack Tanner

Jack Tanner — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 14:49:05 +0000

#42 – I think they are seen as accessories. They make the family holiday photo complete.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 12:23:39 +0000

Yes, the key to the culture war – really a civilizational civil war – is life-creation. (I could use a colder term like demographics, but life-creation is prettier). We value it and they don’t.

So what do you think is going to happen over time? They’ll only be able to reproduce by conversion, like the Essenes.

By: David Downing

David Downing — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 05:01:13 +0000

Sixteen kids isn’t for me, but as far as I can tell, the Duggar family isn’t asking anyone else to support them. If they can feed and raise 16 kids, good for them.
The population problem in the country and on this planet is not people having too many children, it’s the wrong people having too many children. In many cases, the families capable of supporting children — financially, emotionally, morally — have only one or two kids. Meanwhile, the birth rates are higher in the families that depend on hand-outs and produce children who grow up to be another generation of adults unable to support themselves. (We should be very concerned about this trend, as it means with each generation, the ratio of self-supporting, productive people to dependent people grows lower. Much the same way the ratio of working people to people on Social Security continues to drop.)

But the Duggars appear to be an exception.
And whatever happened to “reproductive freedom”? I thought women were supposed to be free to “choose.”

But that’s not the case, really, pro-abortion forces want women to be free to choose, as long as they choose not to have children. For example, I once heard an educated woman I know make a disparaging remark about “those pro-lifers.” Not much later, when she heard that a (self-supporting) family in the neighborhood had just had a fourth child, she made a face and said, “I have a problem with people having more than two children.”

Apparently, she wants to be able to make her own choice, and, she wants to make everyone else’s choice, too.

By: Mr. Grouchypants

Mr. Grouchypants — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 03:37:16 +0000

(Morford column via LaShawn Barber)

By: Anita

Anita — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 23:36:18 +0000

I saw a TV show about the family. They seem like nice people. But I do think they should stop while they’re ahead. They had 15 kids then, all normal and good looking. Every one of them cute. Their luck might run out, especially as Mom gets older. Apart from that, good for them! Liberals are mad because their numbers are dwindling!

By: Crystal

Crystal — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 22:49:25 +0000

Thanks, La Shawn. You are such an encouragement and an inspiration! I love your blog.

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 22:45:25 +0000

…oh, and apparently Mr. Duggar must have “weird motivations” to find his wife sexually attractive after 16 children. Could Morford possibly be any more superficial?

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 22:36:28 +0000

How… bizarre. Among his chief complaints is that the Duggar children all look like children, and that none of them is wearing a crop-top and designer jeans. There isn’t a shred of rationality anywhere in his rant.

Suggesting that “liberals” have few kids because they’re concerned about overpopulation is – well, not completely off-base, as I know a few people who would call themselves liberal, and state that as the reason for only having 1 or 2 children, but not really very representative.

Having quite so many children in such a short period of time is likely to be an indication that Mrs. Duggar didn’t breastfeed her children for very long, if at all. I consider that a poor choice, but it’s a choice that Mr and Mrs Duggar are free to make.

Having a large family (particularly in somewhere like America where car driving is de rigeur) has a special set of challenges, but it’s a choice that couples are free to make. It affects Mark Morford no more than whatever Morford’s buddies choose to do with their genitalia affects the Duggans.

By: jan brauner

jan brauner — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 22:22:53 +0000

The mantra of liberals is that every child should be a ‘wanted’ child..In reality, what we have taught children, as a society, is that we value our possessions, careers, beautiful bodies, liberation, and free time more. Children used to be seen as blessings from God…Now they are seen as encumbrances..less is more…How sad..

By: La Shawn

La Shawn — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 22:22:38 +0000

Crystal – Don’t apologize. I like lengthy, well-written comments, especially the ones I agree with. Thanks for commenting and for linking to LBC the other day.