Christine O’Donnell is the Teabagger who won the Republic primary in Delaware this week. Of course, being a Teabagger, she’s a ridiculous candidate, and that fact is quickly coming to light.
But I want to be fair about this. It’s true enough that a lot of Christians are sexually immature. They find discomfort in sexual displays when the reality is so benign. They fight against giving equal rights to people who like different sexual things (the audacity!). They say no sex before marriage is a good thing, as if healthy relationships are at all likely between two people who may not, as it turns out, have a very strong sexual connection. But what isn’t true is that a lot of them are anti-masturbation. I suspect there are plenty who say masturbation is a sin, but the reality of their actions is that they don’t much practice what they preach. And I can’t be sure, but it’s my hope and suspicion that a good number grow to a state of comfort with their actions, past, present, and future. (But probably less so for a lot of Catholics.)
But maybe an (old) anti-masturbation message will resonate with a lot of Christians. I’m don’t know. But I do know it makes for a good point-and-laugh type video for those of us with a little perspective and reason.
Yeah! It’s so icky and, like, stuff! Christ.
As PZ emphasized, here’s the best line:
If he already knows what pleases him and can please himself, then why am I in the picture?
I mean, it’s clearly best that we think of our significant others as there for the sake of giving us physical pleasure. And besides that, who wouldn’t choose masturbation over sex?! Solid Teabagger points, I think.
Filed under: Politics and Social, Religions | Tagged: Christine O'Donnell, Masturbation, Sexual immaturity, Teabagger |
For the Sake of Science 
This is all due to teabaggers not being able to think. They just hate.
Attributes of teabaggers, some have a few of these, some have many:
anti-science
anti-immigrant
anti-homosexual
misogynist
xenophobic
intolerant
racist
evangelical
lack of critical thinking
Her religious idiocy has really nothing to do with her political affiliation. it’s a very desperate reach to try and connect the two.
That wasn’t much the point here, but her political affiliation is with the Teabaggers. A major defining characteristic of the movement is the strong religious element.
“And besides that, who wouldn’t choose masturbation over sex?! Solid Teabagger points, I think.”
Here is the connection of which i speak.. You are making a generalization. Tho it is true that this tea-partier believes in unnecessary sexual restraint, it is not indicative of the sentiment of the tea party as a whole. The religious element of the tea party movement is not what the party is about at all. It seems you may be over inflating a minor characteristic of the tea party movement. One should focus more on the political underpinnings of the movement ( many of which are completely justified).
And that would be xenophobia, misogyny and racism. They fear and hate blacks, Hispanics, uppity women, vaccinations, Darwinism and paying any taxes…which of these are justified?
As the name would imply the tea party movement is focused on the more government control aspect of politics. The contract from America from the tea party movement lists 10 agenda items that it encourages congressional candidates to follow. Of these 10 items none point to xenophobia , misogyny, racism or anti-Darwinism.
“They fear and hate blacks, Hispanics, uppity women, vaccinations, Darwinism”
Attacking these is to attack a straw man. Plain and simple.
It is not a straw man at all when the rank and file teabaggers spout their hate. It has been recorded many times by the press. Among the top teabaggers are Palin and Glen Beck and Michelle Bachmann who spout nonsense and hate and lies.
They may publish a list of objectives, but the rank and file ignore them.
To think that she might actually win! I just wrote an entry about her election and look at the first comment I received:
http://juanefernandez.com/2010/09/15/doomed/
I was generalizing, but I wasn’t connecting Teabaggers to Christians (though that is legitimate – that just isn’t what I was doing). I was pointing out the lack of sense in the statement O’Donnell made and saying that it was logically solid insofar as Teabaggers are concerned.
While at a Tea Party event on February 27, 2009, a photo was taken of TeaParty.org founder Dale Robertson with a sign that said “Congress = Slaveowner, Taxpayer = Niggar. [sic]” on it.
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On March 20, 2010, before the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Bill was voted on by lawmakers, it was reported that protesters against the bill used racial and homophobic slurs at a rally at the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. Several black lawmakers said that demonstrators shouted “nigger” at them. Congressman Emanuel Cleaver said he was spat upon, and Congressman Barney Frank, who is gay, was called a “faggot.”Representative André Carson said that while walking with John Lewis and his chief of staff from the Cannon building, amid chants of “Kill the bill” he heard the “n – word at least 15 times”. Carson said he heard it coming from different places in the crowd, and one man “just rattled it off several times.”Carson quoted Lewis as saying, “You know, this reminds me of a different time.”
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On March 21, 2010, Springboro Tea Party founder Sonny Thomas posted racist slurs against Hispanics on the group’s Twitter webpage, including one post that said, “Illegals everywhere today! So many spics makes me feel like a speck. Grrr. Wheres my gun!?”.
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Tea Party Express leader Mark Williams referred to Allah as a “Monkey God”. Williams’ comments elicited strong rebukes from New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, NY State Senators and Muslim leaders. In a subsequent blog posting, Williams wrote, “I owe an apology to millions of Hindus who worship Lord Hanuman, an actual Monkey God. Hanuman is worshiped as a symbol of perseverance, strength, and devotion … Those are hardly the traits of whatever the Hell (literally) it is that terrorists worship.”
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On March 22, 2010, a Lynchburg, Virginia Tea Party activist, attempting to post the home address of Congressman Tom Perriello on his blog, incorrectly posted the address of Perriello’s brother, who also lives in Virginia, and encouraged readers to “drop by” to express their anger against Rep. Perriello’s vote in favor of the health care bill. The following day, a severed gas line was discovered in Perriello’s brother’s yard which connected to a propane grill on the home’s screened-in porch.
want more?
On July 14, 2010, a Tea Party group in Iowa removed a billboard comparing President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin after receiving sharp criticism from other tea party leaders. North Iowa tea party co-founder Bob Johnson admits the sign was wrong and offensive, and misrepresents the intentions of the Tea Party group
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In August 2010, some American news organizations started making allegations about the funding sources for the Tea Party Movement. Along with citing free promotion from Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News, claims were also made that the billionaire Koch brothers, David H. Koch and Charles G. Koch, are funding the movement
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In a New York Times op-ed column, economist Paul Krugman, wrote that “the tea parties don’t represent a spontaneous outpouring of public sentiment. They’re AstroTurf (fake grass roots) events, manufactured by the usual suspects. In particular, a key role is being played by FreedomWorks, an organization run by Richard Armey.”
On tax day April 15, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi stated “It’s not really a grassroots movement. It’s astroturf by some of the wealthiest people in America to keep the focus on tax cuts for the rich instead of for the great middle class.”
I can match this with examples of poor character from followers of every political party. What’s your point? Of course there are idiots everywhere.
Shawn, of course you totally missed the point. Some of those citations were about the founders of the tea party. Your statement about “there are idiots everywhere” is bullshit in light of that.
Funding by the wealthy, the accusation of the tea party being for the purpose of them, you ignore all that.
While at a Tea Party event on February 27, 2009, a photo was taken of TeaParty.org founder Dale Robertson with a sign that said “Congress = Slaveowner, Taxpayer = Niggar. [sic]” on it.
On March 21, 2010, Springboro Tea Party founder Sonny Thomas posted racist slurs against Hispanics on the group’s Twitter webpage, including one post that said, “Illegals everywhere today! So many spics makes me feel like a speck. Grrr. Wheres my gun!?”.
These are the only two i found which concerned founders
Using a racial slur in and of itself does not constitute someone as being racist.
You can count.
That is one stupid statement. We will let is shine by itself…LOL
Everybody at one time or another has used a term that somebody would consider racist. Does that mean that everybody is racist? No. I’m glad you think my statement is stupid, it reveals a lot about you.
…and you aren’t even embarrassed that you said something so stupid? Wow!
I guess people make racist statement s to show their love of fellow man. Kumbaya and all that, right?
That statement shows me that you are no longer worth talking to. I am unsubscribing. Michael., the teabagger is all yours!
Sean,
Her religious idiocy has everything to do with her political affiliation. If you’re in the Special Olympics, you’re not a Mensa member. The same applies for the Tea Party. Most of these mental midgets can’t even spell. It makes me think they didn’t graduate elementary school. (And btw, religious and idiot are not mutually exclusive terms….)
Case & point:
Find me a misspelled sign at an Obama rally. Tards…
For the deniers who ignore the evidence, more evidence:
see more at:
http://friendlyatheist.com/2010/09/16/the-tea-party-movement-is-not-secular/
Every time one of you finds someone with a view that isn’t in line with your own the slandering begins.
Sexually immature? By whose standards? Is there and objective standard of sexual maturity?
For all the claims of tolerance liberals claim to have I have yet to see very much here.
One more thing, every time I hear phases to the effect of: “harms to science” or “disregards science” I can only think of one thing…
The inquisition. You seem to treat science exactly how the religious do their religion a stance/behavior you claim to hate
The use of the word ‘apologetics’ drives me up a wall too, given that it simply describes speaking in the defense of something.
We’ll also see how the tea party thing plays out in a little over a month.
Although as liberals I’m sure you think the public will just have been duped, and if they ‘knew’ the truth they would have swept in a congress made up of nothing but persons wanting more and more social programs.
Maybe the general public isn’t as dumb as your world view requires them to be in order for it to prove true.