support policies that promote childbearing.
…like making abortion legal in all 50 states again? Like comprehensive sex education in schools? Like treating women as people and not property?
The most effective way for the Southern Baptists to promote childbearing would be for them to stay the fuck out of politics!
Abortion policies are a DIRECT REASON why I haven’t had any more children. If I can’t have guaranteed access to necessary, life-saving medical treatment (e.g. emergency abortions) then I won’t put my wife’s life at risk for one more child.
Southern baptists were pro-choice until the rise of the “moral majority” required southern baptists to fall in line with the catholic church on abortion to create the supply side Jesus we know today.
I was kinda annoyed at the article for not giving any details on the kinds of policies they wanted there, even something as simple as better tax credits for having kids would go a long way towards making children affordable. And yet I am sure that’s not what these people are advocating for.
Remember kids, willful childlessness is the newspeak for vasectomy and histerectomy.
Any birth control
I’m getting a hysterectomy next month and I’m pumped. Having a uterus is the fucking worst.
So if they want to use their influence for political ends, why are they tax exempt?
“Willful childlessness?” Is that like the opposite of incel? Volcel?
Lol, you don’t have to be celibate to be willfully childless. I have plenty of friends that got the snip/knot before having a kid because they don’t want one. And they are some of the sluttiest motherfuckers I know (and they’d take that as the compliment it was).
Did it in my mid 20s before it was all the rage. Couldn’t be happier.
The snip was the best money I ever spent. I wear condoms because I don’t want a disease, but one thing I ain’t worried about is getting someone pregnant.
Same, though the nice thing about being in a (largish) polycule is that someone gets tested every few months
Slutty childless polycule club represent!
It means getting an abortion when your pastor rapes you.
Thanks for quoting this. It makes way more sense than the way I first read the headline as “Willful childishness.”
That stance against sports betting annoys me so much, because that means I can’t just look at everything they stand for and say I want the opposite.
Yeah, predatory ads for gambling really drive me crazy. Although I’d say my reasoning for being against it is pretty different from the Baptists.
Can these fucking Christian extremists stop ruining everyone else’s lives
We all generally let them because we don’t like confronting people in public spaces because everyone is too insecure about social perception.
Inscribed on their swords and shields are “Won’t somebody please think of the children!”
I’m so tired of religious extremists trying to force their shitty Puritanical views on the whole world.
Willful childlessness is such a hilarious concept. I’m rollin’ around here.
What are they gonna do? Check if you’re having unprotected sex sufficiently? Check how many miscarriages you’ve had? HAHAHAHAh. Fuckin’ donkeys.
edit: Small gubment.
They won’t care if some of the women they hurt were genuinely trying to comply.
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You can say whatever you please, but we all know it is hot air.
White Christian Conservatives are some of the most insulated-from-consequences people in the world.
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The general population can barely hold attention spans on anything that doesn’t have at least three inset screens of people reacting and video games playing at the same time.
I am not holding my breath that even the most “inflammatory” ideas are more than WWE theater and fans of the show yelling at the screen. Wake me up when there’s an actual, organized resistance that doesn’t crumble into leftist infighting and purity testing because someone said the word “retard” and now everyone is at each other’s throats. (On discord of course.)
Welcome to lemmy. It’s a collection of federated communities. This community is hosted on lemmy.world, which employs similarly heavy-handed moderation tactics to Reddit.
However, like all lemmy instances the moderators are rather short-staffed so you’ll probably be fine unless someone goes out of their way to report your comment.
Baptist like to pick people who drank, did drugs and slept around to teach sunday school. This is no joke. They get some ‘reformed’ asshole with questionable decision making skills to instruct children and warn them of the dangers of having a good time.
hey, I target porn too! Lots and lots of porn!
Fuck your religion
The Southern Baptist Church is a Satanic cult. If your religion leads you to hate, you are not worshiping God, you’re worshiping the Devil. They’re devil worshipers, the whole lot of them.
Their god killed everyone who wasn’t on the Ark. It’s not them doing religion wrong; it’s a severe case of religion.
Can’t wait until they all burn in hell.
As a trans man, I would be happy to have a child. My uterus still works, as much as I would suffer going off of testosterone enough to carry, it is something I have always wanted.
Unfortunately, these people have made it legal for me to be fired for being trans. They have voted for politicians that have done nothing to address the catastrophic state of medical care which renders it prohibitively expensive to realistically ever be able to care for a child.
I believe that children deserve stable living conditions and a future, which does not seem to be something that they are concerned with at all.
