Patrick's Tumblog, The number of children who are born subsequent to...

The number of children who are born subsequent to a first abortion with handicaps has increased dramatically. Why? Because when you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children. In the Old Testament, the first born of every being, animal and man, was dedicated to the Lord. There’s a special punishment Christians would suggest.

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Republican VA state representative Bob Marshall, at a press conference encouraging the legislature to pull funding from Planned Parenthood. (Feministe) (via abbyjean) (via pedrosanchez)

Infuriating. His basic claim is that God punishes people by making their children handicapped; a hateful statement that has no basis in the Bible. I’m not a theologian, but I’m pretty sure generational sin isn’t a thing anymore. Stay classy, Bob.

I keep coming back to this and editing and adding more, because it just angers me beyond words that people hide behind Christianity to make statements like this. It’s because of people like this that, when I tell people that I’m a Christian, I get a look of disgust. I don’t want to be painted with the same brush as this guy. But, for as long as there are jerks out there like this guy or Pat Robertson or Fred Phelps or Jerry Falwell—in short, forever—the assumption that a “real Christian” is a bigoted, judgmental, backwards person will persist.