VA Legislator: Disabled children are God's way of saying you shouldn't have had that abortion

[ck4829]

Western Prince William Del. Bob Marshall, R-13th, says disabled children are God’s punishment to women who have aborted their first pregnancy.

He made that statement last Thursday at a press conference to oppose state funding for Planned Parenthood.

“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,” said Marshall, a Republican.

“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.”

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=1894168

[joeybee12]

1. OMG! This is so stupid it has blinded me!!!! n/t

[KamaAina]

21. Teh stupid! It burns!!

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[brooklynite]

2. And the explanation for Sarah Palin's kid would be...?

[Barack_America]

5. It would also seem that Glenn Beck's wife has some 'splainin' to do...

...according to this asshat.

[KamaAina]

20. And Mrs. George Will

and, I'm sure, a host of others. Unlike asshat Virginia fundie repukes, disability does not discriminate.

[mitchum]

33. And Mrs Karl Rove

[LLStarks]

35. Beck has a handicapped child? nt

[Barack_America]

38. His first born has CP, I believe. nt

[hatrack]

3. So does this mean that Sarah Palin had an abortion at some point?

Just asking . . .

[Barack_America]

4. Isn't Sarah Palin the proud mother of a disabled child?

:hide:

When can I expect her to attack this man with at least the ferocity she attacked 'Family Guy' with?

[hlthe2b]

6. I dare someone to "tweet" that to Sarah Palin

:evilgrin:

[City Lights]

7. Unbelievable!

I didn't think GOPers could get any dumber, but they just keep proving there is no bottom when it comes to their stupidity.

[atreides1]

14. These people are representative...

...of the voters who put them into office, and the congregations that attend their churches. In other words the voters who support these ass hats are dumber then a bag of hammers.

[City Lights]

27. Indeed. And they just keep outdoing each other in their race to the bottom. nt

[kestrel91316]

8. Oh, just STFU with your fairy tales, you dumbass. How do you explain

God's need to punish so many first-time-pregnant women with disabled children or even horrors such as a molar pregnancy???????

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[atreides1]

9. Everyday it gets better here in Virginia

I would like to thank the asshat independent voters who helped put this new Inquisition into power. And to be fair they can share my thanks with the "Democrats" who didn't bother to vote at all.

And thanks to former Governor Wilder also.

Someone needs to tell Marshall and the other supporters of a theocracy that the Old Testament has about as much to do with Christianity as does the Koran.

[Bluebear]

10. Holy moly.

[KittyWampus]

11. that is extraordinarily mean.

[pipi_k]

17. Yeah, what's next...

telling women whose children die as a result of SIDS that it's punishment for having had an abortion?

And really, the more I think of it, the more it seems that his "warning" could be expanded to include those cases, since it's just been discovered that SIDS babies could suffer from a shortage of serotonin. Small stretch to a "birth defect".

That dirty rat fucker bastard.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. That's a mean and spiteful deity he has there. He should consider firing it.

[pipi_k]

13. What full of shit asshole...

that guy is.

My daughter had three abortions before giving birth to my soon-to-be six year old grandson.

He is not disabled in any way.

[11 Bravo]

15. Bobby Marshall won't be bringing potato salad to the Mensa picnic any time soon.

That stupid jackass actually makes George Allen look intelligent by comparison.

[KamaAina]

19. Actually, he just might be.

Once he loses his seat to someone who possesses at least two interconnected functioning brain cells, he might have no choice but to open up a deli, which could very well end up catering the Mensa picnic. :P

[hamsterjill]

30. Your post cracked me up!

Good one!!!!Really a good one!

[gaspee]

16. rec'ed

So that everyone can see what these people are all about. How many people would agree with this guy? 10% at the most? He and people like him need a spotlight shined on their extremist views.

[Barack_America]

18. Twitter...

...ain't happy.

http://twitter.com/#search?q=bob%20marshall

[Neurotica]

22. Marshall also said contraceptives make women "chemical love canals" for

frat-house playboys.

Or something to that effect. This was a while ago.

Every year he sponsors many anti-abortion, anti-women bills in the Virginia General Assembly. He has also been trying to define personhood as starting at the moment of conception.

[Rhiannon12866]

23. The most reprehensible thing is that there are idiots out there who will believe this crap...

Just keep repeating it often enough. :grr:

[Tim01]

24. Somebody should slap his ass. Seriously. nt

[RedCloud]

25. What happens to all that aborted sperm and lost eggs? Oh the potential humanity!

Yet somehow the last three words below tell us all we need to know:

“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,” said Marshall, a Republican.

[Blue_Tires]

26. so few people in Va. pay real attention to the state house

that it's relatively easy for some real kooks to get elected and stay in for a long time...this assclown is only par for the course...

[Neurotica]

28. So true - Marshall has easily won re-election; he plays up his involvement in

environmental issues during the campaign season, then delves right back into all the right-wing craziness during the General Assembly sessions.

[Hepburn]

29. Soooooo....it only applies to FIRST pregnancies????

WTF? What if a 2nd pregnancy was aborted? :shrug:

[shanti]

40. that was my thought as well

the nutjobs are out in full force!

[sakabatou]

31. I seriously want to go kick his ass now.

As a disabled 22 year-old, I really want to.

[hamsterjill]

32. I don't even know where to begin with this stupidity!!!

Sarah Palin should certainly denounce this man's comments publicly since she took so much time and effort to denounce comments made on The Family Guy.

The venom in Marshall's comments just astounds me. But that venom is the basis for so many of the crazies who support overturning Roe v. Wade. How can we live in such a technologically progressive world and yet still have idiots like Marshall trying to take us back to the dark ages???!!!

[bpj62]

34. RIght WIng Fundie

Bob Marshall has been spouting off at the mouth for years. I cannot understand how the people of Prince William County continue to vote for him. You could fill a book with all of his stupid quotes. The scary thing is that our new Attorney General is just like him. This is what the idiot independants in Virginia got when the voted for Bob McDonnell. These next 4 years are going to be a bumpy ride in Virginia.

[stranger81]

36. So is erectile dysfunction god's way of saying Mr. Marshall shouldn't reproduce?

:shrug:

[Quantess]

37. Ignorant, Stupid, and Offensive!

If there were a prize for Most Ignorant & Offensive, he'd win.

[alp227]

39. If there was a prison to hold all the conservatives who say stupid things like this,

it'd get overcrowded.

Is this guy gonna be Keith Olbermann's "Worst Person in the World" tonight?

And people like Marshall constantly complain about disrespectful liberals.

[alp227]

41. Keith Olbermann says he's "WORSER"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/35530682#35531002

[chowder66]

42. hmmm. what would he say about Jesus then....

I remember someone once told me that Jesus was actually described as short, hunchbacked and "not attractive" so I dug around a bit about his disfigurement and found this;

Behold, My servant will prosper,
He will be high and lifted up and greatly exalted.
14 Just as many were astonished at you, My people,
So His appearance was marred more than any man
And His form more than the sons of men.
15 Thus He will sprinkle many nations,
Kings will shut their mouths on account of Him;
For what had not been told them they will see,
And what they had not heard they will understand." Isaiah 52:13-15

"Who has believed our message?
And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
2 For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot,
And like a root out of parched ground;
He has no stately form or majesty
That we should look upon Him,
Nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him.
3 He was despised and forsaken of men,
A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;
And like one from whom men hide their face
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
4 Surely our griefs He Himself bore,
And our sorrows He carried;
Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten of God, and afflicted." Isaiah 53:1-4

Soooooooooooooooooooooo, I wonder what he would say to this?? effing sod.