A New HampshireĀ Republican lawmaker who has been under fire for defending child marriage has lashed out at his āhatersā while insisting that his stance is āpro-choice.ā
State Representative Jess Edwards inspired outrage last week after describing underage teenage girls as āripeā and āfertileā while arguing against a bill to raise the age of marriage in the Granite State from 16 to 18. The bill passed by a vote of 192-174 despite objections from Edwards and others.
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Edwards described critics of his underage marriage stance as āan army of control freaks that want to entice a pregnant woman into an abortion rather than allow a marriageā in aĀ FacebookĀ postĀ on Monday.
There is no good way to spin this. Reads like a very poor attempt at a republican āgotchaā
Conservatives, personally I do not agree with assaulting and marrying children. How can anyone ever defend this? Come defend your reps position. Or maybe wake up and realise this insanity will never stop while you continue to vote these predators into government
False equivalencies are conservative bread and butter, make it look like your opponent does what you do because conservatives wont care, but liberals might. Back when I had more energy for social media, when I would see stories like this I would tell a little story I made up to make the point.
A conservative drives to his opponents house in the middle of the night, taking a can of gasoline he dumps gas all over the front of his opponents house. Striking a match, he gleefully lights the house ablaze. Thankfully, the opponent is not home, and the police and firefighters respond quickly. The conservative is being arrested and put into the back of the police car just as his opponent turns up the driveway. The media circus turns their cameras to the car pulling up the lane, then back to the conservative who yells āsee my opponent there, in that car, well he uses gas too " . The chyron on Fox now reads: " Hypocrite liberal gets whats coming to himā on CNN you have: āGas controversy erupts in flamesā
What Iām saying is, it doesnāt matter how outlandish the equivalency is, you can be guaranteed conservatives will make it, and that the media will bothsides it for them.
Edit: Yes I do a bit of self-cringe when I reread that story.
Why? Thatās actually a very good example.
I first wrote that story out 10 or more years ago, so it feels like a product of my youth, a cartoonish caricature thatās so on the nose I should be a little embarrassed I couldnāt come up with something more subtle. Iām my own worst critic though.
Yeah, that describes todayās landscape. The Onion is feeling that one too.
Itās actually really good tho.