Georgia GOP’s Genital Obsession


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Georgia GOP’s Genital Obsession

By Edward Hudgins

April 9, 2014 - The Georgia GOP leader is working to turn the Republican state Democratic again with her idiotic obsession with her neighbors’ genitals.

The party’s state chair, Sue Everhart, said “Lord, I’m going to get in trouble over this [she got that right!], but it is not natural for two women or two men to be married,” adding that “If it was natural, they would have the equipment to have a sexual relationship.”

As if her concern for other peoples’ “equipment” weren’t bad enough, she went on to explain what she considers a true dangers of same-sex unions:

“You may be as straight as an arrow, and you may have a friend that is as straight as an arrow. Say you had a great job with the government where you had this wonderful health plan. I mean, what would prohibit you from saying that you’re gay, and y’all get married and still live as separate, but you get all the benefits? I just see so much abuse in this it’s unreal. I believe a husband and a wife should be a man and a woman, the benefits should be for a man and a woman. There is no way that this is about equality. To me, it’s all about a free ride.”

Are you serious? I might ask if there’s an epidemic today of hetero friends staging such sham marriages for better benefits since they currently face that temptation.

In any case, let’s put Everhart’s silly scenario in political context. Georgia Republicans are going into a primary to select a candidate to run for Senate to replace a retiring Republican Saxby Chambliss. The Democratic nominee will likely be is Michelle Nunn, the daughter of popular former Senator Sam Nunn. Already one of the leading GOPers, U.S. Congressman Paul Broun, has shown himself a fool by loudly denouncing “evolution, embryology, big bang theory” and most of modern science. This ignoramus sits on the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. And now we have Everhart reinforcing the image of the Republican Party as a bunch of yahoos, making a Democratic Senate victory that much more probable.

Even if Miss Peach State or the GOP Senatorial hopefuls hold whacky beliefs, they need to shut up about them and worry about getting their own priorities straight rather than worrying about whether their neighbors are straight. Obama and his cronies are growing government control over every aspect of our lives and these are the issues that these Republicans spout off about?

This is why the Republican Party needs to go through a radical realignment. The legal and personal relationships that consenting adults make with one another, and which in no way limit the liberty of others, are none of the government’s business. Extreme social conservatives who won’t get with the limited government GOP program should leave the party.

If the GOP is to win elections in the future, it must become a modernist party that consistently stands for individual liberty. It must attract new constituents, especially young people looking for futures full of opportunities and the new entrepreneurs who understand the power of the human mind to create such better futures. And this means shedding the likes of Everhart.
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Hudgins is director of advocacy and a senior scholar at The Atlas Society.

For further information:

*Edward Hudgins, The Republican Party’s Civil War: Will Freedom Win? February 2014.

*Edward Hudgins, “GOP Helps North Carolina, Georgia Democrats Win.” March 18, 2014

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And if you put "Flat Earth Society" into your search engine, you will get hits. Why do you care what one person in the Georgia Republican Party says? Are you so driven and compelled by other people's opinions?

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That woman’s not just a random nut but the chair of the Republican Party in Georgia (in case you missed the second sentence). And anti-science guy (who I cover in more detail in another piece) in addition to being a Senate candidate in Georgia is a member of Congress and a member of the House Science committee, voting on our laws.

Let me explain the issue this way… No, wait, I just did a whole book on the subject, which you can download for free thru Thursday!

So study the chapter on the GOP’s crisis and on social conservatives in The Republican Party’s Civil War: Will Freedom Win? Then come back here and I’ll give you a quiz on the material. But don’t worry, it will be short answer and multiple choice. No essay!

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Ed, you are free to spend your time on whatever interests you. I just wonder why a bright guy like you invests so much of it in the Grand Old Party. You write also about space exploration, which is much more viable. As I mentioned on RoR, on Objectivish boards you will find discussions of Kurweil's singularity and Wolfram's New Science. Those also offer significant potential.



Anyone can have a title - chair of the Republican Party or Pope of the Portuguese Orthodox Church. You do not need to buy in to their reality. When Owen Kellogg met Dagny Taggart on the stalled train, he gave her his airplane rather than see her taking care of a handful of dolts who demanded transportation. It is the same thing here. The GOP is on a stalled train. Heck, they are the stalled train. Walk away from it.



Ayn Rand's objective vantage point allowed her to criticize Democrats (liberals) and Republicans (conservatives) alike on national issues that exemplfied the ideas that she wanted to explain. She also had good words for the left wing progressives for their intellectual approach to social problems. They at least attempted to bring the science to political science. With the exception of the Goldwater candidacy in 1964, Rand had no good words for conservatives. The last 50 years have only underscored the reasons for her disdain. Based on Ayn Rand's appreciation of the liberal approach to politics, would you invest so much time and effort in the Democratic Party today? I would hope not. Yet, you accept the Republicans as potential allies.



I recommend highly that anyone who does not agree with me on this re-read the passages in Atlas Shrugged where John Galt is confronted by a parade of visitors to his hotel room after he is captured. Mr. Thompson warned and pleaded that while he is a liberal, enlightened man, others in the government are not. Galt's best chance, said Thompson, is to compromise with the better sort while he still had the opportunity.



Don't give in, Ed.



Mike M.


(Space is the place. Come to the high frontier.)


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Mike M.

(Space is the place. Come to the high frontier.)

As soon as we get a decent propulsion system. Burn and coast will never do much more that put satellites in orbit and probes to the other planets. We will not become a space-faring race until we replace burn and coast (which are really Chinese rockets with fancy control vanes) with something that can produce steady acceleration.

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