What Evil Reads Like

Just read Mark Morford's disgusting attack on the Duggar family and their 16 children if you want to see the contempt in which the left holds families, especially religious ones:

Mean and callous to suggest that this bizarre Duggar family of 18 spotless, white, hyperreligious, interchangeable people with alarmingly bad hair -- the kids ranging in ages from 1 to 17 -- is worse than those nuked Smurfs in that UNICEF commercial and worse than all the horrific rubble in Pakistan and worse than the cluster-bomb nightmare that is Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise having a child as they suck the skin from each other's Scientological faces and even worse than that huge 16-foot python that ate that 6-foot alligator and then exploded.

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Perhaps the point is this: Why does this sort of bizarre hyperbreeding only seem to afflict antiseptic megareligious families from the Midwest? In other words -- assuming Michelle and Jim Bob and their brood of cookie-cutter Christian kidbots will never be allowed near a decent pair of designer jeans or a tolerable haircut from a recent decade, and assuming that they will all be tragically encoded with the values of the homophobic asexual Christian right -- where are the forces that shall help neutralize their effect on culture? Where is the counterbalance to offset the damage?

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You already know why. It is the Biggest Reason of All. Children are, after all, God's little gifts. Kids are little blessings from the Lord, the Almighty's own screaming spitballs of joy. Hell, Jim Bob said so himself when asked if the couple would soon be going for a 17th rug rat: "We both just love children and we consider each a blessing from the Lord. I have asked Michelle if she wants more, and she said yes, if the Lord wants to give us some she will accept them." This is what he actually said. And God did not strike him dead on the spot.

Let us be clear: I don't care what sort of God you believe in, it's a safe bet that hysterical breeding does not top her list of desirables. God does not want more children per acre than there are ants or mice or garter snakes or repressed pedophilic priests. We already have 3 billion humans on the planet who subsist on less than $2 a day. Every other child in the world (1 billion of them) lives in abject poverty. We are burning through the planet's resources faster than a Republican can eat an endangered caribou stew.

Note to Michelle Duggar: If God wanted you to have a massive pile of children, she'd have given your uterus a hydraulic pump and a revolving door. Stop it now.

Ah, but this is America, yes? People should be allowed to do whatever they want with their families if they can afford it and if it's within the law and so long as they aren't gay or deviant or happily flouting Good Christian Values, right? Shouldn't they? Hell, gay couples still can't openly adopt a baby in most states (they either lie, or one adopts and the other must apply as the co-parent), but Michelle Duggar can pop out 16 kids and no one says, "Oh my freaking God, stop it, stop it now, you thoughtless, selfish, baby-drunk people."

My Comments:
I know others have already blogged extensively on this. And I'm not really going to be able to add anything substantially to the discussion.

But I wanted to post something about this individual's anti-family/anti-child screed as a record of what evil reads like, so that one day, when "one-child" policies, forced abortions, eugenics, and other like measures are forced upon us by those who "know better", we can look back and say "It started with editorials like that one."

UPDATE (23 Oct 2005):
(Hat tip: Holy Fool)

Tony Miller of Catholic Pillow Fight does an excellent job of frisking the Morford piece. Do yourself a favor and read it!