The Republican nominee in South Carolina’s hard-fought U.S. Senate race apologized yesterday for saying gays and unmarried mothers should not teach in public schools, but he stopped short of retracting the statements.
Jim DeMint said he regretted the comments, made in a recent debate, because they distracted voters from “real issues” such as jobs and national security.
And earlier this month, in the wake of the DC Madame scandal:
“We all think that we’re not vulnerable to something like that happening,” DeMint said, “but the fact is this can be a very lonely and isolating place to be away from your family. So I’m certainly not going to judge him because I don’t want that kind of pressure on me.”
What planet do these people come from, and how do we send them back?
No, but personal shortcomings isn’t the issue here.
A politician feels that an unmarried woman shouldn’t be allowed to abort her pregnancy, and should then be barred from teaching public school out of fear of setting a bad example, yet doesn’t want to criticize a fellow republican senator because he doesn’t want the pressure of casting judgments on his amoral behavior, because he knows how lonely a man can get at times.
Jim DeMint, shouldn’t and needn’t have apologised in the first place for making the first valid comment. Should never have mentioned the unmarried mother comment part though. That part has no substance unless the mother is some lesbo living with another woman. It shows his stupidity in lumping the two issues together.