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ProfessionalLeftist

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Sat Mar 24, 2012, 03:37 PM Mar 2012

Wisconsin Lawmaker Thinks Women Are Better Off Beaten Than Divorced [View all]

“Representative Don Pridemore, told TODAY’S TMJ4 he thinks even in abusive relationships, there are other options than divorce. ‘If they can refind those reasons and get back to why they got married in the first place it might help,’ said Representative Don Pridemore.”

And without even a trace of irony, he also claims that the reason women can’t single parent — one of the reasons he supports the bill — is because children will “go astray” since the father is usually the “disciplinarian.”

So to clarify, single parent homes run by mothers cause child abuse, but if there is spousal abuse in a two parent home the wife should stay with her husband, especially since he is needed because he is obviously the disciplinarian.

Let him beat you, let him beat your children, whatever it goes on in a house is just fine as long as you stay married.

Yes, there really is a war on women.


Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/wisconsin-lawmaker-thinks-women-are-better-off-beaten-than-divorced.html

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The idiot Brownback appointed to run SRS in Kansas tried to justify not funding battered women's proud2BlibKansan Mar 2012 #1
Wasn't there also a law or ruling stating that the police need no longer respond Dont call me Shirley Mar 2012 #8
That was in Topeka proud2BlibKansan Mar 2012 #9
It was a funding fight between the county and the city. MuseRider Mar 2012 #20
These right wing "Christians" would be usrname Mar 2012 #14
Well, but isn't that what they'd see as needing to be done to Jesus? I mean... Moonwalk Mar 2012 #16
WIGOP's vision of America's Dairyland...a place where a man's home is his castle, and his family are HereSince1628 Mar 2012 #2
Maybe it should be changed to "BACKWARDS" TBF Mar 2012 #11
The greatest threat to this country comes from within (the GOP). Dawson Leery Mar 2012 #3
Another member of the american white republican Taliban MichiganVote Mar 2012 #4
When i first saw the title, i truly thought it was from "The Onion" or some other satrical place Hawaii Hiker Mar 2012 #5
Now they want to go back to days EC Mar 2012 #6
R-E-C-A-L-L-! Dont call me Shirley Mar 2012 #7
"refind?" Deep13 Mar 2012 #10
If reincarnation is true, guess what his fate is going to be? freshwest Mar 2012 #12
The GOP really Iliyah Mar 2012 #13
He's not alone - Bookstore sells out book that advises Muslim men on how to beat their wives Zax2me Mar 2012 #15
Hey Don, how would that have helped my ex who just wanted a divorce so he could marry his girl jwirr Mar 2012 #17
Most Republican men Aerows Mar 2012 #18
This isn't news Aerows Mar 2012 #19
So now they are going after divorce... What next? Auntie Bush Mar 2012 #21
Wisconsin, you disappoint me. provis99 Mar 2012 #22
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