Award For Stupidest Debate Tweet Goes To…

The award for the stupidest presidential debate tweet goes to Eric Teetsel, the new Executive Director of the Manhattan Declaration, who yesterday wrote via Twitter:

 

For those who need reminding, the Manhattan Declaration, is actually 2009’s “Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience,” which is an anarchistic manifesto demanding signatories — more than 532,000 to date — break the law should they perceive the law not squaring with the Bible. The Declaration attacks same-sex marriage, abortion, laments what it claims to be both society’s decoupling of marriage from childbearing and its growing acceptance of infidelity.

Chuck Colson co-authored the Manhattan Declaration with National Organization For Marriage (NOM) founder Robert P. George, whom Colson routinely praised.

Now, about the tweet.

“Mr. President, your office runs a fatherhood initiative yet you also support SSM. Do dads matter or not?”

Should we even bother to deconstruct that?

Are gay men who father and/or raise children — theirs, biologically, or not — not even afforded the title of “father,” just as the radical religious right calls marriages of same-sex couples “marriages”?

Of course fathers matter. As do mothers. And gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, fathers and mothers are vitally important.

By removing LGBT parents from the title of father or mother, Teetsel, a graduate of Wheaton College, actually degrades the institutions of parenthood and of marriage.

“We want our national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right,” Teetsel’s twitter biography states.

Earlier this week, NOM’s Maggie Gallagher said that stable, same-sex relationships are “rare,” in a column she wrote yet again defending the debunked, flawed Regnerus anti-gay parenting “study.” She made that comment knowing full well that there are, according to the 2010 US Census, at least 650,000 same-sex couples in the US, raising at least two million children.

Does fatherhood (and motherhood) matter? Yes. Does Eric Teetsel need to educate himself on the people who comprise the nation whose policy he’s seemingly so concerned about? Yes.

Teetsel should read the Constitution. And keep his “morals” to himself.