Is Bob Vander Plaats, the founder of THE FAMiLY LEADER (that’s how they like to spell it — no joke) obsessed with Black children? Why else would he have made slavery and the incidence of Black children living in single-parent households the top two issues on his “Marriage Vow,” writing, “a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African- American baby born after the election of the USA‟s first African-American President?” (Notice those typos, by the way…)
And why, five days after his “Marriage Vow” was published, would he release this video pounding the issue home again?
In fairness, Vander Plaats, the man credited with removing three Iowa Supreme Court judges from the bench for the unanimous vote that found the state ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, did remove the slavery reference from the official Marriage Vow document, but the one we linked to last week — which is unchanged, still listing Vander Plaats’ slavery comparison — is still up. Odd…
In this video he talks about the slavery issue he got hammered on, and continues to focus on the issue.
Note too that Whoopi Goldberg excoriated Vander Plaats on “The View” this week.
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