If Your Husband Beats You, Just Remember Why You Loved Him To Begin With.

Totally fricking bat**** crazy, that's about the nicest thing I can say about todays Republican legislators.  And we depend on our gutless, spineless, gelding Democrats to save us from the crazies.  We saw how well our dems in Oklahoma stood up to the Republicans in the "Ram a Probe Up a Woman's Hooha Before She Can Have A Lawful Abortion" law.

Well, it looks like that was just the tip (no pun intended) of the iceberg.  In Wisconsin the Right is going after single mothers;

Quote

In Wisconsin, a state senator has introduced a bill aimed at penalizing single mothers by calling their unmarried status a contributing factor in  and neglect.

Senate Bill 507, introduced by Republican Senator Glenn Grothman, moves to amend existing state law by "requiring the Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board to emphasize nonmarital parenthood as a contributing factor to child abuse and neglect."

The bill would require educational and public awareness campaigns held by the board to emphasize that not being married is abusive and neglectful of children, and to underscore "the role of fathers in the primary prevention of child abuse and neglect."

Saying that people "make fun of old-fashioned families," Grothman -- who has never been married and has no children -- criticized social workers for not agreeing that children should only be raised by two married biological parents, and told a state Senate committee that he hopes the Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention board, of which he's a member, could "publicize something that's politically incorrect but has to be said in our society."

Never been married or had children, definitely qualifies as a right wing "expert".

Now they want to do away with divorce, even if you believe that your husband will harm or even kill you or your children, too bad.  Their advice is "just remember why you fell in love with him in the first place".

Quote

In Wisconsin -- yes, the same state where lawmakers have introduced a bill penalizing single mothers for being unmarried -- a Republican state representative has come out against divorce for any reason -- even domestic abuse.

Instead of leaving an abusive situation, women should try to remember the things they love about their husbands, Representative Don Pridemore said. "If they can re-find those reasons and get back to why they got married in the first place it might help," he told a local news station.

Pridemore -- who, coincidentally, is a co-sponsor of Republican state Senator Glenn Grothman's "being single causes child abuse" bill as well as a controversial voter ID bill that was ruled unconstitutional earlier this week -- also said that while he thinks women are capable of caring for a family "in certain situations," fathers are the only ones who provide structure and discipline. If they don't grow up with married biological parents, Pridemore says, "kids tend to go astray."

Grothman, for his part, continues to defend his controversial bill. Now, though, not only is single parenthood a factor in child abuse, women in particular are to blame for it.

"There's been a huge change over the last 30 years, and a lot of that change has been the choice of the women," Grothman said.

So ladies remember, in todays Tea Party Republican America that no matter how bad things seem it's your own fault for choosing to be female and worse, unmarried with children.

In their opinion you obviously need a man, a white, conservative, Christian, manly man.  So in the name of fair play I give you just such a man to help you get your hell bound life back on the right track, State Sen. Glenn Grothman (R-WI).

Later.