Christian Right Accused of Sexism Over Lack of Enthusiasm for Bachmann

Christian Post ^ | July 7, 2011 | Napp Nazworth

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Christian Right leaders are not rallying behind Michele Bachmann for president and it’s “probably” because they are sexist, contends a writer for Time.

.....“Totally unfair and inaccurate” is how Penny Nance, CEO of Concerned Women for America, described [Amy] Sullivan's characterization. Nance was invited to join the conference call but was unable to do so.

“Social conservatives are ready for a woman president,” Nance said. “In fact, the McCain campaign really took off,” added Nance, “after Sarah Palin was nominated.”

Nance remembered that during the 2008 election she was mostly standing on the sidelines until Palin was added to the ticket. Then, she began volunteering for McCain and she has many friends that did the same. Palin “was a woman they identified with,” Nance said.

Regarding a Perry candidacy, Nance said, “It's still very early” and “it's good for the country to have lots of choices.”

While Perry has a good relationship with social conservatives, they have not always seen eye to eye. In 2007, Perry proposed requiring all school-aged girls to receive the HPV vaccine. Concerned Women for America was one of the groups that thought that the vaccine should carry an opt-in provision, in which parents would sign their kids up to receive the free vaccination, rather than Perry's proposed opt-out provision, in which all female school children would automatically receive the vaccine unless their parents explicitly requested that they not receive the vaccine.

Ann Hettinger, Concerned Women for America's state director of Texas, was instrumental in convincing Perry to change his proposal to an opt-in provision. When asked if Perry's original plans for the HPV vaccine would be an issue if he were to run for president, Nance replied, “It would've been an issue if he had not fixed it.”

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I'm not a mind reader but it strikes me that Gov. Rick Perry truly believed the HPV vaccine would have helped a lot of Texans who otherwise would not have gotten this protection against cervical cancer (it was to help with 3 strains of the human papilloma virus HPV).

Rick Perry's wife Anita Perry was a nurse for many years and still is involved in health care as First Lady of Texas, so I imagine health care is something this governor is more aware of than maybe your "average" governor and understood this to be a vaccine that would combat cervical cancer and cut heath care costs.

Then too Rick Perry grew up hard scrabble with little luxury as many have, yet vaccines traditionally have been made available to all.

Instead of applying the worst motives to Rick Perry, perhaps his critics could consider that his motives were good ones.

Another FReeper had some thoughts on this issue.

However, there are some here on FR who prefer to apply the worst motives to Rick Perry.

The most "vocal" either won't name a candidate they would support; say they would vote for Huntsman or Romney over Perry; say they would rather Obama stay in the White House than vote for Rick Perry.

The HPV vaccine was always Opt-Out. And according to this report had been changed to Opt-In, before being dropped entirely.

90 days after his EO, Gov. Rick Perry let stand legislation undoing the EO.

..Ann Hettinger, Concerned Women for America's state director of Texas, was instrumental in convincing Perry to change his proposal to an opt-in provision. When asked if Perry's original plans for the HPV vaccine would be an issue if he were to run for president, [Penny] Nance replied, “It would've been an issue IF HE HAD NOT FIXED IT.”

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Knock yourselves out.

[nina0113]

I’d take Perry over Romney or Gingrich. I don’t know anything about Huntsman yet.

[Psalm 73]

"I don’t know anything about Huntsman yet."

From what I've seen of him he's a Romney clone - nice presentation but takes whatever position would garner him the most support.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

RE Huntsman:

"Former Democratic President Jimmy Carter has a favorite in the race for the Republican nomination for president.

In an interview printed Wednesday by CNN, Carter said that Jon Huntsman is “very attractive to me personally.”

Huntsman formed a PAC on Tuesday, a move widely considered a step to launching a run for president.

The former Utah governor and former Ambassador to China is disliked by some conservatives for being a moderate Republican closely affiliated with the Obama administration...." Source

[free me]

Wow talk about misinformation!

Perry never "fixed" it:

In May of 2007, state legislators in Texas passed a bill that effectively overturned Governor Perry's order mandating Gardasil. In response to the bill, Governor Perry held a press conference where he first thanked the legislators who voted against the bill, and then referred to numerous cervical cancer survivors as evidence that the mandate was necessary.

"No lost lives will occupy the confines of their conscience, sacrificed on the altar of political expediency. ...

I challenge legislators to look these women in the eye and tell them, 'We could have prevented this disease for your daughters and your granddaughters, but we just didn't have the gumption to address all the misguided and misleading political rhetoric.' "

The bill's author, state Rep. Dennis Bonnen, R-Angleton, criticized the governor's decision "to use cancer victims as his backdrop for an issue that he has grossly misjudged."

" The governor has missed the point. Just because you don't want to offer up 165,000 11-year-old girls to be Merck's study group doesn't mean you don't care about women's health, doesn't mean you don't care about young girls."

Governor Perry allowed the bill to go into affect without vetoing it as the state legislature had enough votes to override the veto.

Me: Whatever you think about the Gardasil episode it's important to tell the truth about it.

[Clairity]

“The HPV vaccine was always Opt-Out. And according to this report had been changed to Opt-In, before being dropped entirely. “

Thanks for this post — this information is clearly not well known. Some are acting as if Perry personally is holding down young girls as we speak, forcing them to receive the vaccine, then pushing them out to have sex.

I wonder what are their motives for spreading such disinformation.

[Clairity]

He changed it to “opt-in”, before the Legislature overrode the whole thing — so what is the problem with that?

[Clairity]

I just came across something else — a lot of states require HPV vaccinations.

http://www.aproundtable.org/HPV/states.html

[free me]

No he did not!

And it wasn’t a “proposal” as quoted in the article. It was an executive order.

The women in the article is saying Perry fixed it because he didn’t veto the bill overturning his executive order. Which is nonsense because the legislature had the votes to overturn the veto. He had no choice.

[Diogenesis]

RINO Perry and his PerryBOTs have no shame
as they try to revise history.

GARDASIL-GATE:

RINO Perry's Chief of Staff worked for Merck
and, at the time, the Merck company was desperate for cash.
Solution: MANDATE GARDASIL BY EXECUTIVE ORDER.

RINO Perry rejected opponents' and Conservatives' calls to reverse
his mandate

There are >40 Types of HPV, 15 Types linked to cervical cancer.
Gardasil works against 4 Types and
does not grant full immunity to those 4 Types of HPV.
Gardasil offers no protection against the other
11 strains of HPV that have been linked to cervical cancer.

Sexually promiscuous women (not chaste girls)
require three shots over six months
CDC: 44% of teenagers received the HPV vaccine
but only 27% of them received all three requisite doses.
There is no evidence one does even works.

CDC: As of June 22, 2011, approximately 35 million doses of Gardasil
were distributed in the US. VAERS received a total
of 18,727 reports of adverse events; 68 deaths.

[Clairity]

I just also looked up info on Gardasil, which I haven’t done before.

I guess it’s a bad thing to try to prevent women from having cancer. With the opt-out it’s NOT “mandatory”.

“GARDASIL is the only human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine that helps protect against 4 types of HPV. In girls and young women ages 9 to 26, GARDASIL helps protect against 2 types of HPV that cause about 75% of cervical cancer cases, and 2 more types that cause 90% of genital warts cases. In boys and young men ages 9 to 26, GARDASIL helps protect against 90% of genital warts cases.

GARDASIL also helps protect girls and young women ages 9 to 26 against 70% of vaginal cancer cases and up to 50% of vulvar cancer cases.”

http://www.gardasil.com/hpv/hpv-types/hpv-transmission/index.html?WT.mc_id=GL0ES&MTD=2

This is a totally ludicrous election issue — we have someone president who is literally destroying the country and our freedoms. Then we have Perry, who can beat him in 2012 and the worst thing people can say about Perry, is that he wanted to protect young girls from cancer... and I guess that is good enough reason for some to just give Obama 4 more years.

This is Twilight Zone stuff...

[dforest]

We live in a time where people believe what they want to believe if it makes them feel good or is supportive of what they want.

The facts and the truth are quite optional.

Thats how we ended up in this mess we are in now.

[free me]

You’re right, look at them with their eyes wide shut.

Truth has no hope in that environment.

[Esther Ruth]

Anyone associated with globalists or the cfr will push this stuff, they have to. They want to control population, keep it at 500mill, see georgia guidestones. Lies on top of lies.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Some are acting as if Perry personally is holding down young girls as we speak, forcing them to receive the vaccine, then pushing them out to have sex.

And posting graphics too.

Courtesy of FR poster “truthfreedom” (posted 3 others on same thread at source link below)

Source

[Admin Moderator]

Stop dragging in stuff from other threads.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Sorry.

I thought it was permissible to source link “on topic.”

[wagglebee]

I guess it’s a bad thing to try to prevent women from having cancer. With the opt-out it’s NOT “mandatory”.

First of all, Gardasil DOES NOT prevent cancer. It is a vaccine that will work on certain strains of HPV, nothing more.

Secondly, Perry's original intent was to make this shot mandatory for all teenage girls.

Thirdly, HPV is 100% preventable WITHOUT shots.

Finally, the long term effects of this vaccine are not known. They want to give it to all girls in an effort to promote promiscuity. What will this drug do to their reproductive system? What are the long term effects?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

.....They want to give it to all girls in an effort to promote promiscuity....

Who is "they?"