Last week in what I had initially read as being one of those “feel good” stories, Michelle Duggar gave birth to her families 17th child. Michelle and her husband Jim Bob count every child as a blessing from God, and raise their children based on Christian principles through home schooling and nightly Bible readings. To look at a picture of the Duggars would bring a smile to most faces as you see a happy family, will healthy well clothed children. Those smiles unfortunately do not extend to everyone unfortunately, as there are those in this country who are so disgusted with their own existence they feel the urge to attack others.

One such individual wrote an article in 2005 when the Duggar family had just given birth to their 16th child. The authors name is Mark Morford, and he had the audacity to title his article “God Does Not Want 16 Kids“. Here is what Mr. Morford feel about the Duggar family:

Who are you to judge? Who are you to say that the more than slightly creepy 39-year-old woman from Arkansas who just gave birth to her 16th child yes that’s right 16 kids and try not to cringe in phantom vaginal pain when you say it, who are you to say Michelle Duggar is not more than a little unhinged and sad and lost?

And furthermore, who are you to suggest that her equally troubling husband — whose name is, of course, Jim Bob and he’s hankerin’ to be a Republican senator and try not to wince in sociopolitical pain when you say that — isn’t more than a little numb to the real world, and that bringing 16 hungry mewling attention-deprived kids (and she wants more! Yay!) into this exhausted world zips right by “touching” and races right past “disturbing” and lurches its way, heaving and gasping and sweating from the karmic armpits, straight into “Oh my God, what the hell is wrong with you people?”

Notice the unwarranted hostility this disgraceful author shows to a family he has never even met? The writer, if you can actually call him that, immediately describes the children as being attention-deprived, although the article he references shows no sign of anything remotely resembling a maladjusted family. The hatred continues from this point, and we now start to get a glimpse of what is making Mark’s blood boil:

It’s wrong to be this judgmental. Wrong to suggest that it is exactly this kind of weird pathological protofamily breeding-happy gluttony that’s making the world groan and cry and recoil, contributing to vicious overpopulation rates and unrepentant economic strain and a bitter moral warpage resulting from a massive viral outbreak of homophobic neo-Christians across our troubled and Bush-ravaged land. Or is it?

So the monster is now being let out of its cage, it appears the authors problem with this family is not the size of it, but the fact that they are Christians. He goes on:

Perhaps this the scariest aspect of our squishy birthin’ tale: Maybe the scales are tipping to the neoconservative, homogenous right in our culture simply because they tend not to give much of a damn for the ramifications of wanton breeding and environmental destruction and pious sanctimony, whereas those on the left actually seem to give a whit for the health of the planet and the dire effects of overpopulation. Is that an oversimplification?

Something tells me Mr. Morford is incapable of writing anything which wouldn’t be classified as an oversimplification, simple minds tend to draw simple conclusions. Earlier this year I responded to another article Mr. Morford wrote titled When Liberals Rule the World. In that article he came to the same simple minded conclusion that conservatives have more children than liberals because they lack social conscience. You’ll have to read the article yourself to figure how he came to that brilliant conclusion.

Mr. Morford concludes his case against the Duggar family by stating;

Ah, but this is America, yes? People should be allowed to do whatever the hell they want with their families if they can afford it and if it’s within the law and so long as they aren’t gay or deviant or happily flouting Good Christian Values, right? Shouldn’t they? Hell, gay couples still can’t openly adopt a baby in most states (they either lie, or one adopts and the other must apply as “co-parent”), but Michelle Duggar can pop out 16 kids and no one says, oh my freaking God, stop it, stop it now, you thoughtless, selfish, baby-drunk people.

Now the truth comes out, the source for his hatred does not stem from attention-deprived children, or overpopulation. Mr. Morford’s contempt has nothing whatsoever to do with the Duggar family, his contempt lies within, more specifically his own inability to father a family because of the lifestyle he has chosen. His hatred for God stems from the inability to procreate through sodomy, and his hatred for our Government stems from its reluctance to turn family life into an episode of “My Two Dads”.

I find it shameful that Mark Morford attacked the Duggar’s simply for being a God fearing, loving family. I find it even more shameful however that he is allowed to spew his hateful words towards this family in a newspaper like the San Francisco Gate which has over 300,000 subscribers.

Mark Morford can attack the “religious-right” for being homophobic, and anti-gay as much as he likes, but the fact is when he looks in the mirror every morning he knows deep down where the true hatred lies.

My best wished to the Duggar family, and I hope to read about your 18th child next year!

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