Tea Party Candidate Opposes Masturbation

There are some who have tried to depict the Tea Party crowd as conservatives who are focused on economic issues and smaller government rather than in many ways just another incarnation of the Christian Right. Sharon Angle and others demonstrate that the Tea Party candidates are more of the same tired bedroom police that we've seen time and time again. Then there's Tea Party candidate Christine O'Donnell (pictured at left) who who seems to want masturbation outlawed - she equates the act, in fact, as "self-abuse." If Ms. O'Donnell doesn't want to engage in masturbation, then my message to her is "don't." However, if she wants to police people's bedrooms and crusade for abstinence only education and other Christian Right whack job issues, then she ought to join a convent as opposed to running for Congress. Jezebel.com has details on O'Donnell's insanity. Here are some highlights:
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Sorry, what was that about the Tea Party being all about economic and not social issues? Not only has this year brought Sharron Angle. There's also Christine O'Donnell, whose definition of abstinence includes self-abuse.
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O'Donnell is challenging a congressman in Delaware's Republican Senate primary, and until now no one took her seriously. (Possibly because she's a wackjob . . . ) But then establishment Republican Lisa Murkowski lost in Alaska to a previous unknown, backed by Tea Party money, and the groups vowed to make Delaware their next target.
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Republicans party officials are scrambling, trashing her in the press and making websites like "The Real Christine." And reporters have just started digging. The Huffington Post reports that O'Donnell was on a Sex In The 90s special on MTV. (Remember those?) "The Bible says that lust in your heart is committing adultery. So you can't masturbate without lust," she said,
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The good news, this is all dandy for Democrats, who have every reason to want O'Donnell to win the primary — polls show that Democrat Chris Coons can beat O'Donnell, but not Republican Mike Castle. And that would actually be wonderful.
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Until the GOP ceases to be largely a religious based party (no matter what the remnants of the country club set claim), we are going to see more and more Sharon Angles and Christine O'Donnells. The wealthy may want lower taxes and neat tax loop holes, but do they seriously want lunatics running the country? They - including some of my neighbors - need to wake the Hell up to what has become of the Republican Party.