My choice for Idiot of the Day

Is Joan Frank of Metairie, who writes to the New Orleans Times-Picayune about the objections to Louisiana Sen. David Vitter's comment that there is no issue more important than banning gay marriage. Frank says that the proposed amendment is "not anti-gay," and that "If the government doesn't support the best family life for children in our society, we will crumble as a nation."

Poor Joan. She is so behind and misinformed.

The government, by choice, does not support the best family life for children. Every child protection agency in the United States is under-funded and under-staffed. People with no clue about either child development or parenting have children and beat them, whip them, molest them, rape them, ignore them, abandon them, talk down to them, exploit them for their own narcissistic fulfillment, teach them to hate other people, punish them for fulfilling normative developmental tasks, ignore their education, encourage them to be bullies, humiliate them, and intimidate them.

If someone like Hillary Rodham Clinton comes along and advocates for children, she is called a "Communist." If a government reminds churches that physical abuse is not part of appropriate daycare, that government is called "godless."

So let me get this straight, Joan Frank. If abortion were outlawed, suddenly, like magic, there would be:

No more child abuse

No more children schooled in bigotry

No more developmentally arrested people getting married--sometimes again and again--and ruining their children's lives through constant family disruption

A sudden generosity on the part of Congress to fund child advocacy programs

Wow. That's kind of like magic. And I suppose that this new "respect for life" would also result in no more war and no more factory farming or animal testing.