Tennessee Republican David Hooven has vowed not to be alone with “a member of another sex” if elected to the state’s House of Representatives, as “from Presidents to janitors all are tempted.” Hooven made the pledge on his official campaign website, where he said that if elected “my primary focus will be to honor God.”
“my primary focus will be to honor God.”
Ever hire on to a new job, and immediately say your primary focus will be something completely irrelevant to your job description/duties?
Like if I hire on as a nurse at a local hospital, and the first thing I tell the nurse manager is: “My primary focus will be browsing cat memes.” Guess I can take care of a patient here and there if I get bored. No biggie, right?
…right?
I find it super weird that all these men who claim to be super-religious simultaneously claim that they don’t have control over their own animal urges. He is basically saying “All men are tempted by all women, and there’s nothing I can do about it, so we should just eject unescorted women from anything important, for their own protection, because I can’t be trusted”.
Thats bullshit. That man took a (presumably religious) vow to honor his wife, and shouldn’t expect the rest of the world to perform the hard part of that vow for him.
“my primary focus will be to honor God.”
Then stay out of the fucking government.
Religious people terrify me
“You can’t trust me to behave like an adult in a room with just one other person, but you can trust me with the power of the state.”
I mean it sounds a heck of a lot more like he doesn’t want to create any room for false accusations. I know professors who follow this logic and don’t hold private meetings with any students primary out of protection of themselves from being accused of something. If you’re a politician with enemies I can at least see the logic to some extent.
