Seems that our friends at NOM (the National Organization for Marriage) would like to see something like that. They've started something called The Ruth Project, which is supposed to promote "traditional" marriage. What it actually promotes, according to Daily Kos front pager Dante Atkins, is a reversal of women's rights and freedoms to promote childbearing. He obtained an internal planning document (on scribd), which is worth looking at for their obsession with marriage, eliminating birth control, and subjecting women to a forced traditional sex role.
In his followup post, Dante writes,
What Dr. Morse seems to want, by contrast, is to force all women to reject the technological, medical and social advances that guaranteed their freedom to choose something else. And why? Because her main concern is, of course, birthing children ahead of the replacement rate of 2.1 per woman, and active Western wombs are apparently the only method for the purpose.......The Ruth Institute wants to ban no-fault divorce. They want to ban same-sex marriage. They apparently want to ban the Pill. They want the government, in fact, to do all sorts of social engineering to make sure that women revert to being baby factories to generate Western babies at a replacement rate. And we fevered "leftists," by contrast? All we want is to make sure that each individual has the freedom to choose his or her own destiny.
Women should have a choice, of course. But the Ruth Institute isn't about choice. It's about an obsession with breeding and putting women under the control of men.
Thus once again proving that a lot of opposition to marriage equality is deeply linked to a hatred for women's freedom.
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The Ruth Institute consists of two out-of-paid-work mothers (Morse and one other) working in home offices.
The most prominent board members are conservative Roman Catholic layfolk. Conferences and appearances mentioned in the prospectus appear to be at Catholic schools (Univ. San Diego is Jesuit, IIRC).
The photographs used to illustrate the prospectus (reproduced poorly on scribd) show perhaps 50 students and adults (mostly students). Of those facing the camera and recognizable, the racial breakdown is: 1 Asian-descent (student), zero black, zero recognizably Native American or Chicanas/os of obvious indigenous facial features.
This puts a certain spin on the prospectus' mention of a looming European demographic winter. I provisionally classify this group with other covertly or overtly racist groups that talk about the declining percentage of white European-descent people in the US population.
her main concern is, of course, birthing children ahead of the replacement rate of 2.1 per woman, and active Western wombs are apparently the only method for the purpose
Scratch the surface, and you can smell the stench of "Fear of a Non-White Planet" underneath...
[Ooops, I just read NancyP's comment, and I see she said just about the same thing! ;-/]
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