“Full Quiver” in Kanab, One Year Later
Jason Kuznicki on Mar 6th 2007
A reader takes me to task for abandoning the strange “natural family” resolution of Kanab, Utah, which was never actually repealed (more here). Apparently things have gone from bad to worse:
Hounshell, Kanab, Natural Family. One year later.
And the writing finger having writ, moves on. Here in March of 2007, Kanab’s outrageous natural family resolution is still on the books as the thousands upon thousands of formerly outraged pundits and bloggers have “moved on” to the next big outrage which they can summarily analyze and dismiss from the anonymous comfort of their home computers.
Meanwhile, Baptist Pastor Doug Hounshell of Kanab is predicting Muslims will come to dominate the Earth should the women in this Mormon village fail to “heed the vision” of Kanab’s outrageous Natural Family Resolution.
“Only Muslims have high birth rates,” says Hounshell. One day they will inherit the Earth due to Western society’s “sins of homosexuality and abortion.”
Reverend Hounshell further says the Muslim world in many ways is “headed backwards into its barbaric phase… So ladies, if you think the Natural Family Resolution was bad for you, just wait till you all are wearing hijabs.”
Pastor Hounshell finally says “if you don’t want the world to turn into Saudi Arabia, then it might be wise to dust off your copy of the Natural Family and heed its vision.”
To view Pastor Doug Hounshell’s advertisement in its entirety, visit:
click on the “Read Bible Answers Column” box.
click on “view PAST columns”
click on “Why The Natural Family’s Full Quiver Is Good?” ( Wednesday, February 14, 2007 )
Important Note: The Southern Utah News, the newspaper in which Pastor Douglas Hounshell’s weekly paid advertisements appear, took a strong stand AGAINST the Natural Family Resolution and has printed numerous editorials which run counter to Pastor Hounshell’s opinions.
Swipes at bloggers aside, I’d love to help. But what I can I do from Maryland? (Oh, and I’m not anonymous. Strange as it sounds, this is my real name, thanks…)
Filed in The Boudoir, The Bureau
Well, if all of that was not enough, a female resident tried to get the City Concil to pass the Decency ordinance where everything public has to be fit for the eyes of a 6 year old. So now Glamor magazine, amoung others, is covered in one of the grocery stores due to pressure from this woman. You know cleavage from evening gowns is too much.
Guess these 6 year olds never were breast fed.
This resolution is worthwhile. Years ago, I also joined with other smalltown mothers to get nasty magazines off the shelves and behind the counter. It was in an ice cream parlor frequented by children. However, this preacher’s idea that Muslims have the most children is nonsense. I had seven and they all turned out great. Perhaps it would be best if women learned to budget, sew, etc., and stay home with their kids. Sometimes that is not possible, but even working mothers can do better. Hispanics have big famil8ies, Cathoics have big families, and if it weren’t so darned expensive to have babies now, there woudl be even more large families. I doubt that Musllims will move in and take over Kanab becasue of a few dirty books. Anyway, the real enemy is Television.
And then there’s Kanab, Utah, and the Sam Brownback connection. When Kanab adopted its Natural Family Resolution last year, the references to a full “quiver” of children was puzzling to some and comical to others. Ironically, however, neither the Natural Family concept nor the “Quiverfull” movement are products of Kanab or Utah or even Mormonism in general. The Natural Family manifesto originated with Dr. Allan C. Carlson, head of the Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society in Rockford, Illinois. Dr. Carlson is also a high-profile advisor to prominent conservative legislators such as Kansas Senator and current Presidential candidate, Sam Brownback.
And the Quiverfull movement amounts to a few thousand families in the Midwestern states who believe America is being swallowed up by immigrants because tolerance of homosexuality and abortion is slowly bleeding our country dry of honest, normal, God-fearing Americans. Thus do Quiverfull couples devote their lives to producing as many babies as possible in a selfless effort to help keep America dominated by white Anglo-Saxon Protestants.
Yet both Allan C. Carlson and the Quiverfull Christians dropped Kanab like a hot potato once they realized that, even in Utah, the Natural Family manifesto is offensive to a large portion of the population.
What remains to be seen is whether or not Sam Brownback will drop Dr. Carlson as an advisor. I mean, how can you put your faith in a pitchman who can’t even sell his racism and bigotry to ignorant Mormons in rural Utah?
Hounshell and plagiarism.
The true irony with Pastor Doug of Kanab is that he only gets in trouble when he speaks his own mind.
It has recently been alleged that much of Pastor Hounshell’s published writings were stolen directly from Bible answer websites and then re-presented to us local Kanabian hayseeds as examples of his own Biblical expertise.
Yet nobody here in Kanab gives a hoot in hell about Hounshell’s alleged internet plagiarism.
Hounshell can pass as a God-fearing Christian when he’s quoting the words of others, but when you catch him speaking for himself, all you hear is a large ego trapped in a small mind.