2018 MO Senate race: on Families & Children

Claire McCaskill: Supports gay marriage

Josh Hawley (R): No. Supports "the biblical truth about husband and wife, man and woman."

Claire McCaskill (D): Yes.

Josh Hawley: Supports biblical truth about husband & wife, man & woman

Josh Hawley (R): No. Supports "the biblical truth about husband and wife, man and woman."

Claire McCaskill (D): Yes.

Josh Hawley: 1960s sexual revolution destroys our families

"It ends in the slavery and exploitation of young women. It will destroy our families," he said. "You know what I'm talking about, the 1960s, 1970s, it became commonplace in our culture among our cultural elites, Hollywood, and the media, to talk about, to denigrate the biblical truth about husband and wife, man and woman."

But there will always be a political market for the proposition that if we had just kept the womenfolk under control and both genders under bonds of premarital celibacy, we wouldn't be dealing with problems like human trafficking. It's very much the point of view of the dominant class of men in the dystopian feminist classic The Handmaid's Tale.

Claire McCaskill: Women were exploited in 2000 BC, not just from 1960s

McCaskill responded to the controversy over Hawley's comments on Twitter, and also took a jab at Hawley's background as a graduate from Stanford University and Yale Law School: "I didn't go to one of those fancy private schools, but the history I learned in public schools & Mizzou taught me that the evidence of trafficking of women for sex goes back to before 2000 BC. It didn't begin with women's rights and the birth control pill," McCaskill tweeted.

Hawley fired back at McCaskill on Twitter and reiterated his view that cultural forces are to blame for trafficking. "Get real. I'm for contraception & women working. I'm against exploitation of women promoted for decades by Hollywood & culture. Have to change that to stop trafficking. Fly commercial home from your next Hollywood fundraiser & ask people what Hollywood is doing to our culture," he said to McCaskill.

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