"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.

“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.”

Next week's article: "Tennessee Republican David Hooven's mistress has alleged..."

Religious people terrify me

How long until we find out he's somehow in the closet?

Sounds like something the Taliban would say

I must be some kind of super human man as I can spend hours with women without having sex. Is there any way to monetize this outworldly power?

Republicans know they can't be trusted around women.

Hooven made the pledge on his official campaign website, where he said that if elected “my primary focus will be to honor God.”

Wait, does he know becoming a religious leader is an option? And I don't...Think you need to be elected for it? So it's even more affordable!

Completely unnecessary thing to commit to for a normal person with a properly aligned moral compass. This dude is creepy as fuck.

Things a sexual predator would say.

Fuckin weirdo

Men can have sex with each other too. As a man, I don't know if I'd feel safe alone with him. Maybe no one should be alone with him. I don't think anyone would be safe.

Holy fuck. What a low bar these voters have. And wanna bet this guy will break the no-rape pledge?

Does he own a gun?

Because if he's tempted to rape any women he's alone with, wouldn't he also be likely to kill someone?

So, Mike Pence again?

This is the best summary I could come up with:

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."

The contests in District 52 and 86 saw the re-election of two Democrats who had been expelled from the House after joining a gun control protest inside the building in March.

Hooven made a number of vows on his campaign website, which he solemnly pledged and promised to uphold if elected.

The election was called after Republican Representative Scotty Campbell resigned in April, after an investigation found he'd violated the legislature's policy on workplace harassment and discrimination.

Also on Thursday, 12 candidates ran to be the next mayor of Nashville, with Freddie O'Connell and Alice Rolli topping the poll with 27,470 and 20,458 votes respectively.

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Sounds like a reason to remove women from his work force

This pledge is meaningless if he gay or bisexual.

Maybe he's had historical adultery issues. Him staying away from temptation or any way for it to look sketchy shouldn't be a news story? Sounds like people just want to hate more on republicans.