The Religious Right, Family Values... How?

[ShadowRishi]

What good has the Family Values Right and Religious Right done for families?

I ask this because as near as I can tell, they've done nothing but screw families, screw kids, and set a grand example as a pack of liars.

Part 1: Unadopted children need parents. Period. Two homosexual parents beat to hell no parents at all. Let me ask if an unadopted kid if he or she wants a parent, and 99.9999% of them are all going to say: "Yes, I'd like a mommie/daddie."

So what does the religious right try to do? Lower the eligible parents for adoption by excluding homosexuals. I really don't quite care what your justification is for homosexuals not being able to adopt; we know clearly that:

A. Children with parents do infinitely better in school, and have much more stable emotional health and physical health.
B. We let single parents adopt. Why not let 'two' single parents adopt? If we can allow only one male or one female role in adoption, two certainly cannot be worse.

Part 2: How have they seriously helped families? Tax cuts do not help low income families with social benefits; they don't help schools, Bush's No Child Left Behind did nothing but hinder school's from doing their job and the standardized tests are (as I had to take one to graduate from high school) a joke. Bush took money away from needy schools --and while I fully agree that money does not make a good school, taking money away will, however, never do any good.

Republicans consistently try to cut down on welfare programs that help kids. I'm not talking about the ones that are for 'lazy, dead beat parents', but ones designed for children in bad neighborhoods --breakfast programs, food stamps, minor health benefits.

So what families are they helping? The wealthy or otherwise pretty well off families after screwing poor families?

Sorry, I cannot buy that one.


Part 3: So what do we get in exchange for voting for Republicans? Well, we get closet homosexual hypocrites, oil tycoon's who support their own causes, war makers who send families children off to get get killed or seriously physically wounded for absolutely no cause, and, to boot all, a president who couldn't give a crap what the public wanted.



So tell us, family value conservatives... Just how are you helping families? Why should any family-conscience parents vote for your candidates or your 'family values'? Last I checked, homophobia, war mongering, school prayer, tax-cutting, pseudo-theocracy, and anti-feminism a good family policy makes not.

[MikeH]

How about the ones that are a bit older?? Plenty of them need families.

If a gay person wants to give them a home, I don't have a problem with it. I just don't see how we can assume that homosexuals are going to be "less picky" about the children that they want to adopt than straight people are.

[McCulloch]

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I'm going to pretend like you are not the fourth most ethically, morally, and logically bankrupt individual I've met before.

You, Easy, live in a fantasy world where it you fight magical demons and then make choices for everyone else --and do you know who suffers? Children, families, groups that displease you, but never yourself.

We have terms for that; we call them unethical, immoral, and ignorant. Not to mention, the fact that you'd make decisions so easily, that will never affect you, is cowardice.
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God, you reek of conservative-brainwashed rhetoric bullshit.
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Given that your comprehension skills are lacking in every other area, ...
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It is a shame that a person like you could remain on this forum for so long.
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Welcome to my ignore list.

I see no reason to announce to the world who is or is not on anyone's ignore list. Please keep your comments about the issues raised not about the person issuing them.

[ShadowRishi]

You do realize this is a 3 month old topic, no?

[McCulloch]

You do realize this is a 3 month old topic, no?

Thank you for pointing that out. I did not look at the date, just at the fact that someone recently reported the rule violation. Perhaps we should have a statute of limitations.