People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
I consider myself conservative...but not so conservative that I let others suffer simply "because I say so."
Conservatives, hard core, bible thumping, holier than thou....who bash same-sex marriage as a potential cause of family breakdown, are hardly in position to point fingers. The sad state of opposite-sex marriage has caused and continues to cause family breakdown, and, indeed, societal breakdown. If people spent more time tending to their own marriages, and less worrying about other people’s marriages, children, families and society would be better off. You'd think that same-sex marriage represents a significant threat to health, wealth and morals. To my knowledge approximately zero people have been harmed by same-sex marriage. I guess it's easier to pontificate about a non-threat rather than to face the real threat, the breakdown of opposite-sex marriage. Illegitimacy, divorce and child abandonment harm hundreds of thousands of children, and many adults each and every year. That represents a major threat to health, wealth and morals. The statistics on the breakdown of opposite-sex marriage are incontrovertible; divorce breaks up a large proportion of families. Child abandonment (usually by the father) leaves many children, betrayed, bereft and poverty stricken. Why do conservatives, religious and political, waste their time trying to destroy or prevent same-sex marriages when opposite-sex marriages are clearly a source of so much pain and suffering? Perhaps it's because those very same conservatives are responsible for so much of the devastation. Which states have the highest rates of divorce? Conservative states. Which states have the highest rates of illegitimacy? Conservative states. It's not a coincidence that the first divorced president (Ronald Reagan) was a conservative or that the first presidential candidate to parade an unwed pregnant teen child on national television was also a staunch conservative (Sarah Palin) It is not a stretch to argue that the people who really support family values are the people who are trying to form families, same-sex couples, not the people who loudly and stridently promote "family values" while conspicuously failing to practice them.
I consider myself conservative...but not so conservative that I let others suffer simply "because I say so."
Conservatives, hard core, bible thumping, holier than thou....who bash same-sex marriage as a potential cause of family breakdown, are hardly in position to point fingers. The sad state of opposite-sex marriage has caused and continues to cause family breakdown, and, indeed, societal breakdown. If people spent more time tending to their own marriages, and less worrying about other people’s marriages, children, families and society would be better off. You'd think that same-sex marriage represents a significant threat to health, wealth and morals. To my knowledge approximately zero people have been harmed by same-sex marriage. I guess it's easier to pontificate about a non-threat rather than to face the real threat, the breakdown of opposite-sex marriage. Illegitimacy, divorce and child abandonment harm hundreds of thousands of children, and many adults each and every year. That represents a major threat to health, wealth and morals. The statistics on the breakdown of opposite-sex marriage are incontrovertible; divorce breaks up a large proportion of families. Child abandonment (usually by the father) leaves many children, betrayed, bereft and poverty stricken. Why do conservatives, religious and political, waste their time trying to destroy or prevent same-sex marriages when opposite-sex marriages are clearly a source of so much pain and suffering? Perhaps it's because those very same conservatives are responsible for so much of the devastation. Which states have the highest rates of divorce? Conservative states. Which states have the highest rates of illegitimacy? Conservative states. It's not a coincidence that the first divorced president (Ronald Reagan) was a conservative or that the first presidential candidate to parade an unwed pregnant teen child on national television was also a staunch conservative (Sarah Palin) It is not a stretch to argue that the people who really support family values are the people who are trying to form families, same-sex couples, not the people who loudly and stridently promote "family values" while conspicuously failing to practice them.
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