Families and Family Values

 

“Gay marriage is incompatible with Christianity (and for that matter, Islam & Judaism). If someone asks you why you oppose gay marriage, the only thing you really have to say to explain it is, ‘I'm a Christian’ … If that seems harsh or unfair to you, well, sorry, but you'll have to take it up with God. It's His rule. "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is an abomination." -- Leviticus 18:22  The people of Sodom and Gomorrah could tell you how serious God is about that -- if there were any of them left. So as a Christian, you can no more condone gay marriage than you could give the thumbs up to prostitution or wife swapping. That means if you're a Christian standing in favor of gay marriage, then you're a Christian who's standing directly in opposition to the God whom you claim to worship … Children will be taught in schools that gay marriage is normal, legal, and moral … would cause people to put less value on marriage, make them less likely to get married in the first place, and make them more likely to get divorced. This leads to more children being born out of wedlock and kids from single parents are more likely to commit suicide, take drugs, go to jail, drop out of high school, etc., etc. in every category that matters than kids from two parent families. You can already see this starting to play out in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark and you'll see it happen here, too, if gay marriage becomes the law of the land.” (2/17/2012)

http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2012/02/17/five_reasons_to_oppose_gay_marriage/page/full/

 

“Ann Romney, by contrast, looks comfortable as the earthy, robust, naturally fashionable mother/grandmother figure who could grace the cover of a magazine devoted to glam grandmothers. She expresses a depth drawn from her experience guiding five sons to maturity and connecting now with her 16 grandchildren. Many conservatives in their early flirtation with Newt overlooked the appeal of the candidate who actually lives by the family values they say they admire. Even in an expected unflattering portrait of Mitt in Vanity Fair, he stands out as a family man combining the best of his Mormon teachings as they apply to his marriage and his children. He looks like he believes the teaching of his church that ‘no other success can compensate for failure in the home’ … women as well as men may be beginning to see the family man appeal. The man married to the same woman for 42 years beat the man married three times by 22 percentage points among women in Florida, prevailing across every category of education and income.” (2/10/12)

http://townhall.com/columnists/suzannefields/2012/02/10/creators_oped/page/full/

 

“In the tone of the late Andy Rooney, one might say, ‘Have you ever noticed’ that, when a bullying policy is pushed, it is usually accompanied by the promotion of the homosexual agenda? I have yet to see any major push to address bullying that was not tied to the left’s sexual vision for our children. The bullying outcry is not so much about students being mean to each other as it is about the left taking advantage of a volatile issue to promote their own agenda … The article goes on to state: ‘In conjunction with the report, GLSEN officials also released ‘Ready, Set, Respect!’ which they describe as ‘a new instructional resource informed by our findings to address homophobia, gender expression and LGBT-inclusive family diversity at the elementary school level. Still think the anti-bullying push is really about stopping bullying? ’” (1/22/12)

http://townhall.com/columnists/davidcortman/2012/01/22/is_anyone_else_getting_tired_of_this_whole_politically_correct_bullying_thing/page/full/

 

“Over the years I have, as a psychotherapist, worked with innumerable clients who have bonding problems as adults because of these serial surrogate parenting experiences. They are truly damaged when it comes to being able to bond and trust. They relay to me how difficult it is to imagine someone actually staying with them, how difficult it is to allow tender feelings to envelop them when they feel so deeply that nothing is permanent … How does a kid with a different surrogate mother every year actually feel happy about an inconsistent and temporary life?” (12/28/11)

http://www.newsmax.com/DrLaura/Mother-Love-Hired-Help/2011/12/28/id/422329

 

“My first paying job was cleaning the bathrooms of the First Baptist Church of Carrollton, Ga … I was proud to clean those bathrooms. When my job was complete, I knew that people had a nice, clean place to go, and that had and has real value. People appreciate clean bathrooms. Just go into a dirty bathroom, and you will understand why … Cleaning bathrooms wasn't the most glamorous job, literally swabbing out toilets, wiping down sinks and making sure that the towels were restocked, but I knew that it was useful work. It gave me a sense of pride on Sunday mornings to walk into the gleaming bathrooms … I learned a lot: It is important to show up on time and stay until your shift is done or all your work is done, whichever comes later. Not only does the work have value, but so does the worker. Whether it's cleaning bathrooms or flying jets (which I have never done), if you do a good job and add value to the world around you, then your work has value. It doesn't matter so much what you do, it's how you do it. A valuable lesson for all to learn.” (12/15/11)

http://townhall.com/columnists/jackiegingrichcushman/2011/12/15/im_glad_i_cleaned_bathrooms/page/full/

 

“When I was 10 years old I wanted an expensive, new 10-speed Schwinn bike. I asked my mother -- the late Hollywood actress Jane Wyman, who could easily afford it -- if she would simply buy the bike for me. She said she would loan me the money if I signed a note acknowledging the debt. I said, ‘Mom, I am only 10 years old. What can I possibly do to make enough money to pay you back?’ She told me I could earn money by selling newspapers. I signed the note, and every Sunday until I fully paid for that bike I sold papers in front of Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Beverly Hills. Later I asked Mom why she made me work for that bike when the other kids' parents simply gave them their bikes. I'll never forget what she told me. She said, ‘I build men, not boys, and if you don't learn to work for what you want now, you will end up as a 40-year-old boy. I want a man’ … What we have now is … Americans who believe that by merely existing they are entitled to a host of unearned benefits paid for by money extracted from their fellow Americans' tax payments. That the pockets of those American tax payers are not bottomless … has not reached into the minds of this spoiled generation.” (12/8/11)

http://townhall.com/columnists/michaelreagan/2011/12/07/newt_is_right/page/full/

 

“The cultural elites may break out the champagne for their homosexual friends, but their celebration raises a toast to a sinking ship. Societies that legitimize substitutes for traditional marriage (homosexual ‘marriage,’ civil unions, cohabitation) inevitably witness the decline of authentic marriage. And as marriage declines, family structures weaken, producing cracks in the bedrock of a stable society. The result? Children suffer. The research is clear:  children raised without a married mom and dad do worse on nearly every measure of child well-being ... Homosexual advocates promote their messages—lies—about marriage and sexuality through entertainment, media, and the public schools.  And their propaganda has hit the mark with many young people.  Seventy percent of young adults 18-34 now support legalizing homosexual ‘marriage.’ Be unequivocal with your children. This is not about ‘fairness’ or ‘equality.’ It’s about morality and the strength of civil society. Homosexual behavior is wrong. And homosexual relationships are not equivalent to heterosexual marriages, no matter what the New York legislature says. The Family Research Council provides a compelling summary that documents the societal harms of same-sex marriage. Read it and discuss with your teens and college-aged children, in particular. They (and you) need a clear sense of the harms that flow from homosexual ‘marriage’ … Don’t be silent when others express support for the homosexual lifestyle or homosexual unions. Unless we are willing to stand up for marriage, our children may grow up in a society slowly crumbling under the weight of its own perversity.” (7/12/11)

http://townhall.com/columnists/rebeccahagelin/2011/07/12/ny_homosexuals_win_but_society_loses/page/full/

 

“Various studies have shown that children raised by a single mother comprise about 70 percent of juvenile murderers, delinquents, teenaged mothers, drug abusers, dropouts, suicides and runaways. Imagine an America with 70 percent fewer of these social disorders and you will see what liberals' destruction of marriage has wrought ... Single mothers are six times more likely to be in poverty than married families. More than 80 percent of homeless families are single mothers … Eighty-five percent of mothers who kill their children through neglect are single mothers. The plague of single motherhood isn't an inevitable decay brought on by stupid choices of the underclass. Destroying the family is the active social policy of liberals. They enjoy experimenting with other people's lives and leaving the taxpayer with the bill. The mainstream media and Hollywood studios are constantly issuing propaganda about the joys and triumphs of single mothers … Except one can't help noticing how many more illegitimate children there are -- and the accompanying child abuse, neglect, suicide, runaways and murders -- now that the stigma is gone.” (7/7/11)

http://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2011/07/06/casey_anthony_single_mom_of_the_year!/page/full/

 

“The Roman Empire had a twisted view about the value of human life. These views were banished by the ascendency of Christ's teaching. Infanticide was both legal and encouraged in ancient Rome. Pagan societies, such as the Carthaginians, Romans and Greeks went so far as to kill their children outside the womb, sometimes as a religious sacrifice to their gods … We see a modern American society which looks at children as a burden, and a generation of mothers who have decided by their own ‘choice’ to sacrifice a generation. Population control is now an international objective. Roman views on homosexuality were closer to today's views than many realize … Finally, we see the debasement of money and profligacy of the state … Roman emperors don't hold a candle to the US Congress and the Federal Reserve in the looting of the public coffers and destruction of money … Such manipulations by Roman leaders are legendary, but Americans who fail to understand history are doomed to repeat it. The moral and financial collapse of Rome lead to a renaissance of morality and the ‘Christian Era.’ We can only hope that the accelerating American collapse leads to a return of the time tested honest culture that celebrates life, prudently shuns sexual immorality, and with commerce flourishing after a return to honest money. But until that day arrives, we will continue to fight for these virtues until our last breath.” (7/6/11)

http://townhall.com/columnists/floydandmarybethbrown/2011/07/03/manning_the_barricades_for_virtue_and_america/page/full/

 

“David Hansell, who runs the federal government’s Administration for Children and Families, told a group of high school students at the U.S. Department of Education’s “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT)” youth summit on Tuesday that the Obama administration is recruiting “LGBT parents” to adopt children. “[O]f course, we’re also trying to recruit more foster and adoptive parents who are lesbian and gay,” Hansell said in a general session of the summit held at the Washington Court Hotel in Washington, D.C. … In the general session, Hansell, who is an acting assistant secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), pointed to a program sponsored by his division of HHS that encourages LGBT people to adopt children.” (6/10/11)

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/hhs-official-teens-gov-t-lgbt-youth-summ

 

“Do elections matter? You bet they do! Until last November, there was a real threat that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) would be ratified by a liberal U.S. Senate majority. And we’re still not out of the woods on this one. But thanks to timely action by Sen. Jim DeMint, effective action is being taken to blunt this threat … Just this week, religious freedom advocates at the UN prevailed in their years-long fight to beat back a ‘defamation’ code that would have criminalized any criticism of Islam. God bless these brave fighters for international religious liberty. But the constant need to watch UN apparatchiks like hawks should alert Christians throughout the world to this grim and undeniable fact: the UN majority is not our friend … Parents’ rights? Religious freedom? The UN CRC is about none of that … If it should ever be ratified, the CRC would stand above our Constitution, and above our laws and Supreme Court rulings.” (3/2/11)

http://townhall.com/columnists/kenblackwell/2011/04/01/blocking_a_un_threat_to_the_family/page/full/

 

“They wanted sixteen year old girls to have abortions. On television.  Way to be pro-woman and For The Children ™, faux feminists! By For The Children, I of course mean totally not at all for the children – unless they can be used and exploited to further an agenda, natch. You see, it’s never actually about women nor children to them; it’s always about an agenda and an ideology that treats motherhood as a yoke around a woman’s neck. Motherhood is so old school and oppressive and stuff! What with those pesky children wanting to be nurtured and loved, while providing a joy that fills one’s heart so full that it cannot be adequately put into words. Well, and wanting to, you know, live. Who do they think they are? … The show was aired commercial-free, in partnership with Exhale, a group who says that they wish to raise awareness that abortion ‘is normal in the reproductive lives of women and girls. Yes, every woman’s ‘reproductive life’ (love the fancy-pants euphemism) includes the killing of an unborn child. You women who don’t have abortions? Total abnormal freaks! Just look at Sarah Palin, for cripes sake. Wingnuts! … You do not empower girls by telling them a sacrifice is giving up a prom ticket to pay for the aborting of the life they created. You do not empower girls by turning motherhood into a burden to be avoided at all costs; even at the cost of that life itself. You do not empower girls by exploiting them to further your agendas.” (1/4/11)

http://www.redstate.com/snarkandboobs/2010/12/30/mtv%E2%80%99s-teen-abortion-sales-pitch-it%E2%80%99s-just-%E2%80%9Ca-ball-of-cells%E2%80%9D/

 

“Nanny State Republican Mike Huckabee, who used his bully pulpit position as Arkansas governor to campaign for Big Government-endorsed ‘healthier living’ in public schools and private life, naturally sided with Mrs. Obama -- and took a swipe at Sarah Palin last week for criticizing the White House usurpation of parental responsibility and rights. Huckabee scoffed at the idea that the feds are ‘trying to force the government's desires on people’ … Mrs. Obama's childhood obesity task force has already called for new and dramatic controls on the marketing of unhealthy foods. Did Huckabee miss (or does he agree with) Mrs. Obama's officious rallying cry on child nutrition: ‘We can't just leave it up to parents’?” (12/29/10)

http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2010/12/29/big_nannies_of_the_year/page/full/

 

“Derrick Burts, 24, started working as a porn-film actor in June. By October, he'd contracted the HIV virus. The AP story on Burts contained this jaw-dropping sentence: ‘He said he began to have doubts about the business after contracting chlamydia, gonorrhea and herpes in his first month of work, but was convinced to keep working … I knew what was out there. But it's not something you think about when they fill your head’ with lucrative offers and promises that the work is safe. Lured into the porn world with the promise that he looked like money, Burts concluded his greed was unwise: ‘Making $10,000 or $15,000 for porn isn't worth your life.’” (12/10/10)

http://townhall.com/columnists/BrentBozell/2010/12/10/the_diseases_of_pornography/page/full/

 

“This belief -- that increasing self-esteem among the members of society will increase goodness in society -- spread through the rest of America like proverbial wildfire. It turns out, however … There is no correlation between goodness and high self-esteem. But there is a correlation between criminality and high self-esteem … One result of all this has been a generation that thinks highly of itself for no good reason. Perhaps the most famous example is the survey of American high school students and those of seven other countries. Americans came in last in mathematical ability but first in self-esteem about their mathematical ability. But it turns out that feeling good about oneself for no good reason -- as destructive as that is -- is not the biggest problem. The child-rearing expert, psychologist John Rosemond, recently opened my eyes to the even more troubling problem: High self-esteem in children does not produce good character, and in fact is likely to produce a less moral individual … And good character is created by teaching self-control, not self-esteem.” (11/30/10)

http://townhall.com/columnists/DennisPrager/2010/11/30/want_to_raise_a_good_person_stop_nurturing_your_childs_self-esteem/page/full/

 

In fact, there can be no such thing as a pro-gay-agenda conservative. By definition, conservatives are against the gay agenda because the gay agenda ultimately seeks to overturn the moral order that makes freedom possible. Fidelity to the natural law -- including in the laws of our land -- is at the very core of what conservatives seek to conserve. (11/17/10)  

http://townhall.com/columnists/TerryJeffrey/2010/11/17/theres_no_such_thing_as_a_pro-gay-agenda_conservative/page/full/

 

“Unfortunately, the nation's biggest entertainment conglomerates are offering your kids an end-run around your best efforts to limit their exposure to TV shows to which you might object. According to a new study from the Parents Television Council (PTC) released today, kids consume more of their video entertainment through platforms other than the family television set, thanks to widely accessible videos offered on free, unrestricted Internet sites … This means your 13-year-old daughter can easily watch racy shows like CWTV's ‘Gossip Girl’ or past episodes of ‘Sex and the City’ at the click of a mouse. And with more children and teens using smart phones and other browser-enabled devices, inappropriate content now is available anytime, anywhere.” (11/17/10)

http://townhall.com/columnists/MarybethHicks/2010/11/17/internet_video_distributors_are_no_friends_of_parents/page/full/

 

“Two troubling movies premiered in late summer; perhaps you saw them. I saw only the trailers on television, but it was clear that they aimed to continue the deconstruction of the family, especially the notion that families consist of a married mom and dad … These films are a continuation of the brainwashing going on in our media, which proclaims that the needs of the child are best served by whatever parents want to do: shack up, have babies out of wedlock, multiple relationships, custody and visitation, complicated and strife-filled step-family situations, single parenting by choice, choosing not to have the male/female polarity in the children’s lives, and so forth. This deconstruction of the family into what is viewed as the ‘modern family’ hurts children. But social activists don’t care about that. They care about their own choices and need fulfillment. It is all very, very sad.” (11/15/10)

http://www.newsmax.com/DrLaura/hollywood-The-Kids-Are/2010/11/15/id/377095

 

New York gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino chose not to march in the New York Gay Pride Parade saying, ‘that’s not the example we should be showing our children.’ His opponent, Andrew Cuomo, attended that parade…. and took along his kids. Students across the nation are being indoctrinated into homosexuality. It’s introduced in every discipline, affirmed by homosexual lecturers, read about in required reading, observed in propaganda films and acted out in plays … Parents who object are silenced and even arrested for trying to protect their children. Children are being shamed and shunned for any objection to homosexuality. In some schools ‘tolerance circles’ are used. Those who agree that homosexuality is good get to form a circle. Those opposed stand in the middle to be ridiculed. Carl Paladino said … ‘I just think my children and your children would be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family, and I don’t want them brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option…it isn’t’ … Better to put our children in danger and let our homosexual friends die early deaths than report what we see and what we know than to offend (we think) homosexuals on our staffs and in our families. Their feelings are much more important to protect than our children’s hearts and minds on this issue … Where is the courage? Where is the critical thinking? Cuomo is the hero and Paladino the villain for NOT taking his children to witness the debauchery of a gay pride parade? (10/22/10)  

http://townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2010/10/22/homophobia-phobia_and_carl_paladino/page/full/

 

“Because of ‘expert’ advice such as this, we’re so consumed with protecting the feelings and self-esteem of our children -- even bullies – that as a society, we’ve adopted the worst habits of the most unskilled parents. There’s a huge difference between telling a child, ‘I love you unconditionally,’ and saying, “You are always good, even if you do bad things.’ The first statement should be non-negotiable, but the second is a lie. It’s time to reconnect children’s behavior to their character. The parents of bullies need to condemn both their children’s’ actions and the character it reflects by speaking the truth: ‘You are turning into a bad boy. Your words and actions are mean and they prove that you have developed a cruel and unkind heart.’ But that’s not all. Children must also learn repentance (so much more effective than empathy – and also the path to genuine respect for others, after all). To do this, parents of bullies should lovingly say, ‘Together, we need to start over to teach you right from wrong so that you can show me and the whole world that you are a good person. Anyone can go from bad to good. It’s a decision only you can make and it will be reflected in your actions.’ But hey, I’m no expert; I’m just a mom.” (10/13/10)  

http://townhall.com/columnists/MarybethHicks/2010/10/13/advice_for_parents_of_bullies/page/full/

 

“The attack on the institution of marriage is not only the biggest cultural but also the biggest fiscal issue of our times, and political and judicial attacks by gays are only part of the problem. Marriage is being assaulted by unilateral divorce, feminist hostility toward marriage, the bias of family courts against fathers and the taxpayer-paid financial incentives that subsidize illegitimate births … Barack Obama's solution for the poverty problem is more redistribution of money from taxpayers to the poor. But there's no evidence that more money is the remedy because we've been increasing handouts every year, and the problem keeps getting worse … Rector's solution to the poverty problem is marriage. He urges government policies to promote and strengthen the institution of marriage instead of providing incentives to discourage it … Marriage drops the probability of child poverty by 82 percent ... Ronald Reagan's advice is still pertinent. If we subsidize something, we'll get more of it; if we tax it, we'll get less of it.” (10/12/10)  

http://townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2010/10/12/marriage_is_the_key_to_spending_cuts/page/full/

 

“The media myth says that ‘gay families’ are everywhere and just as beneficial for raising children as the traditional family. Some Americans steeped in these messages on a daily basis are likely to believe them. Others mistakenly ‘accept’ gay families out of misplaced compassion … The natural tendency is to think less critically about things we get used to—so gay advocates keep the spotlight on homosexual couples with children. Our children must distinguish between what’s right, on the one hand, and what’s familiar, but dysfunctional, on the other. Ground them in the truth: marriage is between one man and one woman and children do best when raised by their married mother and father. This biblical truth is proven by social science data, by history, and must be protected if America is to survive as a civil society.” (10/5/10)

http://townhall.com/columnists/RebeccaHagelin/2010/09/28/conditioned_to_accept_a_lie/page/full/

 

“In 2006, intending to pre-empt the predictable effort by liberal activists and unelected federal judges to declare same-sex marriage a constitutional right, Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, R-Colo., introduced a constitutional amendment. It said: ‘Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this Constitution, nor the constitution of any State, shall be construed to require that marriage or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon any union other than the union of a man and a woman.’ Now, how would a ‘moderate’ politician vote on this bill, which won a majority in the House of 236 to 187? Rep. Mike Castle of Delaware was one of only 27 Republicans voting against it. Both before and after Castle was defeated in Delaware's Republican Senate primary by a pro-life, pro-marriage constitutionalist name Christine O'Donnell, the establishment press in this country insisted Castle was a ‘moderate’ … Castle is not a moderate, but an extremist. He stood in opposition to the most fundamental values of our civilization: He voted against the right of parents to protect their children from moral and physical harm. He voted against protecting the right to life of innocents. He voted against marriage. And he even voted against preventing human cloning from taking place in our country. Can anyone imagine John F. Kennedy advancing policies such as these in 1960? The liberal Democrats of just 50 years ago would never have imagined, let alone embraced as a kindred spirit, the type of politician we are supposed to accept as a "moderate" Republican today.” (9/22/10)

http://townhall.com/columnists/TerryJeffrey/2010/09/22/moderate_extremists/page/full/

 

“… we see a pattern emerging. The pattern is of runaway legislatures and overreaching judges imposing their vision for American’s future without the express permission of the people … What we have here is injustice in which a privileged minority is imposing its will upon the concerned majority of the American people. Preventing the people from voting on marriage, is essentially denying all Americans our most fundamental right under the Constitution … We declare that there is coming an unprecedented political backlash against same-sex marriage being forced down our collective throats. Outraged parents, churches, and other civic groups are waking up to the ramifications of a massive change to the definitions of marriage, family, and education. We will vote same-sex marriage activists out of office from the school board to the White House and every place in between!” (8/26/10) 

http://townhall.com/columnists/HarryRJacksonJr/2010/08/23/let_freedom_ring/page/full

 

“Marriage is the building block of society. Changing its nature will therefore change society. Among other things, same-sex marriage means that because sex (now called ‘gender’) no longer matters for society's most important institution, it no longer matters in general. Men and women as distinct entities no longer have significance. Which is exactly what the cultural left and the gay rights movement advocate … It is the end of marriage as every society has known it. And it is more than that. It is the end of any significance to gender. Men and women are now declared interchangeable … The transgendered who publicly act out are living the cultural Left's primary agenda: rendering gender insignificant ...  Ask anyone who supports same-sex marriage this: Do you believe that a mother has something unique to give to a child that no father can give and that a father has something unique to give a child that no mother can give? One has to assume that most people -- including supporters of same-sex marriage -- would respond in the affirmative. How, then, can they support same-sex marriage? … many Americans, including a judge who overturned a state's constitutional amendment, have come to believe that never having a mother or never having a father makes absolutely no difference to a child. And if mothers and fathers are interchangeable, men as men and women as women lose their significance.” (8/25/10) 

http://townhall.com/columnists/DennisPrager/2010/08/17/same-sex_marriage_and_the_insignificance_of_men_and_women/page/full

 

“It is said that in order for a country to culturally mark time and maintain itself “as is” for more than twenty-five years, it must have a fertility rate of at least 2.11 children per family. Once a nation slips below an annual fertility rate of 1.9, the downward trend is believed to be irreversible. When a family has only one child, that family has half as many children as its parents. If that child follows its parents’ example and it too has only one child, there will be one fourth as many grand children as grand parents. The irreversible declining fertility rate cycle will have begun.” (5/4/10) 

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=36767

 

“Five Myths about Same Sex MarriageThe bottom line is that this social issue is a defining moment for mankind, not just this nation. What the homosexual activists are seeking is not a minor shift in the law, but a radical change in the fundamental institution that forms the basis for society. Will we protect marriage as the primary institution protecting women and children, or will we surrender to the forces that claim no one has obligations to others and that adults can do anything they want in their sexual lives regardless of how those actions affect society, especially children, and undermine the public good?” (3/9/10)

http://townhall.com/columnists/JaniceShawCrouse/2010/03/09/five_myths_about_same_sex_marriage

 

"The study couldn't come at a more inconvenient time for the Obama administration, which has cut more than $170 million in federally funded abstinence education programs from the federal budget." (2/6/10)

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=35513

 

“Anyone who thought about the subject knew that boys who are not transformed into men remain boys. And when too many boys do not grow up into men, women suffer and society suffers.” (1/17/10)

http://townhall.com/columnists/DennisPrager/2010/01/19/is_america_still_making_men

 

“It is impossible to teach the true worth of human beings absent from teaching them about God. The public schools are forbidden from teaching about the One that can truly provide our children with a sense of their ultimate value. Instead, they are taught that they exist only as a result of evolution – that they have the same worth as ancient apes; that they are the by-product of an accidental “Big Bang”; or that they are just some advanced form of primordial ooze. Sex education and the media teach our teens that they can’t help but behave like animals in heat, that relationships are disposable, and that “love” is based on fleeting emotions. But, by golly, they should feel really, really good about themselves anyway!” (12/14/09)

http://townhall.com/columnists/RebeccaHagelin/2009/12/14/%E2%80%9Cself_esteem%E2%80%9D_versus_worth?page=1

 

China has for more than thirty years been engaged in a ruthless campaign of forced abortions. Beijing’s one-child policy, were it to be enforced world wide, would lead not only to totalitarianism and massive human rights violations, it would lead to infanticide, as well … Doesn’t it seem strange that after thirty years of such inhumanity, China is still one of the world’s leading polluters? … Could Americans ever be forced under such an inhuman regime? Is this what Global Warming alarmism leads to?” (12/15/09)

http://townhall.com/columnists/KenBlackwell/2009/12/15/a_modest_proposal

 

“…the mutual support afforded by a happy marriage is the best possible guarantee of the development of a productive, self-reliant, self-sufficient, freedom-loving family unit capable of providing the sort of environment required for the nurturing of healthy children.” (12/6/09)

http://townhall.com/columnists/JaniceShawCrouse/2009/12/04/marriage_vs_the_nanny_state

 

“The Parents Television Council reports that women and girls are victimized more often and more brutally in television programming than ever before.” (11/3/09)

http://townhall.com/columnists/RebeccaHagelin/2009/11/03/violence_against_women_and_girls_explodes_on_television

 

“Homosexual activists want your children in every way. In order to achieve that, it is necessary to mainstream homosexuality so that anyone opposing it is severely ostracized or punished … the same dangerous effect: the sexualization of our children and the continued deconstruction of our civilization.” (10/31/09)

http://townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2009/10/30/marriage_in_maine_why_we%E2%80%99d_better_fight

 

“Americans of moral decency should be stunned to know the President of the United States would put in charge of ‘safe schools,’ a man who encourages predatory relationships between young boys and grown men. Barack Obama has done exactly that. Has he no shame?” (10/8/09)

http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/10/08/common-decency-suggests-we-should-not-have-to-deal-with-this-but-we-must-now-confront-a-white-house-supportive-of-nambla/

 

“It’s critical to understand that consuming porn is never just ‘harmless entertainment.’” (9/21/09)

http://townhall.com/columnists/RebeccaHagelin/2009/09/22/pornography_and_you

 

“There are steps you must take now to protect and equip your daughter with her own moral authority over those who would abuse her femininity.” (9/1/09)

http://townhall.com/columnists/RebeccaHagelin/2009/09/01/daughters_under_siege

 

“President Obama and his pro-abortion allies have been doing all they can to weaken conscience protections at the federal level..” (8/4/09)

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=33137

 

“During a press conference, a reporter asked Tebow whether, in being consistent with his Christian faith, he was “saving himself for marriage.” Tebow nonchalantly yet confidently responded, ‘Yes, I am.’” (8/4/09)

http://townhall.com/columnists/MeredithTurney/2009/08/03/the_new_morality?page=1

 

“The National Education Association … emphasis on advocacy for homosexuals …” (8/4/09)

http://townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2009/08/04/nea_goes_all-out_for_same-sex_marriage

 

“There are distinct male and female blueprints from the moment of conception.” (8/4/09)

http://townhall.com/columnists/DrMiriamGrossmanMD/2009/08/04/beware_the_%E2%80%9Cscience%E2%80%9D_in_sex_education

 

“There is much about President Obama’s government-run health care plan that should have Americans alarmed.” (7/22/09)

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32879

 

“To her mind, it seems, we should make people wait before purchasing a hunting rifle, but dare not ask the same consideration before taking an unborn life.”  (7/17/09)

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32739

 

“Immoral? Tax-and-Death? Let me explain.” (7/16/09)

http://www.frc.org/alert/help-stop-obamacares-moral-disaster

 

“Yet this is unacceptable to our president. He wants vaguely defined health considerations, beyond the question of the life of the mother, to permit what is essentially murder.” (7/27/09)

http://townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2009/07/27/health_care_is_also_about_values

 

“Admittedly, President Obama has had a rather ugly run of horrible nominees: finance people who cheated on taxes, Cabinet members who slandered our service men and women at Gitmo without checking (and upon checking and admitting that Gitmo is an above average facility still not apologizing or correcting the matter), and most recently a judicial nominee who evidently has been saying for over a decade that Latina women are morally superior to all white males. But the nomination of Kevin Jennings breaks new territory, one that endangers the health, happiness, and welfare of your child, and every other child in the public education system … This early attempt to push through an advocate of sexual deviancy should be swatted away, with fervor, for the safety of our children.” (6/7/09)

http://townhall.com/columnists/KevinMcCullough/2009/06/07/why_obamas_elementary_queering_must_be_stopped

 

“Look closely and it’s clear that Obama and his allies want much more than to secure more rights and handouts for their liberal constituencies.  They also want to force all Americans to pay for and participate in them.” (4/28/09) 

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=31644

 

"Sexting" will not do any child any good. Children should be taught that America has become the most powerful country in history by embracing a Judeo-Christian philosophy based upon good works, noble intentions and personal discipline. None of that is found in exposing yourself. (5/30/09)

http://townhall.com/columnists/BillOReilly/2009/05/30/the_birds,_the_bees,_and_the_cell_phones

 

“Not long ago, the Elscheidts, who live in Germany, learned that one of their children, 11-year-old Franziska, was going to be subjected, with all her fellow students, to a four-day sexual indoctrination at her elementary school.  That indoctrination would culminate in a mandatory stage play, "My Body Is Mine," which – under the pretense of dramatizing child abuse – encouraged children to become sexually active (because, if it "feels good," why not?).” (4/28/09)

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/issues/religiousfreedom/internationallaw.aspx?cid=4922

 

“Strong families are essential to strong economies, and financial management is a key family value.” (4/8/09)

http://townhall.com/columnists/KenBlackwell/2009/04/08/the_moral_sentiments_of_capitalism

 

“Yet the first amendment of our constitution no longer protects the freedom of a pastor to peaceably stand in front of an abortion clinic and tell these lost young women there is another way. Something is wrong in America today. Very, very wrong.” (2/16/09)

http://townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2009/02/16/root_of_nations_economic_crisis_is_moral_crisis

 

“But however the numbers are run, single motherhood is a societal nuclear bomb.” (1/14/09)

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30285

 

“On the three big issues of today — life, marriage, homosexual behavior — President-elect Obama has plans to turn far left and ignore the will of the people.” (11/21/08)

http://townhall.com/columnists/JaniceShawCrouse/2008/11/21/emperor_obamas_clothes_are_visible_and_scary?page=1

 

“The left's venomous reaction to the passage of Prop 8 has showcased these people for who they truly are … It has exposed the self-proclaimed agents of "tolerance" and "diversity" as the most intolerant, hateful and bigoted among us.” (11/16/08)

http://townhall.com/columnists/MattBarber/2008/11/16/counterfeit_marriage_and_its_counterfeit_movement?page=1

 

List of Articles by Robert P. George, a Morally Conservative Political Science Professor at Princeton

http://www.ratzingerfanclub.com/George/

 

“No matter. In the name of tolerance, McKinley refused to tolerate eHarmony's right to operate a lawful business that didn't give him what he wanted.” (11/21/08)

http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2008/11/21/the_eharmony_shakedown

 

Protect Marriage, Family, and Freedom – California Prop 8 (Posted 10/10/08)

http://www.familyleader.net/ (website)

http://www.protectmarriage.com/ (website)

http://www.frc.org/ (website)

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1352578267?bctid=1784521903 (must see video)

 

Proposition 8 Video (Posted 10/17/08)

http://www.afa.net/prop8video/index.html (video / DVD)

 

“Their pretexts are laughable, their authority nonexistent. No constitution declares that any court has such a right.” (10/12/08)

http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2008-10-12-1.html

 

Not A Civil Rights Issue

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1352578267?bctid=1784553601 (video)

 

Family Leader Network

http://familyleader.net/Home/servlet/home (website)

 

Family Research Council

http://www.frc.org/ (website)

 

Confused Morality (6/20/08)

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BobBurney/2008/06/20/same-sex_marriage_and_immoral_suvs (article)

 

“But this is just another streetlight on America's darkening path to perdition as a society and republic.” (Posted 5/26/08)

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatrickJBuchanan/2008/05/23/post-christian_america (article)

 

          “The court also exposed the danger created by wishy-washy lawmakers who push “civil unions” or “domestic partnerships” as a supposed middle-ground compromise. That actually is a deadly policy of appeasement. It was the very existence of such laws that the justices used to justify this outrageous decision.

          By trying to appease homosexual rights activists, those who have refused to stand up for traditional marriage helped to create this court ruling. They are the Neville Chamberlains of the cultural wars.” (Posted 5/16/08)

http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/gay_marriage/2008/05/16/96616.html?s=al&promo_code=6284-1 (article)

 

“Obama's Mandate for Nationalized Same-Sex Marriage (10/22/08)

http://townhall.com/columnists/TerenceJeffrey/2008/10/22/obamas_mandate_for_nationalized_same-sex_marriage (article)

 

Parenting Perverted Values (Posted 10/6/07)

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KevinMcCullough/2007/09/30/why_liberals_make_atrocious_parents?page=1 (article)

 

Lying About Sex

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/column.aspx?UrlTitle=why_liberals_lie_about_sex&ns=KevinMcCullough&dt=07/15/2007&page=1 (article)

 

Families Are The Strength ...

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MittRomney/2007/07/13/the_four_walls_of_the_american_home (article)

 

Family Security Matters

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/ (website)

 

Free Internet Filter

http://www.k9webprotection.com/faq.html

http://www.getk9.com

 

Sex Education: Gone Sick and Wrong (Posted 12/19/07)

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2007/12/19/sex_education_lesson_beat_up_the_virgins (article)