Family Values

I always find it interesting that the R/Cs who loudly proclaim that they espouse family values, whatever that means, have a narrow concept of that phrase. Take the illustrious Rick Snatorum: I sure don''t want him. "Devout catholic"; family values proclamations; 'pro life"; protect the children.

This guy came out defending the mishandling of the Penn State molestation. He essentially said that neither the coach, Paterno, or the U did anything wrong and that the Freeh investigation was totally off the mark in their findings. I guess it is OK for a football coach to molest young boys so long as the football team is winning games and generating lots of revenue. He really is a piece of work.

One Million Moms screamed at JC Penny for having Ellen DeGeneris as spokesperson. They felt that she was unfit to serve as a role model solely due to the fact that she is gay. To Penny's credit, they not only stood behind her in her position but ran adds showing families with same sex partners for what they are: loving, caring adults raising kids in a safe and secure home environment. But I guess those conditions in a family are not good enough for this women's group due, again, to the same sex couples as parents. Never mind what is best for the kids in a stable home environment; we need to be dogmatically correct. What a bunch of zealots.

When will people realize that not everyone is the same? That equal does not mean identical? That strictures against same sex relationships in the Judeo-Christian tradition are do to the ignorance of the authors who had no idea of what psychology is and that there is a human component called genetics that developed over tens of millions of years that create the sexual preferences of certain persons. Nature is replete with same sex attachments and why should people be any different as we are governed by the same process of evolution as all other living things on the planet. To deny this genetic reality is ignorance and to insist that all people MUST be the same or they are evil, is an idea produced by  wayward minds.

Family values? I think not.