Wayne Besen - Author, Activist, Columnist, Public Speaker

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

In 1970, 73.6% of women ages 25-29 had at least one minor child at home; 30 years later, 48.7% did.
In 1990, the most common household type was married couples with children. Now, single, childless households are the most prevalent.
Today, more women in their 40s are childless, the report says. One in 10 were childless in 1976; in 2004, it was about one of five.

Well, it seems while Focus on the Family was obsessed with gay unions, traditional families became a lot less traditional. Maybe they should try minding their own business for a change? It is important to note that major family changes have occurred at the same time "pro-family" groups have proliferated. But we all know that when the right says "pro-family" it simply means anti-gay.

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Maybe if the rightwingers stopped robbing from the poor and middle class to give to the filthy rich, families would have more money to raise more children in a happy and healthy environment. They wont be happy until the USA looks like those kids and shack neighborhoods in those Christian Children's Fund commercials. You know, the ones with that fat white guy who looks like he was eating dunkin donuts in front of the starving kids before they turned the cameras on.
posted by Anonymous, at 7/12/2006 9:33 AM

Maybe if fathers didn't go out cruising and instead stay home with their children or better yet had they never made children.
posted by Anonymous, at 7/12/2006 12:06 PM

Why hasn't Focus on the Family gone after the legalized prostitution in Nevada? You can't tell me that some of the customers there aren't married.
posted by Anonymous, at 7/12/2006 12:27 PM

I am an on and off member of an international childfree adult group called No Kidding.
They are a non political social group.

After the what the justices said to rationalize the ban on gay marriage in NY and GA, I'm going to ask individual members what they think.

I know of many that support gay equality.
There is considerable prejudice against adults who choose not to have children.
Not dissimilar to that of gay people.
It's evident in the face of these marriage rulings.

However, I can't emphasize enough that in a country where not even Focus on the Family has invested their considerable funds on laws that require men and women to deal with their family responsibility.

No....somehow, despite how difficult it is to MAKE someone do it or prevent the problem in the first place.
FOTF has managed, with state and court blessing, to KEEP adults from doing the RIGHT thing who choose to marry to care for a significant other and their children.
Something the state definitely has an interest that they do.
Because ultimately the state won't want to, and neither will FOTF in a family crisis.
posted by Regan, at 7/12/2006 12:36 PM

"Focus on the family" is just one of the Smoke screens the religious right use to proselitize.

Many of their members don't actually believe what they preach, but they do it because it help them to maintain a status Q in society... is like a mafia, if you do "what the family wants" you are rewarded, but if you go against, then you endure punishment...

There are so many documented cases of "Christian" poligamist, also known child molesters that live in freedom while attacking LGBT people, and they rejoice in blod baths like in the cases of Gwen Araujo o Mathew Shepard.

They disregard even thheir own family... how many folks here have had sex with married guys that go to church? How many here know guys with double lives? and we have had pitty on them, because their punishment is the consecuence of their own acts, unhappiness, torment, and slepless nights.

That is why they can not endure anyone else been joyious, happy and free, and then they take their bitterness on the rest of us, and try to kill our souls, just like they have killed their own.
posted by Anonymous, at 7/12/2006 1:38 PM

Daddy Dobson is not Focused on the Family, he's Focused on the Cash. The dreaded homo menace = big bucks. The high divorce rate, adultry, and the other problems with the sacred institution of marriage? Not so much.

Dobson is interested in money and power and fear of queers brings him both.
posted by Sam, at 7/12/2006 3:13 PM

yeah, dobson is not concerned about the well being of wayward homosexuals. he is concerned about the cash flow from his contributors.
posted by Anonymous, at 7/12/2006 3:16 PM

"Because religious belief, or non-belief, is such an important part of every person's life, freedom of religion affects every individual. State churches that use government power to support themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of the church tends to make the clergy unresponsive to the people and leads to corruption within religion. Erecting the "wall of separation between church and state," therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society."

Thomas Jefferson Founding father of the United States of America. Author of the Declaration of Independence in a speech, 1808 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)

What is happening is exactly what our founding fathers were worried about.
posted by Gay American Tired of the Lies, at 7/12/2006 8:20 PM

"An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens."

Thomas Jefferson Founding Father Author of the Declaration of Independence in a letter to John Melish, January 13, 1813 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)

"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."

Abraham Lincoln

How prophetic.....

The Republican Constitution of the Divided States

We the People of the Divided States, with the exception of gays, in order to form a more perfect union of heterosexuals, establish justice, unless it is an election year, insure domestic tranquility (unless gays want to get “married” snicker, snicker), provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare only for a man and woman who are married, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves (the “normal” ones) and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Republican Constitution for the Divided States of America*

* This constitution is null and void for Americans who have a same-sex orientation. (No restrictions apply to murders, wife beaters, pedophiles, thieves, corrupt politicians, or an entire administration that has personally financially profited from a criminal war.)

How many days til Nov 2008?

www.ok2bgay.org
posted by Gay American Tired of the Lies, at 7/12/2006 8:41 PM

This may be a flawed argument here, but I have often believed that, during these heinous constitutional amendment battles in states, that we should always make sure we frame this issue as an attack on ALL people. No one has any guarantee that both married spouses will die at the same time, and states should be asked to prove how hundreds of statutory special rights have been effective in promoting marriage.
In my opinion, passage of any of these "protect marriage" amendments assaults the personal lives of every American, whether we have someone or not.

I know of no state which passed statutory provisions governing health decisions, transfer of property and funeral arrangements deliberately to establish special rights for heterosupremacist relationships. Those statutes were mostly passed at a time when families still lived together on the farm, and land was transfered to those members living there. The state's interest was in ensuring adequate burial of bodies and disposal of property - not punishing people who didn't or couldn't marry.

Frankly, there is no excuse for demanding a file cabinet of paperwork for ANY citizen to make arrangements about individual life experiences such as health, taxes, pensions, property, and funeral arrangements. None. And these amendments, when passed, effectively prevent every single, divorced, widowed and unmarriageable person from asking for alterations of statutes to meet the changing living realities of our society. As citizens, everyone is entitled to seek those changes, and the government is responsible for representing our interests as well.

One mistake I think we make in these debates is not demanding an amendment restricting any additional statutory special rights laws for married people; or at the very least starting a campaign for an amendment which affords all citizens the right to inexpensively and efficiently make any arrangements they wish without interference of the government.

The most insulting thing, in my mind, is that my STATE has more rights over my decisions than ANYONE I know - even though I live hundreds of miles from any family member - and none of them would know my wishes. It should not cost me a lot of time or money to make any arrangement to protect myself or anyone I choose, whether married or not.

The rest of us should not be held hostage for the irresponsibility of married people, nor should we be required to continue padding the statutory books with special rights laws which we, no matter what our situation, cannot utilize.

And finally. . and ya'll can laugh at this - I'd love to see a trans person sue the crap out of the state to pay for a sex change in order to access marriage.
posted by Kevin, at 7/13/2006 5:20 AM

i'm fed up, too.
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