Johnston-Palin Engagement, Marriage Canceled

[panthera]

actually

the problem is not Christian family values, but rather christianist family values - a code term for oppressing gays, women, interracial marriage and otherwise everyone who doesn't fit into their hateful agenda.

Now that the christianists and the Republicans are finally out of power (yay!) it is time to fight even harder for all those rights we were denied the last eight years.

It fascinates me how silent the conservatives are on the now proved fact that shrub & Co. took away their first and fourth amendment rights alongside of habeas corpus. Unbelievable, just unbelievable.

 

[whirlcool]

I normally don't comment on such things, but when I think of "Family Values" I think of a bunch of bible thumping control freaks that want you to live your life the way THEY dictate that you should live it. If you don't comply then they try to use the wrath of God, or the political system to scare you into compliance.
The scary part is that they believe all this crap.

 

[andrewinorlando]

Family values = using organized religion/fear/politcs/the bible to prop up and distribute one's own ignorance, bigotry and hatred. What values one's "family" holds dear may be somewhat different than those that another "family" holds dear, since families come in many, many different shapes, sizes and configurations. It's funny, with all the talk of "family values" in politics, I've never heard a formal definition given....just another buzzword to me, though I'm sure it's supposed to be mommy, daddy and their 2.3 children, dog and white picket fence.

Good for Bristol Palin for telling the BF to piss off. Of course, she shouldn't have gotten into this situation in the first place, but something tells me that frank discussions about sex and its consequences are not commonplace around the Palin family dinner table. Not that I disagree with Sarah Palin about abstinence for teens. But it's just not the reality, as many, many parents have learned as they take on the responsibility of raising the children of their teenagers.