book report

[johhnymayhem]

So I was walking back from the bathroom while at the library, and a book caught my eye. Outrage: How Gay Activists and Liberal Judges are Trashing Democracy to Redefine Marriage by Peter Sprigg, director of the family research council's center for marriage and family studies

Comments

[blackgambit]

Mmm... I would argue that families are a foundation in this country. There has never been one U.S. President who was not married. Women are still considered less valuable unless she's married to a man. A man who never had children is often considered less virile. (It's all bullshit, but it's true) The notion of the family... of continuing our biological line, of working to give our children a good life, is what America has defined as normal

[johhnymayhem]

Nice to hear from you and have you weigh in. "oh shit. I like cock." xD

Ahem. Well, my thought was that marriage wasn't necessarily intrinsically American, that marriage is as important here as in other countries? Possibly more important in other countries for reasons you stated about how marriage or child raising is kind of a mess nowadays in America.

So then, it sounds like the solution is to simply separate marriage and civil rights. That must be the problem; when the solution sounds so easy, it'll never happen.

[blackgambit]

You can't get rid of me that easily ; P

I would argue the concept of the nuclear family is primarily American. The 40's and 50's exemplify it. America created the notion of the picket fenced box shaped houses and the families that lived in them. And conservatives would like to go back towards that kind of gilded bittersweet nonsense because it highlighted a facade of purity and simplicity. (and oppression, but whatever)

The key reason people hold on to morals and traditions is because they thirst for some sort of concreteness and structure they cannot make for themselves. By guarding said traditions and Religious interpretations, they are indoctrinating the idea that change is corruption and that different is wrong. If someone gave us the answer to world peace, we'd probably assassinate him because we're that afraid of change because we're creatures of habit. And fairly stupid. Yes... borderline imbecilic.

[johhnymayhem]

Maybe if I get a cream or the right kind of balm.. =^P

40's and 50's maybe, but those days are long over. To think we can somehow get back to that is horribly naive. Look at how far back you had to go to offer an example, heh.