During slavery, fathers were often removed from families in order to keep the family from rising up and were sold as chattel to other plantations. It was a cruel and brutal attack on the nuclear family that reverberates today in the culture. After slavery was outlawed the family began to restore itself until in the 1950s there was a near normalcy. Segregation and racism was rampant..but families stood together.
In the 1960s under Lyndon Johnson there was a renewed effort to strip the family of Fathers and in order to increase dependency on the state. It was called the war on poverty. Decades later poverty rates are about the same but families have been damaged by fatherlessness.
There is a cruel new move toward the excising of fathers from the family unit. This is more insidious. The state is ceasing to recognize gender by embracing gay marriage. This will take some thinking, but it's time for Christians to stand up against the intentional destruction of the family by a heartless government. Fathers are once again on the chopping block when the state determines if you are or are not a parent. Read this ..it's a bit long..but brutal:
A few months ago, a new group launched called “Young Conservatives for the Freedom to Marry.” This is a group sponsored by a larger organization called “Freedom to Marry.” The objective of these groups is to promote gay marriage.
These young conservatives have been beguiled by leftist language, and my conclusion is that they must not be familiar with the philosophical underpinnings of true conservatism. They wrongly believe that “the freedom to marry is not a partisan value and is consistent with basic conservative values of responsibility and community, limited government and individual freedom.” But the so-called “freedom to marry” is not a conservative value. It’s a liberal value, plain and simple.
Here’s how it works. It’s a bit complex (which is one reason people on my side of the debate have trouble defending it), but I’ll break it down into the smallest segments I can.
1. “Gay marriage” really means “genderless marriage.”
2. Genderless marriage means references to gender must be removed from the law. Words like “bride,” “groom,” “husband,” “wife,” “mother,” and “father” must all be replaced with genderless terms such as “partner,” “party,” and “parent.” This happened in Canada when the Canadian government redefined marriage in 2005. For example, the term “natural parent” was replaced with “legal parent.” Recently the French government made it clear that it’ll be removing the terms “father” and “mother” from the French legal code in order to accommodate gay (genderless) marriage.
3. Removing gender references from the law removes the recognition of natural bonds between mothers and fathers with their children. These natural bonds are replaced with legal, artificial, and therefore subjective, bonds.
4. Removing gender references from the law affects every member of society, not just gay couples. It redefines marriage for the entire society.
5. Replacing natural bonds with state-defined bonds absolutely goes against the natural law founding of our country. Our Founding Fathers understood natural law to mean that we had certain rights that come to us from God. They referred to these as “unalienable rights.” If there are any unalienable rights whatsoever, certainly the natural bond of a child to his own mother and father is chief among them.
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