Let's consider a lunchtime informational picket

The CA Supreme Court will issue their ruling on Prop 8 this week. I hope they rule against. Domestic Partnership is second class citizenship. It’s wrong! Having no rights is better than second class citizenship!! It is poisonous because second class citizenship will satisfy some of
us...take them out of the fight. Having nothing will keep more of us engaged.

Two weeks after my last post the News-Review printed another one of those hate letters: homosexuality equals murder, rape and pedophilia. It was so lame, I didn’t bother responding. I would like to suggest that we consider a lunchtime informational picket line at the paper, if they continue to hide behind the First Amendment to fuel the fires of homo-hatred. If you are interested in participating in such an action, let me know. This is a good time to establish a protest committee. Email me at The Marriage Project.

Two weeks ago, the News-Review used the Truth of Youth segment to ask teens, “Does the ‘traditional’ family model still exist?” Like last months question about same sex marriage, the students got it right! “Antiquated,” “obsolete” and “impractical” are words the kids used to sum up traditional family values, values that worked for their great-grandparents.

I took this opportunity for a preemptive strike and wrote the following letter to the editor:

Today, a child can easily have four or more step- and ex-step-parents to contend with weekends with one family, week days with another, every-other-holiday here or there. It kind of takes the “sacred” out of the equation. AND, this has been going on for two generations now! How can we possibly expect this coming generation to appreciate traditional family values that have eroded so?

Today, the idea of a traditional family varies. Besides the chaos of divorce and remarriage, marriage has gone through numerous major changes over the past two hundred years and is nothing like the model that existed during Biblical times when women and children were little more than slaves.

Traditional marriage began changing dramatically when women won the right to own land and copy rights in the 1800s. It underwent another major change when women won the right to vote in 1920. It changed again when no-fault divorce became the norm in the 1950s. When the Supreme Count legalized interracial marriages, the realities changed yet again. The radical right fought all of these changes and lost. They will lose again with same-sex marriage.

Today, a family consists of two or more adults who make long-term commitments and live together. It may be a married couple living with their grand parents and/or other adult family members. If a family chooses to harbor children, they are expected to create a safe nest in which to raise those children. That’s a traditional 21st Century Family.