Family Values

To the Harvard Law Class of 2012 and Overachieving Graduates Everywhere

Ron Davis | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Religion, Harvard Law School, Justice, Graduation, Family Values, Public Service, Class of 2012, College News

Hard work can be satisfying and success feels good. But I urge you to pursue a harder goal than the many mountains you will certainly summit. Accomplishments matter, but are nothing without love, morality, family, belonging and intimacy.

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A Christian Pastor's Thoughts On Same-Sex Marriage

W. Hunter Roberts | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Marriage, Teachings of Jesus, Jesus, Biblical Literalism, Christianity, Love, Same-Sex Marriage, Religion and Sexuality, Scripture Study, Scripture Commentary, Obama Same-Sex Marriage, Gay Marriage, Family Values, Religion News

Jesus was more interested in love than he was in rules. That was what got him into so much trouble with the fundamentalists of his day

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Critics Claim President Lincoln Guilty of Political Pandering in Emancipation Proclamation

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Sex Discrimination, Bristol Palin, Gay Rights, Rush Limbaugh, President-Obama-Same-Sex-Marriage, Family Values, Marriage Equality, Same-Sex Marriage, Political Comedy, Satire, Political Satire, Political Humor, Politics News

Today President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing 3 million slaves. Critics of the President were quick to condemn his action. The town crier shouted that that this was further evidence of the President's war on families.

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Lifestyle Design: Parenting while Single

American Anthropological Association | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Gris Gris Lab, Alternative Parenting, Single Mothers, Family Values, Single Parenting, Black Voices News

Applied & Visual Anthropologist Gia M. Hamilton IS The Off The Grid Socialite The Off the Grid Socialite, is a socially and ecologically conscious in...

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A Mother's Guilt

Erin Smith | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Leukemia, Guilt, Focus on Family, Children, Working Mothers, Family Values, Stay-at-Home Moms, Motherhood, Global Motherhood, Stay at Home Mothers, Mommy Guilt, Guilt and Parenting, Me Time, Parents News

It's difficult to strike a balance between being everything our kids need us to be and maintaining our sanity and individuality.

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It's About Parenting, Not Politics!

Meryl Ain, Ed.D. | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Education, Ann Romney, Family Values, Values, Working Mothers, Mommy Wars, Social and Emotional Learning, Sahm, Working Moms, Hilary Rosen, Parents News

No matter how much household help a mother does or doesn't have, it is she who conveys the values that she wants her children to live by. Whether a mother is a SAHM or works 16-hour days, she is a role model for her children.

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America's New, Distracted Obsession With Social Issues

Rabbi Abraham Unger, Ph.D. | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Religion and Politics, Abortion, Family Values, Economy, Economic Crisis, Isolationism, Contraception, Social Issues, Religion News

A peculiar form of American isolationism has gripped our country. The rest of the world is fending off potentially disastrous immediate economic contagion, while we expend much of our national energy on social issues pretty much decided years ago.

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My Family Fanatics

Elizabeth Boleman-Herring | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Religion, Religious Intolerance, Christian Proselytizing, Religious Fanaticism, Atheism, Agnosticism, Family Values, Culture News

My relatives might as well be pairs of Jehovah's Witnesses or Mormons -- strangers at the door -- for all they have to do with me. They ring my bell, as it were, several times a year, only to press my arm into a spiritual blood pressure cuff of their own devising: Am I saved or, as they suspect, not?

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Jesus, Paul, Sex And Family Values

Robert Orlando | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Letters of Paul, Historical Paul, New Testament, The Paul Story, Family Values, Teachings of Jesus, Jesus, Christianity, Apostle Paul, Scripture Study, Scripture Commentary, Sex in the Bible, Religion News

How has Christianity come to be understood as the harbinger of traditional family values? Why do political parties still invoke Jesus as leader of these traditional ideas, when He, Paul and the other apostles never embraced them?

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WATCH: Awkward.. Rev. Pat Robertson Addressees The Morality Of Oral Sex

Posted 03.15.2012

Read More: 700 Club, Video, Family Values, Sex in the Bible, Oral Sex, Christianity, Pat Robertson Oral Sex, Christian Values, Religion-and-Sexuality, Pat Robertson, Religion News

Perhaps only a few topics could make a co-host of the Christian Broadcasting Network's "700 Club" become "verklempt." But while Kristi Watts was overw...

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Sexual Politics and Family Values: Let's Get It Right

Susan Ochshorn | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Barnard Commencement, Republican War on Women, Family Values, Obama and Women, Jill Abramson New York Times, Obama Contraception, President Obama Barnard Commencement, Politics News

With all due respect to Obama, whose support for women is welcome, we're so beyond the question of free civic discourse. That we're quibbling about the right to contraception in 2012 is terrifying.

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Why Extreme Right-Wing Views on Contraception Will Backfire if Progressives Fight

June Carbone | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Contraception, Rush Limbaugh Sandra Fluke, Family Planning, Birth Control, Family Values, Politics News

The war on contraception is not new. What is new is that the consequences are finally becoming visible to women who vote.

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Charles Murray's Unreal Towns

Caryl Rivers | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Charles Murray the Bell Curve, Charles Murray, Coming Apart, Out of Wedlock Pregnancy, Charles Murray Coming Apart, Family Values, Middle Class, Books News

In his new book, Coming Apart, Charles Murray says that working-class whites are getting dumber and losing traditional values such as marriage, hard work and church-going.

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Attention GOP Candidates: I Have Family Values, Too

Jim David | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Rick Santorum, Gay Marriage, Gop, Gay Rights, GOP Candidates Gay Rights, GOP Family Values, GOP Candidates Family Values, Republicans Family Values, Family Values, Gay Voices News

I'm marrying the love of my life, and unlike New Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh, Ronald Reagan, and Bob Barr, the author of the Defense of Marriage Act, when I say "I do," I'll mean it. If we're talking family values, I'm ahead.

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Dear Rick Santorum: Whose Family? Whose Values?

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: 99 Percent, Shane Vander Hart, Caffeinated Thoughts, Thinkprogress, Reproductive Rights, Rick Santorum, Affordable Care Act, Planned Parenthood, Dan Bimrose, Family Values, Guttmacher Institute, Politics News

I agree with Santorum et al. that the American family is indeed under attack. The question is: By whom?

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The Class Warrior of the 1%

June Carbone | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Divorce, Family Values, Charles Murray, The 1 Percent, Inequality, Family, Gender, Non-Marital Births, Politics News

Charles Murray is at it again, out with a new book and a long article in the Wall Street Journal attempting to explain income inequality among whites.

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Spotlight On: Newt!

Susie Sampson | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Marriage, Values, Family Values, Ethics, President Obama, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Gays, Video, Comedy News

I have a new favorite candidate... Newt! America loves family values and Newt's got 'em in spades! At least in my opinion.

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GOP Nostalgia Is A Symptom Of Privilege

Christian Piatt | Posted 03.28.2012

The fact is that, unless you're a white, Christian, straight male, there's little to look back to and say "yeah, I was better off back then."

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Newt Gingrich, Self-Victimization, and the Politics of Personal Responsibility

John Becker | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: Personal Responsibility, Marriage, Anti-Lgbt Discrimination, Open Marriage, Marianne Gingrich, Hypocrisy, Marriage Discrimination, Newt Gingrich, Serial Adultery, Family Values, Marriage Equality, Politics News

Newt's ego is so monumental that once he could no longer conceal his affair, he had the temerity to demand in all seriousness that his wife "share" him with his mistress.

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Saving The Family From Newt

Carol Howard Merritt | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Unemployment, Focus on the Family, Newt Gingrich, Student Loans, Family Values, Gingrich, Marianne Gingrich, Newt Family, Newt and Family, Religion News

Can we move the discussion of family away from demonizing same-gender relationships and taking rights away from women?

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What Happens When Divorce Bankrupts You?

Sharon Zarozny | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Justice, Divorce, Civil Rights, Family Values, Family Law, Separation, Access to Justice, Divorce News

Single parenting is challenging, especially when money is scarce. It's taken a huge toll, hitting home today when my daughter pointed out I've turned into Scrooge.

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The Santorum Surge: No Wonder Jesus Wept

Rev. Susan Russell | Posted 03.07.2012

Read More: Lgbt, Rick Santorum, Rick Santorum Gay Marriage, Family Values, Gay Marriage, Marriage Equality, Religion and Politics, Rick Santorum 2012, Christianity, Religion and Sexuality, Religion News

Rick Santorum proclaims: "Ask me what motivates me, it's been the dignity of every human life." Unless it's a gay or lesbian life.

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The Fallacy in Santorum's "Family" Argument

Dan Bimrose | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Iowa Caucuses, Republican Presidential Candidate, Family Values, 2012 Election, Rick Santorum, Elections 2012, Rick Santorum 2012, Iowa Caucus 2012, Politics News

Rick Santorum's implication is that the Democrats are responsible for broken families. If the breaking up of American families is truly the cause of our economic failures, which is an incredibly weak argument, he may want to point his finger at Republicans like himself.

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If I Were a Republican This Coming Election Year ...

Dorian de Wind | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Abortion, Gop Presidential Candidates, Michele Bachmann, GLBT Issues, Dadt, Mitt Romney, Immigration, Family Values, Gingrich, Satire, Politics News

I would vote for Bachmann for her renowned knowledge of the Constitution, her familiarity with our Founding Fathers, her interpretation of the history of slavery, and for her commitment to the integration of Church and State.

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Acting Out On The Airplane

Lillian Daniel | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Mental Illness, Addiction, Airplanes, Patience, Jesus, Addiction & Recovery, New Years 2012, Christianity, Family Values, Religion News

Jesus once said that our family members are not just the ones we share a family tree with, but he never said it would always be tidy and reciprocal.

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