>-----Original Message----- >From: John W. Redelfs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 5:08 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: [ZION] Gay marriage is wrong > > >RB Scott wrote: >>Freaky? How would it be freaky for two old friends, both single >>parents, to decide to pool resources? Why would it be >freaky for, >>say, two siblings, both single parents, to pool their >resources, >>reduce/consolidate their overhead costs as it were? >Such has been >>going on for years, albeit without the attendant tax >benefits and >>fringe benefit advantages. What's wrong with extending "equal" >>benefits to such families? Does society have a >responsibility to >>support all families...or just certain ones? > >Society has no responsibility to "support" any >families. Families are to >support themselves. If the government is going to >"encourage" families, it >ought to encourage the traditional family only. >Otherwise it shouldn't >encourage any families at all. When the government >gets into the act by >encouraging other kinds of families it weakens the >traditional family by >reinforcing the idea that the traditional family is not >the "ideal" family.<
I respect your opinion John, even though I disagree with it to the extent that it would be practically impossible to come up with a definition of "traditional family" that would pass muster. For instance, I can no imagine that the church would exclude single parent families (widowed and divorced) from the definition. One minor point: the government does provide support to families and children -- schools, health benefits, and substantial tax breaks. > >Actually, I think I'm coming more and more to agree >with you that the >government should just refrain from defining the family >altogether. It is >obviously going to do a poor job of it.< Well now, I think you are seeing the dilemma I see. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// --^---------------------------------------------------------------- This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For Topica's complete suite of email marketing solutions visit: http://www.topica.com/?p=TEXFOOTER --^----------------------------------------------------------------
