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6/25/2009
Ok. Let's talk about "this family values trash."
Gosh. Tons of news in the last days, weeks, months, years about the fallacy of man (and woman). Extra-marital affairs, perverted sex, and the Lord truly does know what else. So now it’s South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford. What a mess he's created.
Of course, the liberals come off the wall about “serially lying GOP hypocrites,” about the hypocrisy of the right and their embracing of strong family values.
A mom and dad who work hard to stay married. And work harder to stay happily married. And work harder still to parent kids in the ways of a loving Lord. Or who work hard to live one’s life in the ways of some other concrete, consistent, well-articulated, well-studied guide to one’s life.
The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy…
But [rather] the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Galatians 5:19 – 23. Yeah… do people fall off the wagon? You bet. You and I surely have – and looking at Paul’s letter to the Galatians, we do every day. Dang it. And yeah, Governor Sanford did it big time. Dumb. And wrong.
But here’s the deal – and here's what’s absolutely important – about family values and governing and government:
When a family is strong, when a family is supported by strong community values and giving, caring community helpers and neighbors, as well as the tenets of a strong faith…
that family needs government less.
And that’s what the Right is all about.
Jo Egelhoff, FoxPolitics.net
COMMENTS
Which is why the Big Govt crowd always push policies that are designed to destroy the family...
emily matthews (Thu Jun 25 07:25:41 2009)
I believe that strong families, communities and faith certainly contribute to a stable society. No argument. That does not necessarily support the notion that they need less government.
That family needs schools, roads, sanitation, water, public transportation, a legal system, and yes even a social safety net. Some among us believe that government also has an obligation to care for the less fortunate. The greatness of America is in its understanding that a balance between self reliance and interdependence is a necessary state. If we debate the extent to which we will support services to our people I'm in the game. However if we continue the simplistic arguments with the debate limited to concepts of big vs. small or more vs. less, I'm out.
billie (Thu Jun 25 09:22:56 2009)
Well said Jo! Unless this nation returns to the values, and the God that we say "we trust", -- we're done!
Ric (Thu Jun 25 09:23:03 2009)
Jo, you got it right!
We do not debate whether government is needed. Like this nation's founders, we recognize that government is needed to do what we cannot accomplish on our own -- for example, provide for the common defense. Further, the flawed nature of man requires that government maintain an environment is which we can live as free people. However, since government is comprised of flawed men and women, safeguards were built into the governmental structure to limit the harm government itself could do to that liberty we cherish.
We do not debate whether we should build our own roads or bury our own garbage.
But we should debate the needed for more public transportation, especially if it is proposed to address a problem that does not exist.
And surely we don't need government to fund studies of the sex life of some obscure insect. We don't want government to end the life of the unborn by aborting them, or extend the life of the dead by registering them to vote.
Yes, it is a question of more or less government. As others have said, less is more.
Ron Zahn (Thu Jun 25 11:52:25 2009)
Exactly Ron. We don't debate the garbage pickup and roads. And certainly not our national defense. What do you think of Billie's philosophizing that the government must stick its nose in that "balance between self reliance and interdependence?" Why does it always have to be the government that provides "support services" to the truly less advantaged? No, this is not a debate about large or small government. This is a debate about reliance on one's self, one's faith community, one's physical community and one's friends and families. Or... reliance on Uncle Sam. I for one, prefer reliance on myself and my community.
Jo (Thu Jun 25 12:01:15 2009)
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