Other states revise marriage arrangements to reflect new values and norms, but neither judgment is irrational.
Only four out of ten said that the government should actively encourage family values, or encourage marriage, or encourage married couples to stay together.
And I don't think he truly, truly holds the same values I do with traditional marriage and family.
In other words, why should we all start running around and screaming like Chicken Little that the marriage sky is falling when marriage seems central to American culture and values?
Equally important are social values issues, especially traditional marriage.
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Evangelicals representing 60% of GOP voters in the South Carolina primary claimed to care most about family values and the sanctity of marriage, yet revealed their hypocrisy by disproportionately favoring Gingrich to Romney.
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The reality is that the same moral principles that underpinned the Bush appeal on "values" issues like gay marriage, stem-cell research, and the right to life were central to his vision of U.S. war aims and foreign policy.
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We see it in the increasing recognition among progressives that government can't solve all of our problems, and that talking about values like responsible fatherhood and healthy marriage are integral to any anti-poverty agenda.
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Instead, the Conservative leader imagines a welfare system where ministers in Whitehall pull fiscal strings which encourage people towards his party's core values of hard work, saving, marriage and having children (when you can afford to).
Add it up: federal income taxes, Social Security taxes, Medicare taxes, myriad federal excise taxes (check out your phone bill), state income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, gasoline taxes, electricity taxes, water taxes, sewage taxes, airline taxes, hotel occupancy taxes (if you vacation or travel for business), road tolls, vehicle registration fees, driving license fees, marriage license fees and marriage penalties (Washington's version of family values is to tax people for getting married), dog license fees, etc.
"Millions of people understand that it's not bigotry to believe that marriage is between a man and a woman, and it's not right-wing to think that children need a mother and a father, not two mothers and two fathers, " said Gary Bauer, president of American Values, a group opposed to same-sex marriage.
Kevin Smith, a family-values campaigner in New Hampshire, worries that when gay marriage is legal, children will be taught in schools that it is acceptable.
Peter Kellner of YouGov, a pollster, points out that when polled on values issues such as attitudes to bankers or to gay marriage, Conservative voters may split 60:40 and Labour voters 40:60.
So although Ms. Venker might want us to do away with feminism in order to save marriage, we might consider turning that on its head and embracing feminism to save family values.
Americans are much more committed to marriage as an ideal (look at the recent fall of General Petraeus and what that says about American values).
But they kept their marriage together, and a lot of the Republicans who have condemned them and who talk about their platform of family values, interestingly, didn't keep their own families together.
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