Family Values Won’t Stop Mass Shootings – Lawmaker Who Blamed Dayton Massacre on Same-Sex Marriage and Break Down of the Family Urged by GOP Leader to Resign
I’m a conservative person and was a life-long Republican until 2014/2015. So, I’m certainly not a left wing, family- or family-values hating person.
However, I do believe that other conservatives over-estimate the importance of, or the effects of, the nuclear family, marriage, and “family values.”
I have (Link): plenty of examples on my blog of self-professing, God-fearing “family men,” who even tout family values, who do things like rape children or beat their wives.
Even if every one in our nation was married with children, and professed belief in Christ, we’d still continue to have sin – we’d have mass shootings, rapes, and the like.
Granted, if people were sincere about following Christ and his teachings, maybe some of those things would decline, but I don’t believe any of those things would give us a crime-free society.
The Bible doesn’t say any where the marriage, the nuclear family, and (Link): being a parent will make people into better, more ethical people. The Bible points people to Christ, not to marriage or pro-creation.
Family values, the family unit, marriage, and natalism have not stopped men from raping children and beating their wives – again, I have plenty examples on my blog of married men who are fathers to children who have been arrested for raping their own children, selling their own children to other men for sex, for beating and murdering their wives (see here and here).
And, by the way, I don’t think video games or homosexual marriage causes mass shootings, either. This lady is wrong.
(Link): Ohio lawmaker blames mass shootings on open borders, homosexuality, video games
Excerpts:
Candice Keller is a Republican state representative from Middletown, a small city 30 miles south of Dayton, where a gunman killed at least nine people and wounded 27 others early Sunday. In a now-deleted Facebook post, she wrote: “After every mass shooting, the liberals start the blame game. Why not place the blame where it belongs?”
The post listed reasons Keller thought the United States is grappling with mass shootings, including “the breakdown of the traditional American family,”…….”homosexual marriage,” “fatherlessness,” “the ignoring of violent video games,” “professional athletes who hate our flag and the National Anthem,” “the relaxing of laws against criminals,” “recreational marijuana,” “Obama” and Democratic members of Congress, among others.
The post ended by saying: “Did I forget anybody? This list is long. And the fury will continue.”
(Link): Top Ohio Republican calls on lawmaker to resign after ‘shocking’ comments about Dayton shooting
Excerpt:
Timken was only too happy to list what she thinks is the cause of mass shootings:
“the breakdown of the traditional American family (thank you, transgender, homosexual marriage, and drag queen advocates); fatherlessness, a subject no one discusses or believes is relevant; the ignoring of violent video games; the relaxing of laws against criminals (open borders); the acceptance of recreational marijuana; failed school policies (hello, parents who defend misbehaving students): disrespect to law enforcement(thank you, Obama); the Dem Congress, many members whom are open anti-Semitic; the culture, which totally ignores the importance of God and the church (until they elect a President); state officeholders, who have no interest whatsoever in learning about our Constitution and the Second Amendment; and snowflakes, who can’t accept a duly-elected President.”
Related:
(Link): Family as “The” Backbone of Society?
(Link): The Changing American Family (article)
(Link): Church Is a Family, Not an Event by K. Kandiah
(Link): Learning to See Your Single Neighbor by H. Stallcup
(Link): Statistics Show Single Adults Now Outnumber Married Adults in the United States (2014)
(Link): Do You Rate Your Family Too High? (Christians Who Idolize the Family) (article)
(Link) Have we made an idol of families? by A. Stirrup (copy)
(Link): Is The Church Failing Childless Women? by Diane Paddison
(Link): Are Christian Singles The New Second Class Christian? by Duke Taber
(Link): Conservative Christianity Stuck in 1950s Leave it To Beaver-ville
(Link): Are Single People the Lepers of Today’s Church? by Gina Dalfonzo
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