What can the government do to protect the family?

Question

Okay, so the government can in their infinite wisdom decide that people of the same sex cannot marry, that a man can't have more than one wife, and that a young woman like Anna Nicole Smith can't marry an old billionaire. Wait, they can't stop Anna. And even if they don't want to recognize it as a marriage, the government can't stop two men (or women) from living together as though they were married. As a matter of fact, if a man wanted to be polygamous, as long as he didn't try to marry all of them, he could live with as many women as he could get to fall under his spell.

The point here is that all the government can do is regulate the "legal" marriage, but they can't stop people from living the way they want.

So what can advocates for the "traditional" family do to protect it?

Hypnotic, you can't steal someone else's answer, even if it's a good one, without giving credit.

You took that answer from my other question!

Answer 1

Our government is NOT a church. It focuses on more mundane issues like waging war, unholding the law, and providing us with domestic tranquility with the strongest army in the world. All the issues you stated would fall under some religion or other so you should join the church/group that advocates for the traditional family and incorporate those values INTO YOUR OWN HOME. There's no need to try to break the separation of church and state. And isn't Anna really really old?

Answer 2

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Answer 3

By allowing gay marriage to be legal:

Modern teenagers have grown up in a world where gay people are accepted, and gay couples are well known. These straight teenagers look at their gay peers, and they see that their love is every bit as strong and valid as their own. Yet gay people are prohibited from getting married.

This removes marriage from the realm of love. It makes marriage appear like it is only for having children.

But over half of all children born in the US are born out of wedlock. So marriage is not even for having children.

If the straight community wants to keep marriage as an institution based on love and providing the opportunity for children to be raised in a loving, 2-parent home, then they would be well served to acknowledge that gay people's love is every bit as valid as straight love.

If "Love Makes A Family," then families deserve access to the rights and responsibilities provided by a legal marriage certificate.

Answer 4

The problem is that in declaring homosexual marriage illegal, and in prohibiting civil liberties based on sexual orientation, they provide a foundation for legal discrimination.

I know of couples in which one partner was prohibited from being with his partner on his deathbed because the hospital didn't recognize them as family.

A couple at a mote lin RI was required to purchase separate rooms as the motel wouldn't rent rooms to same-sex couples.

This is the crap we're trying to prevent, that the religious reich wishes to be the norm.

Answer 5

After all the explaination it boils down to continuing to fight for Bans against any marriage other than that between a Man and a Woman.

Answer 6

Exactly what you said. Regulate it so that it is legal marrage. Which means anyone that isn't legally married is illegaly participating in the acts thereof. Which is completely true whether or not they take the action.

Answer 7

I have never heard this but I think it is essentually true, if I lose a right then you lose one also. It might not effect you as much as it does me but eventually one will, so if you are willing to give up my rights then you are willing to give up yours. Yes this does make sense.

Answer 8

Live in a "traditional" family and hope the trend catches on.

Answer 9

Probably nothing. Politicians are crooked. They would rather listen to the minority than the majority. I just let God handle it.

Answer 10

nothing