Being able to buy a $500,000 house on fabricated and blown up income figures with no money down....... a perversion of the American dream of homeownership.
Getting paid $15MM for employment that helped cause failure at major financial institutions.....a perversion of the American work ethic.
Assaulting the institution of marriage so as to eviscerate it of any meaning whatsoever..... a perversion of the American social fabric.
And assaulting the very idea of marriage is exactly what is occurring at every turn. Consider just four examples from the past week:
1) New data shows more than 40% of American babies were born out of wedlock. This staggering figure continues a twenty-year growth trend in children starting life from the outset in incomplete families.
2) Most, if not all, dictionaries, now provide multiple definitions for “marriage.” Their stated goal is to reflect cultural usage rather than to create it.
3) The same-sex marriage battle continues in California in spite of the passage of Proposition 8 in November. Gay activists have already begun mobilizing for another referendum if the state's Supreme Court allows Proposition 8 to stand.
4) Two Pepperdine University law professors published an article in Time this week, arguing that the government should get out of the marriage business altogether. Continued... |