Those who are single, gay, or DINKs, should subvert their desire for certain moral freedoms unique to their societal groupings, to the needs and wants of those who deal with raising a family and instilling American values to their children.
Why should the moral freedoms desired by those groups have any negative affect on those who are raising families? And isn't "live and let live" about as fundamental an American value as you can find?
This has, on the surface, little or nothing to do with the topic of a thread devoted to the discussion of foreign affairs. It does raise an interesting point, though, which intrudes on all aspects of American policymaking.
Americans, and American conservatives in particular, have long struggled to find a middle ground between two conflicting sets of values, each of which has an intrinsic place in our culture. We are torn between the libertarian and the puritan, between desiring to keep the state out of any issue that does not directly intrude on the rights of others and desiring to impose our own vision of virtue on those around us. The impulses are quite incompatible, but both are as American as apple pie. The resolution of the tension between these extremes will have a great deal to do with the direction our country takes both at home and abroad. |
