This is in reference to Star Parker's assertion in “Social Distortion” that the Christian Right has it right on marriage and family and some how those living in poverty have it wrong on family values. It is time to shred the veil of piety and superiority and take a good look in the mirror. The data from studies, including Christian George Barna, indicate that the divorce rate among conservative Christians is higher than other faith groups, Catholics being the lowest among Christians. Also, the data demonstrating that there is no moral difference between those who say they are “born again” and those who say they are not accumulates year after year. The fact is that the Religious Right tends to be white and middle to upper-middle class and come from families of similar economic status. This means their family failures may not result in abject poverty. Everyone has a right to believe what they want to when it comes to religion but don’t use faith to justify your position in life that is largely determined by who your parents are and similarly relegate those sinners to the ranks of the poor.
In our country the rich grow richer by the day while the rest of us hope to keep treading water in an outsourced economy. Social mobility in the United States ranks among the lowest compared to other industrial nations - the American Dream is becoming just that, a dream.
I would submit to you that poverty is not a moral condition to be judged; it is a moral problem for the rest of us to solve.
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There is no correlation that fits closer to the incidence of poverty than family breakdown.
Yes, but how does Star Parker know the direction of the correlation? Maybe the correlation of which she(?) speaks is that the breakdown in family is happening because of poverty?
And liberals aren't trying to make anyone "embrace single parenthood as a norm or sexual lifestyles and family arrangements outside of what is traditional as a norm." Simply put, liberals just want conservative Christians to, in Star Parker's words, "stay home and care for their families" and stop minding everyone else's families unless they're willing to help without judging.
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