Re: Global Warming - a Liberal Scam?, (was Huge study about safety can be misinterpreted by SUV drivers)

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, David J. Allen wrote:

> Government intrusion in personal matters is a matter of great concern to
> be sure.  Yet, the effect of adultery on families, children, cost to
> society is huge.  Should local governments be able to prohibit it?

Does it matter? The divorce rate is sky-high in states with and without
no-fault divorce, in states with conservative and with liberal governors
and legislatures, in states with high and with low church attendance.


> Without religious values, we can behave as the animals and it's
> "okay".... individually.  But that's where we got the "single mom"
> phenomenon.  It's effect on the black community has been tragic with 70%
> of babies born to unwed mothers.

Disregarding for the moment your ignorance of the fact that correlation
does not imply causation, do you *really* think some law is going to cause
some shiftless idiot to stick around and be a father?

> Child poverty is a direct result of this.  Even worse than the poverty is
> children with teeny bopper mothers more concerned with partying on Friday
> night and finding someone... anyone... to watch their kids while they to it.
> They give no structure or limits to their children's lives and end up
> producing more adults with no clue how to be productive members of society.

Much better when the religious values you tout so highly held such sway
that pregnant teens -- of whom there were just as many as there are now --
were shipped off to live with a remote aunt or simply disowned...eh?

DS