Conservative Family Values

Conservative Republicans and fundamentalists love to insist that their strict view of the world be adopted by everyone, but when it comes to following those strictures themselves, their own moral discipline suddenly becomes much more liberal.

Here is a puzzle. Which of these do you think more closely fits the family value model?

1. Two people, who met when they were single after law school, fell in love, married, had two children, and are raising them with the mother having left her six-figure law firm job to stay home with the children.

2. A father of three, whose wife raised the children alone while he was in a POW camp and then was seriously injured and scarred in an accident, who after returning from Vietnam began a series of sexual liaisons, then after meeting a rich 15 years younger heiress, divorced his wife and left the children in her care.

3. A politician who believes in abstinence only sex education and the sanctity of marriage, whose teen age unmarried daughter becomes pregnant.

I doubt that the majority of far-right conservatives will be able to see the incongruity of this and how it contradicts their basic beliefs, because they too often don’t think, but just believe. But the hypocrisy is startling. Only God could imagine the reaction if couple #1 were Republican, and #2 and 3 were Democrats.