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Chris29 wrote: how is it that christian principles and the "traditional family" are the glue holding america together??

That's a litle reductionist. What I am impling is: this nation was founded on one premise:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that, all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
In other words, our government derives its power directlyfrom God to protect these God given rights. In this view a government should have no authority to do otherwise. Our whole system of law is based on a morality directly derived from Judeo-Christian theology mixed strongly with the philosophies of the so-called 'Great Enlightenment.'

If we kick God our of the picture, as the secularist want, then our system of law becomese an existential figment of our own imagination; and is therefore able to make laws arbitrarily and without just cause.

The family is where we learn morality, compassion and to treat each others with equity. If the family colapses then it may well be our own undoing. Why?
Quote: Benjamin Franklin once said, "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom."

And as James Madison queried, "Is there no virtue amongst us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks, no form of government can render us secure. To suppose any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without virtue in the people is a chimerical idea." John Adams was equally blunt: "We have no government armed with powers capable of competing with human passions, unbridled, without morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry would break the strongest chords of our constitution, as a whale goes through a net."

The rest should be, shall we say, self evident.
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