https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to family values en https://religiondispatches.org/2017/05/17/irony-really-dead-gop-plans-send-adulterous-third-wife-serial-philanderer-ambassador The Republican Party has maintained a death-grip on protestations of moral authority on matters of sexuality for most of my adult voting life. Since the Reagan administration we have seen a party that has consistently hoodwinked voters with its assurances… Wed, 17 May 2017 01:15:47 EDT Patricia Miller f46cf2d6-6844-4a7e-9f89-1f2736bb7441 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/01/28/why-family-values-defined-conservative-christianity-and-why-religious-liberty-has From about 1970 until about 2000, American politics was largely driven by concern about the nuclear family. As established social hierarchies came under fire from the civil rights movement, the gay rights movement, second-wave feminism, and others, conservative advocacy groups… Thu, 28 Jan 2016 10:31:38 EST Eric C. Miller dc93b61b-9c0f-4c40-9f93-aea3b8c9c01d https://religiondispatches.org/2015/11/10/mormon-church-policy-children-same-sex-couples-violates-its-own-principles When we were kids growing up in the Mormon Church, my brother’s best friend Tony, who wasn’t Mormon, used to like to come along with us. When my brother turned eight, he and the others prepared for baptism (Mormons don’t… Tue, 10 Nov 2015 04:40:01 EST Mary Barker e758d005-2b30-4465-87c0-d5b1fbddacc1 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/04/22/americans-season-finale-teach-your-parents-well Television’s best show explores faith, family ,identity, and the spectre of Reagan’s ‘evil empire’ Wed, 22 Apr 2015 12:21:56 EDT Cathleen Falsani ccb3c481-37ac-41b1-a220-c1058aaaf97e https://religiondispatches.org/2013/10/11/apocalyptic-christian-theologys-role-gov-shutdown Values Voters Summit forces moderate Republicans to face some crushing facts. Fri, 11 Oct 2013 02:26:41 EDT Anthea Butler 66f2ed24-8cef-4c5a-bf9b-beb82be3e8be https://religiondispatches.org/2013/04/03/marriage-equality-race-family-values-and-99 According to the US Census, families are becoming less nuclear, headed up by more single parents, childless couples, and LGBT couples with children. Yet family diversity is still only a revelation in the mainstream media, which continues to promote the model of nuclear familyhood, even if it is provisionally represented by elite white gay The Kids Are All Right-style yuppie throwbacks with photogenic children. Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:51:11 EDT Sikivu Hutchinson 4d05fb99-4f52-45db-8bf3-2eca7db83fef https://religiondispatches.org/2009/09/11/obama-criticizes-black-fatherhood Senator Obama has contributed to a conception of responsible African American fatherhood as the shocking exception as opposed to the standard norm. Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:27:06 EDT Jonathan L. Walton 30db609b-821c-472a-b7f9-c17fb9d887fd https://religiondispatches.org/2009/07/09/raising-children-right-way James Dobson wants to teach parents how to win the war against their unruly children. Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:25:48 EDT Jeffrey Feldman 6e26713c-00b3-43bf-abd4-b9006d3e4189 https://religiondispatches.org/2009/06/23/ignore-rod-parental-rights-amendment-isnt-about-spanking The United States is the only nation save Somalia that’s failed to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Armed with a doomsday ten-point plan including the end of spankings and the government preventing parents from bringing kids to church, the force behind the movement to prevent its ratification isn’t just a bunch of strict parents. Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:37:29 EDT Kathryn Joyce df48e412-7c32-43cd-9f3d-2267d3d29b21 https://religiondispatches.org/2009/06/19/rdpulpit-excommunicating-victims While the family of a 9-year-old incest victim’s abortion is excommunicated, the perpetrator never even made it to the ecclesial radar screen. Let this case signal the end of any credible claim to authority of bishops and the dawn of a new era when local communities determine their own members. I daresay the world will be a safer, kinder place. Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:11:22 EDT Mary Hunt 77ee927c-685b-4f12-9752-0a304940b773 https://religiondispatches.org/2009/06/19/not-fan-undergarments-mormon-mother-blogs A Mormon mommy blogger ponders spiritual laziness, gay marriage (fine with her), projectile vomiting, the evils of daylight savings time, and the relationship between Mormon-mom perfection and antidepressants. Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:48:10 EDT Karen Maezen Miller df1888eb-2ed7-4ec4-bc3c-f2b966d9339e https://religiondispatches.org/2009/06/19/change-not-charity-what-ails-new-left-right-coalition-against-poverty The Poverty Forum’s supposedly cross-the-spectrum plan to reduce poverty runs the gamut—from A to B. While it is perpetually depressing to see the Democrats drinking the Kool-Aid of “No Enemies Among The Privileged,” it actually turns the stomach a bit to see faith leaders who claim to care about the poor slurping up the same reality-free brew. Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:44:29 EDT Peter Laarman 2568ef51-6059-471f-9a81-ea28aa6ba2a3 https://religiondispatches.org/2009/06/18/shhhdont-speak-abortion-roe-v-wade-thirty-six Recent efforts to reach a compromise between evangelicals and liberals have managed to avoid the discussion of abortion altogether. The fact remains: according to many clergy representing millions of Americans of all faiths and denominations, the moral reality of women’s lives is that sometimes abortion is the best moral choice. Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:23:09 EDT Frederick Clarkson 102b1c58-8e63-4a81-a351-057e0ef09d0a https://religiondispatches.org/2009/06/18/praying-away-gay-what-love-feels Prayers For Bobby, a new Lifetime TV movie, portrays the tragic struggle of a gay teen in a conservative Christian family and the family’s attempt to “heal” him. Predictably, the film was heavily criticized by the religious right. Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:42:09 EDT Tanya Erzen e5831dde-8de9-43ce-93e1-b70e449cfd56 https://religiondispatches.org/2009/06/12/not-religion-column-biblical-capitalism The roots of the economic crisis tap directly into a movement within American fundamentalism. Much has been made of Palin’s Pentecostalism but her links to The Family go unnoticed. Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:39:08 EDT Jeff Sharlet 46170ccd-3088-4654-a3e1-d08973b3b6a2 https://religiondispatches.org/2009/06/10/biblical-manhood-conference-espouses-male-supremacy A growing theology of male headship and female submissiveness argues that men and women are equal under God, but have different leadership responsibilities as laid out by Scripture… Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:43:35 EDT Kathryn Joyce ea69b1c5-f4a7-4b34-9007-90a6604a6028 https://religiondispatches.org/2009/05/29/jon-kate-plus-prop-8-hate A reality show about a failing family. The upholding of Prop. 8. There’s hypocrisy afoot in our culture. Fri, 29 May 2009 06:04:05 EDT Jonathan L. Walton b66cec63-ce0c-4da9-b079-dd82c1d27426 https://religiondispatches.org/2009/04/16/mark-twains-blasphemy A consideration of the legacy of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, on the eve of the 123rd anniversary of its publication. Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:37:03 EDT Michael A. Elliott cefe6a49-9f14-4929-b31a-839513d0f4ad https://religiondispatches.org/2009/04/16/religious-right-goes-global-demographic-winter Fears erupt over the extinction of the white, Christian West. Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:13:39 EDT Kathryn Joyce a584fe8a-1817-455d-8433-3031762aaa24