We got more pressing issues going on in this nation and everybody; including Sodaheads are worrying about gay marriage?

Having looked on the world in the past from the perspective of a modernist liberal, I can understand the temptation to want to keep all attention, (or at least as much attention as possible), off of hot button social issues. I have come to believe that the human mind is capable of holding a variety of issues of varying subject matter near and dear to one's heart, and give them all a good deal of attention. My ideas and feelings about the ecology, economy, war, immigration, poverty and health care are not supplanted by my ideas and feelings on the sanctify of marriage, the importance of the traditional family, nor my stance for civil rights for the unborn and the elderly. All of these concepts co-exist in cooperation in my mind, and there's no reason why they can't in everyone else's as well.

I personally tend to speak out the most about social issues, because they are the ones I know the most about, and because I don't think they are taken seriously enough. I can only speak for myself, but my world view begins with the family being the smallest, but most important fundamental Government unit. The issues that happen in the family unit are the foundation upon which all other issues are built. I subscribe to a concept called subsidiarity. Rather than thinking of the importance of Government from the top down, think of it from the bottom up. i.e.

The most important and powerful institution is the family. This is the first level of Government, and the first place we should focus. If the traditional family wasn't constantly under fire, and constantly under threat of destruction by modernism, nihilism, and post modern liberalism, then traditionalists wouldn't have to fight so hard to protect them. This is where values are supposed to be formed. This is supposed to be where education and awareness begin. This is the fist line of help in crisis. This is the first line of support in times of weakness. Next would come your Church, if you have one, then your neighborhood community. Then your township or city. Then your county. Then your state, and the last Government institution that should be of concern is the Federal Government, who frankly should just be providing a postal service, common currency, and national defense. A couple other little things from later amendments, but not much.

So, when the family is the most important unit of Government in your system, then the strength and cultural morality of the family becomes a great concern. The more we keep turning family, culture, and morality over to the Federal Government because of immoral political lobbies, and leftist post modernism, the sooner our entire American civilization collapses under it's own weight.

If you study history, the last stages of every civilization before it's collapse: Rome, Greece, etc., were filled with immorality, an abandonment of traditionalism and family values, and a full reliance on Government for sustenance and ideas.