Family16. "We believe that a two-parent family, where a husband and wife live in harmony in one home, provides the ideal environment for raising children and is the best model for family life."
This is taken from the County Republican Party draft version of the platform. I was a delegate today at the convention. I was shocked at the grief this little paragraph caused in the platform. It really bothered people about the "two-parent family". More than bothered... they were ranting and raving about single parents and what wonderful parents they are. They could not grasp that the two-parent family is the "ideal environment". I am sad to report that they changed the paragraph...it totally lost its context when they changed around the wording and added one-parent families along with two-parent families. The sad reality of the world is hard to take some times. I was happy to drive home and come to my little corner of the world where I feel that a "two-parent family is the ideal environment"!
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That's a very interesting story. Can you imagine how bad it would have been at the Democratic convention? Chris went to the Republican Convention too, but he got so fed up with the arguments over the rules during the morning session that he left and went for a bike ride that afternoon. Doesn't sound like it got any better.
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