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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 1992 14:08:00 EST
From:         "DRCV06::GRAHAM" <GRAHAM%DRCV06.decnet@DRCVAX.AF.MIL>
Subject:      Debunking the "traditional family" fallacy.
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Let's look at the family.  God created a man and a woman and called them
husband and wife.  So, they were the first family.  Now there is no place
in the Bible where the word family is used.  There is no place where it is
said that other units of people are not so valid a family as a man and
woman together.  It is true and, despite what is said in other places,
obvious that, in order to enjoy sexual relations and procreate, the only
family unit of which God approves is the man and woman in marriage kind.

So, the only tradition is that, to be approved of God and have sex and
children, a family shall consist of a husband and a wife.  Other than that,
there are no traditional vamily values.

I have not seen any attack on any values, family or otherwise.  There is no
secret organization sitting around saying, "Okay, today we'll concentrate
on ruining the traditional family."  Of course, Satan is always trying to
harm and destroy the saints, but that's his main business.  It doesn't mean
that a specific movement is a "comspiracy" to destroy the family.  Examples
are in order.

How about condoms in schools?  They have no effect on any values, family or
otherwise.  If you raise your children to love and respect themselves,
others and, above all, God, they will have a choice at sexual maturity.
Either they will follow the Biblical teaching, or they won't.  If they
won't, then they might as well have a condom so they won't get somebody
pregnant.  Look, if they are going to have premarital sex, they are going
to do it whether you want it, or whether they have a condom or not.  If the
spirit of God is in them, they aren't going to care whether condoms are
available or not, they are going to say "no thanks."

Wait, don't touch that keyboard yet!  There are three wonderful Biblical
examples that are significant here.  Daniel was taken as a youth from his
home and deported to one of the most horrific pagan empires of history.  He
was so scrupulous about his ways he didn't even want to eat the wrong
things, and staked his life on it.  His upbringing was so good he did by
nature the right thing in a very bad situation.  Joseph, thrust into Egypt
as a youth, did the same thing.

How about Moses?  He was raised for only a few years by his God fearing
mother and father, then lost into the royal lifestyle of decedant and
wealthy Egypt.  Condoms in schools and homosexual Boy Scout leaders would
have been a drop in the immoral bucket compared to what Moses had available
to him.  Now, did those three follow the plan God had for them, of course
they did.  The evils of any given society have never stood in the way of
God's children doing right and living a decent l ife.

Sex on television or in the theatre, condom distribution in schools,
homosexual Boy Scout leaders, nor anything else society does are threats to
God's children.  If God was able to take care of His own in the middle of
Egype, Babylon, Rome and other horrible places, He can surely take care of
your children if a teacher suggests that homosexuals have rights.  You
trust politicians to clean up the society, don't kid yourself.  You think
Bush or anyone else will do things to strengthen "traditional" family
values, you're avoiding the reality of political rhetoric.  You can and
should only trust God to take care of your family and children.  If He
doesn't, no one can.

There has never been a human society that wasn't evil to the core.
Christian parents of today are in no different boat than those of all time.
 There was never a "Golden Age" of the family, and God willing, there will
never be, for it would be horrible to live in a society whose laws dictated
adherance to what many of you call morality.

There is not one thing the government can do to promote any Christian
values within the family.  You, as Christian family members can and should
do that.  Leave the government out of it.  The less government we have, the
freer you will be to train yp your children in the way they should go.

Dan Graham
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