Topics in the News: Family Values
Pete Buttigieg on Family Values:
(Families & Children Feb 16, 2020)
Not going to take family values lectures from Rush Limbaugh
Q: Rush Limbaugh described you as a 37-year-old gay guy who loves to kiss his husband on the debate stage.
BUTTIGIEG: Well, I love my husband. I'm faithful to my husband. On stage, we usually just go for a hug, but I love him very much. And I'm not going to take lectures on family values from the likes of Rush Limbaugh.
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Source: CNN "State of the Union" on 2020 Presidential hopefuls
Mike Pence on Family Values:
(Principles & Values Sep 14, 2019)
2000: Positive in campaign; negative on radio talk-show
[In his 2000 House race, Pence] buried the persona of an attack dog with his "Confessions" essay and the radio show, but now he had to say who stood in that place. They knew Mike Pence was a good Christian with a consistent message: fiscal restraint,
strong national defense, and strong family values."Our campaign has committed itself this year to talking about Mike Pence, and about what Mike Pence believes," Pence said in his first TV ad, in a straight-on shot to the camera.
The footage was gauzy, almost like it was glowing. Then: "I've learned a lot in the past ten years: I've seen my children born; I've built a business." The business he was talking about was his radio show. " What I've learned is that negative personal
attacks have no place in public life."
The Mike Pence of the finely crafted television spots was a good Christian who never stuck his neck out on divisive social issues. But the Mike Pence of the internet had no problem going there.
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Source: Piety & Power, by Tom LoBianco, p.112-3
Stacey Abrams on Family Values:
(Families & Children Feb 5, 2019)
Family values: faith, service, education & responsibility
Growing up, my family went back and forth between lower middle class and working poor. Yet, even when they came home weary and bone-tired, my parents found a way to show us all who we could be. My librarian mother taught us to love learning.
My father, a shipyard worker, put in overtime and extra shifts; and they made sure we volunteered to help others. Later, they both became United Methodist ministers, an expression of the faith that guides us.
These were our family values--faith, service, education and responsibility.
Our power and strength as Americans lives in our hard work and our belief in more. My family understood firsthand that while success is not guaranteed,
we live in a nation where opportunity is possible. But we do not succeed alone--in these United States, when times are tough, we can persevere because our friends and neighbors will come for us.
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Source: Democratic response to 2019 State of the Union speech
Vladimir Putin on Family Values:
(Civil Rights Dec 11, 2018)
Signed "gay propaganda" law denying minors information
Russia's "gay propaganda" law is a classic example of political homophobia. When Putin signed the law in June 2013, he pandered to a conservative domestic support base. The legislation, formally titled the law "aimed at protecting children from
information promoting the denial of traditional family values," bans the "promotion of nontraditional sexual relations to minors"--a reference universally understood to mean a ban on providing children access to information about LGBT people's lives.
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Source: Human Rights Watch on Foreign Influencers
Tom Steyer on Family Values:
(Families & Children Feb 26, 2018)
Republicans have traded their family values for power
For all their talk of "family values," establishment Republicans have shown they only truly value one thing: power. And they will do anything to maintain their grip on it. Why else would Mitch McConnell refuse to hold a hearing for Supreme Court
nominee Merrick Garland? Why else would state legislators sell their soul and pass laws designed to stop African American voter participation? The GOP has abandoned its moral compass, and it's up to us to do what's right. We have to raise our voices.
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Source: Facebook posting by Tom Steyer, 2020 presidential hopeful
Bernie Sanders on Family Values:
(Families & Children Nov 15, 2016)
Real family values: time with newborn and sick relatives
The right has claimed the mantle of "family values" for far too long. When my Republican colleagues use this term they're usually talking about things like opposing contraception, denying a woman's right to choose, opposing gay rights, and supporting
abstinence-only education. Let me give a somewhat different perspective on family values--on REAL family values.When a mother cannot spend time with her newborn child during the first weeks and months of that baby's life, and is forced back to work
because her employer doesn't offer paid family leave and she can't afford not to work, that is not a family value. That is an attack on everything that a family is supposed to stand for.
When a husband cannot get time off from work to care
for his cancer stricken wife or gravely ill child, that is not a family value. That is an attack on everything that a family is supposed to stand for. And it should be an embarrassment to anyone who claims to speak for family values in this country.
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Source: Our Revolution, by Bernie Sanders, p.235
Bernie Sanders on Family Values:
(Families & Children Sep 5, 2015)
LGBTQ values are family values
Bernie Sanders has been consistent in his belief that the LGBTQ community deserves equal rights, and has supported them long before it was politically expedient to do so.In 1972 and 1976, when Bernie first ran for office in Vermont, he was an
outspoken ally of the LGBTQ community; as a plank of his platform, he proposed the abolishment of all discriminatory laws pertaining to sexuality. In 1983, after he was elected to be mayor of Burlington, Vt., Bernie backed the city's first-ever
pride march.
Throughout his decades of public service, Bernie has voted against measures that impede the LGBTQ community's rights and has supported those that protect them from discrimination.
LGBTQ Values Are Family Values: Bernie was an early
supporter and continue to be a committed advocate for LGBTQ families. He has regularly fought for them to have the same rights as families formed by heterosexual couples, publicly equating family values with LGBTQ values.
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Source: 2016 grassroots campaign website FeelTheBern.org, "Issues"
Bernie Sanders on Family Values:
(Families & Children Jun 11, 2015)
Real family values means paid family leave & sick time
When a mother has a baby and is unable to spend time with that child during the first weeks and months of that baby's life, and is forced back to work because of a lack of money, that is not a family value.When a wife is diagnosed with cancer and a
husband cannot get time off of work to take care of her, that is not a family value.
When a mother is forced to send her sick child to school because she cannot afford to stay home with her that is not a family value.
Those are attacks on everything
that a family is supposed to stand for. It is time to join the rest of the industrialized world by showing the people of this country that we are not just a nation that talks about family values, but that we are a nation that is prepared to live up to
these ideals by making sure that workers in this country have access to paid family leave, paid sick time and paid vacations just like workers in every other wealthy country on earth.
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Source: The Essential Bernie Sanders, by Jonathan Tasini, p. 57-9
Rand Paul on Family Values:
(Families & Children Dec 25, 2014)
Revival of values depends on fusing freedom and virtue
Paul--whose libertarian views don't always sync with those of Christian conservatives--said his policies were key to preserving family values: "What American needs is not a politician with more promises, what America really needs is a revival,"
Paul said, earning his first cheers of the speech. He went on to argue that that the revival depends on fusing freedom and virtue together. "Liberty is exactly essential to virtue," he said.
Paul championed his anti-abortion stance; he was introduced to the crowd by a video montage of his own pro-life remarks interspersed with sonograms of babies in the womb. "I'm one who will march for life and who will stand up in defense of life as long
as I'm privileged to hold office," Paul told the crowd.
Paul's strongest applause came when he brought up was his failed legislative attempt to stop foreign aid from reaching countries that persecute Christians. "Let's stop this madness!" he said.
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Source: Jane C. Timm on 2014 MSNBC: 2016 presidential hopefuls
Rand Paul on Family Values:
(Immigration Jun 12, 2013)
Latinos support GOP stances of faith and family values
Republicans need to become parents of a new future with Latino voters or we will need to resign ourselves to permanent minority status. The Republican Party has insisted for years that we stand for freedom and family values. I am most proud of my party
when it stands for both. The vast majority of Latino voters agree with us on these issues but Republicans have pushed them away with harsh rhetoric over immigration.In our zeal for border control, Republicans have been losing both the respect and
votes of a group of people who already identify with our belief in family, faith, and conservative values. Hispanics should be a natural and sizable part of the Republican base. That they have steadily drifted away from the GOP in each election says more
about Republicans than it does about Hispanics. Defense of the unborn and defense of traditional marriage are Republican issues that should resonate with Latinos but have been obscured by the misperception that Republicans are hostile to immigrants.
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Source: 2012 official Senate press release, "Hispanics natural GOP"
Hillary Clinton on Family Values:
(Families & Children Dec 9, 1999)
Community support is key to valuing families
The theme of her book, [“It Takes a Village”, is] community support. She [illustrates with] a personal story: “There I was, trying to breast-feed my baby [Chelsea], and all of a sudden she starts foaming at the nose. The nurse surveyed the scene and
said, ‘Mrs. Clinton, it would help if you lifted her head up.’ All those years of education, all those degrees, it was no help. For all the talk about family values in this country, we do so little to value families.”
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Source: Hillary’s Choice by Gail Sheehy, p.288
Hillary Clinton on Family Values:
(Families & Children Sep 25, 1996)
Children are not rugged individualists
Children are not rugged individualists. They depend on the adults they know and on thousands more who make decisions every day that affect their well-being. All of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, are responsible for deciding whether our children
are raised in a nation that doesn’t just espouse family values but values families & children.I have spent much of the past 25 years working to improve the lives of children.
My work has taught me that they need more of our time, energy, and resources. But no experience brought home the lesson as vividly as becoming a mother myself.
When Chelsea Victoria Clinton lay in my arms for the first time,
I was overwhelmed by the love and responsibility I felt for her. Despite all the books I had read, all the children I had studied and advocated for, nothing had prepared me for the sheer miracle of her being.
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Source: It Takes A Village, by Hillary Clinton, p. 1
Hillary Clinton on Family Values:
(Families & Children May 5, 1994)
Men should be full participants in child-raising
I was just so struck by how, in our country, we talk a lot about family values and how we want parents to take care of their children. And yet, [some parents] talk about how they were forced onto welfare because they couldn’t get insurance, and men who
an’t take raises because if they do, they lose the Medicaid eligibility for their children. Mothers talked about how they’d be better off if they divorced their husbands, because then they could get government assistance. That is just wrong.Women and
children need men to be full participants in the raising of children, and men need the opportunity and joy of being those participants in their own families.
The primary obligation of both parents is to take whatever gift God gave you in the person
of that little boy or girl and pay attention to that child’s needs, to respond to that child, to stimulate that child, to be there for that child, and to learn the kind of personality your child has so that you’re allowing your child to flourish.
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Source: Unique Voice, p.177 & 181: Larry King Live
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