<<Yes, conservatives in general don't approve of out-of-wedlock pregnancies. Yes, conservatives in general don't approve of teenagers getting pregnant. I'd suspect MOST mature adults aren't real happy with either, especially the parents. The difference is, while the right can be critical of such acts, doesn't equate to it being some massively voodoo taboo to the point said person should be excommunicated from society.>>
Try to keep it honest, sirs. Excommunication from society was never up for discussion.
The problem is with conservatives who try to stick their noses into other folks' business in order to "protect the family," or "preserve traditional values." They try to give the force of law to their own values, the better to impose them by force on folks who don't share them. Thus a Constitutional amendment to ban gay marriages, which the Courts have determined may be a Constitutionally given right; efforts to ban sex ed and condom distribution from the high schools; allowing public schools to teach abstinence but not safe sex; and dozens of other busybody interferences with private lives.
Well, you would think that a party so convinced of its own values that it is willing to force them down everyone's throat by force of law, would not only talk the talk but walk the walk. If their principles are so wonderful and so superior, surely to God their lives would reflect that, would they not?
Alas, in fact, we have as leaders of the "family values" Party, the lying, cheating philanderer and betrayer, John Insane and his beauty-pageant runner-up running mate, who's equally adept at telling others how to run their private lives but correspondingly inept at the world's most important job, parenting. Supported by the Moral Majority and the Focus on the Family crowd to be sure, even though the failure of the "leaders" to focus on their own families is patently obvious. By contrast, we happen to have alternative leaders available to take your vote, Michelle and Barak, two people who really DO "focus on the family," and demonstrate what a loving marriage is all about. Which pair will the Focus on the Family crowd really vote for? Do you need to ask? Can you say "hypocrites?"