What have Republicans done for us lately?

"Repub/Dem 'social policy'?"

It's the lib/Dem policy to abuse the following right now.

   Article IV
   Section 1. Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to
   the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other
   state. And the Congress may by general laws prescribe the manner
   in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved,
   and the effect thereof.

   Section 2. The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all
   privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states.

It's every bit a fathers' rights issue. And the only way to stop the abuse of this part of our Constitution before the homo-left inserts "sexual orientation" into discrimination language, will be to pass the Federal Marriage Amendment. The opposition is going to drive more bureaucratic wedges between married parents in their next political step, then third parties are going to go after the kids in courts. Our founders showed their intent well enough, that we may pass amendments to stop the perversions that they never would have imagined. Their intent with regard to the related abomination they had the death penalty for speaks volumes of old decisions, too.

It would also do the "movement" some good to learn a thing or two about convincing political speech and politics in general--especially those who feel so mightily educated.

Your College Dropout

Look, Roger. Here is sincerety.

Free Republic is a communications tool for many conservatives who can direct politicians on some issues. Most of the people who use this tool know little or nothing of our complaints.

Announce the following.

"Repeal the VAWA!"

"Repeal the Child Support Act!"

Then tell why, in bit-by-bit details, again and again.
...little time here, so I'll throw the rest into the next two or three clumps.

Very few of us have done that--so few that Republicans didn't hear us. Most of our long-time "fellow advocates" who spoke to Republicans were nothing more than spoilers from the left, flaming at our congressmen with limp wrists. And huge numbers of feminists have been talking to congressmen for decades. Give Republican rank-and-file members who are not politicians something new to see. Tell them just how it will benefit our country and how it will be more conservative to get rid of feminist bureaucratic waste. Talk to them about what it takes to be a good father. Don't expect them to read about it all in some lefty or narrow interest publication.

And if we don't lead enough fatherhood advocates to inform legislators on each issue, forget it. How many fathers' rights activists are registered Republicans? That's one question that needs to be answered when someone takes the time to set up a legislative action site. If we don't have such an information and petition site--one that has absolutely no content from the fiscal or social left in it--then we haven't taken the next logical step toward positive action.

Governments are darned near like computers. There's a particular way to feed information to them and particular information that needs to be fed to them in order to get the desired result out of them.

"It's clear that Republicans are not interested in the votes of fathers and in fact, have been running an anti-father, anti-family agenda since Ronald Reagan's presidency."

So Reagan hates fathers in your warped world?!

Man, you could ring the looney bell completely off the wall.

Reposting the same comment doesn't make it stronger. Ronald Reagan was the only person to appear before Congress in 1975 with representatives from the National Organization for Women in support of creation of the US Office of Child Support Enforcement. During his presidency, the organization blossomed to a multi-billion dollar annual pork barrel with tens of thousands of employees nationwide, and we got the start of development of a multi-billion dollar computer system that now keeps track of personal details of every American; Cato Institute is among the orgs that have written reports about the danger of this particular government intrusion into our personal lives.

It was also during the Reagan years, spearheaded by Reagan appointees, that family issues were moved from private issues to government functions; causing loss of all constitutional protections for individuals in regard to family issues.

Reagan's involvement in family issues started when he was gov of Cal., introducing so-called "no-fault" divorce - effectively abolishing marriage as we knew it. He didn't quit but took the agenda to Washington where as president, he used marriage and family issues to introduce radical reforms that transformed the US into a socialist country.

I know that contradicts his "conservative" iconic image; but thems the facts. The legacy that you should be able to immediately identify with is that "conservativism" has apparently been transformed into something that had to do with freedom, privacy, and reducing the role of government in our lives, to the point that anything that even superficially seems socially conservative is a reason to build another gigantic government program to assure that everybody does what the government tells them to do.

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