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What I don't understand is how can there be no due process? Why hasn't anyone changed this or challenged it?"
...because people of the radical left infiltrated conservative groups a very long time ago, then resumed their business of trying to ruin our Republican Party from within again a little over three decades ago.
When we few fathers' rights advocates have tried to stop it over the past decade or so, we've been overwhelmed by tearful, anecdotal stories to our Congress about how mean and cruel all fathers are. Thus, even Republican congressmen helped to pass the unconstitutional laws in favor of imprisonments by accusation only, debtors' prisons, etc.
They tossed about half of the dads out here out of their families and homes after extended campaigns to vilify men. Now they are going after the children of single mothers
who divorced their husbands. Feminism is a tool of socialism.
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Then it will be plain that the first condition for the liberation of the wife is to bring the whole female sex back into public industry, and that this in turn demands the abolition of the monogamous family as the economic unit of society" (Frederick Engels, "Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State").
Feminists carried Mao's Little Red Book in the late 1960s (SDS and other first feminist groups) and early 1970s in the USA, Britain and other western culture countries. Some of those feminists have attended Republican meetings in every locale ever since. Socialism, you see, seeks to push its policies in its gradualist manner within its opposition.
Mao's Little Red Book on Women
http://www.paulnoll.com/China/Documents/Mao-31-Women.html
And one of NOWs main issues is homosexual advocacy for breaking the family. Other feminist organizations do the same but with a lower profile (the infiltration thing). Some even pretend to be pro-life (while actually lobbying to pass divorce bills like the VAWA and so-called "Child Support Act")
Singles are more likely than parents to vote Democrat.
They need socialism very much to support their anti-family habits. Without the huge bureaucracy we presently have for family destruction (and the government funding they receive--the unconstitutional VAWA, for example), their efforts cannot survive.
I have known about the ability of Child Protection(gag) Services to remove children from homes with no due process since I began looking into homeschooling many years ago. It was one of my biggest fears.
I was not aware of this other dimension of attack at the family.
Opponents must bite the bullet and confront the two evils that pose a far more serious and direct threat to the family than gay marriage: the child protection gestapo and the even more formidable "no-fault" divorce machine.
Bears repeating