Posted on 03/04/2006 10:23:37 PM PST by proud2b4family
Ted Hallisey's job is to turn tourists on to Kane County, but Kanab's endorsement of a "natural-family resolution" is turning some visitors off. "Recently read about your vote to censure anyone other than . . . heterosexual, childbearing couples. Even though I fit that bill, I am so disturbed by your actions that I am rescheduling my travel plans to avoid Kanab completely," reads one e-mail sent to the city. "Y'all are silly," reads another e-mail, obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune through the Government Records Access and Management Act. And a northern Utah woman vows to stop visiting Kanab because the resolution supports "prejudice, discrimination and subtle social cruelties." Such responses from potential hotel-staying, souvenir-buying, restaurant-dining visitors worry Hallisey, executive director of the Kane County Office of Tourism and Film Commission.
(Excerpt) Read more at sltrib.com ...
What is so bad about wanting stable families? The intended point by those on the city council who approved the resolution was not to proscribe families from our community that aren't strictly "Mom, Dad, and the Kids". I came from a non-traditional family in this sense, so I would be dishonoring my own wonderful upbringing to support them if this was the case, and I know it's not. The point of the declaration was to make a stand against the latest political and judicial machinations regarding pornographic and homosexual agendas which threaten the social fabric of every community. To spell it out more directly, this non-binding resolution really only amounts in substance to a vision statement that people are free to ignore without enforcement consequence. It is merely a statement against Clintonian "family values", which was really just doublespeak for promoting "Heather Has Two Mommies" in our schools.
To be even more clear, the nuclear family didn't begin to die because of "financial and psychological strains" as one editorial respondent stated. Those have always existed. Families survived them intact because there was little social or legal recourse for dividing or reorganizing the family to begin with. Most laws, until now, were created to preserve nuclear family structure, not to change it. Whenever it has occurred otherwise, natural law and human tendencies toward desiring freedom from tyranny rescinded such legislation and put things right. The fall of the paternalistic U.S.S.R, where the state was parent to the child, is a prime example. However, in this nation and era, as in others that have failed before it, we began to go downhill with no-fault divorce in the 50s and 60s, which snowballed into open promiscuity, co-habitation, and abortion in the 70s and 80s. Now our societal and moral decline takes the form of promotion of homosexuality as an "alternative lifestyle", where a family relationship is defined by sexual behaviors rather than by spiritual and genetic and cultural connections. Turn on your TV to find out what's next, if you dare (more about that further on).
I even hesitate to use the words "natural family" to describe what people know intuitively because doing so plays into the hands of liberal interest groups who have an active agenda to substitute something else. By saying there is a "natural" family, even in support of it, we unwittingly participate in redundancy and Orwellian "Newspeak" and wrongfully acknowledge that there might be some other arrangement that is biologically and religiously sound. Note that I did not say "christian" as this is a value shared by all world religions. Family, by literal definition, is natural. Even the animals know this. It's biological for them. For humans it's both biological and spiritual. It comes from the spiritual and biological union of a man and a woman, and not of a man and a man or of a woman and a woman. The latter is artificial, unnatural, a genetic dead-end, not intended by God or Nature, and historically not tolerated by stable societies--no matter how much some may wish that it were different.
About seven years ago I moved to the Chicago area in what conservatives here call the "People's Republic of Illinois". Illinois, the Land of Lincoln, is on its way to becoming "The Midwestern California" in its morality, in the self-government of its people (or lack thereof), and in its property prices and taxes. Here, mostly in the cities, which have the greatest density of the state's population, liberals have long had nearly full sway and have recently made great inroads into public policy regarding family structures. The elite liberals in northern Illinois, as in other so-called "blue" cities and states, have a breathtaking command of and influence in the media as they assassinate the characters of nearly every human being who dares question the new family constructs they're busily imposing on local communities. It is mind boggling to me that with so few solid, non-divorced families left in this state, and indeed the nation, that anyone has the chutzpah to consider tinkering with them even more. We should be going back to what worked, and reject what didn'twork, instead of experimenting with the unknown. The argument now seems to be that the so-called "traditional" family was a failure to begin with because of its "oppressiveness" and "exclusion" of other arrangements. But after growing up in Kanab and having lived in other conservative (read: small) communities, I never saw anything oppressive or exclusionary in any family I saw. In fact, I saw the opposite in how people visiting our community were treated, no matter what assumptions could have been made about them. I've seen enough good examples of strongly committed husband-wife-child (or grandma-grandpa-grandchild, or uncle-aunt-nephew) families to see through this leftist spin and rhetoric.
To wit, has nobody even asked the question, "Why all the furor over the one, isolated Utah community in over 200 who chose to actually accept this document?" Why has there been such a backlash from the "outside" against a tiny town of barely 4,000 people? It only makes sense if you view it in the context of the fact that elite liberals smelled blood in the water and wanted to uncover every instance of opposition to their plans to transform American family values into something our Founding Fathers would not have even considered possible.
When I read statements on TownHall.com from Dan Walter--who is from Maryland, no less--that says that the Kanab resolution is "religious language...that doesn't belong in a government setting.", I have to ask just what versions of the founding documents he is reading. Our whole nation was founded on the idea that God was the guiding hand. When they signed the Declaration of Independence "with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence", they were not referring to a city of an east coast state.
Nationwide, the media (liberal and, unfortunately, conservative--sorry Fox) appears to be more and more under the influence of agendas destructive to the family. Just turn on any sit-com, cop show, or "reality" series and you will see a steady stream of feminist man-bashing, cartoonishly disrespectful children, hyper-sexualized women, and every other kind of deviant behavior known to man. Whatever you can think of, it's probably been done on a TV show on some channel in the last year or has been highlighted on the news.
In our own family, we've found it necessary to ban cable and satellite TV and de-tune certain network stations to preserve the innocence of our three kids. Gone, even, are the days when you could turn on PBS all day and know that your child was safe from indoctrination. Saturday cartoons are hell-bent on preaching disgusting habits and disrespectful attitudes (arguably, though, they've always been this way...advertisers know it's the best way to keep little eyes glued to the set). We even went "retro" and bought the first two seasons of Little House on the Prairie on DVD just so they'd actually have something uplifting to watch. But, whenever conservative citizens rally for something else (for to what, exactly, are we supposed to change the channel nowadays?) we are immediately shouted down by media elites as "fundamentalists", "red state rednecks", "Fox News crazies" and, yes folks, even "terrorists".
In the world of popular media, beltway politics, and Hollywood, it is a crime to be found in possession of a conservative thought or ideal. If you don't want what they want, you're out in the cold or being investigated. If you don't believe that it's really that bad, then quick, on the right side of a sheet of paper write down the names of five prominent conservative network news corporations. Now, on the left, name five liberal ones. Which column has more names? You probably have even named more than five on the left-hand side. Do the same for the number of G-rated and R-rated movies. Extra points if you can name a significant number of PG movies made in the last five years that don't have a single swear word or display of gross bodily humor.
So, what's a conservative to do in such a hostile climate? The gauntlet has been thrown down and has now been carried down Highway 89 to our small town. Kanabites, with emphasis on community, exercise your right to free speech and go to your computer right now to sign up with conservative interest groups like LegacyLeader.com, OneMillionDads.com, and OneMillionMoms.com. Rally for decency and a return to the values that you believe this nation was founded upon. Fight the liberal zeitgeist on its own turf by supporting decency and by boycotting indecency in all its forms. Wear modest clothing and demand it from your retailer. Turn off the TV and head to the library. Send your kids to more conservative colleges that don't impose a liberal speech code on students. It's never been easier to make your voice heard to the marketplace and to local, state, and national leaders, but you as an individual have to make an active effort. Nobody else will do it for you. In America, "the government" and "the marketplace" shouldn't be some abstract notion or extra-societal parental figure. We the people are the government. We the people are the marketplace.
If doing this means that towns like ours are considered anathema for liberal vacationers, then so be it. Most of this nation is "flyover country" to many of them anyways and that's their decision. We may likewise make our own vacation plans. But we can also look on the bright side for many other people who cancel their Disney plans and opt to explore our neck of the woods.
One man's intellectual wasteland is another man's visual and societal utopia.
Couldn't read the long part but the resolution looks interesting.
Good for Kanab.
A BIG WELCOME to Freerepublic. Thanks for the post. You have found a friendly home here!
That has to be the all time best first post in Freeper History.
I think you'll be a wonderful addition to our little group.
wassa matta with singles?
It sounds like it will be a great place to take the kids in the future.
Nothing wrong with singles at all. :) This resolution was targeted at the left, not at people who just haven't gotten married yet for whatever reason.
It sure is. Please help me generate buzz about Kanab to other conservative audiences. I would love to make it a haven for conservative vacationers (can you believe that it was the only community to approve the resolution in UTAH of all places?!) We have to show those other communities what they missed out on by rejecting it.
Thank you Jotmo and Bullion! I just discovered this site and hope to provide more to it.
Thanks! By the way, there's an "anti-Kanab" site at http://www.whatsupwithkanab.com. People in and out of Kanab are devoting a lot of time to this topic. We should too.
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Not bad for a newbie's first post. :^)
Welcome to FR.
"I commend Kanab City Council on its bold and outspoken support of the "natural family".
Is "natural family" a code word for polygamous marriages?
Given the proximity to The Arizona Strip—the isolated patch of northwestern Arizona north of the Grand Canyon and south of the Utah, makes me wonder. The Arizona Strip is a hotbed of
plural marriages and is the location of Colorado City, the re-named Short Creek, Arizona, where raids on polygamous families took place in 1960.
I hear you. People keep trying to lump us in with the Colorado City/Hildale polygamists. There is no such connection and hasn't been for over 100 years. The reason is that when the LDS church abandoned polygamy before the turn of the 20th century, Colorado City/Hildale disregarded that and broke off into their own church. They haven't been associated with the LDS church, nor with Kanab, which is 40 miles away, for all that time.
In fact, when I was in Kanab as a youth, I was assigned to help the LDS missionaries go to Colorado City and convert them back to the faith (some of the wives there had invited us to try to end their cycle of misery). We were run out of town with threats of violence and I don't think we've been back since. One of our General Authorities, Vaughn J. Featherstone, once said that he would know that the Gospel had been preached to the ends of the earth when Colorado City became open to missionaries. That still hasn't happened yet, but Russia is pretty much wide open though.
"I hear you."
Thank you for your patient explanatation.
I appreciate your help and information.
Guess I'll have to visit (with the family as usual) even more. Spend a few more dollars to help offset those lost to the 'dark side'.
redrock
No problem. Glad to oblige. :) I actually like it when people ask about stuff like that because it gives me the opportunity to dispel stereotypes and misinformation. Any other questions, let me know.
Thanks! We'll appreciate it greatly. If you want to promote us to your friends, just search on "Kanab" in Google and you'll get a whole pile of great sites in the first two pages.
http://www.google.com/search?q=kanab
Also, if it doesn't look too much like a conflict of interest in this forum, here's a link to this article in my blog with bonus links at the bottom to help promote the area.
http://thewatsontribe.tripod.com/Rob/blogs/2006/03/regarding-httpwww.html
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