[Grunthor]

Someone without a job, watching their child slowly wither away from hunger does not care too much if Stan and Frank get “married.”

[grey_whiskers]

We are at 11% unemployment, meaning we are at 89% employment.

Gay marriage is still an issue.

(BTW, while I'm talking to you, congrats on the new arrival. Getting any sleep yet?)

Cheers!

[fatima]

Do you know someone like that?

[darrellmaurina]

1,408 posted on Tuesday, January 03, 2012 10:59:47 PM by Grunthor: “Someone without a job, watching their child slowly wither away from hunger does not care too much if Stan and Frank get ‘married.’”

I don't grant your point... lots of religiously motivated Muslims are perfectly willing to let their children starve rather than accept American help.

Secularists are dead wrong if they think evangelical and fundamentalist Christians are somehow less committed to their core beliefs than Islamic fundamentalists. The difference is that we don't blow ourselves up with suicide vests; we focus on our families and our churches, and when possible, we vote to get rid of bad leaders.

But let's say your point is valid. Show me where in the United States people's children are “slowly withering away from hunger” because parents have no jobs. Between school lunch programs and food stamps, our lowest-income categories have a disturbing tendency toward being overweight if not obese.

We aren't anywhere close to the point that social issues conservatives have to make a choice between their faith and feeding their kids. There have been times in history that has been the case, but it's not modern America.