Sunday, April 02, 2006

Pro-Family is Anti-Family

The family is becoming a political football. Parties on the left and right are claiming to be pro-family. This is nonsense.

A pro-family government is anti-family. The only pro-family government is anti-government, and they do not exist.

The reason is that pro-family policies make families dependent on the government. This may help families in the short term, but in the long run, it undermines families.

1 comment:

The Schaubing Blogk said...

Hmmmm. Perhaps this is true in New Zealand. But what is commonly called the 'social conservative' wing of the Republican party in the US is (sometimes) anti-governement. Sites such as 'hslda.org' or 'seperation of school and state' have as their underlying premise a 'get government out of (at least) this area'.