>What the heck does "liberalisation of marriage" mean
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>Did you google it?
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>But who isn't promoting two parent marriages. Everyone is on the same page with that. In fact allowing for gay marriage will allow for more 2 parent marriages. Gay marriage is pro family not anti-family.
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>Sounds compelling- except that the issue of the underclass has nothing to do with the availability of gay spouses. The underclass is there because heterosexual males in the underclass are able to abandon their responsibilities without consequence, creating another generation of underclass. How does gay marriage assist the solo mothers thus created- unless you are promoting some sort of scheme to allocate a middle-class same-sex spouse to each impoverished mother?
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>The obvious answer is to remove whatever perverse incentive causes these heterosexual males to abandon their families.
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>The opposition to gay marriage (and I've not expressed any- I really don't care) is that people are focusing on what is essentially a middle-class lifestyle concern and that if kids are involved, they weren't underprivileged anyway. Meanwhile down in the slums an underclass is growing that can be directly attributed to society's tolerance of delinquent fathers. Then people start to quote intellectual socialists who openly describe the family as a patriarchal institution that needs to be torn down with the traditional role of father removed altogether and the state in charge of child-rearing. You may not think that, but attitudes harden and suddenly people see a whole raft of issues as an insidious long-term drive to wreck the family. And so it goes on.
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>If it is true that liberals are the thinkers and insightful ones (let me get away with it once more, MB! ;-) ) then you need to speak up and say how you think the underclass can be solved- because I'll bet you have one in Canada as well, for the same reasons.
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>Well?


You may pass <g>.

We all wish we had a solution that would eradicate the underclass. That's as true in this country as any other. Unfortunately no one has come up with the answer yet.