About ‘family values’

Friends, I have to tell you, if my dog were taken from me by strangers, if I didn’t know she was OK, I’d go insane. And if anything bad happened to her, I’d be set on revenge at any cost even if it meant losing my own life. Now I sit here comparing this to a child taken? I’m getting sick, really sick.

The UN has said that separation of parents and children is a violation of human rights.

America is not Nazi Germany— not yet, anyway. We stand as the world’s leader in protecting human rights, or so we say to ourselves and the others. And family values? Let’s not forget about that noble idea which the right wing clings to when they’re not throwing it in the left wing’s face. If you value families, wouldn’t you want to keep them together? And safe? Isn’t that what family values is about? Got to be about more than slamming unwed mothers or homosexuals, or am I wrong?

Methodists are filing church charges against Jeff Sessions for child abuse, while the rump has said the children must be taken to prosecute the parents. Really? Then maybe his children should be taken from him. The Quakers went to Hitler in person asking him to stop persecution of Jews. I publicly state that I am a Quaker. Usually I keep my religion to myself. But now I stand up and speak out: Separation of parents and children is wrong.

This is going to backfire on America big time. Americans will pay for this. Big time. Already suicides are being reported. You do care if a loving family member kills him or herself, right? Or is staying alive not part of your family values?

MARIANNE BEASLEY

Fayetteville