For a long time I have been puzzled by the pro-family lobby in the US and Canada, particularly when they start to talk about the Christian family - by which they mean the nuclear family. It's not that I don't think family is a great thing. I think it is, [most of the time anyways]. So great is it that I think everyone who is called to live in a family should be free to do so, and the laws should recognize them. When family works it is astonishingly good. I think as many Christian folk who want to can run around saying "We think the family is great, just peachy-keen, the greatest thing since not just slice bread but bread itself." And they can add, "And we think God thinks so too" It's just that we/they can't get there from Jesus. The most you can say about Jesus is that he was ambivalent about family....

What the pro-family groups are heralding is a cultural expression that they really, really like - and that's fine. I like it too. I just wish they'd stop putting Christian in the name, because it makes it sound like Jesus would agree with them. And I can't find any evidence in the bible to support that.

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