[Vision2020] Brady, Otter, and "family values"

[keely emerinemix]

OK, so I sit down to respond to the "family values, Brady vs. Otter" thread, 
and then Joan's post below pops up.  I might as well just go back to bed.

She nailed it.

Family values include, of course, not cheating on one's spouse or beating 
one's children.  Presumably it includes extending hospitality to not only 
family but neighbors, co-workers, and strangers.  Even strangers with 
accents and hard-to-pronounce last names.  It might even be said that 
"family values" would include not tearing families apart by sending young 
men and women off to a poorly-planned, ill-conceived, unjustified war.  So 
there may be many ways of demonstrating family values, and not many of them 
involve sex.

If we were at a Battle of the Bands featuring, say, "The Licentious Bushes, 
Featuring W and His Daughters" and "The Libidinous Kennedys With Clinton on 
Sax," we would probably all get a pretty good idea of how not to do it, and 
no fanbase would be able to gloat about the pristine behaviors of their 
faves.  But what would it matter?  As Joan said, there are, in the audience, 
real families being crushed under the frenzy -- helplessly dragged into the 
mosh pit, as it were, and battered by the things that the bandmembers 
actually could resolve, if only they'd get off the stage, roll up their 
sleeves, and start singing a different tune.   People in the audience are 
literally dying to hear one.

keely


From: Joan Opyr <joanopyr at moscow.com>
To: Vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Brady, Otter, and "family values"
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 05:08:44 GMT

How about I reframe Bill's question and ask Jerry Brady what he makes of
the phrase "family values?"  For me, the term is code for anti-gay, anti-
choice, pro-erasing the line of separation between church and state.  I'd
like to know what Jerry Brady would do (that Butch Otter would not) to
value my family, or Matt's, or Bill's, or Barrett's.  I'm tired of
hypocritical lectures on morality from notorious womanizers and sleazy
adulterers, both Democrat and Republican, while we watch real families
harmed by the precipitous drop in buying power, the loss of health care
and other employee benefits, and the disappearance of educational
opportunities and living-wage jobs.

Will that do?

Of course, should the subject of Butch Otter's many votes to protect "the
sanctity of marriage" come up in the conversation, I'll laugh my ass off.
Who's a greater risk to marriage, gay me or the gay divorcee?  I will be
interested to hear where Jerry Brady stands on HJR2, the proposed
amendment to the Idaho constitution banning same-sex marriage, and I will
be asking him to justify his position whatever it happens to be.

Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
www.joanopyr.com



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