Issue Position: Family Values

Issue Position

The most basic unit of human society is the family. While there are many competing definitions of what a family is floating around today, the God-given standard has not changed. Family is based on marriage between one man and one woman. Marriage is nothing other than that. Therefore, a family does not consist of just any old conglomeration of people anyone may want to define as family. Children need both their legitimate mother and father, not two mommies or two daddies. I have twice offered legislation to uphold our Marriage Amendment, regardless of the Obergefell decision of the US Supreme Court, as our NCGOP Party Platform calls on us to do. Social programs that encourage illegitimacy are ruining our society. We need to reform them so that the traditional family structure of husband and wife raising their children together is encouraged and strengthened. There are some cases in which single parents are struggling to do the best they can to fulfill the roles of both mother and father to their children, perhaps for reasons beyond their control. We need to seek ways to ease their burden and honor their sacrifices, as well. Adoption should also be honored and supported in the case of married couples, but never allowed to same gender couples. Parents should be recognized as the first authority, with the first responsibility over their children's education and discipline. Options such as home schooling, private schooling, or charter schools should not be treated as any less legitimate than those of government-run schools. Sex education is ideally done by the parents in the home. If it is necessary to conduct sex education in the school system, it should be done only with parental consent and approval of materials, and should be based on the assumption that the best choice is abstinence until marriage. Any person, whether a school official or employee or otherwise, who counsels a minor female to have an abortion, or transports that child to an abortion facility, especially without her parents' consent, should be tried as an accessory to murder and for reckless endangerment of a minor, and severely punished. To regain the former greatness of our society, we must do all we can to encourage and strengthen the institution of the family, BECAUSE THE PEOPE MATTER.

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