The Party of "Family Values" ?

People who think that church attendance and conservative values equals moral behavior and that the opposite equals immorality also tend to believe that conservative (i.e. good) people belong in the Republican Party and that "the Democrat Party" is the party of immoral, liberal, "Godless" people.
        Despite the graphs and charts below, which tend to support tnat view of reality, we will show on this page how completely and utterely false and mistaken that view is:

[ from http://pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=240 ]

        No one who knows of the "Christian Coalition" will be surprised that it saw nothing but good in the Republican Party, and nothing but evil in the Democratic Party:

        Now, there's another side to this coin. Let's turn it over and see what's on the other side.

Don't let homosexuals destroy the institution of marriage.
That's a job for "the Party of Family Values"

1. When Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted to jump from Hollywood to California's governor's mansion, and many charges were swirling that he was a philandering cheat, he might well have lost that race, had it not been for his liberal Democratic wife, Maria Shriver, coming to his rescue and defusing that issue. Now, however, it turns out that the truth was much worse than the charges made at the time. He had already fathered a child with a mistress and that woman remained part of his household help throughout most of his 25 year marriage to Maria!
           He later wrote a book about his infidelities and lies, and gave an interview reported about them at CNN http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/30/us/schwarzenegger-interview/index.html "Schwarzenegger admits habit of keeping secrets, including multiple affairs."
2. Ronald Reagan - divorced the mother of two of his children to marry Nancy, who delivered their daughter only 7 months into the marriage.
3. Gerald Ford - married to Betty (a divorcee).
4. Sen. Bob Dole - divorced the mother of his child, who had nursed him through the long recovery from his war wounds, to marry "Liddy".
5. If you think George H.W. Bush was a model of virtue, check out this Washington Times exposé, which continues to be "covered up" by the (liberal?) mainstream media to this day.
6. Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas - divorced & remarried.
7. Sen. John Ensign of Nevada, confessed to long term cheating on his wife with his chief of staff's wife.
8. Sen. Larry Craig pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in an airport bathroom homosexual sting operation.
9. Sen. Lauch Faircloth - divorced & remarried.
10. Sen. Alfonse D'Amato of New York - divorced & remarried.
11. Sen. John McCain of Arizona - divorced & remarried.
12. John Wayne was married three times and divorced twice.
13. Sen. John Warner of Virginia - twice divorced (once married to Liz Taylor.).
14. Newt Gingrich - divorced the mother of his two daughters, while she was dying of cancer. He then went on to marry again, divorce again, and marry again (and to then abandon his Baptist faith for the faith of his 3rd wife, Catholicism.)
15. Gingrich's boss, FOX News owner Rupert Murdoch, who was a Roman Catholic earlier in his life, was also married three times and divorced twice.
    "(Keith) Rupert Murdoch. Born Melbourne 11th March 1931. Roman Catholic.
    [ http://www.kittybrewster.com/ancestry/murdoch.htm ]
    [ http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011/0716/1224300822182.html ]
16. Dick Armey - House Majority Leader - divorced & remarried.
17. Republican ex-congressman Bob Barr of Georgia Barr, now in his 50's, has been married three times. Barr had the audacity to author and push the "Defense of Marriage Act."
18. Rep. Helen Chenoweth of Idaho - divorced & remarried.
19. Gov. & ex-Rep. John Kasich of Ohio - divorced & remarried.
20. Rep. Susan Molinari of New York - Republican National Convention Keynote Speaker - divorced & remarried.
21. Henry Kissinger - divorced & remarried.
22. Gov. Mark Sanford admitted to long-term affair and neglect of his duties.
23. Gov. George Allen of Virginia - divorced & remarried.
24. ex-Gov. John Engler of Michigan - divorced & remarried.
25. ex-Gov. Pete Wilson of California - divorced & remarried.
26. ex-Gov. John Roland of Connecticut - divorced
            (imprisoned for corruption after resigning in shame).
27. George Will - divorced & remarried.
28. "Twice-wed Conservative Republican Ernest Borgnine married thrice-wed Broadway diva Ethel Merman in 1964. Their marriage was dissolved after 32 days. They had announced their impending nuptials at the legendary New York night spot P.J. Clarke's, but Borgnine, who was riding high as the star of "McHale's Navy" (1962) at the time, said the marriage began unraveling on their honeymoon, when he received more fan attention than she did. The competitive Merman was left seething. "By the time we got home, it was hell on earth," Borgnine recalled in a 2001 interview. "And after 32 days I said to her, 'Madam, bye.'" Borgnine went on to marry a third time, but Merman remained single after her divorce.
    In her 1978 biography, she devoted a chapter of her autobiography to the marriage: It consisted of one blank page."
    [ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000308/bio ]
29. According to his Wikipedia page, although he has only married twice, Clint Eastwood has seven children by five different women. This is the Hollywood star the Republican Party chose to speak shortly before their presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, did on August 30, 2012.
30. Rush Limbaugh - Rush (30-pill a day drug addict) and his latest wife, Marta, have six marriages and six divorces between them.
31. Dr. Laura Schlessinger, right wing conservative radio host. Promotes family values, estranged from her mother, opposes birth control, has had her tubes tied, espouses saving oneself for marriage, admits to having had sex before she was married, opposes adultery, has committed adultery while she was married, and has slept with a married man, opposes divorce, is divorced and remarried, has posed for nude photos which are available online.
32. Although Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been an ultra-conservative judgmental Catholic in most respects, he has been uncharacteristically liberal when it came to his own "sacrament of holy matrimony".  Two years after divorcing the mother of his one child, a Catholic woman whom he had married 13 years earlier, he took a second wife - something which conservative Catholics like judge Thomas often condemn, at least for those who don't have the prestige that Thomas enjoys.-

Republicans like the following are rare exceptions:

• Ultra-conservative actor and political activist, Charlton Heston, was married 64 years, when he died in 2008.
• Actor Jimmy Stewart was married 45 years when his wife died in 1994.

Now, on the other hand, these are the kinds of
"godless liberals" that the Democratic Party has produced :

1. Calif. Gov. Pat Brown married 72 years when wife died in 2002.
2. Sen. Robert Byrd of W. Va. married almost 69 years when wife died in 2006.
3. Sen. & presidential candidate George McGovern married 64 yearswhen his wife died in 2007.
4. Folk Music legend and activist Pete Seeger married 64 years as of 2012.
5. Sen. & presidential candidate John Glenn married 69 years as of 2012.
6. Journalist Walter Cronkite married 64 years when his wife died in 2005.
7. Famous campaign finance activist "Granny D" Haddock married 64 years when her husbamd died.
8. Pres. Jimmy Carter married 66 years as of 2012.
9. Sen. Howard Metzenbaum married 63 years, when he died in 2008.
10. Former Attorney General & activist Ramsey Clark married 65 years as of 2012.
11. CBS Journalist Andy Rooney was married 62 years when his wife died in 2004.
12. Sargent Shriver married 56 years when his famous liberal wife Eunice Kennedy died in 2009.
13. Former NY governor Mario Cuomo married 58 years as of 2012.
14. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg married 58 years as of 2012.
15. Journalist Bill Moyers married 57 years as of 2012.
16. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. married 54 years when wife died in 1982.
17. Journalist Dan Rather married 55 years as of 2012.
18. Actor & Activist Alan Alda married 55 years as of 2012.
19. Pres. Harry Truman married 53 years when he died in 1972.
20. Sen. & V.P. Walter Mondale married 53 years when wife died in 2008.
21. Billionaire Warren Buffett married 52 years when 1st wife died in 2004.
22. Sen. Harry Reid married 53 years as of 2012.
23. Speaker Nancy Pelosi married 52 years as of 2012.
24. V.P. Henry Wallace married 51 years when he died in 1965.
25. Sen. Wayne Morse married 50 years when he died in 1974* (see note below).
26. Actor & Activist Martin Sheen married 50 years as of 2012.
27. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall married 48 years to 2nd wife when he died in 1993.
28. Sen. Patrick Leahy married 49 years as of 2012.
29. Comedian Bob Newhart married 49 years as of 2012.
30. Gov. Michael Dukakis (presidential candidate) married 49 years as of 2012.
31. House Leader Charlie Rangel married 48 years as of 2012.
32. Sen. Pat Moynihan married 46 years when he died in 2001.
33. Speaker Dick Gephardt married married 46 years as of 2012.
34. The noted liberal parents of Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, Robert & Gloria Kagan, had been married 44 years when Gloria died in 2008 (in her sixties).
35. Former NY governor Al Smith married 44 years when he and his wife died in 1944.
36. Jody Powell (Jimmy Carter's press secretary) married 43 years when he died at age 65 in 2009.
37. Sen. Hubert Humphrey married 42 years when he died in 1978.
38. Journalist Daniel Schorr married 43 years when he died in 2010.
39. Comedian Billy Chrystal married 44 years as of 2011.
40. Sen. John D. Rockerfeller married 44 years as of 2011.
41. Sen. Tom Harkin married 43 years as of 2011.
42. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt married 40 years when he died in 1945.
43. Sen. Paul Simon married 40 years when his 1st wife died in 2000.
    
44. Al & Tipper Gore were married 40 years when they divorced in 2010.
    
45. Pres. Lyndon Johnson married 39 years when he died in 1973.
46. Sen. Paul Wellstone married 39 years when he & his wife died tragically in 2002.
47. Sec. Robert Reich married 38 years as of 2011.
48. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. married 36 years to 2nd wife when he died in 2007.
49. Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin married 35 years as of 2010.
50. Sen. Al Franken married 33 years as of 2010.
51. Sen. and V.P. Joe Biden 32 years as of 2010 to his 2nd wife after his first wife and two daughters were killed in a tragic auto accident. His family is so important to him that all those years in the Senate he had no home in D.C., but spent 4 hours in travel each work day to and from his home in Delaware to D.C.
52. Journalist Tim Russert was married 25 years to his one wife before dying prematurely at age 58.
53. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy had been married 18 years when he was killed in 1968, leaving behind 11 children.
54. As of 2009, the Weathermen co-founders, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, had been together for about 38 years.
    Notes:
            Wayne Morse has been rated as one of the most liberal U.S. senators ever. "In high school, he developed his relationship with Mildred "Midge" Downie, whom he had known since third grade, and who was class valedictorian and class vice-president the same year Morse was president." Although a Republican when first elected to the Senate in 1945, he gave the Democrats the majority by joining them in 1955.

When it comes to states with the highest
vs. the lowest Divorce Rates
( i.e. per 1,000 for the year 2001 )

All ten states
with the highest
Divorce rates
are considered
"CONSERVATIVE" :

1. Nevada   6.8
2. Arkansas   6.6
3. Wyoming   6.1
4. Idaho   5.6
5. Kentucky   5.5
6. Florida   5.4
7. Mississippi   5.4
8. Alabama   5.3
9. Tennessee   5.2
10. West Virginia   5.2

Of the ten
states with the
lowest Divorce rates,
six are considered
"LIBERAL" :

40. Pennsylvania   3.2
41. Kansas   3.2 (conservative)
42. Iowa   3.2 (conservative)
43. Illinois   3.2
44. New York   3.0
45. Maryland   3.0
46. Connecticut   2.9
47. North Dakota   2.7 (conservative)
48. Montana   2.6 (conservative)
49. Massachusetts   2.4

When it comes to states with the highest
vs. the lowest Divorce Rates
( i.e. per 1,000 for the year 2009 )

All ten states
with the highest
Divorce rates
are considered
"CONSERVATIVE" :

1. Nevada   6.6
2. Arkansas   5.6
3. Wyoming   5.2
4. Idaho   5.0
5. Kentucky   4.6
6. Oklahoma 4.6
7. Alaska 4.4
8. Florida   4.3
9. Maine   4.3
10. Colorado   4.2

Of the ten
states with the
lowest Divorce rates,
six are considered
"LIBERAL" :

40. Wisconsin 3.0
41. Maryland   2.8
42. New Jersey  2.8
43. Illinois   2.6
44. North Dakota   2.5 (conservative)
45. South Carolina   2.6 (conservative)
46. New York   2.5
47. Iowa   2.5 (conservative)
48. Pennsylvania   2.3
49. Massachusetts   1.8

Teen Pregnancy Rates by state :

Of the ten states
with the highest
rates of teen pregnancy,

all but one
are considered
"CONSERVATIVE" :

Four of the
five states with
the lowest rates
are considered
"LIBERAL" :

"Looking at what might normally be considered "moral issues," the January 2005 issue of The American Prospect reported some startling comparative statistics on human behavior in red states and blue.
        In red states in 2001, there were 572,000 divorces; in blue states, only 340,000.
        That same year, in the red states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and New Mexico, 46.3 percent of all births were to unwed mothers; in blue states, the average was 31.7 percent.

• The per capita rate of violent crime today in red states is 421 per 100,000; in blue states, it's 372 per 100,000.
• As of 2000, the five states with the highest rates of alcohol abuse were red states. The five states with the highest rates of alcohol abuse among twelve- to seventeen-year-olds were also red states.
• In 2002, the per capita rate of gonorrhea in red states was 140 per 100,000; in blue states, it was 99 per 100,000.

Once born, kids are on their own!

In August of 2009, the conservative Heritage foundation deplored the "Prevention and Deterrence of Crimes Against Children Act of 2009, which was introduced on July 31,by Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) to increase criminal penalties for child pornography, child sex trafficking and prostitution, child rape and sex crimes, and sex tourism, as an instance of what it sees as a trend in Congress to use the criminal law to "solve" every problem, punish every mistake (instead of making proper use of civil penalties), and coerce Americans into conforming their behavior to satisfy social engineering objectives.
        See http://mediamattersaction.org/blog/200908120001 ,

Minimum Wage issues :

Killing Kids :

On March 1, 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that children under age 18, who commit serious crimes such as murder, may not be executed, and stated that execution of children constitutes a violation of the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment. It should be noted that more than half of the countries in the world have entirely eliminated the death penalty, and that there are four international human rights treaties that exclude child offenders from the death penalty. In a worldwide study of the execution of children between 1994 and 2002, two-thirds of the executions of children occurred in the United States.
        While it has been said that Bush was elected by the "values voters", I have previously found that the states that voted for Bush in the November, 2004 election had higher divorce rates, higher murder rates, and higher teen pregnancy rates. So, when I heard that there were 19 states that had allowed execution of children, I wondered if the "values voters" states - those who voted for Bush - were more or less likely to allow the execution of children. Following is the list of states that allowed execution of children prior to the Supreme Court ruling, and how they voted in the recent presidential election.

For comparable information and graphs
on other important "family values" issues, see :

1. our graphs.html page, where we highlight the following:
   • Of the 21 states with the highest Murder rates, all but four are "conservative" :
   • Of the states with the highest Suicide rates, All eight of the states with the highest Suicide rates are considered "conservative, while all eight of the states with the lowest Suicide rates are "liberal"

Entertainment vs. Public Service

In response to an ignorant defender of Republicans, who wrote to criticize my support of Democrats over Republicans on the morality front, I did a little research and sent her this response based on what I found :

• Where did your "holier than thou" Republican Party recruit Ronald Reagan to run for governor of the most populous state in the country and then president?
• Where did your "holier than thou" Republican Party recruit Arnold Schwarzenegger to run for governor of the most populous state in the country, California?
• Where did your "holier than thou" Republican Party recruit Fred Thompson for the U.S. Senate and then for the U.S. Presidency?
• Where did your "holier than thou" Republican Party recruit George Murphy U.S. Senator from California from 1965 to 1971?  The answer is Hollywood.  He was an actor, dancer and former president of the Screen Actors Guild.
• Where did your "holier than thou" Republican Party recruit Sonny Bono( and now his wife) for Congress ?
• Where did your "holier than thou" Republican Party recruit Clint Eastwoodto run for mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California?
• Where did your "holier than thou" Republican Party recruit Fred Grandy (Love Boat's "Gopher") for Congress ?
• Where did your "holier than thou" Republican Party recruit Shirley Temple (Black) to be a U.S. ambassador to Ghana.  (She was obviously qualified to represent the U.S. in a black African nation, because she was married to a guy named "Black").
• Where did your "holier than thou" Republican Party recruit Charlton Heston to lead its powerful lobbying group, the National Riffle Assoc., if not Hollywood?

1. Nancy Culp - (U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania), who was best known as Miss Hathaway from "The Beverly Hillbillies".
2. Ben Jones - (U.S. Representative from Georgia from 1989-1993 before losing to Newt Gingrich) who was best known as Cooter Davenport from "The Dukes of Hazzard".
3. Sheila Kuehl - (A California state senator) who many years previously had been a child actor on "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis"
4. Ralph Waite - (U.S. Representative from California) who was best known as the father from the TV show, "The Waltons".
5. Helen Gahagan Douglas - (U.S. Representative from California for three terms until 1950 when she ran for the U.S. Senate and lost against Richard Nixon).  She was a broadway actress who made just one Hollywood movie before going into New deal politics.
6. Jerry Springer was in show biz, but not Hollywood, and that was after he had served as the Democratic mayor of Cincinnati.

- Ann Coulter, nationally syndicated conservative spokeswoman:
1. Right-wing pundit Ann Coulter titled her August 30 syndicated column on the Rhode Island Senate race: "They Shot the Wrong Lincoln." The headline is a reference to Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-RI), whom she excoriated throughout the piece - calling him a "half-wit" and a "silver-spooned moron" - while expressing her support for his challenger in the September 12 Republican primary, Stephen Laffey. This is not the first time Coulter has alluded to killing those she disagrees with:
   • Commenting on radio host Melanie Morgan's assertion that, if New York Times executive editor Bill Keller were convicted of treason, she "would have no problem with him being sent to the gas chamber," Coulter said, "I prefer a firing squad, but I'm open to a debate on the method of execution." She later suggested that (other) Times staff members should be "executed."
   • Coulter said of the suggestion that media had been hurt by the military: "Would that it were so! . . . that the American military were targeting journalists."
   • Coulter suggested that Rep. John P. Murtha (D-PA) is "the reason soldiers invented fragging," - military slang meaning the intentional killing of a member of one's own unit.
   • Coulter argued that the national debate during the Monica Lewinsky controversy should not have focused on whether former President Bill Clinton "did it," but rather "whether to impeach or assassinate" him.
   • Coulter said of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens: "We need somebody to put rat poison in Justice Stevens' crème brulée.''
   • commenting on the young American who fought with the Taliban, in her address at the "conservative Political Action Conference" (CPAC) in 2002 : "When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty.  We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed too.  Otherwise they will turn out to be outright traitors."

   ( Coulter would obviously like to be among those doing the killing of college liberals.  But she is totally oblivious of the fact that the Taliban which Walker joined are ultra-conservatives who hate the United States for being such a symbol of liberalism!   I trust that she is likewise ignorant of the fact that John (whose last name is Lindh, and whose middle name is the same as George W. Bush's), joined the Taliban at the very time the the U. S. A. had given the Taliban government of Afghanistan 43 million dollars. If John Lindh was an enemy of the U.S. for helping the Taliban at that time, then so was George W. Bush.  Thank Mammon for "Christians" like Coulter! When asked where she worshipped, Coulter answered "Redeemer Presbyterian Church", in Manhattan. Funny, but the membership secretary of that church has no knowledge of Ann Coulter EVER having attended her church! conservative "Christians", however, view Ms. Coulter as an authority on Christianity.)

   Also, check out this excellent exposé of Ann Coulter .

When Republicans say they aren't truly trying to get rid of Social Security, along with the rest of the New Deal, ask them what their flamboyant spokeswoman meant when she said, "I think we had enough laws about the turn-of-the-century (1901).  We don't need any more." Asked how far back would she go to repeal laws, she replied, "Well, before the New Deal. . .  would be a good start." - Politically Incorrect May 7, 1997
        [ F.D.R.'s fascist enemies surely didn't have Jesus in mind when they referred to his "New Deal" as "the Jew Deal", but perhaps there was more truth in that name than they knew, since the "New Testament" is just another way of saying "New Deal"].  and
        "It would be a much better country if women did not vote".

Check out the 2008 book on
the way the secular U.S. media
was duped into believing
the myth of
the overwhelming power
of the "Religious Right" :

After setting out to write a book about how grave a problem we had in America with overmedicating our school children, what author Judith Warner fround and documented in her book, " We've Got Issues: Children and Parents in the Age of Medication" was that the problem was seriously over-blown and that parents and educators for the most part are tackling the issues involved very intelligently.

Republican Roman Lee Hruska was a United States Senator for Nebraska, from Nov., 1954 through 1976. In 1970, as the highest ranking Republican member of the Judiciary Committee, he urged the confirmation of G. Harrold Carswell, whom Nixon had nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court on the grounds that "... there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren't they?"

What kind of values moves people to promote a culture of contempt for healthy eating? See http://hubpages.com/hub/Well-Fry-Anything

Gallup 2009 poll results, asking Americans
how they identified themselves

Clergy and Mainline Congregants on Social and Economic Issues

Change in the numbers of Americans
agreeing with the statements :