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Hawley warns nuclear family is 'under assault,' paints faith as unifying force in the US

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Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., speaks with Dr. Robert Pacienza, CEO and president of Coral Ridge Ministries, after receiving the ministry's Distinguished Christian Statesman Award at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., Sept. 11, 2024.
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., speaks with Dr. Robert Pacienza, CEO and president of Coral Ridge Ministries, after receiving the ministry's Distinguished Christian Statesman Award at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., Sept. 11, 2024. | The Christian Post

WASHINGTON — A prominent United States senator is warning that the nuclear family is “under assault” as he points to faith as a unifying force rather than a divisive one.

“The nuclear family, I think, is pretty clearly under assault,” said Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., in a speech Wednesday at the Museum of the Bible. “It’s under assault from many corners. It’s under assault from a bunch of our popular culture, but also … we’re sitting in Washington, D.C., we can probably see the Capitol out those windows and it’s under assault from policy and from our government. I mean, we have a tax code that penalizes marriage. It doesn’t reward it, it penalizes it.”

“We have policy upon policy that makes it harder to raise children. We have a radical Left in this country that now wants the decisions about how to raise children to be made by [the] government, not to be made by parents,” he added. Hawley attributed the hostility toward the nuclear family to “decades and decades of denigrating the family” and “decades and decades of saying that there really are not a lot of differences between men and women.”

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Hawley is wrong. Faith isn't a unifying force in the US. The US is a pluralistic society and there is no consensus about what is the right or true religion or best way to live. The fastest growing demographic in the US are people who don't identify as any religion in particular. And that points to his real agenda. He increasingly favors non-majoritarian politics that disenfranchises a large share of the electorate.
 
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Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., speaks with Dr. Robert Pacienza, CEO and president of Coral Ridge Ministries, after receiving the ministry's Distinguished Christian Statesman Award at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., Sept. 11, 2024. 's Distinguished Christian Statesman Award at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., Sept. 11, 2024.
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., speaks with Dr. Robert Pacienza, CEO and president of Coral Ridge Ministries, after receiving the ministry's Distinguished Christian Statesman Award at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., Sept. 11, 2024. | The Christian Post

WASHINGTON — A prominent United States senator is warning that the nuclear family is “under assault” as he points to faith as a unifying force rather than a divisive one.

“The nuclear family, I think, is pretty clearly under assault,” said Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., in a speech Wednesday at the Museum of the Bible. “It’s under assault from many corners. It’s under assault from a bunch of our popular culture, but also … we’re sitting in Washington, D.C., we can probably see the Capitol out those windows and it’s under assault from policy and from our government. I mean, we have a tax code that penalizes marriage. It doesn’t reward it, it penalizes it.”

“We have policy upon policy that makes it harder to raise children. We have a radical Left in this country that now wants the decisions about how to raise children to be made by [the] government, not to be made by parents,” he added. Hawley attributed the hostility toward the nuclear family to “decades and decades of denigrating the family” and “decades and decades of saying that there really are not a lot of differences between men and women.”

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It seems that both left and right are wanting the government to make decisions involving the raising of our children. Usually guilty parties want pass the focus off of themselves and onto their rivals.
 
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It seems that both left and right are wanting the government to make decisions involving the raising of our children. Usually guilty parties want pass the focus off of themselves and onto their rivals.

As participation in civil society erodes, there has been more focus on the government to regulate peoples sense of normativity.
 
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As participation in civil society erodes, there has been more focus on the government to regulate peoples sense of normativity.
Both political parties are trying to stick their noses in on the nuclear family.
 
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