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Forcing Larry Craig's resignation while embracing David Vitter

Cost-free moralism is the only type the right-wing "traditional marriage" movement believes in.
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    Covenant Marriages

    I agree with the notion that so-called 'Family Values' parties pick their battles, and more basically are more political organizations than values organizations per se. That said, they do of course also regulate heterosexual morality when they feel they can get away with it. The abortion issue is a big case, obviously; myriad birth control and 'abstinence' initiatives; and the odd phenomenon of so-called 'covenant' marriages, meant to make divorce more difficult and in general to uphold a more conservative vision of what marriage is all about.

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