The 21st Century Family: Does Gender Translate into Love

My late grandmother showed me throughout the years what possessions were really designed to do.  Cars and homes weren't only for a persons' personal desires and needs, they were (or at least should be) used to help others.  I kept this philosophy when I purchased my first home by allowing two families and another individual to live there with me during different times.  It was far more rewarding than I could fathom at the time, and there are some benefits I'm still reaping from...one of which being a better understanding of the modern family.  I myself grew up in what would be considered traditional family; two parent household, both parents working, everything is everything.  This wasn't an exception in my neighborhood, although I had several friends coming from one-parent homes.  Back then, those families would've earned the non-traditional label.  That label is changing, though.  And now the "non-traditional" tag is moving to yet another demographic of people.  I was able to view this first hand.

Christian Wealth: The Intended Goal of Influence

Whenever a political conservative makes the statement that the United States needs to get back to it's Christian roots, I quickly think of this quote from Thomas Jefferson in a letter he wrote to the Danbury Baptist Association:

"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State."