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Republicans do not see a contradiction in their desire to maintain family values and social traditions while at the same time making progress in society, particularly economic progress. Traditional values that favor discipline and independence, for example, foster entrepreneurship and economic growth. Family values, in addition, help fulfill individuals so that they can lead stable and productive lives. All of these things are key to social and economic stability and progress. The republican party is more concern with traditional values the means of homosexuality, the LGBT community, living out of wedlock is not the way society should be living with men or woman they are not married to. Traditional marriage and family, based on one man and one woman, is the foundation for a free society and has for millennia been entrusted with rearing children and instilling cultural values. We condemn the Supreme Court’s ruling in United States v. Windsor, which wrongly removed the ability of Congress to define marriage policy in federal law. We also condemn the Supreme Court’s lawless ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which in the words of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, was a “judicial Putsch” full of “silly extravagances” that reduced “the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall (Lopez).
Reply 1: Every human being has a right to choose whom they love, build a life with and, be themselves with. There is nothing wrong with people believing in traditional values. Unfortunately, the issue arises when the Republican party has an issue with those that do not have the same 'traditional' values as the Republicans do. Why does it have to be one way or, no way at