Republican candidates are whipping up crowds with talk of traditional American and religious values. Anyone who grows up with a value system as a moral guide must recognize that it is a only a guide and not a straight jacket, especially a straight jacket that you want to put on others.
Often personal decisions are made, seemingly under the banner of traditional values, but are really based on discrimination, self-interest and rigid ideologies. A thinking adult makes his/her life decisions informed by his/her upbringing, but from deep within the authentic self, formed by serious thought and experience.
Peel off all the historical, cultural, political and ideological layers, and what's left is one of the most traditional of values, "Love one another." That's enough to grapple with for a lifetime.
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