Priority #1: Marriage and the Family

I have a theory that I call, "The Middle Toe Theory".   Apologies in advance... I am working on a better name.  Essentially my theory is that none of us gives conscious thought to the existence of our middle toe.  Give it a try right now:  think about it down there at the other end of your body... can you identify it in isolation from your foot, independent of your other toes?  Try to wiggle it and it alone.  How did that work for you?  See, it is very much a forgotten appendage.  Most likely you have not thought about it for many years... AND YET, if it were to be severed in some sort of freak accident you would certainly be aware of its absense.  The pain of its injury or its removal would affect your walk, your posture, your entire body's mobility.  It would have a signficant impact on your life. 
Our middle toe is not unlike many of the things we have taken for granted or assumed in life.  We live in a world that is challenging many of those beliefs and values.  The importance of an intact, "traditional" family is one of them.  This includes the importance of marriage and the definition of marriage.  In the political realm it includes the idea of American exceptionalism, of limited government and of individual rights endowed by a soverign Creator (i.e. God).  Now, I am all for questioning the world around us just as I am for considering the reality, function, limitation, evolution and feminist perspective of my middle toe.   BUT I am very pensive and hesitant to lop off my middle toe -a convention that has been around for a very long time- in the name of 'change'.  My point is, certain conditions and values have been extremely positive in the long march of human history and research (as well as common sense) continues to show their essential contribution. 
The vitality of a functional family unit -the ideal of which is a man and a wife bound by a socially and spirituall recognized committment- is essential to the continuity of the human race and to civil society.  Don't agree?  The evidence is overwhelming.  Subscribe to whichever source of truth you will, this evidence comes from science, from common sense, from God, from history.  Here is a document establishing the necessity of marriage and the family from a scientific perspective (click here to read entire report):