SUSAN CAMPBELL AND RICK SANTORUM AGREE: IT TAKES A FAMILY
July 24th, 2006 by Peter
Who would have guessed the Courant’s most pro same-sex “marriage” columnist would find herself agreeing with the title of our favorite U.S. Senator’s book? From yesterday’s Susan Campbell column:
But let’s be serious. Hartford already has its share of youth programs, says Kelvin D. LoveJoy, of Hartford Youth Empowerment. Hartford doesn’t need baby sitters who will pull kids off the streets for an afternoon only to deposit them back when the sun goes down. We lose them in the dark. They’re on a street corner, on a porch, roaming the blocks. Another kid takes a bullet in the capital city, and the social critics in the suburbs reflexively check the time of the crime. What business does a 12-year-old have on the streets at 3 a.m.?
The people who run youth programs do what they can, but they say Hartford needs more. If the Hartford family overall has deteriorated, then there has to be someone or something willing to stand in the gap…
“We don’t want to deal with causes,” said Duckworth Grange, who works with DCF. We don’t want to talk about poverty and racism. We don’t want to talk about what it would take to go into troubled neighborhoods and re-establish what it means to be a family. Getting illegal guns off the streets is crucial, but only families can give these kids meaningful support that lasts after the grant money dries up…
On the court, a young man gets angry and curses, and Grange and three other men leap up to say, “Watch your mouth, man.” That’s what your uncle used to do, if your father was busy – tell you to clean up your language [emphases added].
The number of absent fathers unavailable to give their children the upbringing they need will only grow if same-sex “marriage”—a cause Campbell favors—becomes legal.
“We don’t want to talk about what it would it would take to go into troubled neighborhoods and re-establish what it means to be a family,” Campbell writes. Her words are truer than she knows.
