"Moral Values" Funds and Supports "Trading Spouses"

Excellent editorial from The New York Times about the bogus "moral values" that elected Bush. I'm going to quote the last paragraph, but be sure to read the whole thing. It's all the ammunition you're going to need to argue with your conservative red-state family members:

...the values voters the Democrats must pander to are people like Cary and Tara Leslie, archetypal Ohio evangelical 'Bush votes come to life' apotheosized by The Washington Post right after Election Day. The Leslies swear by 'moral absolutes,' support a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage and mostly watch Fox News. Mr. Leslie has also watched his income drop from $55,000 to $35,000 since 2001, forcing himself, his wife and his three young children into the ranks of what he calls the 'working poor.' Maybe by 2008 some Democrat will figure out how to persuade him that it might be a higher moral value to worry about the future of his own family than some gay family he hasn't even met.

(Via Political Wire.)