Love: the one true family value

Whilst ambling through the net I came across a right wing blog fronted by an article which started with the words ‘socialists hate the family unit’. Futile as it may be to challenge these nutcases in that they are both stubborn and numerous, I still protested that it was an entirely untrue statement. I made the point that socialists are opposed to an inflexible view of the family unit; they believe that any group of people bound by love to be a family and that the biology of the thing is irrelevant. In this way socialists are more in favour of the family unit because they do not presume to classify what does and doesn’t constitute as one, unlike some conservatives, who seem to passively hate families by arrogantly dismissing their legitimacy just because they do not conform to the archetype: they are either led by a single parent or a same sex couple or likewise. Conservatives damage the strength of the family by being too rigid in their criteria. The fact is that love is all that is needed to create a family; its true virtues have nothing to do with biology, and the sooner conservatives grasp this idea (I know it is difficult for their dreadfully narrow minds) the better.