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State Affairs panel advances resolution recognizing ‘traditional family values’ month after debate
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The Idaho House State Affairs Committee voted to send House Concurrent Resolution 18 to the full House with a do-pass recommendation after testimony and debate over whether the measure unduly singles out one family model.
The State Affairs Committee advanced House Concurrent Resolution 18, a symbolic measure to designate the period from Mother’s Day through Father’s Day as a month recognizing traditional family values, and sent it to the House floor with a do-pass recommendation.
The resolution’s sponsor, Representative Joe Alfieri, said the text “recognize[s] that the core of Western civilization and the strongest foundation for the growth of children and the success of society is the traditional family,” and described the month as a way to spotlight that view while not “denigrating other forms.” He told the committee he and a Senate…
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