Reply #11: Yes, but I would add:

[Time for change]

Just because "family values" are abused and used for hypocritical purposes, that doesn't mean that they don't exist or that it is a worthless concept -- though granted it is an ambiguous concept.

Family values are particularly important because a good family environment is important in the raising of children. Thus, it is important that children be brought up in a loving environment, with access to health care, education, food, and all the essential needs of life, including parental acceptance of their sexual orientation, no matter what that might be.

This does not imply that one must be a member of a typical nuclear family, or any nuclear family, in order to be considered worthy, by any means.

I think that Democrats would do well to stress this. If instead they suggest that there is no such thing as family values I think that they will suffer politically for that.