ABSTRACT
The traditional family presupposes regarding the goods of sex and marriage, the differences in status, roles, and authority of men and women, the morality of abortion, infanticide, and homosexual relations as well as whether married couples have a prima facie obligation to have children, the acceptable methods of reproduction, and the proper raising of children. The language of "fundamentalism" or "fundamentalist" in the sense of a "fundamentalist secular state" is meant to capture the way in which the dominant secular morality seeks through law, public policy as well as standards of political discourse and political correctness. Families that seek to establish an integrity of vision contrary to the ideology of the secular state are regarded with suspicion. Human rights discourse developed out of the anti-Christian European Enlightenment and the rhetoric tied to the violence of the French Revolution and its Reign of Terror, all grounded in a powerfully self-righteous secular ideology.
