“But God vs. Mammon is only half of the film. An equally central theme, one that has received much less attention, is that a man is nothing without family.”
I haven’t seen the film, but I wanted to comment on this section of the review.
How have conservatives managed to steal the American family from liberals, as if we now grow on trees? Why are so many people convinced that a “family” is a conservative value?
Conservatives don’t value families – they only value straight and Christian families. They want to keep gay people from forming families – from getting married and from adopting children. That’s why liberals value families more than conservatives – conservatives are only open to a specific definition of “family”. Conservatives are using “family” as a weapon against gay people. That is not valuing it.
