We're Fighting to Preserve an Institution

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Christian Civic League's efforts combat the real enemies of family

The iron chains and sturdy hawsers our Yankee forebears used to steady their sailing vessels were massive, strong enough to launch a six-masted schooner at Bath or to hold the Battleship Maine at anchor in Havana harbor.Yet even these chains seem small compared to the Great Chain once laid across the Hudson River to blockade an invading British navy. A marvel of Yankee industry and ingenuity, the Great Chain spanned six hundred yards, weighed 45 tons, and was made from hundreds of links, each more than two feet in length.

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We're Fighting to Preserve an Institution

There is a mightier chain yet, one spun from something as light and as hard to see as a spider's thread. This subtlest of threads is made from suggestion, deceit, and insinuation. One thread is spun out, laid onto ...

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