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Next Thanksgiving, more babies might be around tables — whether they are wanted or not.
“I’ll be taking these Huggies and whatever cash you got.”
These are the words of Hi McDonough from the Coen Brothers’ classic film Raising Arizona.
Played by Nicholas Cage and co-starred with Holly Hunter, Hi’s wife, Ed, whose “ insides were like a rocky place where Hi’s seed could find no purchase,” meaning she couldn’t have babies, the movie hysterically shows us how Hi and Ed overcome the lack of fertility to become parents. Their solution is to steal a baby from an abrasive, local used car salesman, Nathan Arizona, whose wife had five of them: The Arizona quintuplets.
As many of us come together with families this year, the repercussions of the recent election will cast a shadow that will certainly dim rooms and likely leave loved ones staring awkwardly at each other. “They” won, but what will happen next, while it’s anyone’s guess, is regrettably, in many ways, entirely predictable. The nation will soon be dissected by Project 25. The laughable safety net in the United States will quickly resemble little more than some chewed-up mosquito netting.
The Founding Fathers of our nation, many of whom were atheists, decided that religious freedom was paramount to…
