your mother!” it was not until i returned home
that i realized the cause of the misunderstand
ing, and i wanted to put things right for Yun.
she hurriedly stopped me, however, say
ing, “i would rather have Father blaming me
for this than to have mother unhappy with me.”
so things were not cleared up after all.
in the spring of 1790, i was again work
ing for my father, at the secretariat at Hung
jiang. a colleague of my father’s named Yu
Fuding had brought along his family to live
there with him.
one day my father said to Fuding, “i have
led a hard life, often away from home. i would
like to have someone to live with me and serve
me, but i have not been able to find anyone.
if my son respected my wishes, he would find
me someone from our home county so that our
dialects would be the same.”
Fuding passed this on to me, and i secretly
wrote to Yun telling her to find someone. she
did, a girl named Yao. as father had at that
time not yet accepted her, however, Yun decid
ed it would be best not to tell my mother about
what was going on. When the girl came for my
father to meet her, Yun made up a story say
ing that she was a neighbor’s daughter who was
visiting. and when my father sent me to bring
her formally from her home to his residence,
Yun again listened to the advice of others and
made up a story saying that my father had ad
mired her for some time.
Family Values
Type of Organization
Year Founded
Motto
Definition of Family
Lobbying Expenditures
in 2009
Family Research Council
Christian Conservative
1983
“advancing Faith, Family and Freedom”
“‘Families’ are formed only by ties
of blood, marriage, or adoption, and
‘marriage’ is a union of one man and
one woman.”
$90,000
$110,000
3,500
21, 170
stephen baldwin, ben stein,
ann Coulter, Katy abram
“attempts to join two men or two
women in ‘marriage’ constitute a
radical redefinition and falsification
of the institution.”
being designated a hate group by the
southern poverty law Center for
pushing “false accusations linking gay
men to pedophilia.”
Family Equality Council
gay Rights
1979 (as gay Fathers Coalition)
“love. Justice. Family. equality.”
“We assert that the love, responsibility,
commitment, and support that adults
give to children and each other are what
define a family.”
$14,000
$109, 066
3, 130
3,340
Jamie lee Curtis, dan savage,
Wanda sykes, Jane lynch
“We believe in the freedom to define our
own families in a just society.”
Made national news after 100 gay parents
attended bush White House easter egg
Roll in 2006; formally invited to same
ceremony by president obama in 2009.
