[ucaetano]

"if you accept the premise that the nuclear family is a cornerstone of western civilization"

Individual rights are the cornerstone of modern western civilization, not the nuclear family.

[AvenueIngres]

>Individual rights are the cornerstone of modern western civilization, not the nuclear family.

Sure. Individual rights are the cornerstone of modernism. Western civilization predates the French Revolution.

[ucaetano]

Yep, that's why there's a "modern" in there.