The authors of What is Marriage? One Man, One Woman, a Defense write in National Review Online that the conjugal view of marriage leaves everyone just as free to pursue companionship:
“…Now then, the supporter of same-sex marriage asks, shall we deny all this [the benefits of marriage] to the thousands of men and women in same-sex relationships? Read more…
Robert Oscer Lopez writes in the Public Discourse:
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“…The French resistance to same-sex marriage has demonstrated that an ostensibly progressive nation that had little issue with homosexuality as a moral question can change its mind, not based on ignorance of reality, but based on knowing more about what same-sex marriage really means. Read more…
by John M. Smoot
Redefining marriage will make it harder for our children to develop their self-understanding and will sanction procreative methods that treat children like commodities.
In the United States, we were fortunate to inherit a marriage tradition of monogamy with a strong stigma against divorce. Did it work for everyone? No. Did it work for our society as a whole? Yes. Was it beneficial for most children? Yes.
Then the sexual revolution happened. As Yale Professor George Chauncey writes in his article “Gay at Yale: How Things Changed”:
All around them, lesbians, bisexuals, and gay men saw their heterosexual friends decisively rejecting the moral codes of their parents’ generation, which had limited sex to marriage, and forging a new moral code that linked sex to love, pleasure, freedom, self-expression, and common consent. Heterosexuals, in other words, were becoming more like homosexuals, in ways that ultimately would make it harder for them to believe gay people were outsiders from a dangerous, immoral underworld. Moreover, the fact that so many young heterosexuals considered sexual freedom to be a vital marker of personal freedom made lesbians and gay men feel their quest for freedom was part of a larger movement. Ultimately, both gay people’s mass decision to come out and heterosexuals’ growing acceptance of them were encouraged by the sexual revolution and became two of its most enduring legacies. I think this did not represent the assimilation of gay life into the Normal so much as the transformation of the Normal itself.
Chauncey is right; we transformed the “Normal.” We created a “new Normal.” The mantra of the revolution, “If it feels good, do it,” ultimately weakened the institution of marriage with its inherent restraints and responsibilities, ballooned the divorce rate, and brought the number of out-of-wedlock births to 40 percent of all children born in America. All of which translates into poverty, crime, and suffering.
Over the course of twenty-one years as a judge in Boston, I granted thousands of divorces and heard thousands of cases involving children of unmarried parents. Yes, there were adults and children who benefited from divorce just as there were children of single parent families who did fine or excelled. Overall, however, the revolution that encouraged “pleasure, freedom, [and] self-expression” brought an immense amount of pain and misery. Was it bad for everyone? No. Was it bad for millions? Yes.
News from Great Britain:
A three-year-old boy has been taught by his nursery carer that when he grows up he will be able to marry a boy or a girl.
The boy’s identity is being protected, but his parent wrote a letter to a local newspaper about the incident.
The letter said: “Many of your commentators have speculated as to what the wider implications of allowing same-sex marriages will be on society. I was given a stark illustration of this at the weekend. Read more…
by Michael Cook
The Netherland and Belgium seem to be in a race to the bottom of medical ethics. Early in the week, Belgium was ahead by a nose. Its Parliament reportedly reached a consensus on expanding controversial euthanasia policies to include access for gravely ill children. But the very next day the Netherlands broke clear and lunged ahead. Read more…
Such a great, logical article, I had to post the whole thing, but it came from here.
Same-sex marriage will never be widely accepted in America for a simple reason: It’s based on a lie. But don’t take my word on this; leading LGBT scholars and activists say as much. Read more…
See what a mess you have once the door is open?
| Robert A. J. Gagnon | says |
Another point that I have been making for 15 years: Societal endorsement of homosexual relationships will promote polyamory. Eliminate a male-female requirement, the foundation for the natural “twoness” of the sexual bond, and don’t be surprised to see polyamory on the rise. Unlike Slate, though, I was not promoting that outcome.
Most married couples with children are satisfied with their relationships.
There is only one problem with the dour and dismal portrait of heterosexual marriage painted by Liza Mundy in this month’s Atlantic cover story. It’s wrong. Read more…
Physiologist Gary Wilson shows that the human brain is not designed to handle the hyperstimulation of internet porn, explaining its devastating consequences.
Watch it here. (The guy explaining this, not porn.)
I’ll bet you didn’t know this: population control is used as a tool of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar. You can’t get married without a license. If you have sex without being married, you go to jail. You can’t have kids without a license. The authorities don’t give licenses to the Muslim ethnic minority.
The author of this article, Anne Morse is ITAF 2010! Read more…
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