A few moments of commentary about our annual ‘It Takes A Family” student conference which was held in So Cal last August. Interested in attending next year? Instructions for application at the end of the vid…..
We have a bible study at our house every wednesday night and even though it’s a policy of our church to refrain from ‘political discourse’ at these meetings (to use the oh-so-PC term), we invariably ignore that policy and get into strident discussions about the issues of the day at the end of our study.
This past Wednesday our group was discussing the issues facing marriage and the fight to sustain the concept in our society, when one of the women, in a nearly-throw-away tone observed, “It’s weird! The only people who want to get married these days are the gays!”
Hhmmm….
But you know, the way the tax laws are going, even the gays won’t want to be married pretty soon……
Hey everyone – October certainly flew by! Thanks to everyone who submitted photos of themselves for our Poster Contest “Reel Love Is_________.” We’re excited by the creative photos uploaded. Congratulations to Student Winner Colin McGuire, a student at California Polytechnic at San Luis Obispo. His winning entry was “Reel Love is a Fortress.” Watch for his video on why he chose that word. The video should be uploaded in a couple days, and by the way, it will be taken with the flip camera he won as a prize!
The Family Winner is the Gonzales Family from Phoenix.
Their answer was, “Reel Love is Multiplied!” And if you look at their photo, you will see fruitful love in action! Their prize is $100 gift certificate for the movies!
Just remember – this photo piece doesn’t take away from our overall video contest. We’re anxious to see your videos describing lifelong love in 30 seconds or less. Don’t be shy!
And by the way, we recently changed the rules so that individuals can submit as many videos as they want. Our only restriction will be that an individual can only win one prize! But, if you have a bunch of ideas, (or old school video projects lying around) go ahead and dust them off, and send them in! We’ve got great prizes and you never know who will be inspired to life long married love by your images.
Thank you again from the Ruth Institute’s Reel Love Challenge Team!
This pamphlet offers 77 incontrovertible statements in support of Natural Marriage,
all of which defend the premise without delving into ‘religious’ themes. If there is someone in your life whom you hope to influence without being accused of ‘preaching’, this pamphlet will be of immense value to you.
The pamphlet was written by Ruth Institute president and founder, Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., who was also the spokeswoman for California’s Prop 8 campaign. Dr. Morse has also been an ironclad defender of Natural Marriage as well as an informed observer of the political and sociological implications of Same Sex Marriage. Dr. Morse offers a complete argument, strategic and trenchant. You may order these pamphlets for distribution to your group or organization by clicking here.
Dr J is the featured speaker next Thursday for this event in Illinois.
SAN MARCOS, CA – Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Founding President of the Ruth Institute, issued the following statement in response to the overturn of DOMA by a federal judge in Boston, Massachusetts, earlier this week:
“This decision reflects an extremely superficial understanding of the social purposes of marriage. Read more…
Click here for more information on joining us for the “Doctors are In” Gala! August 12th
by Ruth Art Director, Todd Bingham
This week the Ruth Institute experienced a somewhat amusing shot across our bow: a negative and somewhat specious analysis of our logo, of all things. Read more…
The Houston Baptist University has just founded the Guild Institute for Christian Family Studies on their campus. I am truly honored that they invited me to give the Inaugural Lecture for this Institute. They lost no time in getting the video of my talk up on You Tube. I just gave this talk on Monday night!
I look forward to collaborating with my new friends at HBU on a variety of academic projects.
Watch the YouTube video…..
by William C. Duncan, President of the Marriage Law Foundation and Ruth Institute Board Member
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently issued an opinion ordering the State of Louisiana to issue an amended birth certificate for 
a child born in Louisiana but listing as the child’s parents two men. Read more…
Ruth Institute Staff post
We were all transfixed this afternoon as Tiger Woods took the international podium to follow in the footsteps of countless other men in the public eye who got caught 
inflagrante delicto by offering his heartfelt apologies both to us and his (absent) wife.
So….what? Do we believe him? Do we not? Does it matter? Was he actually contrite about what he did or just for getting caught?
This man is arguably the most visible athlete in the civilized world; his trail cuts and leaves a wide swath in our society, and hence in the minds of our children.
Should Tiger be held to a higher standard? What do you think, Ruth supporters and blog readers?
We put up a short poll about this to the right of this page, but we want to know how you feel beyond the numbers. Weigh in here and tell us what you think the ramifications of this marriage scandal are, or will be?
by Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D.
State-sanctioned same-sex marriage restructures the incentives for child-rearing arrangements, and much else. Few are thinking through how people will react. Read more…
By by Helen Alvaré, J.D.
Senior Fellow in Law and Ruth Institute Advisory Board Member
In my last column, I concluded that while public and private actors have taken many different and sometimes logical approaches to reducing out of wedlock pregnancies, they have also missed a crucial aspect of the problem: the difficulties men and women are experiencing in their relationships with one another, as evidenced by their unwillingness to commit to one another, even after a baby is conceived.
Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D.
IN 2007, THE MEDIA HAD A FEEDING FRENZY around a voice-mail message actor Alec Baldwin left his daughter. He screamed at her for not answering her phone. The public was shocked: many assumed that he was yet another self-absorbed celebrity, with neither control over himself nor regard for his daughter. But in fact, Baldwin had been caught in the web of the totalitarian nightmare known as the American family court system. Read more…
Report on the Panel on “the Politics of Marriage and Family” at the 2009 National Summit on Marriage, Parenting and Families at Hampton University.
By Lynn D. Wardle, Bruce C. Hafen Professor of Law, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University.
I was honored to participate in the recent National Summit on Marriage, Parenting and Families at Hampton University, September 29-30, 2009, co-sponsored by the National Center on African American Marriages and Parenting. My panel on Wednesday addressed “The Politics of Marriage and Family” and included in addition to myself former Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears of the Georgia Supreme Court, former Judge Arthur Burnett of the District of Columbia Superior Court, two Virginia elected officials (a state Senator and a city councilman), and Theodore M. Shaw, former President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund was moderator. Read more…
by Helen M. Alvaré, J.D., Senior Fellow in Law 
In two previous columns I suggested that a not insignificant cause of the current rates of out of wedlock pregnancies in the US is a breakdown of healthy relations between women and men. Past attempts to address high rates of nonmarital pregnancies failed to note this possible cause. Read more…
by Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse
Ruth Institute Founder
Many commentators read Pope Benedict XVI’s Caritas in Veritate as if it were a think tank white paper, and ask whether he endorses their particular policy preferences. It is a mistake to read the encyclical in this way. A close look at the document’s introduction makes plain that Benedict is not a man of the Left or of the Right: He is a non-ideological man of God. Read more…
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