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Home: Current Issues: Marriage and Family: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Marriage and Family: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Men, Women, and Tenderness - Edward SriHolding hands, sharing an embrace or a kiss — these can be innocent expressions of love. But without great vigilance and virtue, these outward expressions can easily become a form of utilitarianism that actually ends up driving two people farther apart from each other and preventing love from fully developing. Read more... Missionary cohabitating - Terry MattinglyYoung men and women have accepted the message from their culture — a message that is not supported by the data — that cohabitation is a good way to prepare for marriage. Data from the University of Wisconsin provides a painful bottom line: couples that cohabit before marriage increase their odds of divorce by 50 percent. Read more... More on Marriage - George WeigelWhy support a Federal Marriage Amendment? Here are ten reasons why. Read more... Nickels, Dimes and Family Size - Father Tadeusz PacholczykA few years ago, I spoke with a young man preparing to get married. Read more... Notes for the Etiquette of a New Age - Hadley ArkesIt may be worth starting to devise a scheme of etiquette to help us respond when a friend excitedly announces the same-sex marriage of one of their children. Read more... Obama can change what black men think - Barbara KayJust being themselves, the Obamas may inspire a more critical healing process than the ongoing one between American blacks and whites: namely, bridging the 45-year-old rift between black men and black women. Read more... Of Love, etc. - Theodore DalrympleWe are in revolt against ‘the limitations imposed by our mortality, genes, social and physical environment, and chance,’ as Satan was in revolt against God. Read more... Of Popes, players and prostitution - Father Raymond J. de SouzaThe Christian wisdom of Chesterton and Benedict is inclined to see the possibility of hope at the brothel door. Read more... Of Wine and Roses and Everyday Living - Teresa ThomasMy husband David is out of town at a dealer show for business. I miss him when he's gone. Read more... Old Faithful - Lionel ShriverAmericans disapprove of marital infidelity — in the movies, at least. Read more... On black issues, Obama plays the white card - Barbara KayFatherlessness, not white racism, is arguably the single greatest influence in preventing blacks’ rise to social and cultural parity with whites. Read more... One Man, One Woman - Robert P. GeorgeThe case for preserving the definition of marriage. Read more... One Man, One Woman - Mitt RomneyNo matter how you feel about gay marriage, we should be able to agree that the citizens and their elected representatives must not be excluded from a decision as fundamental to society as the definition of marriage. Read more... Only One Man: Bishop John Fisher and Christian Marriage - Eldred WilleyAs a child I devoured junior history books, and relived through them the battles of the past. It must have been they which first taught me about the great battle which was the English Reformation. Read more... Opposition to Gay Marriage is Not Discrimination - Rabbi Aryeh SperoThe claim being made by advocates of gay marriage is that the ban of gay marriage is simply about prejudice. They are wrong. Read more... Prepare yourself for the 'Marriage Debate' - Catholic Civil Rights LeagueEach of us has a responsibility to give reasons for our beliefs. That same-sex relationships are not marriages can be understood and defended by rational people. We have summarized the debate into four strong arguments supporting marriage, four counter arguments to typical pro-homosexual "marriage" challenges, and four responses to red-herring arguments that do not illuminate the debate. Read more... Preserving Marriage in Substance, Not Just Name - Ryan T. AndersonShould the state treat marriages the same way it treats baptisms and bar mitzvahs -- as purely religious practices properly left to religious institutions? Read more... Progressive Inhumanity, Part One: The State against the Family - Anthony EsolenThe family is that natural society where individual liberty and the common good are most nearly reconciled. To deprive it of its rights is to rob people of a great part of what it is to be human. Read more... Progressive Inhumanity, Part Two: The State against the Churches - Anthony EsolenA small town in Vermont has recently been ordered to cease its immemorial tradition of opening meetings with a prayer. Read more... Protecting the Traditional Definition of Marriage in Canada - Stephen HarperCanadian Alliance Leader Stephen Harper blasted the government of Canada in the House of Commons for its failure to protect marriage in what is being described as the best speech Harper has ever delivered. A motion to affirm the traditional heterosexual definition of marriage was defeated by a vote of 132-137 in large part because of the efforts of Catholic Prime Minister Jean Chretien and the lobbying of members of his caucus. Read more... Redefining Marriage Away - Robert P. George & David L. TubbsRedefining marriage will, of course, fundamentally change the posture of law and public policy toward the meaning and significance of human sexuality, procreation, and the bond between the sexes. Even more important, there are powerful reasons to fear that the proposed redefinition of marriage will destabilize and undermine this already battered institution. Read more... Redefining Religious Liberty - Maggie GallagherReligious liberty is a deeply American solution to a perennial problem. It means that every individual has a right to pursue ultimate meaning without coercion from the government. Read more... Resenting Chastity - Edward R. SriVirtue is not something simply lacking in the modern world. It is something many in the modern world actually resent. Read more... Restoring the Fullness of Fatherhood - Donald DeMarcoThe following 10 paradoxes illustrate the dynamic quality of fatherhood, a quality that invests it with both vitality and depth. Read more... Reversing the Deculturation of Fatherhood - Donald DeMarcoBeing freed from the "fetters" of fatherhood means that we neither know who we are nor where we are going. In order to recover fatherhood, there must first be a recovery of the fatherhood of God. Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 [>>] Related Categories:
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