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Redefining marriage: good for business?
Tweet Here’s an anecdote to add to the discussion over redefining marriage. The Blaze reported on an article from Chief Executive magazine listing the “Best and Worst States for Business.” The top states are: Texas Florida North Carolina Tennessee Indiana … Continue reading
Substantive equal protection and the definition of marriage
Tweet A conventional narrative of constitutional history says that in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the U.S. Supreme Court commonly used the “due process” clause of the Fifth and 14th amendments to strike down laws, particularly in the … Continue reading
Talking about marriage: a new conversation?
Tweet On January 29, the Institute for American Values announced a New Marriage Conversation. The conversation was intended to address the “hollowing out of marriage in mainstream America” by bringing “together gays and lesbians who want to strengthen marriage with … Continue reading
Why marriage is so important to society
Tweet The Heritage Foundation has written an excellent post outlining why marriage matters. Here are the main points of the piece, written by Ryan T. Anderson, along with a few of my own thoughts: “[M]arriage exists to bring a man … Continue reading
Trib columnist shows honesty about logic of ‘gay marriage’
Tweet One question we’ve often asked those who advocate for “gay marriage” has been this: If you believe that legal recognition of marriage should be based only on “love” – as opposed to the rights of children, or the benefits … Continue reading
Put your sweetheart first (no Paris ‘lovelocks’ required)
Tweet The Wall Street Journal is talking of love … ways of showing love. One way is to write both your names, or your initials, on a padlock, lock it to a bridge over the Seine in Paris, and throw … Continue reading
Amicus brief to Supreme Court explains churches’ interest in Prop 8 case
Tweet Among the submissions to the U.S. Supreme Court explaining why the federal Constitution does not require states to redefine marriage is an important amicus brief representing a number of religious denominations, including The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day … Continue reading
Can we save marriage by redefining it?
Tweet A peculiar case for redefining marriage posits that the institution can be strengthened by redefining it. More people will then, the argument goes, want to marry or at least will want to strengthen marriages generally. The challenge is that … Continue reading
Why the Supreme Court marriage decision is good news
Tweet Last Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review two decisions of lower federal courts that had struck down two laws preserving the definition of marriage as the union of a husband and wife. One of the laws was … Continue reading
A consequential time for marriage
Tweet What if the U.S. Supreme Court imposed a policy of “gay marriage” on the entire country, in spite of the fact that nearly two-thirds of states maintain a traditional definition of marriage? On the other hand, what if the … Continue reading
'Freedom to marry'
Tweet If you believe that the “freedom to marry” includes any relationship outside of one man and one woman, you don’t understand the meaning of freedom. Most people are at liberty to do a great many things, but not all … Continue reading
The intrinsic good of marriage
Tweet One of the events in the John Adams Center’s recent Goods of Family conference (a really important event put on by the Center’s director, Ralph Hancock) was a superb lecture by Russell Hittinger of the University of Tulsa. Dr. … Continue reading
Anti-discrimination laws and marriage
Tweet Many people wonder why conservatives who speak up for traditional marriage and the natural family also often oppose fundamentally flawed laws that would add “sexual orientation” to anti-discrimination laws. If you ask some “gay rights” advocates, the answer is … Continue reading
Posted in Gay Rights, Marriage
Tagged anti-discrimination, children, family, homosexual, same-sex marriage, sexual orientation
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The mistakes of ‘the gay mind’
Tweet Recently I wrote about “the secular mind” in The Salt Lake Tribune. With this blog post I write about “the gay mind.” By way of preface, four items: First, I want to make clear that I’m speaking generally about … Continue reading
Posted in Gay Rights, Marriage
Tagged children, family, gay, homosexual, mcentee, parenting, salt lake tribune
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Same-sex marriage inevitable? Not so fast
Tweet At a Sutherland Institute event in April 2011, Maggie Gallagher noted that victory in a war comes when one side believes it is no longer worth fighting. Thus, one of the most important arguments made by those who want … Continue reading