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No, Legislatures Cannot Abolish Marriage

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Common-law marriage can never entirely be abolished. The duties of marital relations are generated and vested by the actions of the parties themselves.

Thinking Deeply about Christian Love: Same-Sex Attraction, Sin, and Spiritual Friendship

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The Spiritual Friendship project is not primarily about sexual desire. Rather, it is an attempt to think deeply about Christian love.

Masterpiece, Marriage, and Bigotry: The Court’s Ruling Is More Robust than Many Acknowledge

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State officials and judges cannot comply with the Supreme Court’s ruling in Masterpiece simply by articulating facially neutral reasons for decisions that punish people for acting on the understanding that marriage is a man-woman union.

The New McCarthyism: Religion, Marriage, and Judicial Nominations

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Should we determine whether a person is fit to be a judge based on his or her religious beliefs or opinions on contemporary policy debates? Or should the Senate approve judges based on their reputation for fairness, their ability to follow and apply law, and their record of judicial wisdom?

Marriage and Family Life Cannot be Privatized

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The existence of each political community depends on married adults having children and raising them to responsible adulthood.

Fr. James Martin on Marriage, Sexual Morality, and the Church’s Teachings: A Solution to the Puzzle

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Does Fr. James Martin in fact reject the Church’s teachings on sex and marriage? If so, why does he insist that he does not?

Same-Sex Attraction and Therapy: It’s Time to Let People Choose

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Recent years have seen countless—and specious—legislative, judicial, and administrative attempts to block those with unwanted same-sex attraction from seeking healing and transformation through professional therapy.

Your Marriage: You Have No Idea of the Good You Are Doing

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None of us can truly gauge the impact of our lives on others.

Hijacking Science: How the “No Differences” Consensus about Same-Sex Households and Children Works

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The claim that there are no differences in outcomes for children living in same-sex households arises from how scholars collect, analyze, and present data to support a politically expedient conclusion, not from what the data tend to reveal at face value.

Republican Voters Are Not “Moving On” From Marriage

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Rank and file Republican activists and voters revere marriage and will act to defend it. GOP candidates should understand that failing to defend marriage can come at a very high price.

Why Autonomy Cannot Explain Marriage and Family Life

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Radical autonomy does not capture the webs into which we are born, our experiences of deep neediness and equally deep love, our embodied nature, our reaction to tragedies and unforeseen obstacles, or our response to our children once they arrive. Autonomy resists the dependence at the heart of loving relationships.

It’s Possible: Gays and Lesbians Can Have Happy Marriages

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Same-sex marriage is not the only option for gays and lesbians who seek the personal fulfillment and familial happiness that is the universal desire of the human heart.

The Data on Children in Same-Sex Households Get More Depressing

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A new study examines the risk of depression and other negative outcomes among adolescents and young adults raised by same-sex couples.

Media Gush over New Study, Only to Find Same-Sex Parents More Irritated with Their Children

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The social science on same-sex households with children isn’t settled. It’s just plain unsettling.
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Toward Plural Marriage: Understanding and Countering the Liberal Wringer

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Anyone interested in defending marriage and family life must first expose the built-in biases and hidden moral teaching within the contemporary liberal perspective.
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Rending the Rainbow Veil: How to Make Your Church a Safe Space for Christians with Same-Sex Attraction

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Church communities should strive to be safe spaces where those with same-sex attraction can take refuge, openly sharing their experiences. We must affirm their dignity as children of God and lovingly refuse to encourage any behavior that is contrary to their good.
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Jews, Marriage, and Religious Freedom

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The same traits and tendencies that make Orthodox Jews appear uninvolved in political battles have also helped them preserve the belief that marriage is the union of one man and one woman.
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Did The Supreme Court Take Tennessee Courts Out of the Marriage Business?

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For a trial judge, the jurisdictional implications of the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decision are not matters of idle speculation. They are pressing practical questions with grave consequences.
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Defining Marriage

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It is important to hold up the truth about marriage for everyone to see. The first step of explaining, defending, and teaching marriage is defining it.
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The Case of the Pro-Life Movement: On Demography and Marriage

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The future of marriage in the United States may look grim, but so did the pro-life cause look forty years ago. Embattled social conservatives should find hope in the demographic shifts that trailed the legalization of abortion.
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Marriage and the Constitution: What the Court Said and Why It Got It Wrong

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The Supreme Court’s ruling is a significant setback for all Americans who believe in the Constitution, the rule of law, democratic self-government, and marriage as the union of a man and a woman. Will the right of Americans to speak and act in accord with the truth of marriage be tolerated?
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The Ambiguous Quest for Marriage Equality

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Do proponents of marriage equality want marriage equality or not? The rhetoric of marriage equality does not match the reality. Only if marriage is the union of a man and a woman does it make any sense to have paternity presumed without consent, incest and polygamy prohibited, and custody bestowed upon biological or presumed parents except for cause.
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There Is a Fundamental Right to Marriage, and We Must Preserve It

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Whether or not Locke would approve of it, there is a fundamental marriage right. It is ancient, not recent, and it secures the integrity of the natural family. In fact, nothing is more fundamental to our legal edifice than the ancient liberty of the natural family.
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Science-Gilding the Marriage Debate

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Citing tenuous social science that should not (and probably does not) change anyone’s mind merely obscures what people are actually divided over—namely, the purpose of marriage as a social institution.