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Public Opinion on Same-Sex Marriage

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Senior citizens are less likely to support same-sex marriage than younger Americans, but that does not mean that they are anti-gay.
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Advocating Same-Sex Marriage: Consistency Is Another Victim

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If tradition is not a good reason to limit marriage to a man and a woman, it is also not a good reason to limit it to only two people.
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Contemporary Family Law: Divorcing Marriage from Children

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Family law has changed during the past 50 years to the detriment of child well-being, paving the way for the arguments in support of same-sex marriage. But there is a new strategy available to us to respond to this situation. The second in a two-part series.
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Traditional Family Law: Connecting Marriage with Children

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The Supreme Court was more right than it knew during the past two centuries as it identified the state’s interest in marriage as children and their formation. The first in a two-part series.
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Abortion, Divorce and “Same-Sex Marriage”: No Blood, No Foul?

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Political legitimization of “private” sexual and marital choices causes much public harm. We have been personally harmed by the regimes of abortion and easy divorce.
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Defend Marriage: Moms and Dads Matter

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Presidential candidates in the next election should uphold marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
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One Man, One Woman, and the Common Good: Marriage’s Public Purpose

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The state should uphold the Defense of Marriage Act, because the state’s interest in marriage is fundamentally about public, not private, purposes for marriage. Adapted from testimony delivered before the United States Senate.
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Philosophy, Marriage, and Moral Grandstanding

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In a discipline whose point is dispassionate reasoning and discourse, some would shut down debate and silence dissenters on a deep and complex moral-political issue. And the view they would anathematize, far from irrational, is more coherent and more compelling than their slippery and ill-defined 'default'.
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Offense and Criticism in the Marriage Debates

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To take offense does not free us from further argument or criticism. Instead, offense demands ongoing criticism between partners in ethical discourse as a recognition of their fundamental human equality.
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Same-Sex Marriage and Human Fulfillment

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Public recognition of unions contrary to human flourishing will hurt, not help, the happiness of those who participate in them.
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The Abolition of Marriage

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New conceptions of marriage threaten to make “traditional marriage” not only unfashionable but also inaccessible.
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Same-Sex Marriage and the Assault on Institutional Integrity

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The King & Spalding skedaddle is a blow to the institutional integrity of our legal system. Intimidation is now the default tactic of same-sex marriage advocates.
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Against Divorce: David Hume Defends Traditional Marriage

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Learning from a religious skeptic’s rejection of polygamy and easy divorce.
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Marriage and Procreation: Avoiding Bad Arguments

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Defenders of conjugal marriage must be careful to not obscure the true nature of marriage—and the state’s true interest in promoting it.
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Marriage and Procreation: The Intrinsic Connection

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There is an intrinsic link between marriage and procreation, but this does not mean that infertile couples cannot really be married.
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What Marriage Has Become

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Marriage is fundamentally a pre-political institution.
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John Locke and the Evangelical Retreat from Marriage

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John Locke’s philosophy gives no support to those who would seek to endorse same-sex civil marriage.
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Does Marriage, or Anything, Have Essential Properties?

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A reply to Northwestern Law Professor Andrew Koppelman's second critique of "What is Marriage?"
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Marriage: No Avoiding the Central Question

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A reply to NYU Law Professor Kenji Yoshino’s second critique of “What is Marriage?”
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Marriage: Real Bodily Union

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A response to FamilyScholars Blogger Barry Deutsch.
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Marriage: Merely a Social Construct?

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A response to Northwestern Law Professor Andrew Koppelman.
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The Argument Against Gay Marriage: And Why it Doesn’t Fail

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A response to NYU Law Professor Kenji Yoshino.
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Marriage and the Law of Tradition

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Custom and tradition, far from being necessarily irrational, are often the vehicles of guiding and binding reason.
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Same-Sex Marriage and Public Opinion: Spirals, Frames, and the Seinfeld Effect

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Americans appear to accept same-sex marriage more than they really do, perhaps because they believe it to be more widely accepted than it really is.
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