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Marriage and Witness: What’s Going on at Notre Dame?

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The University of Notre Dame is unwilling to bear an “uncompromising witness,” as Pope Francis challenged it to do, to the moral truths of marriage and sexuality. This is a subtle but certain pastoral failure on the university’s part.
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Marriage Equality and the Bible: Why All Forms of Marriage in the Old Testament are Not Equal

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The only form of marriage that existed before the fall was between one man and one woman. The narrative trajectory of the Old Testament shows that all other versions were the result of sin.
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Befriending Those With Same-Sex Attraction: One Celibate Man’s View

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People with same-sex attraction do not need to be “fixed”—they need genuine, authentic friendship.
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Gender, Discrimination, and Marriage

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In the name of equality, same-sex marriage seeks to codify gender discrimination. But marriage welcomes everyone: husband and wife, father and mother, grandfather and grandmother.
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Why Fight For Marriage?

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We are all called to defend marriage so that the truth can change hearts, minds, and lives. As the early pro-life activists did, we must invest the long-term political, legal, cultural, and spiritual capital to win down the line. The final installment in a three-part series.
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Marriage Matters, and Redefining It Has Social Costs

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What is marriage, why does marriage matter for public policy, and what are the consequences of redefining marriage? Adapted from testimony delivered on Monday, January 13, 2014 to the Indiana House Judiciary Committee.
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The State Marriage Defense Act

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The age in which all states were united in understanding marriage as the exclusive union of man and woman for life has passed away. Now, new legislation seeks to protect the right of each state to define marriage for those who reside within its borders.
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What Makes a Marriage? Love, Sex, or Comprehensive Union

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Prof. Charles Reid thinks love makes a marriage. He claims we think sex makes a marriage. In truth, comprehensive union makes a marriage. And getting marriage right matters for everyone.
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Same-Sex Parenting: Reading Past the Headlines

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Although it can be tempting to jump to conclusions, more studies with large, randomly-selected samples must be conducted before it will be clear whether there are differences between same-sex and opposite-sex parenting.
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Marriage, Community, & Kinship

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Marriage connects more than just a man and a woman: it creates and sustains the fabric of society as a whole.
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Why Is It So Difficult to Discuss Marriage?

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Redefining marriage will bring profound and perhaps unintended consequences for the ways in which we think of ourselves as men and women, and for the kind of society we live in. Adapted from the Foreword to The Meaning of Marriage (2006).
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Same-Sex Parenting: Child Abuse?

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Single-parenting and divorce have always been understood as a breakdown of the married mom and dad ideal, but the demand to view same-sex parenting as “normal” imposes a silence on children about the wound caused by the loss of one parent or the other.
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Marriage, the Court, and the Erosion of Constitutional Democracy

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What future does democratic self-government have in our country if same-sex marriage supporters are willing to undermine it through the courts?
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Abraham Lincoln, the Supreme Court, and the Defense of Marriage Act

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Just as Lincoln rejected the Supreme Court’s reasoning in the Dred Scott decision, so too conservative leaders need to reject the Court’s faulty reasoning about DOMA. Anti-democratic judicial activism has become habitual only because our elected leaders have declined to respond to it with Lincoln’s clarity and firmness.
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The Supreme Court, You and Me, and the Future of Marriage

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What happened yesterday at the courthouse matters, and we must keep up our witness to the truth about marriage, by word and deed, until it is safely beyond judicial overreach.
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On Winning the Marriage Debate

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Conservatives need to argue as lovers: As we woo the person across from us, we are funny, self-effacing, merciful, and confident.
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Children Need Our Marriage Tradition

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Redefining marriage will make it harder for our children to develop their self-understanding and will sanction procreative methods that treat children like commodities.
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Yes, Marriage Will Change–and Here’s How

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The sexual permissiveness of men will emerge a winner in the contest of ideas as same-sex marital norms begin to shape the larger institution of marriage.
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Justice and the Marriage Debate

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The just way to settle the marriage debate is to delink from marriage any benefits that apply to any group of people who cohabit and comingle assets, while preserving marriage as a permanent and exclusive union of a man and a woman to provide the optimal setting for raising children.
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Proposition 8 and Discrimination: Marriage on Trial at the Supreme Court

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Proposition 8 does not, contrary to Judge Vaughan Walker’s claims, treat equals unequally.
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Cats and Dogs and Marriage Laws

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When we define our terms based on the results we want, rather than on the reality of the thing being defined, all hell breaks loose.
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Marriage, Religious Liberty, and the Ban Myth

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It’s a myth that marriage law “bans” same-sex relationships because it treats marriage as the union of a man and a woman.
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The Red Herring of “Marriage Equality”

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Debates about marriage will only be cluttered up, and decisions confounded, if the issue is framed in the question-begging terms of “marriage equality.”
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We Don’t Need to Redefine Marriage to Fix Policy Problems

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Good public policy can meet the needs of all Americans without redefining marriage.
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