Tag: preserve the union
Making Marriage Meaningless
A new morality is being created and fobbed off on the American people, complete with “enforcers” to “stigmatize” good people who disagree. — National Organization for Marriage Roughly 3 percent of the population is homosexual, only a small fraction of which has any interest in marriage. Clearly, something else is …
One Man, One Woman
The promotion and protection of marriage — the union of one man and one woman as husband and wife — is a matter of the common good and serves the well-being of the couple, of children, of civil society, and all people. The meaning and value of marriage precede and …
The Argument for Real Marriage
Abstract: In the article, we argue that as a moral reality, marriage is the union of a man and a woman who make a permanent and exclusive commitment to each other of the type that is naturally fulfilled by bearing and rearing children together, and renewed by acts that constitute …
Next: the Repression of Normalcy
[T]o the extent that one is in the grip of sexual-liberationist ideology, one will find no reason of moral principle why people oughtn’t to engage in sexual relations prior to marriage, cohabit in non-marital sexual partnerships, form same-sex sexual partnerships, or confine their sexual partnerships to two persons, rather than …
Marry, Marry, Quite Contrary
I believe that gay couples deserve the same legal rights as every other couple in this country. — Barack Hussein Obama Homosexuals have, and have always had, “the same legal rights” as normal Americans. They can, and always could, get married. Marriage, however, is the union of one man and …
“Gay” Rights vs. the Common Good
Protecting the definition of marriage is not merely permissible, but actually necessary as a matter of justice. Having laws that affirm the vital importance of mothers and fathers—laws that reinforce, rather than undermine, the ideal that children should be raised by their own mother and father—is essential for any just …
Defense of Marriage
Marriage is the union of a man and a woman. Anything else is a farcical counterfeit. Same-sex marriage is not a justice issue. It’s an injustice issue. It’s an attack — by truly evil and twisted people — on legitimate marriage and authentic families. Vive la difference! Preserve the Union!
The D Word
For more than three decades, the American Christian Church has participated fully and completely in the institution of no-fault divorce. Sacred bonds formed before God — bonds that take two to form and two to live — can be severed at the whim of one. Even worse, they’re often severed …
Show Your Faith!
The Manhattan Declaration A Call of Christian Conscience Christians, when they have lived up to the highest ideals of their faith, have defended the weak and vulnerable and worked tirelessly to protect and strengthen vital institutions of civil society, beginning with the family. We are Orthodox, Catholic, and evangelical Christians …