Marriage
We respond to polished presentations like this: With this: I support traditional marriage but if I had to make a decision based solely on the testimonies above I’d have to side with the person who made an articulate case based on freedom.
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A friend of mine recently pointed me to this page where in the author crafts an argument against the definition of marriage being between one man and one woman. His argument is based largely on biological anomalies which give rise to odd situations where if we consider the person to be male or female depending [...]
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[HT Ruth Institute Blog]
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From this article on the UK Telegraph: “We are living at a time where some people, as my daughter used to say, they want to test whether the milk is good before they buy the cow,” he said. “For some people that’s where their journeys are. Why should we condone this “Try before you buy” [...]
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A friend on Facebook pointed out the following in a disussion on a recent post of mine: You point out that there is nothing to stop homosexuals from “drawing up contracts” and calling that a marriage; but their legal position on many issues would be quite different from actually legally married couples – eg inheritance [...]
A friend of a friend posted the following picture on Facebook recently and it elicited a rather rich and lively discussion. The graphic and related articles attempt to convey the absurdity and hypocrisy of states which allow marriage between close cousins (like gypsies) which poses a host of health risks, but disallow same sex marriage which they assume is [...]
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Marriage against the State: Toward a New View of Civil Marriage, Cato Policy Analysis No. 671 In his report, Marriage against the State: Toward a New View of Civil Marriage, Jason writes, Although privatizing all aspects of marriage may well be appealing, such an approach would result, at both state and federal levels, in much [...]
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[HT Matthew Rathbun] One of the current cultural Pastors that I most admire and listen to is Matt Chandler out of Village Church in Texas. He’s insight and delivery are outstanding. In October he did a sermon on “God and Sex”. I’m sharing this on this site, because I think it’s one of the most powerful discussions [...]
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As a biological phenomenon, religion is the product of cognitive processes that have deep roots in our evolutionary past. Some researchers have speculated that religion itself may have played an important role in getting large groups of prehistoric humans to socially cohere. If this is true, we can say that religion has served an important purpose. This does [...]
At a wedding the other night I wittnessed an event that charactarized the state of marriage in America. This event ocurred when it came time to throw the bouquet and fling the garder belt, a tradition which supposedly determines or indicates who is the next to be married. First the women When the bride went [...]
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