Marriage & Family
In linking to a post by James Joyner, Instapundit Glenn Reynolds directly conveys Joyner’s concern, which the latter states thus: I’m not sure what’s shocking: That the rate for blacks has tripled in my lifetime or that whites have now surpassed the level of pathology Moynihan described. But note this part of the extended block…
Jennifer Marshall approaches a point frequently made on Anchor Rising from another direction: Waiting until marriage to have children is the second of three “golden rules” for avoiding poverty that researchers identified over the years: (1) graduate from high school; (2) marry before having children; and (3) get a job. Actually, being married is even…
A recent editorial in National Review concerning same-sex marriage is a good summary of arguments that traditionalists, like me, have been making for nearly a decade now: If it is true, as we are constantly told, that American law will soon redefine marriage to accommodate same-sex partnerships, the proximate cause for this development will not…
Edwin Meese is not impressed with U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision that the Constitution requires recognition of same-sex marriage: By refusing to acknowledge binding Supreme Court precedent, substantial evidence produced at trial that was contrary to the holding and plain common sense, the ruling exhibits none of the requirements of a traditional decision. This…
Ross Douthat states well the essential argument for preservation of traditional marriage that I’ve been making: So what are gay marriage’s opponents really defending, if not some universal, biologically inevitable institution? It’s a particular vision of marriage, rooted in a particular tradition, that establishes a particular sexual ideal. This ideal holds up the commitment to…
I guess it’s among the hardships of wealth. Jeff Opdyke laments that his son doesn’t have the drive that he did, as a teenager, to earn money, mostly because he and his wife have admittedly been a bit too generous: We get a lot of satisfaction in doing that. But it comes with a pretty…
Yes, there are distinctions, and obviously, it is possible to argue both points simultaneously, but consider the circumstances that some early federal judicial rulings on same-sex marriage have created. A judge in Massachusetts has declared that the U.S. Congress and President cannot define marriage for the purposes of federal law, because the Constitution leaves the…
Somehow the headline “Voicing their views” feels a bit discordant over an article that includes this detail: Speakers from the New Jersey-based National Organization for Marriage seemed startled as they were encircled by counter-protesters who yelled, sang and waved the rainbow flag associated with the gay-pride movement. Then, as some 170 protesters — most wearing…
Commenter Rasputin scoffs at my suggestion that, as men become less useful as economic partners and less attractive as mates, heterosexual women will begin marrying each other. You can call the idea crazy, but remember that you did so when the New York Times or Dateline runs a story about the trend of “BFF second…
Accusations of bigotry notwithstanding, I’ve long maintained that what drew me into the same-sex marriage debate about a decade ago was the intriguing and telling argument driving the innovation. The point is perhaps best summed in a passage from Andrew Sullivan’s Virtually Normal, which I quoted in a post some years ago: Some might argue…
