Tagged: marriage

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Getting Marriage Straight II

Defending Marriage,  a Speech delivered (and revised) by Thomas Fleming, June 13 2013 Let us begin by finding out where we stand on the subject of marriage.  I am going to list a series of propositions.  If you are willing, please raise your hand for as long as you agree with the statement.  Marriage is: 1) a binding relationship between one man and one woman.  To include Muslims and Middle-Eastern Jews, let us even say—one or more women. 2)for the primary though not necessarily exclusive purpose of begetting and rearing children; 3) a life-long commitment entered into voluntarily by people...

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Getting Marriage Straight: Prolegomenon…

Getting Marriage Straight, an essential prolegomenon to any future discussion of marriage… Thomas Fleming   “All’s over then, does truth sound bitter as was at first believed?” My first response to the Supreme Court’s decision to give legal sanction to the fantasy of same-sex marriage is to say, “I told you so.”  For over two decades, I have been arguing both in print and in lectures, first, that the modern state, which  declared war on marriage since the late 18th century, has no business involving itself in a human institution that is rooted in nature and confirmed by Revelation; and, second, that in...

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From Under the Rubble 3: Same Sex Sex No News

  From Under the Rubble 3:  Same Sex Sex No News Thomas Fleming The gibbering classes were alternately elated and depressed by two “news” on same-sex marriage.  They were thrilled when Irish voters lived down to expectations by voting overwhelmingly to legitimate the love that used to be said that it did not dare speak its name but now shouts it from the rooftops, but they were depressed when it turned out that a “scientific” study on changing attitudes toward same-sex marriage was, according to its principle author, bogus.  These two stories are all the proof you need that a...