Sheila Weber, executive director of National Marriage Week USA, has written a column on marriage’s contribution to the fight against poverty.
The column notes a person who graduates from high school, works full time, and postpones marriage and childbearing until after the age of 21 has only a 2% chance of living in poverty. It also points out how the decline of marriage hurts the working and lower class.
More than 100,000 people rallied in Puerto Rico over the weekend in support of the traditional definition of marriage.
With the possibility courts or lawmakers nationwide might try to redefine “marriage” to mean something other than the union of one man to one woman, one attorney is advising churches to go ahead and define marriage in their bylaws to avoid litigation that might result from future court decisions.
Bylaw language defining marriage in the biblical sense doesn’t mean a church won’t face a suit or a complaint, but it does mean the church would be in a much better situation legally, said Erik Stanley, senior legal counsel for ADF.