Legal Decay Follows Cultural Decay in Marriage
Alliance Defense Fund has highlighted an article by Jeffrey Rosen articulating why he thinks same-sex marriage laws will eventually change.
Alliance Defense Fund has highlighted an article by Jeffrey Rosen articulating why he thinks same-sex marriage laws will eventually change.
“No one has ever mistaken Tom Toles as conservative. But when the Pulitzer-winning cartoonist called for marriage supporters to ‘hurry up and die,’ it didn’t exactly tickle the funny bone.” Click here to read more from Family Research Council.
A recent column by Angela Morabito in the College Conservative asserted that it is possible to support “marriage equality”—allowing same-sex couples to marry—without supporting same-sex marriage. This assertion was made on the grounds that Americans should be able to give people liberty without supporting what they do with that liberty.
We propose that the author’s arguments, however, are shortsighted for one reason: There is a proper role for government in society, and defining marriage falls right into the middle of it.