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The Goodness of Marriage

seaview Wrote: Feb 11, 2013 5:55 PM

The societal need for marriage is to protect offspring. Since same sex couples cannot produce offspring naturally, there is no reason to build a societal construct around it. Why would a society construct a superfluous joining that can create no offspring nor heirs? Adults should be able to manage their own affairs, children can not.

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The Goodness of Marriage

NOTE: This is the third column in a series of columns related to National Marriage Week, Feb. 7-14, 2013. The second column is available here.

G.K. Chesterton observed in The Superstition of Divorce that “reformers of marriage . . . do not know what it is, or what it is meant to be, or what its supporters suppose it to be . . . .” Marriage opponents, who today seek not to reform but rather redefine marriage, appear to suffer from the problem diagnosed by Chesterton almost a century ago.

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