ShareSpecial thanks to Charles Capps for providing us with his award-winning essay on the conjugal theory of sexual morality, as laid out by the New Natural Law Theory. Following up on yesterday’s post, we conclude the essay with part II for you now. Enjoy. IV. The Conjugal Act We will now proceed to develop a [...]
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ShareI. Introduction1 Since the cultural upheaval of the 1960s, opposing views of sexual morality have created deep rifts in the fabric of Western society. Today, with the remarkable acceleration of the movement to assimilate homosexual partnerships into the definition of civil marriage, these rifts have exploded to the forefront of the public sphere. Now more [...]
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Share A claim recently made in a premier family science journal raised a question that likely would have shocked previous generations: “Does having a mother really matter?” The claim was based on the premise that mothers do not provide anything particularly unique to children’s development. Rather, all that children need for healthy development is two [...]
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ShareOn February 2, 2011, Love and Fidelity Member Group “Love Revealed at FUS” hosted Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse for a dynamic lecture entitled “Same-Sex Marriage: Why Not?” Click here to watch the full video recording of the lecture:
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ShareOver the past few years, lots of money and ink has been spent arguing about gay marriage, but not enough attention has been paid to the implications of this issue for our understanding of what marriage as a relationship and an institution is. The gay marriage debate is in fact just one part of a [...]
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ShareLast week on Wednesday, February 23, the Obama administration ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act or “DOMA” — which was previously signed into law by the Clinton administration in 1996 and defends marriage as between one man and one woman — unconstitutional. The response by top scholars and critics has been swift. Outlined for [...]
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Share Following their highly contested essay “What is Marriage?”, Dr. Robert George, Sherif Girgis, and Ryan Anderson respond to the some of the criticisms aimed at their argument in this thorough and insightful essay. Among the criticisms: Marriage is merely a social construct. The authors answer: Not so. “…we believe that marriage is no mere [...]
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personal union made manifest through their physical union, where the two become one. To remove this central feature of marriage — coital union achieved through the loving, exclusive coming together of complementary spouses – is to open a Pandora’s box of other possible combinations of people who love each other and look to validate their relationships through marriage.
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In linking issues of same sex marriage, about which there can be reasonable disagreement, to issues of bullying and hate crimes (that we all agree are wrong), we’re failing to recognize Clementi’s death for the tragedy that it was.
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The Love and Fidelity Network upholds the position that the essential nature of marriage is intimately connected not only with the emotions of two people who are in love, but even more so with their actual union and the children who may result from that union.
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