Same-sex marriage, divorce rates, and the Christian worldview
Breakpoint has a good article today…
The Skeleton in the Closet - Divorce and Same-Sex ‘Marriage’
Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, a well-known author and lecturer on marriage, pointed this out in a pre-election article, writing, “We can’t win the fight for heterosexual marriage without confronting the issue of divorce.”
The truth is that same-sex “marriage” and no-fault divorce are inextricably linked. As Morse writes, “Gay marriage is the end of the trend that no-fault divorce began. The legal innovation of unilateral divorce began to reduce marriage to nothing but a temporary association of individuals. If marriage is merely a free association of individuals, there is no principled reason to exclude gay couples.”
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In Slate.com, for example, columnist Dahlia Lithwick wrote, “If you believe gay marriage is single-handedly eroding a sacred and ancient institution, you cannot possibly be pro-divorce. That means any legislation passed in recent decades making divorce more readily available - from no-fault statutes to the decline of adultery prosecutions - should also be subject to bans, popular referendum, and constitutional amendment.” Lithwick was writing in favor of gay “marriage,” but she put her finger on a point we often ignore.
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…We need not be shamed into silence on this point. It is just that the alternative response requires us to look the divorce issue squarely in the face.
Tags: Theology
January 5th, 2005 at 2:59 pm
Enjoyed the article.