The continuing adventures of that eternal man of mystery…
My thoughts on various social issues, which can cover a wide variety of topics.
Heh. As a sometime blog writer I always try to imagine the reaction of my readers when they first start reading something I’ve written. This topic is one that most people have an opinion on long before they’ve even seen the title of this article, and what are the chances that something I write will … Read more
I haven’t blogged about anything in too long a time, I suppose. I was reading a story today that I thought I would share; it’s about the importance of family, and how powerful an effect reminding others of it can have. I’ll be quoting the story here. The setting is that several years ago, Craig … Read more
This is part 8 of 8 of my series on marriage, based on Girgis’ What is Marriage? Marriage is a comprehensive union. The state has excellent reasons to recognize it and enact the correct view of it. These reasons are not rooted in some obscure ideology or private interest, but variously and deeply in human … Read more
Revisionists raise objections to the conjugal view: that it is inconsistent in recognizing infertile marriages, and at odds with the principle of equal access to marriage. Here I’ll show that both objections fail. First, infertility. An infertile man and woman can together still form a true marriage–a comprehensive union–which would differ only in degree, not … Read more
The harms of redefining civil marriage would extend beyond the couple and their children, to include anyone who holds the conjugal view. Americans are not particularly patient with those we think are enemies of equality. People who have attitudes that remind us of Jim Crow, Japanese internment camps or forbidding women the vote are today’s … Read more