What is Marriage? Part Five, What’s the Harm?

So, then, what is the harm? To pick up right where we left off, as a revisionist might put it, “how would gay marriage affect your lives, liberties, or opportunities, or your own marriages?” Remember that from the beginning I have said that this debate is not about homosexuality, but about marriage. I’ll show later … Read more

What is Marriage? Part Four, Marriage isn’t Malleable

This is part four of my series on marriage. This article will focus on the second argument of some who think that marriage is changeable to no end, which is one of the main assumptions by those who want to change marriage laws today. They say “marriage has no distinctive public value, and this being … Read more

What is Marriage? Part Three, Marriage Has Public Value

This and the following article will focus more on marriage’s relationship with the state. The conjugal view better describes what distinguishes marriage from other human goods, something that the revisionist view is helpless to do. Like friendship, marriage is a bond, but marriage is a bond of a special kind. We’ve discussed some of these … Read more