Category Archives: Marriage Articles
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German court rules 16-year-old girl can continue sexual relationship with her UNCLE, 48
November 4, 2016
Daily Mail 4 November 2016 Family First Comment: A disturbing decision on incest from the German court “The presiding judge said it was important to ‘get the relationship out of secrecy’ adding the prohibition of...
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Redefining Marriage – The Case for Caution
October 23, 2012
Julian Rivers – Jubilee Centre – volume 21 number 3 September 2012 The Government’s proposal to introduce same-sex marriage seems to rest on reasons of equality, stability and convenience. But on closer inspection, these are...
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APA – Wrong on Same-sex parenting and children’s outcomes
September 26, 2012
Science Direct.com July 2012 Loren Marks, Louisiana State University In 2005, the American Psychological Association (APA) issued an official brief on lesbian and gay parenting. This brief included the assertion: “Not a single study has...
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‘Discrimination can be positive’ – Brent Reid
September 20, 2012
Stuff.co.nz 19 Sep 2012 Wairarapa man Brent Reid, who stood as the Conservative Party Wairarapa candidate last election, discusses his view that changes brought about by the bill would render marriage “meaningless”. Louisa Wall’s gay...
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Same sex marriage – Impossible
September 14, 2012
Robin Johnson beyondhere.org.au June 2012 To change the ‘Marriage Act’ to allow same sex marriage serves no good purpose for the Australian community as a whole. Marriage, between a man and woman, has served mankind...
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Truth, marriage and the threat to religious liberty
September 7, 2012
ABC Australia 6 Sep 2012 Anthony Fisher OP is the third Bishop of Parramatta. This is the text of the address he gave to the St Thomas More Forum on Wednesday, 6 September 2012. Same-sex...
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Men & women are different, & so should be their marriage vows
September 1, 2012
Sydney Morning Herald 29 Aug 2012 Marriage really matters. Thank God we are talking about it. As Professor Patrick Parkinson said in these pages last week, marriage is ”by far the most stable, safe and...
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Critiquing the Case for Same-Sex Marriage
August 17, 2012
Matthew Flannagan is a Pastor at Takanini Community Church; Madeleine Flannagan is a Lawyer at Coast Legal. Together they blog at MandM. Equality and Non-Discrimination According to the General policy statement of the Marriage (Definition...
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It’s about liberty, not equality, the French say
August 10, 2012
Otago Daily Times 10 August 2012 Bruce Logan warns about what he sees as the dangers in same-sex marriage. Here in France, like New Zealand, same-sex marriage is presented to a puzzled population under the...
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Marriage, Religious Liberty, and the “Grand Bargain”
August 9, 2012
Robert P George – McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University. July 2012 It was only yesterday, was it not, that we were being assured that the redefinition of marriage to include same-sex partnerships would...
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Why I’m Optimistic About Marriage
June 13, 2012
Orthodoxy.com 3 March 2011 Building off of Trevin Wax’s excellent post stating the reasons he’s optimistic about being pro-life, I want to follow in like manner and offer the top ten reasons I’m optimistic about...
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Bob McCoskrie: Gay community cannot redefine marriage
June 11, 2012
Dominion Post 26 October 2011 Deborah Russell says the state has no business in the marriage game, but then argues that the state should redefine marriage to allow same-sex marriage. Marriages are a matter of significant...
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Sandra Paterson: My daughter missing dad
June 2, 2012
NZ Herald Jul 03, 2004 My daughter was about 2 1/2 when she looked up halfway through her porridge one day and asked, “Why don’t I have a daddy at home, like Steven does?” Steven...
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The Dangers of Fatherlessness
June 2, 2012
CultureWatch 16 Feb 2010 (Bill Muehlenberg) An article in yesterday’s press had this headline: “Boys lack role models”. The piece began with these words: “A decline in the number of male teachers is being blamed...
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The Real Root Causes of Violent Crime: The Breakdown of Marriage, Family, and Community
June 2, 2012
by Patrick F. Fagan – The Heritage Foundation March 17, 1995 Policymakers at last are coming to recognize the connection between the breakdown of American families and various social problems. The unfolding debate over welfare...
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Same-sex marriage hurts kids
June 2, 2012
The Courier-Mail November 16, 2010 Gays are not second-class citizens but a gay man certainly makes a second-class mother. Two lesbian women may be model citizens, but neither of them can be a dad to...
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Protecting marriage to protect children
June 2, 2012
Los Angeles Times 19 Sep 08 By David Blankenhorn I’m a liberal Democrat. And I do not favor same-sex marriage. Do those positions sound contradictory? To me, they fit together. Many seem to believe that...
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Bob McCoskrie: Why Marriage matters in a violent society
June 2, 2012
NZ Herald 4th October 2006 When 14-year-old Ngatai Rewiti was sent to prison for throwing rocks onto the motorway at Otahuhu and killing a motorist, it was really just a short-term solution. It was a...
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The De-Institutionalization of Marriage: The Case of Sweden
June 2, 2012
By Allan C. Carlson, Ph.D.- President of The Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society in Rockford, Illinois. February/ March 2006 The Swedish model of family policy sees the full equity feminist agenda as the...
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The Revolution in Parenthood – The Emerging Global Clash Between Adult Rights and Children’s Needs
June 2, 2012
Institute for American Values 2006 Around the world, the two-person, mother-father model of parenthood is being fundamentally challenged. In Canada, with virtually no debate, the controversial law that brought about samesex marriage quietly included the...