Is redefining marriage wrong? - Yes
English: Sigmund Freud (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Over eighty years ago, the influential psychologist Sigmund Freud wrote his seminal work which would come to be known in the English translation as Civilization and Its Discontents . No one familiar with the book could deny its influence on our culture or the fact that it has shaped the mindset regarding sexual ethics that informs many members of the movement to redefine marriage. In one of its most often quoted lines, Freud posits that "what decides the purpose of life is simply the program of the pleasure principle ." Certainly it is unquestionable that much of our culture's confusion regarding marriage is due to following that precise train of thought — the pleasure principle. Redefining Marriage And Its Consequences The push to redefine marriage is about substituting the desires of adults for the needs of children. The push to redefine marriage is about substituting an imagined 'right' for sam