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Will homosexual marriage change traditional marriage

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Rainbow flag. Symbol of gay pride. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Long before same-sex marriage , no-fault divorce and birth control drastically shaped attitudes about marriage by eroding social stigmas against unmarried parenting, cohabitation, and sex outside marriage.  Gay marriage may be a big step, but it's only the next step in a staircase that doesn't end here. And with each new step, we see that you can't change the definition of marriage for some but not others.  No-fault divorce, as we can see from history, didn't force anyone to get divorced . But it removed permanence from the definition of marriage and pressured everyone, including churches, to rethink their views on biblical teaching.  Likewise, gay marriage does not force anyone to become gay. But it cements the already popular belief that marriage has nothing to do with creation or procreation. Related articles Homosexual marriage can't be compared with interracial marriage (gaychrist...

No one has the right to redefine marriage

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WASHINGTON, D.C., April 18, 2013 ( Heritage Foundation ) - Amid all the emotion over same-sex marriage, the limited-government argument for marriage as uniting a man and a woman keeps getting short shrift. It fell to me to make that case during a discussion of marriage law and the Supreme Court with the worthy S.E. Cupp on a recent installment of “Real News from The Blaze,” and I’d like to flesh out those thoughts here. For starters, virtually every political community has regulated male-female sexual relationships. This is not because government cares about romance as such. Government recognizes male-female sexual relationships because these alone produce new human beings. For highly dependent infants, there is no path to physical, moral, and cultural maturity—no path to personal responsibility—without a long, delicate process of ongoing care and supervision to which mothers and fathers bring unique gifts. Unless children mature, they never will become healthy, upright, product...