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Indeed, the anthropological evidence of a nearly perfect global consensus on sexual
complementarity in marriage supports broader conclusions: First, no particular religion is
uniquely responsible for this view. And second, it cannot be ascribed simply to animus
against people identifying as homosexual, gay or lesbian, or same-sex attracted. After all, it
has prevailed in societies that have spanned the spectrum of attitudes toward
homosexuality – including ones favorable toward same-sex acts, and others lacking
anything like our concept of gay identity.
Truly, as the court of appeals noted, “[i]t is not society’s laws
or for that matter any religion’s laws, but nature’s laws (that
men and women complement each other biologically), that
created the policy imperative.” 14-556 Pet. App. 34a (Pet. App.).
Camille Paglia
-Camille Paglia, PhD, University Professor of Humanities
& Media Studies at the University of the Arts, stated in her
1994 book titled Vamps and Tramps: New Essays:
"We know the statistics -- that children who grow up without a father are five
times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely
to drop out of schools and twenty times more likely to end up in prison,"
Obama said less than five months before he was elected president in 2008.
The statistics on the importance of marriage penetrate American life to the extent that
President Obama can refer to them as well known:
“They are more likely to have behavioral problems, or run away from home, or
become teenage parents themselves. And the foundations of our community
are weaker because of it,” he added.
“President Obama sums it up pretty well. We’ve seen in the past fifty years, since the
war on poverty began, that the family has collapsed. At one point in America, virtually
every child was given the gift of a married mother and father. Today, 40 percent of all
Americans, 50 percent of Hispanics, and 70 percent of African Americans are born to
single moms—and the consequences for those children are quite serious.”
- Ryan T. Anderson, “Marriage Matters, and Redefining It Has Social Costs”https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2014/01/11880/
REDEIFINING MARRIAGE
“But how can the law teach that fathers are essential if it redefines marriage to
make fathers optional? Redefining marriage diminishes the social pressures for
husbands to remain with their wives and children, and for men and women to
marry before having children. Redefining marriage to include same-sex
relationships makes marriage primarily about emotional union, more about
adults' desires than children's needs.”
REDEIFINING MARRIAGE
“First, it fundamentally reorients the institution of marriage away from the needs of
children toward the desires of adults. It no longer makes marriage about ensuring
the type of family life that is ideal for kids; it makes it more about adult romance. If
one of the biggest social problems we face right now in the United States is
absentee dads, how will we insist that fathers are essential when the law redefines
marriage to make fathers optional?”
REDEIFINING MARRIAGE
“Throuple” is a three-person couple. New York Magazine reports about it. Here’s the question: if I
were to sue and say that I demand marriage equality for my throuple, what principle would deny
marriage equality to the throuple once you say that the male-female aspect of marriage is irrational
and arbitrary? The way that we got to monogamy is that it’s one man and one woman who can
unite in the type of action that can create new life and who can provide that new life with one mom
and one dad. Once you say that the male-female aspect is irrational and arbitrary, you will have no
principled reason to retain the number two.”
- Ryan T. Anderson, “Marriage Matters, and Redefining It Has Social Costs”https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2014/01/11880/
WEDLEASE
MARIAGE
“Same-sex marriage would further undercut the idea that procreation is intrinsically connected
to marriage. It would undermine the idea that children need both a mother and a father,
further weakening the societal norm that men should take responsibility for the children they
beget. Finally, same-sex marriage would likely corrode marital norms of sexual fidelity, since
gay-marriage advocates and gay couples tend to downplay the importance of sexual fidelity in
their definition of marriage.”
- Marriage and the Public Good: Ten Principles. The Witherspoon Institute. Kindle Edition.
SEX AND CULTURE
“Now, whatever you think about group marriage, whatever you think about
temporary marriage, whatever you think about sexually open marriage, as
far as adults living and loving how they choose, think about the social
consequences if that’s the future direction in which marriage redefinition
would go.”
SEX AND CULTURE
“For every additional sexual partner a man has and the shorter-lived
those relationships are, the greater the chances that a man creates
children with multiple women without commitment either to those women
or to those kids.
It increases the likelihood of creating fragmented families, and then big
government will step in to pick up the pieces with a host of welfare
MARRIAGE AND
CULTURE
“ [Traditional] marriage laws
reinforce the idea that the union of
husband and wife is, on the whole, the
most appropriate environment for
rearing children—an ideal supported
by the best available social science.”
- Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson, Robert P. George. What is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense, p. 58, 8
MARRIAGE AND
CULTURE
“Recognizing same-sex relationships as
marriage would legally abolish that ideal.
No civil institution would reinforce the notion
that men and women typically have different
strengths as parents; that boys and girls benefit
from fathers and mothers in different ways…”
- Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson, Robert P. George. What is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense, p. 58, 8
MARRIAGE AND
CULTURE
“Redefining marriage would thus
soften the social pressures and lower
the incentives—already diminished by
these last few decades—for husbands
to stay with their wives and children, or
for men and women to marry before
having children. All this would harm
children’s development into happy,
productive, upright adults.”
- Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson, Robert P. George. What is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense, p. 58, 8
HETEROSEXUAL MARRIAGE
MATTERS
“The burden of social science evidence supports the
idea that gender-differentiated parenting is important
for human development and that the contribution of
fathers to childrearing is unique and irreplaceable,"
Rutgers University sociologist David Popenoe
explains."We should disavow the notion that
'mommies can make good daddies,' just as we
should disavow the popular notion ... that
'daddies can make good mommies,' " Popenoe
concludes. "The two sexes are different to the
core, and each is necessary -- culturally and
biologically -- for the optimal development
of a human being.”
- -Ryan T. Anderson , Why Marriage Matters Most. Jul 10th, 2013
HETEROSEXUAL MARRIAGE
MATTERS
“Government recognizes marriage
because it is an institution that benefits
society in a way no other relationship
does. Marriage is society's least
restrictive means of ensuring the well-
being of children. State recognition
protects children by encouraging men
and women to commit to each other and
take responsibility for their children.
Social science confirms this.”
- -Ryan T. Anderson , Why Marriage Matters Most. Jul 10th, 2013
HETEROSEXUAL MARRIAGE
MATTERS
“The best available research evidence
shows that children fare best on virtually
every examined indicator when reared by
their wedded biological parents. Studies that
control for other factors, including poverty
and genetics, suggest that children
reared in intact homes do best on
educational achievement, emotional
health, familial and sexual development,
and delinquency and incarceration.”
- -Ryan T. Anderson , Why Marriage Matters Most. Jul 10th, 2013
HETEROSEXUAL MARRIAGE
MATTERS
“ "It is not simply the presence of two parents ...
but the presence of two biological parents that
seems to support children's development," a study
published by the left-leaning research institution
Child Trends concluded: "Research clearly
demonstrates that family structure matters for
children, and the family structure that helps children
the most is a family headed by two biological
parents in a low-conflict marriage. Children in
single-parent families, children born to unmarried
mothers, and children in stepfamilies or cohabiting
relationships face higher risks of poor outcomes.”
- -Ryan T. Anderson , Why Marriage Matters Most. Jul 10th, 2013
HETEROSEXUAL MARRIAGE
MATTERS
“ A study in the Journal of Marriage and Family
concluded that "the advantage of marriage appears
to exist primarily when the child is the biological
offspring of both parents.” Promoting marriage as
the union of a man and a woman doesn't ban any type of
relationship: Adults are free to make choices, and they
don't need government sanction or license to do so. All
Americans have the freedom to live as they choose, but
no one should redefine marriage for everyone else. While
respecting everyone's liberty, government rightly
recognizes, protects and promotes marriage as the ideal
institution for childbearing and childrearing.”
“Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father… I am
the Lord your God.” (Leviticus 19:3)
And David went from there to Mizpah of Moab; and he
said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and my
mother come and stay with you until I know what God will
do for me.” (1 Samuel 22:3)
Elisha left the oxen standing there, ran after Elijah, and said to him,
“First let me go and kiss my father and mother good-bye, and then I
will go with you!” Elijah replied, “Go on back, but think about what
I have done to you.”
(1 Kings 19:20)
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake
your mother’s teaching. (Proverbs 6:20)
Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your
mother when she is old. (Proverbs 23:22)
The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will
be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the
vultures. (Proverbs 30:17)
1. Marriage increases the likelihood that fathers and mothers have good relationships with
their children.
2. Children are most likely to enjoy family stability when they are born into a married family.
3. Children are less likely to thrive in complex households.
4. Cohabitation is not the functional equivalent of marriage.
5. Growing up outside an intact marriage increases the likelihood that children will themselves
divorce or become unwed parents.
6. Marriage is a virtually universal human institution.
7. Marriage, and a normative commitment to marriage, foster high-quality relationships
between adults, as well as between parents and children.
8. Marriage has important biosocial consequences for adults and children.
Economics
9. Divorce and unmarried childbearing increase poverty for both children and mothers,
and cohabitation is less likely to alleviate poverty than is marriage.
10. Married couples seem to build more wealth on average than singles or cohabiting
couples.
11.Marriage reduces poverty and material hardship for disadvantaged women and their
children. 12.Minorities benefit economically from marriage also.
13. Married men earn more money than do single men with similar education and job
histories.
14. Parental divorce (or failure to marry) appears to increase children’s risk of school
failure.
Physical Health and Longevity
16. Children who live with their own two married parents enjoy better physical health,
on average, than do children in other family forms.
17. Parental marriage is associated with a sharply lower risk of infant mortality.
18. Marriage is associated with reduced rates of alcohol and sub- stance abuse for both adults
and teens.
19. Married people, especially married men, have longer life expectancies than do otherwise
similar singles.
20. Marriage is associated with better health and lower rates of injury, illness, and disability
for both men and women.
Mental Health and Emotional Well-Being
22. Children whose parents divorce have higher rates of psychological distress and
mental illness.
28. Married women appear to have a lower risk of experiencing domestic violence than do
cohabiting or dating women.
29. A child who is not living with his or her own two married parents is at greater risk of child abuse.
30. There is a growing marriage gap between college-educated Americans and less-educated Amer
“We should disavow the notion that ‘mommies can make good daddies,’ just as we should
disavow the popular notion of radical feminists that ‘daddies can make good mommies’…The
two sexes are different to the core, and each is necessary—culturally and biologically—for
the optimal development of the human being.”
- David Popenoe, Life Without Father: Compelling New Evidence That Fatherhood and Marriage Are
Indispensable for the Good of Children and Society, 197.
“ What therefore God hath joined together,
let not man put asunder.”
(Mark 10:9)
Among the Jews a man was permitted to put away his wife for the most trivial offenses, and the woman
was then at liberty to marry again. This practice led to great wretchedness and sin. In the Sermon on the
Mount Jesus declared plainly that there could be no dissolution of the marriage tie except for
unfaithfulness to the marriage vow. “Every one,” He said, “that putteth away his wife, saving for the
cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away
committeth adultery.”
Adventist Home, page 340.3
When the Pharisees afterward questioned Him concerning the lawfulness of divorce, Jesus
pointed His hearers back to the marriage institution as ordained at creation. “Because of the
hardness of your hearts,” He said, Moses “suffered you to put away your wives: but from the
beginning it was not so.” He referred them to the blessed days of Eden when God pronounced all
things “very good. ”
Adventist Home, page 340.4
Then marriage and the Sabbath had their origin, twin institutions for the glory of God in the benefit of
humanity. Then, as the Creator joined the hands of the holy pair in wedlock, saying, A man shall “leave
his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one,” He enunciated the law
of marriage for all the children of Adam to the close of time. That which the eternal Father Himself had
pronounced good was the law of highest blessing and development for man. ”