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Marriage is not a private institution, but it is the event that forms the foundation of the first cell of society, the family. Family is where children learn values and virtues that enable them to be good citizens. This (formerly) common sense understanding is why marriage was recognized in law, because it was good for all that marriage be protected so that the next generation would have the best chance at contributing to the common good.

Perfectly stated!

1 posted on 07/14/2014 7:45:12 AM PDT by wagglebee
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2 posted on 07/14/2014 7:45:29 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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3 posted on 07/14/2014 7:46:05 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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“The debate hinges on whether or not we should change the definition of the fundamental natural and social institution.”

We can’t change the actual definition, that is beyond humanity’s power. The debate is about changing the state’s understanding of the fundamental natural and social institution even more then it ha already been mutated with serial civil divorce and remarriage. No one would even be having the debate if so many weren’t conditioned to think the state defines marriage. Pope Leo XIII warned about this happening 130 years ago.

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4 posted on 07/14/2014 7:54:43 AM PDT by Ransomed
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Definitely something was lost when governmental notions of marriage became bastardized.

But perhaps something has been gained too. To create a metaphor, people were too “married” to their governments. It was “my country, right or wrong.” Now the wrongness is becoming perfectly clear. Even many folks who may have liked the “gay marriage” in theory may not be so thrilled to see it in practice. The problem with engineering your own utopia is that you have to then live with it. Persistent sin will punish itself.


5 posted on 07/14/2014 7:54:58 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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Jesus, Mary and Joseph, Holy Family pray for us.


7 posted on 07/14/2014 8:37:06 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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I have been married 3 times, divorced twice. The first time, I was weak and ended up married to a woman who was not like me in personality or outlook. I thank God that she found someone that was more to her liking than I. The second wife was more compatible, but she was dishonest and misrepresented herself as a working person, when her only desire was to be sick and on disability. Fortunately, she and her mother didn’t like the kids I had from the first marriage.

If I had had to be committed to either of those women for a lifetime I would have gone mad or become alcoholic. I was fully prepared for the lifetime commitment, but they had other ideas. I am happy now with my wife, and I thank God every day that there is such a thing as divorce, although I will never use it again.


9 posted on 07/14/2014 8:38:42 AM PDT by webheart (We are all pretty much living in a fiction.)
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Marriage is not a private institution, but it is the event that forms the foundation of the first cell of society, the family.

0bama promised the "fundamental transformation" of America.

He wasn't joking.

He's not an idiot, and he's not a "failed President".

He is absolutely evil; bound and determined to destroy America, to turn America into just another third-world hellhole. Everything he does is intended to further that goal, and he has been remarkably successful in his destructive mission.

10 posted on 07/14/2014 8:41:16 AM PDT by NorthMountain
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12 posted on 07/14/2014 9:21:51 AM PDT by NYer ("You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears." James 4:14)
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