Traditional Marriage

Defending 'Traditional' Marriage? Whose Definition? What Tradition?

American Anthropological Association | Posted 04.30.2012

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To reject a type of marital arrangement because of its supposed incompatibility with "the traditional definition of marriage" only calls attention to the speaker's ignorance of well-known ethnographic and historic facts.

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Republican Lesbian Who Helped Write DOMA Now Lobbying To Repeal It

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 03.28.2012

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WASHINGTON -- It has been 16 years since Kathryn Lehman was a Republican Hill staffer working on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the federal law t...

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Should Teens Be Forced To Learn How To Be Good Spouses?

Vicki Larson | Posted 04.16.2012

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Clearly there's a movement to get people -- with the help of teachers and counselors -- to think before marrying or divorcing. It sounds like a good idea, but do marriage prep courses work?

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Love And Sex: Putting Old Values In New Language

John Backman | Posted 04.15.2012

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I am glad that LGBTQ people feel freer to be who they are and love whom they love. I believe it is good that people in dead or violent marriages can escape them more readily.

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What's Love Got to Do with It? Marriage, Tradition and Gays

James Peron | Posted 12.31.2011

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Anyone who uses the term "traditional marriage" exhibits, by the use of the term, gross ignorance of the past. There is no traditional marriage, and what we know as marriage is very different from what marriage was in the past.

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Ask Why? Not Why Not? Before You Say I Do

Christina Vuleta | Posted 10.10.2011

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Thirty percent of divorced women say they knew it was wrong from the start. I'm curious to know what percentage of guys feel the same way. If they don't happen to be the same 30% then almost two-thirds of marriages are half-baked.

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'Traditional Marriage' Declaration Seeks More Christian Signatures

Posted 10.04.2011

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By Bruce Nolan Religion News Service NEW ORLEANS (RNS) Nearly 200 pastors, policymakers and other New Orleans-area Christians were urged to sign a...

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What We Can Learn From Arranged Marriages

Kristen Houghton | Posted 08.29.2011

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Last year, I met a young Indian couple on their honeymoon. When I asked how long the bride and her husband had known each other before they were married, the answer was unexpected.

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Bristol Palin And The Trouble With Christian Sex

Rob Asghar | Posted 05.25.2011

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Christians are as wildly for sex as anyone; that's what got Bristol into trouble. They simply have an idealized notion of it, one that's increasingly divorced from the reality and the direction of the larger society.

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Marriage-Saving Research For The Holidays

Christine Whelan | Posted 11.17.2011

The recession has taken a toll on American families, but research suggests that there may be a silver lining: Understanding the link between money and marriage might help us make better choices.

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Sanford, in a Family Way

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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"You saw the press conference?" "Of course I saw the press conference. Very strange." "Very strange. And you read the e-mails?" "Of course I re...

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Traditional Marriage and the Straw-Horse Argument

Jane Minogue | Posted 05.25.2011

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"If we change traditional marriage, it's a slippery slope," said the man at the table next to me. "Soon we'll have people marrying animals." I'm not aware of any man-horse association that's lobbying Congress or state governments to allow bestiality.

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