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The Supreme Court, You and Me, and the Future of Marriage | Public Discourse Yesterday's most important developments in that broadest struggle, of course, did not happen at a marble courthouse in Washington, but in a million minds and hearts and households across the country, as people chose in ways great and small to honor—or not—the demanding ideals of marriage and family, and community. As champions of civil society, we always knew that. Yet it would be naive to deny the law's effect on those ideals. That's why the courthouse matters—and why we must keep up our witness to the truth about marriage, by word and deed, until it is safely beyond judicial overreach.

Upholding Marriage: God’s Plan and Gift | LCMS News and Articles As Christians, we proclaim this truth, no matter what the courts or legislatures may say. We are called not to popularity but to truth.  Therefore, we call on our fellow Christians to be faithful first to God’s Word, knowing that another court is ultimately supreme.

The Heritage Foundation has published an excellent report on marriage , asking what it is and why it matters, and then explaining the consequences of redefining it. Now, before you get all bent of of shape by the Heritage Foundation's conservative credentials, make sure you read it. It makes an outstanding argument backed by facts from across the political spectrum and without using religion. Here are the key points Marriage exists to bring a man and a woman together as husband and wife to be father and mother to any children their union produces. Marriage is based on the truth that men and women are complementary, the biological fact that reproduction depends on a man and a woman, and the reality that children need both a mother and a father. Marriage is society’s least restrictive means of ensuring the well-being of children. Marital breakdown weakens civil society and limited government. Government recognizes marriage because it benefits society in a way that no...

"Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What, therefore, God has joined together, let not man separate." This is not the first time we have seen statistics like this: Cohabiting couples were nearly eight times more likely to separate due to discord than married couples in the first year of a relationship. Cohabiting couples were nearly four times more likely to separate in the second year, and three times more likely to separate in the third year. Cohabiting couples had a separation rate five times that of married couples, and following separation, cohabiting couples had a rate of reconciliation that was one-third that of married couples. Unfortunately, too many people try to tell us it's OK. More unfortunately, too many people in our churches...