Cathy Ruse, Esq: Senior Counsel, Family Research Council, made these comments, “No man can be a mother, just as I could never be a father, and children need both. I know, as a mother, that my children need what I can give them: as a woman, as their mother, and that no man can do my job. I’m not replaceable by a man. No man can do this job.” (Ruse, Cathy 2015). Isn’t this the truth. A woman’s role is different than a man’s role in marriage. Then, from Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse founder and president of the Ruth Institute, which is a project of the National Organization for Marriage, says: “Mountains of data show that children do need their mothers and fathers, and that children care deeply about biological connections. The gay community is certainly not responsible for today's generation of fatherless children, but they will be responsible for the next generation. And don’t remind me that we already have lots of children unattached to their parents; in my view, we should be taking steps to place responsible limits on things like divorce, rather than careening headlong into further, and more institutionalized, injustices to children. Are you really prepared to accept responsibility for the consequences of detaching legal parenthood form the natural moorings of biology? Do you really want a world in which children may have three or four legal parents? Are you ready for contract parenting, in which adults parcel out responsibilities among themselves? That’s the world that we are bringing into being here.” Lots of other people recognized the importance of marriage, like God intended it to be.
William E. Simon fellow at the Heritage Foundation says: “Marriage exists to unite a man and woman as a husband and wife to then be equipped to be mother and father to any children that union produces. It is based on biological fact that men and women are distinct and complementary. It’s based on the anthropological truth that reproduction requires a man and a woman. It is based on the social reality that children deserve a mother and a father.
Whenever a child is born, a mother will always be close by. That is a fact of biology. The question for culture and the question for law is will a father be close by, and if so, for how long? Marriage is the institution that different cultures and societies across time and place develop to maximize the likelihood that that man commits to that woman and then the two of the take the responsibility to raise that child.” (Simon, 2014)
Justice Alito said, “If this traditional understanding of the purpose of marriage does not ring true to all ears today, that is probably because the tie between marriage and procreation has frayed.” (
consequences."
In President Nelson’s talk, I loved what he said here, “Now is the time for you to focus on developing great attributes of character. Now seems to be my time for attending funerals. I have witnessed many families saying good-bye, for a season, to those they love and to whom they are sealed. I often leave funerals wondering, “What would I like to have said about me at my funeral? It is not too early in your life to ask the same question. What would you like to have said about you at your funeral? Hopefully that you were a good husband and father or a good wife and mother.
That you were a person of integrity.
That you were kind and patient.
Or humble and hardworking.
Or a person of virtue.
The greatest guardians of all virtues are marriage and family. This is particularly the case with the virtues of chastity and fidelity in marriage, both of which are required to create enduring and fully rewarding marriage partnerships and family relationships.
Male and female are created for what they can do and become, together. It takes a man and a woman to bring a child into the world. Mothers and fathers are not interchangeable. Men and women are distinct and complementary. Children deserve a chance to grow up with both a mom and a dad.” (Nelson, 2014)
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Monday, May 14, 2018
Marriage as defined by God
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