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Garry Wills on the Myth of Christian Marriage

May 17th, 2012 by

This:

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/may/09/marriage-myth/

was curious enough and interesting enough to bring to your attention. Pursue it as you will.

H/T crossdotcurve

H. M. Stuart
Alexandria

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4 Responses to “Garry Wills on the Myth of Christian Marriage”

  1. DADvocate says:
    May 17, 2012 at 7:48 pm

    I met Wills once when he was in Knoxville covering a protest at a Billy Graham crusade which I was a part of and my father arrested. (He was the psychology professor in the linked article.) When my father was in jail, a graduate student and myself, 18 at the time, went to the police station to wait for his release.
    For whatever reason, the police had us visit with the safety director where Wills also happened to be. The four of us sat and chatted amiably for about an hour. Wills seemed to be a nice, down to earth guy.
    He certainly makes sense here. I’m rather neutral on the subject, but that’s probably more due to my personal (negative) experiences with marriage. I love having kids, but a spouse is another thing. I find it rather humorous that some want to set themselves up for suffering.
    My youngest sister is a lesbian and has had 3 long term relationships. She owns two houses, plus her other financial valuables. Not being married, she was able to keep everything she had earned when the breakups came, which were all initiated by the other party.

    • Wired Sisters says:
      May 22, 2012 at 11:50 am

      Not being able to get married also means one doesn’t pay the “marriage penalty” on one’s income tax, although that fluctuates a lot these days.

  2. Edward T Haines says:
    May 17, 2012 at 8:00 pm

    It would seem that the religious institutions strongly desire that the rest of us should be require to live by their dogma whatever our personal beliefs might be. On the other hand, should a non believer suggest that they abide by the non believer’s dogma, there is immediate uproar and request for relief under the First Amendment. I am not gay but find it abhorrent that friends who are gay are unable to enjoy the privileges of citizenship in the US. Not only is this wrong, it clearly endangers all of our freedoms. Who is to say that they will not next decide that unbelief is a crime? (No more preposterous than their claim that allowing gay marriage will require churches to marry gay couples.)

    Since the religious groups are not satisfied with having no law prohibiting gay marriages, the current push is to attempt to amend the Constitution to prohibit such contracts. I suggest that those of you who honor our Constitution look through it again and seek for examples in it in which a citizen is prohibited from some act or contract. To my knowledge, the only such instance was the disaster of prohibition that was reversed after years of incredible problems. Our government was devised to protect freedom not to restrict it.