GOVERNMENT LOVE? David Blankenhorn

[from MarriageMovement.org:]

If it were really true, as [Gregg] Easterbrook says, that the core definition of marriage is "the expression of love," then humans almost certainly would never have created marriage as a social insitution in the first place, and there would be no marriage laws for us to argue about today.

Societies do not build social institutions to define "the expression of love." States have never, through legislatures and courts, declared a compelling state interest in "the expression of love." In order to figure out why we have marriage at all, you have to look to sexual embodiment, heterosexual intercourse, child bearing, and child rearing. I'm sorry if that sounds too earthy and too specific, compared to fluttery abstactions like "the expression of love." But if we care about what marriage is, we have to care about these things.

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