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It Would Really be News if Barbara Bush Supported Marriage

by Jenny Tyree

The New York Times reports that the younger Barbara Bush supports same-sex marriage. Surprised?

It’s not really a surprise that Bush, like Meghan McCain, disagrees with her father about marriage.  It’s rather easy for 20-somethings—or millennials–to jump on the very tidy-looking “rights” bandwagon that proponents of same-sex marriage have made marriage to be.

It’s not entirely the fault of millennials that the purpose of marriage is lost on them.  Bush, McCain and their peers grew up breathing air thick with a cultural disregard for marriage.  Experiencing the personal benefit of having a married mom and dad doesn’t change what they witnessed–willful divorces and the suffering of the children of divorce.  The result is a generational embrace of sex as a right and marriage as one of many lifestyles, rather than as the best family structure for children and a stabilizing force for society.

Unfortunately, support for same-sex marriage by millennials exhibits a misplaced compassion that could lead to more children separated from what they most need—a married mom and dad.  In their eagerness to champion a cause and the underdog, millennials are supporting the loudest voices—those of adults demanding a right to redefine marriage for everyone.

The real tragedy will occur if marriage redefiners and their well-intended champions are successful.   A redefinition of marriage would result in more children missing the financial, physical, scholastic, emotional and relational benefits of growing up with a married mom and dad.

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  • Bob Walker

    A redefinition of marriage would result in more children growing up without a true sense of the nature of God, and Divine authority. Without a true understanding of God’s authority the is no adequate foundation for hope in God. Only the God of all can save us in and through all.

  • tim

    We don’t live in a theocracy and in this country (like most) marriage is defined as a civil contract. God didn’t invent marriage. Man did.

    • Jenny Tyree

      Tim,

      We agree; we do not live in a theocracy. Additionally, you will notice that I promoted the one-man, one-woman definition of marriage from the perspective of social science and its many benefits for children. This perspective is common ground to Christians and Muslims and every major religious tradition, as well as to people of no faith at all because because it is logical; marriage brings together the man and woman who conceive a child to care together for the child. The Christian Bible is not required to defend one-man, one-woman marriage in law and policy, and that is why a majority of voters in 31 states could agree to defend it at the ballot box.

      Thanks for writing.

      Jenny

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