Posted by
MySon'sVisitor on Friday, September 07, 2007 8:46:56 PM
Welcome to my Townhall debut!
I've chosen a huge topic here, I know. I have strong opinions about "Marriage Protection", both as a packaged political issue and (separately) as an urgent need in our society. In the interest of honest debate, I'm not going to lead off with a recitation of my own theories on the subject, instead I'd like to open the floor for comments so that we can define the issue together. To that end I have a few questions, and I'm interested in your perspectives of any or all of them:
1) What is the purpose of marriage? What should it be?
2) Is marriage dying? Why/why not?
3) If marriage is dying, what is killing it?
4) If marriage is dying, why are some people trying so hard to win the right to marry?
5) If marriage dies, what replaces it? What would a marriage-free society look like?
6) What would "family" mean in a marriage-free society? What about "parent", and would there be different meanings for men and women?
7) Are "marriage" and "family" synonymous? If your spouse divorces you, and you have kids, do you still have family?
8) If marriage is dying, is family dying?
9) If marriage dies, who benefits?
10) Why do people file divorces? Why do people do (anything)?
11) Can "family" be strengthened independent of "marriage"? Is "family" more useful to "marriage" as an integral component or as an independent institution?
12) Can marriage be saved? How? What role would government have in this?
Those are my questions. The floor is open...