'The end of marriage'

*Updated to add Marriage: A Hill to Die On by RS MCCain

Iowa court redefines marriage

From the Heritage Foundation:

What is happening is no minor adjustment, a slight change in degree that just extends benefits or rights to a larger class, but a substantive change in the essence of the institution. It does not expand marriage; it alters its core meaning, for to redefine marriage so that it is not intrinsically related to the relationship between fathers, mothers, and children formally severs the institution from its nature and purpose.

Expanding marriage supposedly to make it more inclusive, no matter what we call the new arrangement, necessarily ends marriage as we now know it by remaking the institution into something different: a mere contract between any two individuals.

American Power and RS McCain have more on the Iowa ruling.

(Also endangered: red meat, incandescent light bulbs, heroism, large cars, dishwasher detergent, used children's books and clothing, capitalism, hard work, and children.)

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