The Murder of Marriage

[Bubba_Switzler]

How did marriage lose most of its meaning? How has it gone from being regarded as an institution that formed the conjugal bond, established nuclear families, knit vital social ties across extended familial units, and forged the necessary social cohesion for the sheltering and rearing of children, to a more-or-less optional affirmation of love?

True, the same-sex marriage debate has rekindled some interest in the institution and its purposes. But that imbroglio seems more like the last flaring of a star before it goes cold rather than a true rekindling.

The weakening of the institution has been ongoing for so many years that it is difficult to discern the proverbial tipping point. But I have a good candidate: The 1976 California Supreme Court case, Marvin v. Marvin.

firstthings.com/onthesquare/2013/09/the-case-that-destroyed-marriage

 

[PietroPaolo]

The Murder of Marriage began in 1517 with the Reformation which would drop it as a sacrament. Then there was the advent of “civil” marriage with the En-dark-enment in the Eighteenth Century. It’s been downhill since. Thank Martin Luther.

 

[Remparer]

The only way marriage is going to be resuscitated in the minds of
Many of the faithful is for them to see it as the true vocation that it
Is. They will need to see it as a path to saint hood.
Too few couples have been recognised fot the tru saints that they
Are. The parents of St.Terese of Lisieu are one of the very very few
God Bless
Rempare

 

[Jozefo]

firstthings.com/onthesquare/2013/09/the-case-that-destroyed-marriage

Well, nice little article but lacking in substance. There was even a reference to the famous ‘social contract’ that no one can define.

In the US, marriage law had its source in the common law of England, which since 1938 has been cast out of society, and replaced with whatever the courts think they need to keep society in working order. The ‘social contract’ is whatever popular notion is in vogue at any given time, and tradition is looked at as a quaint, unnecessary imposition on progress.

Marriage has been under attack by so-called ‘enlightened’ thinking for centuries, and is only one front in the battle for people’s minds. It’s the very same war that was begun in the Garden of Eden, and will end only when Christ triumphantly returns. Until that day, loyal occupiers of righteousness must persevere, and remain faithful to the Truth.

 

[JimG]

I’m sorry, but legalizing same-sex marriage won’t do a thing to rescue marriage. But then, neither will its rejection. A marriage renaissance will only be possible when we repudiate Marvin v. Marvin and revitalize marriage’s importance by returning to a strict policy mandating that couples actually get married before acquiring conjugal rights.

That pretty much sums it up. But gosh, restricting conjugal rights to the conjugal institution of marriage? That has become pretty much unthinkable in our current society, which is why it is doomed.

Of course, it goes without saying, that same sex couples are incapable of a conjugal relationship. So the fact that we are even considering same sex ‘marriage’ is evidence that the idea of marriage has already been murdered.