{"id":267,"date":"2011-10-22T23:52:10","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T03:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpopulist.com\/?p=267"},"modified":"2011-10-23T00:16:57","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T04:16:57","slug":"the-role-of-the-state-in-protecting-conjugal-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpopulist.com\/?p=267","title":{"rendered":"The Role of the State in Protecting Conjugal Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Children's

Children's Right to the Pursuit of Happiness Demand Legal Conjugal Marriage<\/p><\/div>\n

Marriage predates recorded history. \u00a0Most anthropologists believe it predates both religion and government. \u00a0Jesus thought so too: “But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female. \u00a0For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. \u00a0What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder.” \u00a0All agree that it is old — perhaps as old as mankind.<\/p>\n

But what then is the government’s role in it?<\/p>\n

Texas Republican Ron Paul deviates from conservative orthodoxy by claiming that the state should leave marriage to the churches and that no recognition of marriage by government is necessary. \u00a0The Left calls for recognition of conjugal marriage and same-sex marriages.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, in addressing such claims, the Declaration of Independence is the primary tool that Americans need to understand the role of government according to our founding principles.<\/p>\n

The Declaration specifies that the government’s role is to secure such unalienable rights as “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” \u00a0These are to be secured in that order. \u00a0For example, protecting one person’s pursuit of Happiness is never an excuse to strip someone else of Liberty (slavery). \u00a0Liberty cannot be an excuse to strip some else of Life (abortion). \u00a0Marriage concerns the pursuit of Happiness.<\/p>\n

It is a self-evident truth that men and women are uniquely biologically, psychologically, and spiritually suited to the begetting and raising of stable children in marriage. \u00a0The freshly released Sustainable Demographic Dividend (well worth reading) states<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“An abundant social-science literature, as well as common sense, supports the claim that children are more likely to flourish, and to become productive adults, when they are raised in stable, married-couple households. \u00a0We know, for example, that children in the United States who are raised outside an intact, married home are two to three times more likely to suffer from social and psychological problems such as delinquency, depression, and dropping out of high school. \u00a0They are also markedly less likely to attend college and be stably employed as young adults.”<\/p>\n

Additional psychological research emphasizes the critical nature of the father’s<\/a>\u00a0and the mother’s<\/a>\u00a0relationship with children.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, natural rights can be best understood as what would occur in a Lockean State of Nature. \u00a0Locke had a Garden of Eden vision of the State of Nature. \u00a0This is a sound reference point. \u00a0Since grace perfects nature, analyzing what would occur in the state of nature must operate based on an appropriate perpetual state of grace scenario. \u00a0The Garden of Eden fits the bill perfectly.<\/p>\n

In the garden of Eden, an ongoing relationship with their biological mother and father would be a key to childhood happiness. \u00a0This is a clear example of a right protected under the pursuit of Happiness.<\/p>\n

Of course, a government protecting the right to the pursuit of Happiness for the child (a clear governmental responsibility) cannot violate Liberty in order to do so. \u00a0However, marriage does not violate liberty whatsoever. \u00a0It is a consensual agreement which the government recognizes and builds its law structure around.<\/p>\n

Obviously, same-sex unions do not warrant such governmental recognition. \u00a0No child will ever secure an ongoing relationship with his biological mother and father via a same-sex union. \u00a0A government recognition of such unions as marriage would operate as a government stamp of approval for a particular exercise of Liberty. \u00a0According to the Founding principles, that is simply not the role of government.<\/p>\n

The state must continue to protect conjugal marriage from any form of assault by passing a Marriage Amendment to the US Constitution.<\/p>\n

It is time to protect the child’s pursuit of Happiness once and for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marriage predates recorded history. \u00a0Most anthropologists believe it predates both religion and government. \u00a0Jesus thought so too: “But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female. \u00a0For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tNLd-4j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catholicpopulist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catholicpopulist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catholicpopulist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catholicpopulist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catholicpopulist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/catholicpopulist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"https:\/\/catholicpopulist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catholicpopulist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catholicpopulist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catholicpopulist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}