"A Random Collection of Individuals"

Advocates of gay "marriage" often claim that allowing same-sex couples to get hitched legally would not change the institution of marriage. But we wouldn't even be talking about this travesty if the social meaning of marriage had not changed dramatically already.

Scholar James Q. Wilson explains how the idea of marriage has taken some serious hits:

"Marriage was once a sacrament, then it became a sacred obligation, and now it is a private contract.

"Friedrich Nietzsche would not have been surprised. He predicted that the family would be 'ground into a random collection of individuals' bound together by the 'common pursuit of selfish ends,' in other words, family loyalty would slowly disappear. John Stuart Mill would have been pleased by these developments; he had long argued that marriage should be a private, bargained-for arrangement.

"For many women the change has been a disaster..."

And for society at large.


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