Laurie’s Reviews > What Is Marriage For?: The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution > Status Update
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Making lesbians and gay men more legally visible will neither solve nor complicate anyone else’s daily commitments. And yet it will insist on something that is quite unnerving to acknowledge: that we must each pay rigorous attention to-and believe in-each individual spirit.
— Jun 20, 2026 07:00AM
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Laurie
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Restricting marriage to husband/wife pairs is an essential symbol of male supremacy-just as restricting marriage to one race was an essential symbol of white supremacy.
— Jun 19, 2026 06:31AM
Laurie
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But if an affectionate father helps, and a nasty or distant father hurts, then researchers still haven’t discovered something essentially male that a child needs: they’ve simply discovered that children do better with closeness and reliability than with ridicule and rejection.
— Jun 19, 2026 04:36AM
Laurie
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In 1930, Pope Pius XI issued his encyclical Casti Conubii (Of Chaste Marriage), which endorsed the old refraining/reproducing ideal by intoning that contraception “violates the law of God and nature,” and grew out of women’s “false liberty and unnatural equality” - a clear recognition that contraception and female emancipation went hand in hand.
— Jun 18, 2026 03:10PM
