rearwards A brilliant sermon on love, marriage, and monogamy, by Jonathan Sacks, given at the Vatican. This is well worth the time to read. Whenever you see good sermonizing it is amazing how bad the normal stuff is. This is a defense of monogamy which actually works: not by demonizing alternatives but by showing the virtue […]
Tag Archives: marriage
On Love and Marriage.
23-Nov-14Merrie Olde England.
06-May-12A nice interview about the ever-interesting 18th century. The most remarkable thing to my eyes: We have very good data on births outside marriage and births within seven months of marriage, which is a pretty good indicator of people having had sex before marriage. These are aggregate statistics covering the whole [of England], and show […]
Marriage.
07-Jan-10A curious graphic from Andrew Sullivan, showing the (few) states that allow same-sex marriage, and the (many) states that allow marriage between first cousins. Is there supposed to be an “eww” factor here? What rationale could be used to ban marriage between first cousins if they have the right to marry whomever they please? The […]
Marriage and Divorce.
29-Nov-09I found myself very affected by this piece by Sanra Tsing Loh in the Atlantic – on her divorce. It’s not pleasant reading, but its very unpleasantness begs the question: if we are becoming this self-centered, complicated, prissy, and intelligent, how can anyone want to be married to us? Most curious to me is the […]
Some sense on marriage.
04-Mar-09I’ve finally seen some internet writing on gay marriage that makes sense – a reader writing in to Andrew Sullivan, who makes a nice, tempered, intelligent reply. The problem with the gay marriage campaign has been that marriage is not a right, but, as the above reader describes it, “a social institution.” It is a […]
Saint Augustine and Religious Empiricism.
20-Mar-13buy Pregabalin 300 mg uk There was a little bit of Facebook hullabaloo over this Tuesday’s march against gay marriage in D.C., which is being promoted by Catholic bishops. As usual, the bishops going out of their way to prevent non-Catholics from getting things like hospital visitation rights is a good indicator of the general fact that if you want […]