Keeping in mind the obligation to speak the truth in love, we must find ways to distinguish true marriage from its distortion, and we must do so without abandoning the public square. (firstthings.com)
Gay marriage undermines true marriage in a different and much more dangerous way: It hollows out its very essence, applying the word to something else entirely, a relationship that itself has no potential to generate children, and so can not itself (without help from the law or from outsiders) form a family. (firstthings.com)
Perhaps there Rauch makes a serious effort to show that polyamory and polygamy are inconsistent with true marriage as a matter of principle. (firstthings.com)