Masha Gessen, Marriage-ender
“Marriage should not exist,” says Masha Gressen the Marriage-ender.
Ken Blackwell, Contributing Author: When a panel of judges from the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals pulled the nation back from the brink this week, they provided a rare glimpse of common sense in the debate over ending marriage. The majority opinion asks us to:
No one has asked the children in these ensembles if they are happy with being intentionally deprived of fathers (or in some cases, of mothers). And no one honestly puts any of these questions before Americans in polling.
All polling is skewed in favor of those couples claiming the civil right to marry. The mantra, endlessly repeated in a compliant media, is everyone should be able to marry “the one we love.” Or the two or three we love?
The pollsters never ask if a son should be allowed to enter into a marriage contract with his father (or his mother) to avoid inheritance taxes. Never do we hear the marriage-enders tell us whether twin brothers may marry. Or, twin brother and sister?
This will create grave harm. Who will be harmed? Those who are already being harmed by the collapse of marriage in America — the poor, women, children, minorities, and recent immigrants.
We should remember a poignant story from our own history. Civil War historian Allen Guelzo speaks of the sudden increase in legal marriages recorded by Tennessee in 1866. The reason for this unexpected jump in the statistics for marriage was that Tennessee began to recognize and solemnize marriages of Black freedmen and women. Many of these poor people were illiterate — kept so by cruel and unjust slave codes in the South.
But they knew what marriage was. Many of these poor people walked many miles barefooted to achieve a lifelong goal---legal protection for their marriages.
Masha Gessen has been very brave in standing up to Vladimir Putin’s tyrannical rule. For this she has our respect. But she is also to be thanked for being so brutally honest: the goal of the marriage-enders is to abolish marriage altogether.
Let’s ask this question in the next public opinion poll: “Do you agree marriage in America should be ended?”
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Ken Blackwell is a member of the Policy Board of the American Civil Rights Union and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission. He is a contributing author to the ARRA News Service.
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