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Home/Lifestyle/Books/This Is Your Brain on Marriage

This Is Your Brain on Marriage

Alternate strategies for defending traditional marriage.

Written by Barton Gingerich | Tuesday, June 25, 2013

In luxurious, entertainment-soaked societies, people – especially Millennials – aren’t concerned with what is logical as much as they are about what is appealing. This is not necessarily how things ought to be, but how they are. How, then, can marriage defenders address this increasingly emotive, hostile environment? Enter “You’ve Been Framed: A New Primer for the Marriage Debate,” … In “Framed,” researcher Nathan Hitchen … urges marriage traditionalists take a different approach to persuading fellow citizens on such an important issue.

If there’s one thing Anglicans know, it’s that the West is fighting over the definition of marriage. Whether it be pansexual takeovers in the United States and Canada or English bishops debating in the House of Lords, followers of the Anglican Way are struggling to uphold marriage on an international scale. Revisionists within and without the Church work tirelessly to remodel mankind’s oldest-known, universal institution.  Their cause has become frightfully popular, especially with the younger set. Marriage defenders-especially orthodox Christians-struggle to marshal an effective defense for marriage as an exclusive lifelong covenant between one man and one woman.

Rational defenses abound.
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