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February 28th, 2024
Book Cover - Get Married
While the decline in marriage has eased somewhat in recent years, the fact remains that in the U.S., the marriage rate has dropped by almost 60% over the last 50 years.
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September 1st, 2023
bride groom marriage
Across a wide age range, a record number of Americans are remaining single. Recent data shows that the average age for marriage for both men and women now hovers around 30.
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June 19th, 2023
Bed Bath and Beyond in Korea
While many in the media have covered the bankruptcy of Bed, Bath, and Beyond and its Buy, Buy, Baby stores, few talk about the larger, societal cause of the collapse of this long-time retail giant.
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June 8th, 2023
A Starbucks Moon Cake
By: Megan Joy Rials – dappledthings.org – April 25, 2023 The poem makes no pretense of its intentions: “If I had three lives, I’d marry you in two.” Does the poet hold back this third life for one of self-absorption?
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December 14th, 2022
Biden signs Respect for Marriage Act into law
Before President Joe Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act, the White House played footage of the Meet the Press interview in which he first came out in favor of same-sex marriage.
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November 30th, 2022
US Capitol Bldg at night
On Tuesday night, the U.S. Senate voted in favor of passing the Respect for Marriage Act by a vote of 61-36, just barely earning the 60 votes to overcome a filibuster.
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November 22nd, 2022
Wedding couple silhouette - square
In an op-ed for Christianity Today, Carl H. Esbeck, R. B. Price Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Missouri, offers a positive assessment of the Respect for Marriage Act (RMA). He writes, “All in all, RMA is a modest but good day’s work…”  
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November 21st, 2022
They Won't Stop at Roe
Democrats want to scare Americans by telling them the U.S. Supreme Court might overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 decision that legalized same-sex marriage, and other Supreme Court decisions. The Bible defines marriage as a sacred union between one man and one woman, a definition that many Americans of faith still hold today. Nevertheless, the Supreme Court decision in Obergefell...
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November 16th, 2022
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-NC
Democratic advocates say the legislation promotes equality, but religious leaders warn that it explicitly targets people of faith.
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November 16th, 2022
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer points
On Monday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer took the final steps to bring H.R. 8404, the grossly misnamed “Respect for Marriage Act,” to a vote in the Senate.
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