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…”  

Democratic advocates say the legislation promotes equality, but religious leaders warn that it explicitly targets people of faith.

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.

By: Madeleine Kearns – nationalreview.com – July 28, 2022 ‘Roe and Casey are overruled” was the most explosive line from the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. In second place was Justice Clarence Thomas’s remark in his concurrence that the justices “should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents,” explicitly those relating to contraception...

It doesn’t get more biblical than claiming that God has designed sex to be enjoyed exclusively between a man and a woman who are husband and wife.

Recent data suggests that faithful young adults can marry in their 20s without increasing the risk of separation.

Higher percentages of Americans view marriage as being “old-fashioned” as just over half believe that marriage is needed to create strong families.

By: John Stonestreet – breakpoint.org – December 12, 2019 Between 2014 and 2017, the divorce rate in Jacksonville, Florida, and surrounding Duval County fell 24 percent. Of course, divorce rates are falling nationally already, possibly because fewer people are bothering to get married. Still, 24 percent is a huge number, especially compared to a 6 percent decline nationally and a 10 percent...

By: Denis Prager – townhall.com – February 4, 2020 If you want to understand a human being or the human condition, what is the single most important question you should ask? Most religious people would probably ask, “Do you believe in God?” The most important question most secular people, especially progressives, could imagine asking is probably a policy question. Today...

By: Joe Pinsker – theatlantic.com – September 25, 2018 In the past 10 years, the percentage of American marriages that end in divorce has fallen, and in a new paper, the University of Maryland sociologist Philip Cohen quantified the drop-off: Between 2008 and 2016, the divorce rate declined by 18 percent overall. After accounting for the rising average age of...