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Tag: marriage

This marriage thing

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On Thursday, July 9, 2015

In Christianity, culture, Family, Politics

I have long been of the opinion that the government should not be engaged (no pun intended) in the marriage business. The problem with government meddling in affairs outside of their domain did not begin with the recent Supreme Court overstepping of its constitutional bounds here in the United States. It happened long before that. A guy named Matt Appling in an aptly titled blog post, If You Think the Supreme Court Just “Redefined” Marriage, Take It Up With King Henry the Eighth, really nails the issue. It is ironic that so many people interested in redefining marriage to include something that is not marriage (same sex unions) are calling out the Christian community on the divorce issue. This is something over which the Christian world has fought wars, divided and argued for centuries.

It is right to argue that Christian’s need to get their house in order when it comes to the issue of divorce, but it seem very disingenuous when it is argued by people who treat the institution of marriage (in the true sense of the word) in such a cavalier manner. Christians really need to get this issue right. People both inside the Christian community and out who dishonor marriage through unrepentant fornication, adultery and attempts to redefine it should be viewed with incredulity when they try to argue that Christians are hypocrites with respect to divorce. Some of us are, but some of us, even in our weakness and failure, continue to repent, live repentant lives and fight the good fight.

In the meantime government should get out of the marriage business.

Betty Blonde #365 – 12/09/2009
Betty Blonde #365
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Matt Walsh – two days in a row

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On Tuesday, November 19, 2013

In Christianity

Day 820 of 1000 – Betty Blonde #5
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This blog post by Matt Walsh is stunningly good.  This is my second post in a row about something he has written.  Yesterday he wrote about consumerism vs. capitalism.  That is kind of a pet peeve with me.  That consumerism is bad, capitalism is good, and the two should never be conflated is something I never really articulated, but seems pretty important.  Walsh nails it.  Today, he writes about family leadership and a trap into which I often fall–joking about getting permission from “the boss” meaning my wife.  Like most guys in our culture, I had never given this much thought.  It almost seemed like an honoring thing, but Walsh is right, real men should never do it.  It is dishonoring.  There are a lot of people who will hate the article, but society needs men to be men and women to be women or we will continue to fall apart.  The article is worth a read and will resonate with men and women who want to do the right thing for their marriage, their family, and society.

Update:  Wow.  I went over to Matt Walsh’s facebook page to read some of the comments about this blog post.  Most of the people who commented were women and liked the post.  Still, there were a lot of women who hated the article, but had obviously read their own cultural bias into it.  Walsh explicit said that the husband is NOT the “boss” of the family, but the leader.  He goes on to say the husband is equal to his wife not above his wife.  Almost every objection was to a strawman: the husband should not be the boss or if the wife is more capable, she should be the boss.  I am getting more and more convinced that progressivism causes brain damage.

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