How about a “new” New Year’s resolution?
December 28, 2007
It happens about this time every year. I start a list of all the things I need to do in the New Year (and some things I shouldn’t do!) As my eyes wander over each particular resolution, I get that “familiar feeling” that I’ve written these down before. Perhaps I could retire a few and add something fresh and positive.
Retire list:
lose weight (that was easy)
exercise (another no brainer)
Add list:
read more
Here’s a good one: “The Future of Marriage” by David Blankenhorn. David, President of the American Values Institute, writes, “If we change marriage, we change parenthood—for all families.”
Another must read: “One Man One Woman”, Dale O’Leary’s guide to strengthening marriage. “O’Leary shows how the redefinition of marriage in Europe and Canada has already taken a predictable toll on marriage rates, family stability, religious freedom, and children’s well-being.”
If you have any time left, take a look at “The Meaning of Marriage” edited by Robert George and Jean Bethke Elshtain. This collection of essays “brings together the best of contemporary scholarship on marriage from a variety of disciplines—history, ethics, economics, law and public policy, philosophy, sociology, psychiatry, political science—to inform, and reform, public debate.”
No matter where you stand on the need for a marriage amendment in Pennsylvania, make an effort to read what these scholars have to say about the importance of the institution of marriage.
All of us at Pennsyvlania for Marriage wish you a Happy New Year—and a happy new year of reading!
-Pa for Marriage
January 3rd, 2008 at 2:44 pm
New Year’s resolutions have been difficult in the past for me to keep up with. But I certainly do believe in Marriage and will fight to ensure that all Americans have the protections that it provides. Here are some other books to consider:
[book list omitted]
The conversation continues…
January 7th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
another book to add to that list is “What God Has Joined Together?” by David G. Myers and Letha Dawson Scanzoni. I highly recommend it.
January 7th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
It all started when those two supposedly nice young women down at the end of the block had gotten married.
She said that shortly after that, her own marriage had started going down hill. First, her husband lost his job, and then he had started to drink, gamble, and stay out late at night, associating with the wrong kind of people. He had started to smoke, he swore a lot, and then she found out that he was cheating on her. Her children were getting into fights at school, their grades were dropping, and she was getting phone calls from their teachers.
In her own life, she was beginning to suffer from the heartbreak of psoriasis, she seemed to have B.O., and halitosis too, and she was beginning to think about divorce. And her wash? The colors just weren’t bright anymore, and her underwear had gotten very dingy. She had started using the wrong detergent.
The dog had bitten the mailman, and there were dandelions and crabgrass everywhere. And all because of gay marriage.
March 25th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
I am a very happy married lesbian. Married for 6 years. Hope you will all reconsider your point of view and let us live in peace.