{"id":158,"date":"2003-12-08T01:13:48","date_gmt":"2003-12-08T05:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=158"},"modified":"2009-01-20T12:53:14","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T16:53:14","slug":"why-marriage-deserves-constitutional-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2003\/12\/why-marriage-deserves-constitutional-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Marriage Deserves Constitutional Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maggie Gallagher&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/Content\/Public\/Articles\/000\/000\/003\/468zvcyt.asp\">response<\/a> to conservatives who have expressed qualms about amending the constitution to define marriage is superb.  She approaches the issue from two angles.  First, on the federalism argument, she points out mundane matters that are part of the constitution, and wonders why these topics merit nationwide uniformity, rather than state-by-state experimentation, but that the fundamental institution of society is beneath the constitution.  Second, she makes a passionate argument about the importance of marriage to civilization, and the devastating effects weakened marriage has and will have on our culture. <\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/Content\/Public\/Articles\/000\/000\/003\/468zvcyt.asp\">whole essay<\/a>.  By reminding me how high the stakes of the marriage debate are, she&#8217;s struck me with fear for our country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maggie Gallagher&#8217;s response to conservatives who have expressed qualms about amending the constitution to define marriage is superb. She approaches the issue from two angles. First, on the federalism argument, she points out mundane matters that are part of the constitution, and wonders why these topics merit nationwide uniformity, rather than state-by-state experimentation, but that the fundamental institution of society is beneath the constitution. Second, she makes a passionate argument about the importance of marriage to civilization, and the devastating effects weakened marriage has and will have on our culture. Read the whole essay. By reminding me how high the stakes of the marriage debate are, she&#8217;s struck me with fear for our country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6748,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/6748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}