Marriage/The Natural Family

Chatting about Gays at Gleason’s

Chatting about Gays at Gleason’s

By John Biver

Some plain and accurate talk from David Lawrence at American Thinker: My old friend visits me at Gleason’s Gym. I’ve known Kenny for forty-seven years — longer than I’ve known my wife. Back in…

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URGENT: Protect Marriage in Illinois

URGENT: Protect Marriage in Illinois

By John Biver

The Illinois Family Institute’s Laurie Higgins has a novel idea — she suggests that people actually think — that is, use their reasoning abilities. For many that will be asking too much. A few…

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Marriage Makes Fiscal Sense

Marriage Makes Fiscal Sense

By John Biver

From the Heritage Foundation: [The celebration of] National Marriage Week (February 7–14) [drew] attention to the link between the collapse of marriage and child poverty—and its cost to America. The statistics are sobering: In…

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What Is Marriage? And What Is It Not?

What Is Marriage? And What Is It Not?

By John Biver

Today the Illinois Senate is supposed to be voting on whether or not to destroy the institution of marriage. They will only do the right thing if enough people pray (since we certainly cannot…

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What marriage is

By John Biver

The Northwest Herald ran a letter of mine last week — they only made minor changes to the published version, and they added at least one typo (!). Here’s the text I sent them:…

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America’s new government-imposed religion

By John Biver

Rep. J. Randy Forbes is exactly right: Catholic adoption agencies have been forced to close their doors in Illinois, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., because their religious beliefs about marriage were deemed unacceptable by their…

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Senate Committee Overrides Illinois History

Senate Committee Overrides Illinois History

By John Biver

The Illinois Family Institute weighs in on the latest from Springfield: The Senate Executive Committee decided to override Illinois history … by approving SB 10 which redefines marriage to include two individuals of the…

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Obama, Equality, and Marriage

Obama, Equality, and Marriage

By John Biver

Another excellent post from the Heritage Foundation: President Obama seems to have reiterated his support for redefining marriage in his inauguration speech earlier this week. Riffing on the Declaration of Independence, Obama declared that…

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