When you say ‘Gay marriage is inevitable,’ do you mean rich people want it?

On 05.09.13, In Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D, Politics, Same Sex Marriage, By Betsy

By Jennifer Roback Morse

This article was first published May 9, 2013, at americanthinker.com.

You have no doubt heard the news that gay marriage is inevitable.  The New York state legislature redefined marriage in 2011. Rhode Island redefined marriage earlier this week.  Delaware just removed the gender requirement from marriage. Minnesota is poised to vote on the issue this week.  This steady drumbeat of state legislatures changing the definition of marriage as it has been known for millennia surely must show that so-called gay marriage is inevitable. (more…)

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Traditional Marriage Apologetics

On 04.18.13, In Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D, Same Sex Marriage, By Betsy

Jennifer Roback Morse of The Ruth Institute defends traditional marriage to young people

by Les Sillars

This article was originally published April 18, 2013, at worldmag.com.

Jennifer Roback Morse, an economist, rejects the notion that increasing support for homosexual marriage among young people means that its legalization is somehow inevitable. She is founder and president of The Ruth Institute, a project of the National Organization for Marriage Education Fund that promotes traditional marriage to college students and other young adults. The arguments for marriage can work with that group, she said, because they’ve never heard them before. Presented well, the case is “extremely powerful.” (more…)

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Dr. Morse’s Rally Speech for the March for Marriage

On 03.26.13, In Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D, Same Sex Marriage, By Betsy

Washington, D.C. March 26, 2013

Dr. Morse generally does not speak from a text at rallies such as the March for Marriage; however, this is approximately what she said.

This year was the fortieth anniversary of Roe v Wade. We are gathered here to send one simple message to the Justices of the Supreme Court: allow the conversation about marriage to continue. Do not try to short circuit the debate over marriage the way Roe v Wade short circuited the debate over life. (more…)

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Prepared remarks for the Illinois state legislature, hearings on SB 10

On 03.12.13, In Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D, Marriage, Politics, Same Sex Marriage, By Betsy

Dr Jennifer Roback Morse, founder and president of the Ruth Institute,

a project of the National Organization for Marriage

February 26, 2013     Springfield, Illinois

I am Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, founder and president of the Ruth Institute, a project of the National Organization for Marriage.  I am the mother of an adopted child, a birth child, and have been a foster parent.

I am honored to be able to address this committee, here in Springfield Illinois, the land of Abraham Lincoln.  I can almost hear his voice and the voices of all the great orators of the American plains, echoing across the ages, their debates on the great issue of their day, the trafficking and enslavement of human beings. I am here to speak about the great issue of our day, the meaning and purpose of marriage, and our obligations to the children of the future. (more…)

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Persistence is Key — in Marriage as in Life

On 03.12.13, In Abortion, Same Sex Marriage, By Betsy

by Stella Morabito

Do you know your neighbor’s or co-worker’s or classmate’s real opinions about genderless marriage?   Or do you simply know what they say they believe?  Or, do you – and they — tend neither to ask nor to tell on such hot button topics?  (more…)

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