A prospective groom should already know the answer before he asks the question in public.

Of course, asking the question just before being fed to hungry monsters has its own perils and advantages.

As has been evident all along, the debate over gay marriage and special protections for homosexuality in law wasn’t really a debate about equality. It’s about gay privilege at the expense of religious freedom. (more…)

I can’t vouch for the quality of it, but apparently there is a body of evidence that families with sons are less likely to divorce. (more…)

Here’s a fairly comprehensive statistical look at the Saints in America. (more…)

This essay by an Episcopalian (!) is a must read. Its too rich and touches too many themes to summarize. Read it.

If your wife asks you what you’re doing on the computer late at night, tell her not to worry, you’re just watching porn. Tell it to her assertively. With confident manhood, if you know what I mean. (more…)

Is marriage a business? When the dear little woman pulls down my head to hers and whispers “my mate” and, er, well, one needn’t elaborate. . . . Hardly here or there, what? The point, the thing I’m driving at, if you get me, is that one hardly associates the lovebird stuff with the green eye-shade set. Bertram isn’t actually married yet, I hear you saying, and I gracefully concede the objection. But I hardly see how a few well-expressed vows in front of a beneficent clergyman will transmute the bwessed awwangement into pots o’ goblins. Dashed nonsense.

] Paul and the prophets like to compare Adam and Christ. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. Christ is the New Adam. (more…)

I interviewed for a temple recommend yesterday. There is a new question on pornography. (more…)

So sayeth the crime fighter.

A law journal paper by Robert George, etc. If this is the sort of thing you like, this is the sort of thing you will really, really like.

We were told that no-fault divorce would make marriage stronger by making it less scary. Wrong. Wrong. Marriage with no-fault divorce is like buying a 10th floor penthouse where management reserves the right to remove floors 1-9.

Not enough dads.

I came in after dark last night just in time to hug my children and pray them to bed. “How was it?” my wife asked. “Good,” I said. “Very spiritual.” That was all. (more…)

Maggie Gallagher tells me that this study shows that married biological parents blow all other parent categories out of the water when it comes to not burning the little tykes with cigarettes. (more…)