Men who don’t live chastely in marriage are more likely to get a form of cancer that I decline to identify on the grounds that it makes me queasy.
The gospel comes to us like a tangled skein. When you shake it out, it resolves not into a single thread, but into an intricate web of great beauty. (more…)
is new again.
Reading complaints a few weeks back that too many Latter-day Saints marry before completing courses of higher education, I felt concerned that a natural corollary of that is that people who don’t complete a college education shouldn’t marry at all. Perhaps the unfolding 21st Century for many will be less like the 20th Century abounding in middle-class families and more like earlier ages when bunk houses, barracks, brothels, servants’ quarters, convents, and monasteries absorbed many whose economic limitations put marriage and children out of reach, and those who want a different future will have to choose paths of their own bucking prevailing trends.
The National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia has put out “Knot Yet: The Benefits and Costs of Delayed Marriage in America” There is such discussion of the Great Crossover (mean age at first marriage passing age at first child), and a running theme is that delayed marriage plays out differently for the two-thirds of the nation that doesn’t complete a college degree.
A summary can be found at Washington Post: link. Coming at the topic from another angle, perhaps you’ll enjoy “Settle Down” by Kimbra. Or perhaps you won’t, if your tastes in song and dance don’t run that way.
Says the CDC.
The Chief Rabbi of France has some keen insight into marriage and sexuality, if you can get over the frenchiness of his language, even in translation.
Keep this in mind when you get frustrated at the Godbeite Blog or other Bloggernacle sites for advocating gay marriage. Perhaps the poor dears can’t help it.
I could happily listen to Elder Oaks reading the phone book. That he also talks good sense when he talks is almost over-egging the pudding.
From George Q. Flynn’s The Draft, 1940-1973: (more…)
The FRC shooter . . . bought Chick-fil-A sandwiches to rub on the mouths of the people he intended to kill. He admitted in his guilty plea that he used the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “hate map” to target his victims, and police said in his pocket was a list of other anti-gay-marriage organizations he planned to attack after FRC.
