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"One is the loneliest number . . ."

May 22, 2013 -

Political “conservatives” (i.e., those who love mammon more than God) are fond of pointing out that Americans are increasingly a society of takers - a people who view themselves as being entitled to be on the receiving end of coerced generosity (i.e., government tax dollars).  To whatever extent such sweeping claims about societal grasping are true, the realities to which they point (again, if true) should not be surprising.

The decline of traditional marriage (i.e., husband, wife, children) in our culture is well-documented.  Everything from divorce, indefinite cohabitation, deliberately childless marriages, and same-sex partnerships have eroded our cultural capacity to apprehend what marriage is for.  What has not been sufficiently appreciated is the relationship between this particular form of social or moral decay and the purported economic one.

The relationship is simple.  Among other things, marriage is a means by which Go... read more

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