Mark Sanford—The Real Story
When the story first broke yesterday about Gov. Sanford of South Carolina being “out of pocket” I figured that this was possibly a case of someone that was trying to get away from the pressures of work and wanted to keep his location to himself as much as possible.
However, when we heard today that his wife and children had no idea where he had gone, my mind wondered if there was a chance that he was having an affair. Turns out that unfortunately my hunch was right.
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Christian Marriages
The last of this Atheist’s most convincing arguments is probably his weakest. He claims that because:
- Each “Christian Couple” that gets married has witnesses and people praying for the success of their marriage.
- The minister says “What God has put together let no man put asunder”
- Christian couples still get divorced.
That this means that Christianity is a fallacy.
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Where Are All The Men?
A great discussion has erupted over on Is This Modest. It started out talking about romancing one’s husband, but mutated into a discussion about men and the church. The question that is running around the comments section is “Has the church become so feminized that men don’t care to attend?
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Catch Me If You Can
Many laws that were passed some time ago are now under scrutiny as relics of a bygone era—a time when people agreed on moral principles that are now up for grabs. Laws that enforced clean language, the sale of liquor and protected a spouse from adultery have all been challenged, and when a story of one of these laws being enforced makes news, it’s always in terms of how crazy the people are that still these laws, and how these laws need to be overturned.
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The Case For Heterosexual Marriage
Since Proposition 8 passed in California, once again marriage is to be defined there as between a man and a woman. This has lead to outrage to those that deem this unfair and discriminatory, and has caused more anger to boil.
Why should marriage be limited to one man and one woman?
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Why Support Traditional Marriage?
On Friday, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled 4 to 3 in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage in their state, overruling a state ban on the activity.
While I could wax eloquent on how amazing it is to find this right in a document that has been translated only one way since the time it was written in regards to marriage, I’d like to instead focus on the question of “Why Support Traditional Marriage?”
Attacked or Degraded
Is it fair to say that Christians getting divorced are doing more damage to marriage than same-sex couples? According to the Barna Research Group, Baptists are the highest percentage of groups getting divorced, beating out un-churched 29% to 21%.
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From the Strange Marriages File
We’ve previously covered the woman that auctioned herself along with her Ferrari and the girl that flew to the Middle East to marry a man she met on MySpace.
This newest entry of strange marriage arrangements comes from Florida, where a woman is selling her house—and herself—on eBay and Craigslist:
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