Category - abolish marriage

Marriage and its enemy-like friends

Giles Fraser — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:37:55 +0100

Some hardline pressure groups within the church are sucking marriage into a narrow religious ghetto, associating it with suburban 1950s curtain-twitching, thus making it even less popular than it is now, says Giles Fraser.

Anglicans and Presbyterians encourage people to get hitched

Ecumenical News International — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:12:11 +0000

Wedding fairs, guides and web advisers are the latest ways of trying to get more people to marry in church

What Future For Marriage?

Jonathan Bartley — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:27:14 +0100

In recent years the Christian churches have set great stall by ‘family values’ and the institution of marriage. Yet the form of marriage we know as such today is a relatively late invention out of something that once had much more to do with solidifying dynastic power. And most commentators agree that it is going through a tough time – with more people choosing not to marry, opting to forge different (often informal) partnerships, and getting divorced in increasing numbers. This paper sets out a new approach, which proposes abolishing legal marriage in its current form.

Simon Barrow