The media is hyping the news that some former GOP officials filed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to create a new constitutional right and redefine marriage

Why Marriage Matters for America and Conservatism

Posted By Ryan T. Anderson 

Some former officials in the Republican Party are urging the Supreme Court toredefine marriage for the nation. But support for marriage as the union of a man and a woman is essential to American--and conservative--principles. Indeed, nothing could be less conservative than urging an activist court to redefine an essential institution of civil society.
As my co-authors and I argue in our new book, What Is Marriage?, and in theamicus brief we filed with the Supreme Court, marriage exists to bring a man and a woman together as husband and wife to be father and mother to any children their union produces. It is based on the anthropological truth that men and women are different and complementary, on the biological fact that reproduction depends on a man and a woman, and on the social reality that children need a mother and a father. Marriage has public purposes that transcend its private purposes.
Marriage predates government. It is the fundamental building block of all human civilization.

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