And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh. In this second account, marriage is now set in the context of culture. These two represent a distinct, heterosexual, monogamous cultural unit which has left a previous one, mother and father, and now forms one flesh. Today, in once Christian America, the State can no longer find the moral resources to affirm in the public classroom the ethics of heterosexual monogamous marriage.
Cohabitation seems to make it unnecessary.
The specter of homosexual marriage removes its uniqueness and true significance. However, for marriage to survive, it is not enough for the state to reverse its present policy, which would be a miracle in itself. There must be a deep and lasting sense of the human couple. Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. The current wisdom has you give full rein to your fantasies and recommends that you follow the seductive media myths, only to end up in the bitter frustration of rotting fruit.