Truth Overruled Quotes

“Pretending as a matter of law that men and women are interchangeable, that “monogamish” relationships work just as well as monogamous relationships, that “throuples” are the same as couples, and that “wedlease” is preferable to wedlock will only lead to more broken homes, more broken hearts, and more intrusive government. Americans should reject such revisionism and work to restore the essentials that make marriage so important for societal welfare: sexual complementarity, monogamy, exclusivity, and permanence.”
― Ryan T. Anderson, Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Liberty

“Explaining why marriage is the union of a man and a woman is like explaining why wheels are round, but it has to be done.”
― Ryan T. Anderson, Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Liberty

“How much domestic stability do we expect when a man is under a more serious legal obligation to his plumber than to his wife?”
― Ryan T. Anderson, Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Liberty

“marriage equality” was a great slogan for the Left. It fits on a bumper sticker. You can make a red equals sign your Facebook profile picture. It’s a wonderful piece of advertising. And yet it’s completely vacuous. It doesn’t say a thing about what marriage is.”
― Ryan T. Anderson, Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Liberty

“In the decades after the introduction of no-fault divorce, the divorce rate more than doubled.”
― Ryan T. Anderson, Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Liberty

“Only ideologues think their side has all the arguments and the other side has none.”
― Ryan T. Anderson, Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Liberty

“How can the law teach that fathers are essential, for instance, when it has officially made them optional?”
― Ryan T. Anderson, Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Liberty

“In their statement “Beyond Same-Sex Marriage,” more than three hundred “LGBT and allied” scholars and advocates call for legally recognizing sexual relationships involving more than two partners.”
― Ryan T. Anderson, Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Liberty

“The assumption that marriage is the union of a man and a woman was nearly universal among human societies until the year 2000. Same-sex marriage is the work of revisionism in historical reasoning about marriage. Racial segregation laws, including bans on interracial marriage, were, by contrast, aspects of an insidious ideology that arose in the modern period in connection with race-based slavery and denied the fundamental equality and dignity of all human beings. The race of the spouses has nothing to do with the nature of marriage, and it is unreasonable, therefore, to make it a condition of marriage.”
― Ryan T. Anderson, Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Liberty

“Our message, to people around the country and around the world, is this: Apple is open. Open to everyone, regardless of where they come from, what they look like, how they worship or who they love.”
― Ryan T. Anderson, Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Liberty

“Law teaches. It shapes ideas, which shape what people do. A radical change in the law of marriage will have at least four harmful consequences that we can foresee. The needs and rights of children will be subordinated to the desires of adults. The marital norms of monogamy, exclusivity, and permanence will be weakened. Unborn children will be put at even more risk than they already are. And religious liberty—Americans’ “first freedom”—will be threatened.”
― Ryan T. Anderson, Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Liberty

“[f]our of the nine are natives of New York City. Eight of them grew up in east- and west-coast States. Only one hails from the vast expanse in-between. Not a single Southwesterner or even, to tell the truth, a genuine Westerner (California does not count). Not a single evangelical Christian (a group that comprises about one quarter of Americans), or even a Protestant of any denomination. The strikingly unrepresentative character of the body voting on today’s social upheaval would be irrelevant if they were functioning as judges, answering the legal question whether the American people had ever ratified a constitutional provision that was understood to proscribe the traditional definition of marriage. But of course the Justices in today’s majority are not voting on that basis; they say they are not. And to allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation.”
― Ryan T. Anderson, Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Liberty

“Obergefell is so poorly reasoned that it will eventually weaken its own case:”
― Ryan T. Anderson, Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Liberty

“Obergefell has now provoked conflict rather than resolved it.”
― Ryan T. Anderson, Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Liberty

“liberty has long been understood as individual freedom from governmental action,”
― Ryan T. Anderson, Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Liberty

“receiving governmental recognition and benefits has nothing to do with any understanding of ‘liberty”
― Ryan T. Anderson, Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Liberty

“Under the Constitution, judges have power to say what the law is, not what it should be.”
― Ryan T. Anderson, Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Liberty

“Nothing in the Constitution justifies the redefinition of marriage by judges.”
― Ryan T. Anderson, Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Liberty

“Redefining marriage redefines parenthood.”
― Ryan T. Anderson, Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Liberty

“the Supreme Court’s ruling didn’t expand marriage; it redefined marriage.”
― Ryan T. Anderson, Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Liberty

“Someone who wants to explain what marriage is has the difficult task of explaining something that every one of our grandparents simply took for granted, that everyone two generations ago thought was common knowledge—that marriage is a permanent, exclusive union of husband and wife.”
― Ryan T. Anderson, Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Liberty

“What Is Marriage?1 You have to answer that question before you talk about recognizing marriage equally.”
― Ryan T. Anderson, Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Liberty

“Sloganeering aside, appeals to “marriage equality” betray sloppy reasoning.”
― Ryan T. Anderson, Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Liberty

“as people internalize this new vision of marriage, marriage will be less and less a stabilizing force.”
― Ryan T. Anderson, Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Liberty

“If the law teaches a falsehood about marriage, it will make it harder for people to live out the truth of marriage.”
― Ryan T. Anderson, Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Liberty

“If the sexual habits of the past fifty years have been good for society, good for women, good for children, then by all means let’s enshrine the consent-based view of marriage in law.”
― Ryan T. Anderson, Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Liberty

“If marriage is simply about consenting adult romance and caregiving, why should it be permanent? Emotions come and go; love waxes and wanes. Why would such a bond require a pledge of permanency?”
― Ryan T. Anderson, Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Liberty

“we must ensure that the government does not discriminate against citizens or organizations because of their belief that marriage is the union of husband and wife.”
― Ryan T. Anderson, Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Liberty

“Only ideologues think their side has all the arguments and the other side has none. And of course, lawyers can be ideologues too. The ideologues in the elite levels of society want to penalize and coerce ordinary Americans who hold traditional beliefs about marriage.”
― Ryan T. Anderson, Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Liberty