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How deeply insulting to those who believe that marriage is about love, commitment and fidelity.
A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences asked 978 men and women (aged 18-24) to rate 10 attributes in a mate and then rank themselves for each one - they included wealth, family commitment and fidelity.
Flip this around and you see what the theocon right actually believes: that society has no interest in the welfare of its gay citizens, and an abiding interest in ensuring that they remain unequal, feel unequal and suffer the consequences of a culture where family and commitment and fidelity are non-existent.
Although such passages are less boastful than self-mocking, Mr. Swofford's litany of sexual conquests make the same obvious point over and over again: that he had difficulties with commitment and fidelity, a problem that he apparently shared with his father, John Howard Swofford, who, the author says, was always trying to regale him with stories about his womanizing.
And incapable of commitment and fidelity.
How can love enfolded in commitment and fidelity be wrong?
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This sets up a "winning human female strategy," evidenced by thousands of years of evolution, that consists of the following norms: finding the fittest male to be one's mate, withholding sex to get commitment, and exchanging fidelity and domestic service for lifelong sustenance (p. 106).
Remember when sex had nothing to do with love, fidelity, commitment and responsibility?
His mother, whose parents were immigrants from Naples and Sorrento, taught him other lessons: "Truthfulness, consistency, professionalism, kindness, compassion, manners, thoughtfulness, pride in yourself, honour, love, faith in and fidelity to your family, commitment, joy in your work and a never-say-die thirst for life".
I find that notion offensive: it implies that liberals ascribe no value to the concepts of fidelity and commitment; and it implies that wanting equal civil rights for everyone is less than noble.
Stability, life long commitment, fidelity and love are not as crucial to the idea of marriage as procreation which is elevated above all else.
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