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Challenge #7: Not About Family?

"Not all marriages have children."

It’s easy to resist any suggestion that marriage and family are fundamentally connected to procreation.

Although some marriages are barren, by choice or by circumstance, this proves nothing. The natural marriage/procreation connection is not nullified because in some cases children are not intended or even possible.

The state protects conjugal marriage because of its institutional importance to culture. Pointing at exceptional cases doesn’t nullify the general rule.