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Caitlin Flanagan's Defense of Marriage Bums Me Out
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It's been a rough couple of weeks for marriage. First, Sandra Tsing Loh came out
swinging against the institution
in
the Atlantic
(and
we discussed it ad nauseam
), and simultaneously
Mark Sanford
and John Ensign and the Gosselins paraded their broken relationships in front of the nation. In
Time
, Caitlin Flanagan takes up for long-lasting unions in an essay called
"Why Marriage Matters
." Flanagan's defense of marriage can be boiled down to: The reasons to get married are to raise children and not die alone ... (Read more at
DoubleX.com
.)
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