Summary Of The Radical Idea Of Marrying For Love By William Bennett

Marriage Ideals and Ideas Marriage has many has definitions and what William Bennett thinks will destroy the sanctity of marriage has been keeping it alive for centuries. Between William Bennett’s essay “Against Gay Marriage” and Stephanie Coontz “The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love” their ideas of marriage are very different; from fidelity, to same sex couples there is no correct way to be married. The conservativeness of Bennett’s ideals of marriage are simple, between a man and a woman, and completely monogamous; something he claims gay couples cannot commit too. A claim from Bennett is that, “[marriage’s] essential idea is fidelity”(272) and with “a homosexual marriage… a greater need for ‘extramarital outlets’”(272). Bennett however seems to be uneducated in the fact that hererosexual couples do not always fit in those categories for example Coontz, who has researched

Correction most around the globe including our beloved Bennett, but do not let him know about two groups whom this definition does not apply to; a group in Venezuela and some branches of Mormons. You see Bennett thinks that only bisexual people want to marry two people at the same time and “how could [gay marriage supporters] explain why we ought to deny a bisexual who wants to marry two people?”(272). We would deny them the same way we deny a polygamous man to legally marry more than one of his wives, but he is still married to all of them in their eyes at least. So unfortunately Bennett that is strike two for conservative marriage. But what about the children, you may be asking right now; well for women in Venezuela they are encouraged to have multiple sexual partners or husbands while pregnant; for every man she has sex with became a “secondary father”(259) whom helped provide for the child. Our mainstream idea of a monogamous relationship may not fit everyone in the world's