Bringing the state back into the bedrooms of the nation

Is freedom as important as equality?

November 8, 2006 | by Kate Fraher , Researcher, Institute of Marriage and Family Canada
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Endnotes

  1. Cere, Daniel. (2005). The Future of Family Law: Law and the Marriage Crisis in North America. New York: Institute for American Values. pp. 7. http://www.marriagedebate.com/pdf/future_of_family_law.pdf
  2. Dr. Daniel Cere is the Principal Investigator of The Future of Family Law: Law and the Marriage Crisis in North America. (2005). New York: Institute for American Values.
    Some of the ideas mentioned in this article can be found in his report: http://www.marriagedebate.com/pdf/future_of_family_law.pdf
  3. D. Cere, personal communication, November 7, 2006.
  4. For example, Dr. Louann Brizendine write recently on biological male-female differences in The Female Brain, Morgan Road Books, August 2006.
    For a study on maternal attachment see Nitschke et al. (2003). “Orbitofrontal cortex tracks positive mood in mothers viewing pictures of their newborn infants” NeuroImage 21 (2004) 583–592. http://brainimaging.waisman.wisc.edu/publications/2004/Orbitofrontal%20cortex%20tracks%20positive%20mood%20in%20mothers.pdf
  5. Margaret Somerville also believes that ‘essential differences’ exist between men and women in terms of biology that are not culturally or socially constructed. See her latest book, The Ethical Imagination: Journeys of the Human Spirit, House of Anansi Press, Toronto 2006. pp. 99. Dr. Daniel Cere also agrees that gender differences cannot be constructed by the state (personal communication, November 3, 2006).
  6. D. Cere, personal communication, November 7, 2006.
  7. D. Cere, personal communication, November 3, 2006.
  8. Somerville, M. (2003, October 6). The Other ‘Rights Question’ In Same-Sex Marriage… The Calgary Herald, pp. A11. Can also be found at: http://www.marriageinstitute.ca/pages/otheright.htm
  9. These violations could include, but are not limited to current divorce laws, marriage laws, laws surrounding common-law relationships, cohabitation and reproductive rights. D. Cere, personal communication, November 3, 2006.
  10. D. Cere, personal communication, November 3, 2006.
  11. Ibid.
  12. Dr. Seana Sugrue talking about John Locke in “Soft Despotism and Same-Sex Marriage.” (2006). The Meaning of Marriage. Dallas: Spence Publishing Company. pp. 179-180.
  13. Ibid.
  14. D. Cere, personal communication, November 3, 2006. Note: Most scholars refer to the market, the family and religion as the three main components of civil society.