What Liberals Say » Marriage

Rape=Marriage?

Andrea Dworkin — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:30:52 +0000

“Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.”

Why Hillary Married Bill

Hillary Clinton — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:09:53 +0000

“It was a personal decision, but it was prompted by political considerations.”

Term Limits for Marriage

Gabriele Pauli — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:20:43 +0000

“The basic approach is wrong. Many marriages last just because people believe they are safe. My suggestion is that marriages expire after seven years.”

Marriage is dangerous.

Claudia Card — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:47:36 +0000

“The legal rights of access that married partners have to each other’s persons, property, and lives makes it all but impossible for a spouse to defend herself (or himself), or to be protected against torture, rape, battery, stalking, mayhem, or murder by the other spouse. . . . Legal marriage thus enlists state support for conditions conducive to murder and mayhem.”

Marriage must be destroyed.

Helen Sullinger — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 20:01:17 +0000

“Male society has sold us the idea of marriage . . . . Now we know it is the institution that has failed us and we must work to destroy it. . . . The end of the institution of marriage is the necessary condition for the liberation of women.”

When homosexuals can marry, then Iâ€™ll consider marriage.

Brad Pitt — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:19:49 +0000

“Angie [Jolie] and I will consider tying the knot only when everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally able.”

We must destroy marriage.

Helen Sullinger — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:52:47 +0000

“Marriage has existed for the benefit of men; and has been a legally sanctioned method of control over women. . . . We must work to destroy it. . . . The end of the institution of marriage is a necessary condition for the liberation of women. Therefore it is important for us to encourage women to leave their husbands and not to live individually with men. . . . All of history must be rewritten in terms of oppression of women. We must go back to ancient female religions like witchcraft.”

We must abolish marriage.

Gloria Steinem — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:32:29 +0000

“We have to abolish and reform the institution of marriage. . . . By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God. . . . We must understand what we are attempting is a revolution, not a public relations movement.”

We must destroy marriage.

Robin Morgan — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:45:17 +0000

“We can’t destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.”

The goal of feminism is to destroy the family.

Kate Millett — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:42:23 +0000

“The complete destruction of traditional marriage and the nuclear family is the ‘revolutionary or utopian’ goal of feminism.”